LA Times Crossword January 5 2024 Answers

ACROSS

• Nothing more than
  MERE
• Software-driven FX
  CGI
• K-pop band with a community of fans known as ARMY
  BTS
• Colombian street snack
  AREPA
• Laptop slot
  PORT
• Sass
  LIP
• TV series that may have high costume budgets
  DASHDRAMAS
• Alias indicator
  AKA
• Lag
  TRAIL
• Uses ones noggin
  THINKS
• Bun in a bamboo steamer
  BAO
• Recording device in a vehicle
  PERIODCAM
• Radish kin
  TURNIP
• Digging
  INTO
• There you __!
  ARE
• Energy bar brand
  CLIF
• Crypto-linked collectibles: Abbr.
  NFTS
• Fan-written story that romantically links same-sex characters
  BRACKETFICTION
• Mediocre
  SOSO
• Hey you!
  PSST
• Regret
  RUE
• Like Robin Hoods beneficiaries
  POOR
• Military directives
  ORDERS
• Office competition during March Madness
  SLASHPOOL
• Printing measures longer than ens
  EMS
• Gibson of the Fast & Furious films
  TYRESE
• Parkinsons drug
  LDOPA
• Do ones part?
  ACT
• Corporate symbols or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues
  TRADEMARKS
• Tax org.
  IRS
• Regatta equipment
  OARS
• Good __!
  GRIEF
• Bit of sunshine
  RAY
• Trident-shaped letter
  PSI
• Like DoorDash meals
  TOGO

DOWN

• Hot under the collar
  MAD
• Relievers stat
  ERA
• Stops on the interstate
  RESTAREAS
• Writer/director Nora
  EPHRON
• URL ender
  COM
• Potatoes au __
  GRATIN
• I am melting!
  ITSHOT
• White vin
  BLANC
• Marinated tandoor dish
  TIKKA
• Jerk
  SPASM
• Limón who is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States
  ADA
• Not very bright
  PALE
• __ effect
  RIPPLE
• Terse denial
  IDONT
• Pack animal
  BURRO
• Musical phrases
  RIFFS
• Can openers
  TABS
• How nasty
  ICK
• Genius Bar employee e.g.
  ITPRO
• Video game hero who defeats Goombas with flaming projectiles
  FIREMARIO
• Around-the-world jaunts
  TOURS
• Classic game console for short
  SNES
• Thicket
  COPSE
• Tristans beloved
  ISOLDE
• Pos. for Lisa Leslie
  CTR
• Youre embarrassing me!
  OHSTOP
• Met expectations?
  OPERAS
• Leave
  DEPART
• Flight unit
  STAIR
• Wetsuit material
  LYCRA
• Quirkily creative
  ARTSY
• Auto pioneer
  OLDS
• !!!
  OMG
• Consider This co-host Shapiro
  ARI
• Brewpub cask
  KEG
• OAK alternative
  SFO