LA Times Crossword January 16, 2024, Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Ballplayers hat
  CAP
• Bygone Persian rulers
  SHAHS
• Under
  BELOW
• Baton Rouge sch.
  LSU
• Certain Tuscan
  PISAN
• Suspects excuse
  ALIBI
• Feel ill
  AIL
• South American home of many pink dolphins
  AMAZONRIVER
• At ones leisure
  IDLY
• More current
  NEWER
• Potato spot
  EYE
• Scientific studies of pooled data
  METAANALYSES
• Dont believe the __
  HYPE
• Make a mistake
  SLIPUP
• Very small
  WEE
• Healing ointment
  SALVE
• Top of the line
  AONE
• Diner dessert topped with a scoop
  APPLEPIEALAMODE
• Star Wars heroine
  LEIA
• Sing the praises of
  EXTOL
• Snapchat snicker
  LOL
• Court game
  TENNIS
• Knives Out filmmaker Johnson
  RIAN
• Bowlful of letter-shaped pasta
  ALPHABETSOUP
• Grampa Simpson
  ABE
• Feudal lord
  LIEGE
• Fire truck item
  HOSE
• New venture that may collaborate with Y Combinator and what 18- 24- 40- and 52-Across each literally has?
  TECHSTARTUP
• With all __ respect …
  DUE
• West Side Story role for Rachel Zegler
  MARIA
• Sierra __ Africa
  LEONE
• Place for a napkin or a cat
  LAP
• Hit the books
  STUDY
• Spanish mister
  SENOR
• Above-the-street rumblers
  ELS

DOWN

• Call ones own
  CLAIM
• All kidding __ …
  ASIDE
• End a project due to lack of funding say
  PULLTHEPIN
• Place to take it easy
  SPA
• He/__ pronouns
  HIM
• Yoga posture
  ASANA
• Witch __: astringent lotion
  HAZEL
• Like some winter nights
  SNOWY
• Wooden wine container
  BARREL
• Yale student
  ELI
• Reside (in)
  LIVE
• Follow orders
  OBEY
• Undercover agents device
  WIRE
• Loch __ monster
  NESS
• Great news!
  YAY
• Altar area
  APSE
• Half-moon tide
  NEAP
• Former name of Thailand
  SIAM
• Simple flotation device
  POOLNOODLE
• Reverse
  UNDO
• Kumquat coat
  PEEL
• Poet Whitman
  WALT
• Fencers blade
  EPEE
• Untruth
  LIE
• Irk
  VEX
• Gulp down
  EAT
• Blue Banisters singer-songwriter Del Rey
  LANA
• Ancestral stories e.g.
  LORE
• Settled on a branch as a bird
  ALIT
• Darn tootin!
  ILLSAY
• Rotisserie rod
  SPIT
• __-blond: grayish shade
  ASH
• Recovers
  HEALS
• Share an opinion
  AGREE
• Pick to win at the track
  BETON
• Regulars order with the
  USUAL
• Marshmallow treats shaped like baby birds
  PEEPS
• Cash dispensers
  ATMS
• Score more points than
  BEAT
• Beige shade
  ECRU
• Camouflaged
  HID
• Game in which a player may get a red or a yellow card
  UNO
• According to
  PER