L.A. Times Daily - Feb 1 2026

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Clues Answers
"An example being ...?" SUCHAS
"Better not throw a changeup"? SCRATCHTHATPITCH
"Close this program" key ESC
"Don't play," in music TACET
"Good to go!" AOK
"Hey, can you keep a secret?" PSST
"Licorice Pizza" setting ENCINO
"Little help here" BEAPAL
"Little help here" IMSTUCK
"Midsommar" director Aster ARI
"Oh boy" MAN
"Pantheon" voice actor Paul DANO
"Sesame Street: Sing the Alphabet," perhaps? BESTSPELLINGALBUM
"Ur correct" TRU
"What difference __ it make?" DOES
"__ been warned" YOUVE
"__ she blows!" THAR
A little short SHY
Absence LACK
Actor Liu SIMU
Acupressure massage SHIATSU
Additional wing ANNEX
American short story writer Bret HARTE
Amusement park rides TRAMS
Ancient tales LORE
Arizona running back's evasive maneuver? CARDINALSPIN
Arriving soon DUE
Attached with thread SEWEDON
Basic compound ALKALI
Beef stroganoff, e.g MEATSTEW
Beijing money YUAN
Blueprint detail SPEC
Bond villain with an underwater lair DRNO
Bottle parts NECKS
Bowl edge RIM
Brown shade COCOA
Cassowary relative EMU
Characters' journeys ARCS
Chemist's building block ATOM
Chevy sports car, for short VETTE
Church topper STEEPLE
Co. founder's second title, often CEO
Cocktail shaker noisemaker ICE
Cost RUNAT
Couple of rowers OARS
Covered (in) CLAD
Craft sometimes shaped like a swan BOAT
Deep hatred RANCOR
Dynamics prefix THERMO
Fancy mat DOILY
Fleecy camelid ALPACA
French president before Sarkozy CHIRAC
Garden tool HOE
Gets even? IRONS
Good spot to check for loose change SOFA
Got going AROSE
Highlands water LOCH
Home of the NWSL's Royals UTAH
Hosted, for short MCED
In the past AGO
Incomprehensible peace treaty? AHARDPACTTOFOLLOW
Insincerely aim to please PANDER
Iron Bowl team, familiarly BAMA
Islamic dietary standard HALAL
Japanese noodle UDON
Jaunty coast-to-coast race? CROSSCOUNTRYSKIP
La __: Italian opera venue SCALA
Latest fad MANIA
Legitimate LICIT
Like tedious text PROSY
Literary 1-Down PLOTLINES
London apartment FLAT
Clues Answers
Looks at SEES
Low-sodium seasoning brand MRSDASH
Magazine productions ISSUES
Make a nameplate, perhaps ETCH
Maldon and Himalayan pink SALTS
Malm bed seller IKEA
Marble, for one BALL
Maxi skirt terminus ANKLE
Mercator projection book ATLAS
Midflight info ALT
Mouser's call MEOW
Noise that repeats nine minutes after snoozing ALARM
Not entirely SEMI
Padre's hermana TIA
Painters who specialize in portraits of imps? SCAMPARTISTS
Part of USSR SOVIET
Patrick Swayze's "__ Like the Wind" SHES
Paying careful attention to NOTING
Photoshop tool ERASER
Preps, as a Slip 'N Slide WETS
Primo AONE
Record label launched by Clive Davis ARISTA
Red __: playground game ROVER
Relax completely BLISSOUT
Rock opera by The Who TOMMY
Romantasy novelist __ J. Maas SARAH
Scots' bonnets TAMS
Scrapping AXING
See 59-Down LIPA
Shared values ETHOS
Sheridan of "Mud" TYE
Shiraz's land IRAN
Shot administrator NURSE
Showing no feelings STOIC
Sick ILL
Sign from above OMEN
Skewed view BIAS
Sorrow GRIEF
Sound in an empty room ECHO
Source of some political gaffes HOTMIC
Start of a classic boast ICAME
Stored up LAIDIN
Story accessed by ladder, maybe ATTIC
Strong impulse URGE
Superfan STAN
Swear AVOW
Target, as for a con PREYON
Thin coating LAMINA
Tic-__-toe TAC
Tidy up CLEAN
Till filler CASH
Time long past YORE
Totally flop TANK
Tried something new HADATASTE
Tubes TEEVEES
Turned off? WENTBAD
Unplugs and plugs back in, say RESETS
Up to the moment TILNOW
Using pointe shoes ONTOE
Vaccine molecule RNA
Vegan milk choice OAT
Video game franchise set on ring-shaped worlds HALO
Wash day appliance DRYER
Winners of the first FIFA Women's World Cup USA
With 111-Down, "Illusion" singer DUA
Words on a Wonderland cake EATME
Year divs MOS
Years, in Italian ANNI
__ Club SAMS
__ de tigre: ceviche marinade LECHE
__ it up YUK
__ Outfitters URBAN