LA Times Crossword Clues and Answers January 27 2024

ACROSS

• Start of communications with NATO
  ALFA
• Building blocks
  ABCS
• Seacrest vehicle familiarly
  IDOL
• Baby hippo
  CALF
• Studio Ghiblis animated fuzz ball
  SOOTSPRITE
• Rhyming song thats acted out
  IMALITTLETEAPOT
• Fanning of Coraline
  DAKOTA
• Uber CEO Khosrowshahi
  DARA
• Article in a French periodical
  LES
• In
  AMID
• Some shortcuts
  MACROS
• Im late!
  GOTTARUN
• Overflow (with)
  TEEM
• Ew no
  UGH
• Doner __: Turkish dish
  KEBAB
• Gems formed by silica deposits
  OPALS
• Get up
  ARISE
• Valuable diamond say
  ACE
• Ask anyone else
  NOTIT
• Change
  CENTS
• Fuming
  IRATE
• Shiba __
  INU
• Meet face-to-face?
  KISS
• Magnified
  ENHANCED
• Pro who worked with Magic
  KAREEM
• Memories of the Future author Hustvedt
  SIRI
• Cribbage piece
  PEG
• Just so
  NEAT
• Figure in a Clement Clarke Moore poem
  STNICK
• First play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway
  ARAISININTHESUN
• Many a Gillian Flynn work
  CRIMENOVEL
• Gladys Knight for one
  ALTO
• Sardine cans
  TINS
• Used cars?
  RODE
• With 57-Down rom-com trope
  MEET

DOWN

• Rock type
  ACID
• Dharma teacher
  LAMA
• Barrage of criticism
  FLAK
• Solvent
  AFLOAT
• Easter Parade star
  ASTAIRE
• Spam maker
  BOT
• Dispassionate
  COLD
• Video game distribution platform
  STEAM
• A Gershwin
  IRA
• Strategically polite
  DIPLOMATIC
• Chiwere speakers
  OTOES
• Im down
  LETS
• Classic Fender for short
  STRAT
• Message on some holiday cards
  PEACEONEARTH
• That tracks
  ITMAKESSENSE
• Home of the Museum of the Future
  DUBAI
• Default action informally
  REPO
• Quick dip?
  GUAC
• Princess Fiona after sunset
  OGRE
• Nope
  THINKAGAIN
• Mother-of-pearl
  NACRE
• Part of a full English breakfast
  BEANS
• Stick figures torso
  LINE
• First earring maybe
  STUD
• Mix
  STIR
• Symbol of Scotland
  THISTLE
• Receive
  SEEIN
• Starting hr. for some
  NINEAM
• Gymnast Strug
  KERRI
• Estate
  MANOR
• Accord
  PACT
• Late show broadcaster?
  TIVO
• __ of Dogs: Wes Anderson film
  ISLE
• See 66-Across
  CUTE
• Bedhead problem
  KNOT
• Cyberchats
  IMS
• Composer Rorem
  NED