L.A. Times Daily - March 8 2018 Thursday Crossword Puzzle Answers

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Mar 8 2018 Thursday 

Clues	Answers
'LOL'	HAHA
'No __!': 'Sure!'	PROB
'Right away!'	ASAP
'Spring the trap!'	NOW
'The Good Wife' wife	ALICIA
'The Hunger Games' land	PANEM
'Zip it!'	SHH
'__ Encounter': SeaWorld show	ORCA
*'Oh boy, it's starting!'	HEREWEGO
*Ball of fire	HUMANDYNAMO
*Drama in the Nielsen top 10 four times during the '70s	HAWAIIFIVEO
*Hobbyist's broadcasting equipment	HAMRADIO
2003 holiday film	ELF
Barely lit	DIM
Believe	HOLD
Biblical verb	HATH
Blood feud	VENDETTA
Body wash brand	OLAY
Bouffant feature	TEASEDHAIR
Budweiser Clydesdales' pace	TROT
Case in Lat. grammar	DAT
Checked out	EYED
Corner PC key	ESC
Coventry rider	LADYGODIVA
Cuts and pastes, say	EDITS
Defense advisory gp	NSC
Dickens boy	TIM
Dog that licks Garfield	ODIE
Domestic sock eater?	DRYER
Expert	WHIZ
First words	INTROS
Flame-haired villain in Disney's 'Hercules'	HADES
Gather	REAP
Genre incorporating elements of funk and hip-hop	ACIDJAZZ
Grilled sandwich	PANINI
Hubbub	ADO
Irrawaddy River locale	ASIA
IV lead?	III
Largest single-digit square	NINE
Like some grins	WRY
Liquid whose chemical formula is a homophonic hint to the answers to starred clues	WATER
List of notables	WHOSWHO
Little limb	TWIG
Look bad?	OGLE
Lose one's coat	SHED
Low-quality	POOR
Many years	EON
Mediterranean vacation island	IBIZA
Mennonite sect	AMISH
Mets modifier of 1969	AMAZIN
MLB's D-backs	ARI
Moves to the melody	SWAYS
Muffin grain	OAT
Mysterious girl on 'Stranger Things'	ELEVEN
Noggin	BEAN
People	ONES
Put on	WEAR
Sever, with 'off'	LOP
Shakespearean 'You as well?'	ETTU
Shredded	TORE
Slender cylinders	RODS
Soap chemical	LYE
Special __	OPS
Storied climber	JILL
Super Bowl gathering, e.g	WATCHPARTY
TASS country	USSR
Taxing and successful	HARDWON
Thing to put on	SHOW
Transgression	SIN
Trellis climber	VINE
Twit	DITZ
Vaccine pioneer Salk	JONAS
Where many missed connections occur	AIRLINEHUB
Wind farm blades	ROTORS
Zinger	JAPE
Zoo doc	VET
__ pad	STENO
__ whiskey	RYE