December 23 2018 L.A. Times Daily - Crossword Clues and Answers

L.A. Times Daily - Dec 23 2018

Clues	Answers
"... and your little dog, too!" dog	TOTO
"I'm with you"	METOO
"Mandatory Fun" parodist, familiarly	WEIRDAL
"Mr. Blue Sky" band	ELO
"On the Bus With Rosa Parks" poet Dove	RITA
"Scarface" setting	MIAMI
"Such a pity"	SOSAD
"The Black Cat" author	POE
"The Thin Blue Line" director Morris	ERROL
"Three Coins ..." fountain	TREVI
"Uh-uh!"	IWONT
"Wish Tree" artist	ONO
"Ya think?"	NODUH
'60s-'70s veep	AGNEW
*Bending over backward, say	ANXIOUSTOPLEASE
*Chances that slipped away	LOSTOPPORTUNITIES
*Former Chilean dictator	AUGUSTOPINOCHET
*Often the best choice, in retrospect	FIRSTOPTION
*Ristorante appetizers	ANTIPASTOPLATTERS
*Swindlers	FASTOPERATORS
*True view	HONESTOPINION
2008 TARP beneficiary	AIG
Actress Gilbert	SARA
Autobahn winter hazard	EIS
Baking amts	TSPS
Bet money an "all in" player can't win	SIDEPOT
Biblical builder	NOAH
Big bargain	STEAL
Bigelow alternative	TETLEY
Bird hangout	NEST
Bonkers	LOONY
Boot the ball	ERR
Bowling pin wood	MAPLE
Bring down	LOWER
Butterfingered	INEPT
Capital on a fjord	OSLO
Catcher's place	HOME
Classic grape sodas	NEHIS
Court dividers	NETS
Divide fairly	PRORATE
Dough	MOOLA
Dove's digs	COTE
Earthshaking event	SEISM
Editor's retraction	STET
Emergency menu	HELP
First name in exploration	AMERIGO
Flake or Duckworth: Abbr	SEN
Four: Prefix	TETR
Frees	LETSLOOSE
Fruit-flavored frozen treat	OTTERPOP
Fulda tributary	EDER
Gate datum: Abbr	ETD
Gets ready	PREPS
Giant among low-cost carriers: Abbr	SWA
Gin flavor	SLOE
Gives someone a hand	CLAPS
Good times	UPS
Graphic top	TEE
Griller's flipper	SPATULA
Hearing range	EARSHOT
Hearty pastry	MEATPIE
Hornets, e.g	WASPS
Jackson 5 member	TITO
Just __ bit	AWEE
Kings Peak state	UTAH
Lady on stage	GAGA
Lead-in to girl or boy	ATTA
Leaning type: Abbr	ITAL
Like a typical O. Henry story	IRONIC
Like comfy slippers	SOFT
Links hero, familiarly	ARNIE

Clues	Answers
Loafer's quality	INERTIA
Lombardy's capital	MILAN
Long story	SAGA
Luau souvenirs	LEIS
Make an ad spicier, say	SEXITUP
Man with a code	MORSE
Masters Tournament weekend groupings	TWOSOMES
Medicare prescription drug section	PARTD
Menial laborer	PEON
Mexican month	ENERO
Much of Eastern Eur., once	SSRS
Nagano-based printer giant	EPSON
Nicholas, for one	TSAR
Non-neutral atom	ION
Noteworthy stretches	ERAS
One of the original Warner Bros	SAM
One often includes a colon	EMOTICON
Opposite of exo-	ENTO
Overhead rumblers	ELS
Packed away	EATEN
Place on a pedestal	ADORE
Place to tie up	PIER
Platform site: Abbr	STN
PlayStation handheld game	VITA
Poker great Ungar	STU
Princess Charlotte, to Harry	NIECE
Pronoun for a princess	SHE
Provide fake cover for, e.g	ABET
Punch deliverer	FIST
Qtr.-ending month	SEP
Raid targets	PESTS
Ramallah-based org	PLO
Reason to challenge an out call	LATETAG
Red or army follower	ANT
Romance novelist Hilderbrand	ELIN
Salinger character who says to the story narrator, "I don't think I shall tell you my full name"	ESME
Sherpa, usually	NEPALI
Shower unit?	RAINDROP
Showy wrap	BOA
Sleeper agent	MOLE
Slights	SNUBS
Slip past	ELUDE
Spiteful	RANCOROUS
Sports radio host Patrick	DAN
Sporty car roof	TTOP
Stage coach Hagen	UTA
Surreal ending?	IST
Take no side	ABSTAIN
Tended tots	SAT
Texas MLBer	STRO
They can yield immediate results	SPOTTESTS
Think tank nuggets	IDEAS
Those, in Tabasco	ESOS
Tibetan monks	LAMAS
To be, to Benoît	ETRE
Tough's territory	TURF
Trash	RUIN
Tricky bit	GAG
Tuckered out	SPENT
Twangy-sounding	NASAL
Twitter forwards, on Twitter	RTS
Type of jam in Sacher tortes	APRICOT
Type of well	ARTESIAN
Unwelcome giveaways	SPOILERS
Venomous vipers	ASPS
Visit briefly ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues	STOPIN
Way to go: Abbr	DIR
Windows forerunner	MSDOS
__ Blue: old laundry soap	RINSO
__ song	FORA
__ voce: softly	SOTTO