LA Times Daily Crossword December 9, 2024 Answers

1. Includes on a 51-Down 4. DEA agent 8. Rowing team 12. Quaker __: big name in cereal 14. Letter-shaped ski lift 15. New Zealand native 16. Disney princess with a jealous stepmother 18. "The Maltese Falcon" actress Mary 19. Synagogue scroll 20. Actor Danson 21. __ Island: The Ocean State 22. Iron-deficient, perhaps 24. Truly exhausted 26. Elphaba's broom in "Wicked," for one 28. __-Manuel Miranda of "Hamilton" 29. Word before down or out 32. 1980s president Ronald 35. Nile snake 38. First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon 41. Silver deposit 42. Like radiator pipes 43. Scent 44. Smitten Kitchen blogger Perelman 45. Bingo kin 47. Competitive countenance 52. Sweet denial 56. Rare Italian violin 57. Med. plan option 59. Taco topping 60. Skeleton pieces 61. Beginning stages, and what the starts of 16-, 24-, 38-, and 47-Across literally are? 63. Noon nourishment 64. Small, medium, or large 65. Pedometer unit 66. The "E" of QED 67. Arduous journey 68. Some CGI beings

1. __ Rica 2. Source material for fan fiction 3. Big-box __ 4. Utmost degree 5. "Isn't this all just __ much?" 6. Like books on Goodreads 7. Guiding principle 8. Redeem for money 9. Piece in a model helicopter kit 10. Go away gradually 11. Full of energy 13. Up to one's eyeballs 15. "Shaken, not stirred" cocktail 17. Fan noise 23. Spanish city with Moorish architecture 25. Make happy 27. Mani counterpart 29. One of a journalist's five W's 30. Above, in verse 31. Pumpernickel flour 33. 100% 34. Many a techie or Trekkie 35. Do some sums 36. __-mo replay 37. For each 39. Use a rod and reel on a frozen lake 40. Thingamajigs 44. Pick up on 46. Like a busybody 47. Clark of classic Hollywood 48. Love, in French 49. Heaven-sent food 50. "The Queen's Gambit" activity 51. Paperless message 53. Make really happy 54. So far 55. Speaks hoarsely 58. Pasta that can be used to make risotto 62. __ of lamb