LA Times Daily Crossword December 23, 2023 Answers

1. Leather accessory 6. Sandbox game items? 11. Rangers home, familiarly 14. Cocoon fillers 15. Actress MacDowell 16. Took a course? 17. Ancient Greek market 18. Fed. security 19. MSNBC's "Inside With __ Psaki" 20. James Webb, for one 23. Really feel the heat 24. Introduces an MGM film? 25. Hosted 28. Arrests 30. __ Polytechnique 31. "Severance" actor 33. Source of local produce, for short 34. __ regia: gold-dissolving substance 35. Puffy deep-fried bread 36. Muscles worked in pull-ups and pull-downs 37. Spice blend 38. "Black Skin, White Masks" writer Frantz 39. __ mignon 40. Inclined 42. Spelling practice? 44. Receiving line? 45. Layered snack 46. Silent nemesis in "Peanuts" 51. Is for many 52. Smoothie option 53. Daniel who writes the Gabriel Allon spy novels 55. Luthor in the Legion of Doom 56. Row of pawns, e.g. 57. Needed Advil, say 58. Superlative suffix 59. One-named rapper in the hip-hop collective Doomtree 60. "The Constant Gardener" Oscar winner

1. Pro concerned with returns 2. Brings it in, in a way 3. Each 4. y=2x² plot, e.g. 5. Coastal formation 6. Gilbert and Sullivan staple 7. Rice, for one 8. K-pop star, say 9. Book club? 10. Shows the door 11. Pitches delivered in sequence? 12. Member of a blended family 13. Tiny inheritance? 21. __ out 22. Berkeley, familiarly 25. "Barracuda" band 26. Purchases a company to obtain talented employees 27. Follow up too soon, perhaps 28. Beethoven composition for brass virtuoso Giovanni Punto 29. Repugnant 32. Imitate a dove 35. Many a reduction 36. Good & Plenty flavor 38. Vulcan or Agni 39. Tool for intricate cutting 41. Draw 43. Part of some email addresses 46. Vegetable baked for chips 47. Parts of a sleeve 48. Lithographer James Merritt 49. Precollege yrs. 50. The before times? 54. Wood shaper