LA Times Crossword January 2, 2024, Clues and Solutions

ACROSS

• Starfleet Academy student
  CADET
• Aint gonna happen
  NOPE
• Mattress support piece
  SLAT
• Fruit on a cocktail toothpick
  OLIVE
• Lyft rival
  UBER
• Opera house level
  LOGE
• *Hurdles for would-be attorneys
  BAREXAMINATIONS
• Take a load off
  SIT
• Toothpaste dispensers
  TUBES
• Group of eight
  OCTET
• Break bread
  DINE
• More formal than business casual
  DRESSY
• *Rural byway
  COUNTRYROAD
• Beyoncés Best __ I Never Had
  THING
• Made for __ other
  EACH
• Pampering place
  SPA
• Make mad
  RILE
• TGIF part
  THANK
• Growth on an old loaf
  MOLD
• Woo-hoo!
  YAY
• Cold feet
  FEAR
• Light supper
  SALAD
• *Clarinet bassoon etc. in an orchestra
  WINDSECTION
• Arcade coins
  TOKENS
• Backyard storage for hoes and hoses
  SHED
• Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi
  ANNAN
• Spud informally
  TATER
• __ Dhabi
  ABU
• Things to see in a dictionary and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are?
  CROSSREFERENCES
• Bloodline actor Chandler
  KYLE
• Part of a plot
  ACRE
• Windy City airport
  OHARE
• Fly off the shelves
  SELL
• To __ It May Concern
  WHOM
• Narrow openings
  SLITS

DOWN

• Corn discards
  COBS
• Jai __: Basque game
  ALAI
• Earth
  DIRT
• December 24 or 31
  EVE
• Tapping out messages
  TEXTING
• Digit
  NUMBER
• Award similar to a Tony
  OBIE
• Farm structures
  PENS
• Timeline segment
  ERA
• Like cold cuts
  SLICED
• Ransacks
  LOOTS
• Youngest Despicable Me daughter
  AGNES
• Peevish
  TESTY
• Grandmas daughter
  AUNT
• Bar mitzvah scroll
  TORAH
• Two-part sci-fi epic starring Timothée Chalamet
  DUNE
• Charging station
  DOCK
• Novelty pet thats really a plant
  CHIA
• Greasy
  OILY
• Quite a while
  YEARS
• Took off
  RAN
• Give it a go
  TRY
• Guitar Hero challenge
  SOLO
• Architectural drawing
  PLAN
• Throw in
  ADD
• Change for a 50 maybe
  TENS
• Possessed
  HAD
• Rosie on The Jetsons for one
  MAID
• Helsinki inhabitants
  FINNS
• Sound systems
  STEREOS
• Ferret kin
  WEASEL
• Respect highly
  ESTEEM
• Believe Grammy winner
  CHER
• Bulletin board pins
  TACKS
• BLT option
  ONRYE
• Small hill
  KNOLL
• Film crew employee
  TECH
• __-Cuban jazz
  AFRO
• Blueberrylike berry
  ACAI
• Ernies Sesame Street pal
  BERT
• Finds a purpose for
  USES
• Uncooked
  RAW
• Stanley Cup org.
  NHL