La Times Crossword Puzzle Answers December 25 2017 Monday

Clue	Solution
"Honestly speaking ... "	TOBEQUITEFRANK
"Pulp Fiction" writer/director Quentin	TARANTINO
"See ya"	BYE
"When __ Eyes Are Smiling"	IRISH
"Your table’s ready" signaler	PAGER
A single time	ONCE
Amazed sounds	OOHS
Angsty rock genre	EMO
Babysitting nightmares ... or relatives of the ends of the four longest puzzle answers	BRATS
Bank’s claim	LIEN
Bearded Serengeti critter	GNU
Biblical craft	ARK
Big app for Apple	ITUNES
Birth announcement word	GIRL
Bit of wine sediment	DREG
Cell occupant	CON
Come clean	CONFESS
Confederacy foe	UNION
Credit __: Zurich bank	SUISSE
Deputized bands	POSSES
Dugout craft	CANOE
Employ again	REUSE
Finance guru Suze	ORMAN
Forcefully entered	BROKEINTO
Garden-guarding figurine	GNOME
Go in	ENTER
Golden rule preposition	UNTO
Hangover remedy, so they say	HAIROFTHEDOG
Ice cream holder	CONE
Informal "Catch my drift?"	YKNOW
Innermost foot digit	BIGTOE
Irreverent radio host Don	IMUS
Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey __	OSWALD
Lawn coating	DEW
Less hospitable	ICIER
Like the bed of someone rushing out	UNMADE
Luau lamp	TIKITORCH
Lure	ENTICE
Luxury boat	YACHT
Managed	RAN
Mediterranean exile isle	ELBA
Moon, e.g.	ORBITER
Muffled, as a trumpet	MUTED
Naysayer	ANTI
Nebraska city	OMAHA
New Mexico art community	TAOS
Nine-piece combo	NONET
Overact	EMOTE
Pale	WAN
Paso __: California wine city	ROBLES
Piltdown Man, purportedly	THEMISSINGLINK
Play part	ACT
Playwright Chekhov	ANTON
Political pundit Myers	DEEDEE
Powdered headwear	WIGS
Rain, to a picnic	RUINER
Really skimpy, like the polka-dot bikini of song	TEENIEWEENIE
River rollicker	OTTER
Sped	RACED
Stereotypical techie	NERD
Sticky stuff	GOO
Stock holders?	POTS
Sunbathers’ goals	TANS
TV dial letters	UHF
Using for support	LEANINGON
Vain gaits	STRUTS
Website pop-ups	ADS
What drinks like Jolt provide	ENERGY
Where the heart is	CHEST
Witticism	QUIP
Word after milk or meter	MAID
Writer Uris	LEON