La Times Crossword Answers 12/23/23

Across Clues

• Leather accessoryCHAPS
• Sandbox game items?PAILS
• Rangers home, familiarlyMSG
• Cocoon fillersPUPAE
• Actress MacDowellANDIE
• Took a course?ATE
• Ancient Greek marketAGORA
• Fed. securityTNOTE
• MSNBC’s “Inside With __ Psaki”JEN
• James Webb, for oneSPACETELESCOPE
• Really feel the heatBAKE
• Introduces an MGM film?ROARS
• HostedHADOVER
• ArrestsHAULSIN
• __ PolytechniqueECOLE
• “Severance” actorSCOTT
• Source of local produce, for shortCSA
• __ regia: gold-dissolving substanceAQUA
• Puffy deep-fried breadPOORI
• Muscles worked in pull-ups and pull-downsLATS
• Spice blendRUB
• “Black Skin, White Masks” writer FrantzFANON
• __ mignonFILET
• InclinedTILTING
• Spelling practice?SORCERY
• Receiving line?HEIRS
• Layered snackOREO
• Silent nemesis in “Peanuts”KITEEATINGTREE
• Is for manyARE
• Smoothie optionGUAVA
• Daniel who writes the Gabriel Allon spy novelsSILVA
• Luthor in the Legion of DoomLEX
• Row of pawns, e.g.OCTET
• Needed Advil, sayACHED
• Superlative suffixEST
• One-named rapper in the hip-hop collective DoomtreeDESSA
• “The Constant Gardener” Oscar winnerWEISZ

Vertical Clues

• Pro concerned with returnsCPA
• Brings it in, in a wayHUGS
• EachAPOP
• y=2x² plot, e.g.PARABOLA
• Coastal formationSEACAVE
• Gilbert and Sullivan staplePATTERSONG
• Rice, for oneANNE
• K-pop star, sayIDOL
• Book club?LITERATI
• Shows the doorSEESOUT
• Pitches delivered in sequence?MAJORSCALE
• Member of a blended familySTEPSISTER
• Tiny inheritance?GENE
• __ outEKE
• Berkeley, familiarlyCAL
• “Barracuda” bandHEART
• Purchases a company to obtain talented employeesACQUIHIRES
• Follow up too soon, perhapsDOUBLETEXT
• Beethoven composition for brass virtuoso Giovanni PuntoHORNSONATA
• RepugnantNASTY
• Imitate a doveCOO
• Many a reductionPANSAUCE
• Good & Plenty flavorLICORICE
• Vulcan or AgniFIREGOD
• Tool for intricate cuttingFRETSAW
• DrawTIE
• Part of some email addressesORG
• Vegetable baked for chipsKALE
• Parts of a sleeveTATS
• Lithographer James MerrittIVES
• Precollege yrs.ELHI
• The before times?EVES
• Wood shaperADZ