LA Times Crossword December 24, 2023, Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Monastery head
  ABBOT
• Unrefined
  CRUDE
• Devilish creatures
  IMPS
• Like some reports
  ORAL
• Swap
  TRADE
• More vast
  HUGER
• Awkwafinas real first name
  NORA
• Fried cornbread
  PONE
• Mens clothing retailer
  HABERDASHER
• Action in Uno
  DRAW
• Sicilian volcano
  ETNA
• 2-Down accompaniers
  OVATIONS
• Elton John hit with the misheard lyric Hold me closer Tony Danza
  TINYDANCER
• Not the worst
  SOSO
• __ I say more?
  NEED
• Give comfort to
  REASSURE
• Lunch hours e.g.
  MEALTIMES
• Messy handwriting
  SCRAWL
• Teakettle output
  STEAM
• Hanover Ivy
  DARTMOUTH
• __ alai
  JAI
• Fitness method with a springy rhythmic way of moving forward
  PRANCERCISE
• UPC bar code developer
  IBM
• Public persona
  IMAGE
• Cereal grain
  OAT
• Orinoco Flow singer
  ENYA
• Mythological fox destined never to be caught
  CADMEANVIXEN
• Circle widths
  DIAMETERS
• Agnus __
  DEI
• Org. created by the 1957 Treaty of Rome
  EEC
• Suffix akin to -ule
  ETTE
• Physicist Newton
  ISAAC
• Permanent marks
  SCARS
• Longtime PBS Mystery! host Diana
  RIGG
• Digital asset: Abbr.
  NFT
• Dent or scratch
  MAR
• Office supplier
  STATIONER
• Celestial object next visible from Earth in 2061
  HALLEYSCOMET
• Sign
  OMEN
• Singer DiFranco
  ANI
• Middlemarch novelist
  ELIOT
• Polish tennis champ Swiatek
  IGA
• Connie Francis hit with a rhyming title
  STUPIDCUPID
• Wall St. takeover
  LBO
• Some errand runners on a yacht
  CABINBOYS
• Starts a fresh pot
  ANTES
• Tungusic people of northeast China
  MANCHU
• Cat hair pollen dust mites etc.
  ALLERGENS
• One held for questioning
  DETAINEE
• Plastic shoe wearer
  DOLL
• __ Bora: Afghan region
  TORA
• Thors son in the role-playing game Scion
  ERICDONNER
• Greeted with a ceremonial bow
  SALAAMED
• Dublin Murder Squad series novelist French
  TANA
• Shining Vale actress Sorvino
  MIRA
• German roadster that once held the world speed record
  BLITZENBENZ
• Trains for a marathon say
  RUNS
• U.S. passport holder
  AMER
• Flood defense
  LEVEE
• Tank nuisance
  ALGAE
• What __ can I say?
  ELSE
• Turner and Knight
  TEDS
• Stadium levels
  TIERS
• Marsh ducks
  TEALS

DOWN

• Aramis companion
  ATHOS
• Great show!
  BRAVO
• Rum-soaked cakes
  BABAS
• Tribute in Antigone
  ODETOMAN
• Hatcher of Lois & Clark
  TERI
• Fashion house whose logo is two interlocking Cs
  CHANEL
• Oft-baked potato
  RUSSET
• Thats gross!
  UGH
• Low grade
  DEE
• Make the teams blooper reel perhaps
  ERR
• Home to more than 1.4 billion people
  INDIA
• Eves counterparts
  MORNS
• Appeals to a higher power
  PRAYS
• Carpentry debris
  SAWDUST
• Game 1
  OPENER
• Campus mil. group
  ROTC
• Celebrity chef Burrell
  ANNE
• King who says to Cordelia Nothing can come of nothing
  LEAR
• Portuguese title
  DONA
• End-of-unit classroom event
  TEST
• Gmail option
  ARCHIVE
• Rugrats mom
  DIDI
• Go back to Chapter 1
  REREAD
• Ceremony host
  EMCEE
• Counterpart of fem. in grammar
  MASC
• Stronger than dirt brand
  AJAX
• Payment for labor
  WAGE
• Property claim
  LIEN
• Name in fine china
  SPODE
• Eye color e.g.
  TRAIT
• Trouble
  EATAT
• Does impressions
  MIMICS
• Honor given by HM King Charles III
  OBE
• Actress Thurman
  UMA
• Thing
  ENTITY
• Some deli loaves
  RYES
• Irene of Fame
  CARA
• Extremely small
  MICRO
• __ Moines Iowa
  DES
• Fit snugly inside
  NESTED
• __ Park: Edison lab site
  MENLO
• Polynesian language
  SAMOAN
• Word with sky or spy
  CAM
• Upon
  ATOP
• Malek of Oppenheimer
  RAMI
• Hardly appropriate
  INAPT
• Your wish is my command speaker
  GENIE
• Formula 1 starting positions
  GRIDS
• Went to collect
  FETCHED
• Fix a worn-out shoe
  RESOLE
• Quechua speaker
  INCAN
• Command post
  HELM
• Dark Angel star Jessica
  ALBA
• King of the jungle
  LION
• Member of the fam
  SIB
• Like the dinos in Jurassic Park
  CGI
• Texters Im out!
  TTYL
• Thrift shop condition
  USED
• Not firmly fixed
  UNSTABLE
• Bygone coin-op eatery
  AUTOMAT
• Boxer Max
  BAER
• Jewel box
  CDCASE
• List
  ROSTER
• Sugarcoats
  GLAZES
• Vogue rival
  ELLE
• Demon Slayer genre
  ANIME
• How Santa dresses mostly
  INRED
• Approaches
  NEARS
• Luxury timepiece
  OMEGA
• Kidney-related
  RENAL
• Carving tools
  ADZES
• Raison d__
  ETRE
• The Addams Family actor Julia
  RAUL
• Road-trip stops
  INNS
• Future dr.s class
  ANAT
• Diner fave
  BLT
• Luau neckwear
  LEI
• __ seen worse
  IVE