L.A. Times Daily - Jan 21 2026

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Clues Answers
"Bon __!" APPETIT
"Ciao" TATA
"Feed a cold, __ a fever" STARVE
"Heads up!" DUCK
"Heart Don't Lie" singer Jackson LATOYA
"I'm on vacay" notification OOO
"My pleasure" GLADTO
"Peter Pan" protagonist WENDY
"The Piano" Oscar winner Paquin ANNA
"The Secret Life of Bees" novelist KIDD
"This ain't normal" ITSODD
Admin. aide ASST
Baking instruction SIFT
Bed fellows? EELS
Bike trick also called a stoppie ENDO
Brusque TERSE
Bump into MEET
Classifications for nouns in some languages GENDERS
Distance runner Zátopek EMIL
Expert PRO
First lady of the 1950s MAMIE
Fluid-filled cavity CYST
Freeload SPONGE
Garden pest with tentacles SLUG
Garments that may lead to cold shoulders TUBETOPS
German article EINE
Hawk VEND
Italian staple PASTA
JD seekers' hurdles LSATS
Knock (about) GAD
Last word in doughnuts KREME
Leak slowly SEEP
Lennox of R&B ARI
Lets use LENDS
Loch for monster hunters NESS
Low-calorie sweetener SPLENDA
Marketplace with personalized gifts ETSY
Meteorology tool RADAR
More spine-tingling EERIER
Clues Answers
Neurochemicals that act as natural painkillers ENDORPHINS
Not close FAR
Novelist Tolstoy LEO
Obsolete phone part DIAL
Old car from Sweden SAAB
One way to stop a cab? CORK
One way to tumble, or what can be found four times in this puzzle ENDOVEREND
Part of a knitted outfit for a baby BOOTIE
Part of a knitted outfit for a baby CAP
Piercing tools AWLS
Plants with a long life cycle PERENNIALS
Playwright Arthur MILLER
Poker buy-ins ANTES
Prisoner INMATE
Puts two and two together ADDS
Reacts to suspense TENSES
Rep. from the Bronx AOC
Rough words? ORSO
Saved option PRESET
Scope prefix TELE
Sink hole feature, perhaps EDDY
Source of minerals ORE
Spell STINT
Star fish? PISCES
Stops along the way INNS
Story-sharing app, briefly INSTA
Succinct "I could go on" ETC
Taking a gap year, say ONHIATUS
Thousand Island base MAYONNAISE
Tik's partner TOK
Udder part TEAT
Vendetta's origin? VEE
Weasellike critter STOAT
Wide-mouthed AGAPE
Wild BERSERK
__ and raves RANTS
__ Mujeres, Mexico ISLA
__ Paulo, Brazil SAO
__ Rica COSTA