Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday January 30th 2020, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Healthful berry ACAI
5 Sommelier’s concern NOSE
9 San Antonio cagers SPURS
14 Bananas LOCO
15 “… the __ blackness of the floors”: Poe EBON
16 “The Fox and the Grapes” storyteller AESOP
17 Dutch cheese EDAM
18 Way to go ROAD
19 Queen’s milieu DRAMA
20 “That’s fine” POWDERED SUGAR
23 Get going HOP TO
25 “Knives Out” Golden Globe nominee de Armas ANA
26 Lansing-to-Flint dir. ENE
27 “That’s all folks” THE HUMAN RACE
32 1960s chess champ Mikhail TAL
33 Mustard family member KALE
34 They’re tapped KEGS
37 Bundle PILE
39 On the money RIGHT
42 Kentucky coach with 876 victories RUPP
44 Foolhardy RASH
46 __ avis RARA
48 Mex. title SRA
49 “That’s not the point” PENCIL ERASER
53 Withdrawal site ATM
56 Carnival city RIO
57 Words before “so sue me” I LIED
58 “That’s rich” CHOCOLATE CAKE
63 Polynesian language MAORI
64 Sitar music RAGA
65 Yemen’s Gulf of __ ADEN
68 Conclude with END ON
69 Indicator SIGN
70 Feet-first race LUGE
71 Video chat choice SKYPE
72 “What __ is new?” ELSE
73 MP3 player IPOD
DOWN
1 Cream __ ALE
2 Fish that’s salted and dried to make bacalao COD
3 Like Pentatonix numbers A CAPPELLA
4 Flying insect with prominent eyespots IO MOTH
5 Bookish type NERD
6 Wind up on stage? OBOE
7 Fly like an eagle SOAR
8 Win over ENDEAR
9 Hapless sort SAD SACK
10 Ucayali River country PERU
11 Grammarian’s concern USAGE
12 Type type ROMAN
13 Just-in-case item SPARE
21 “The Caine Mutiny” novelist WOUK
22 Paternity identifier DNA
23 Web address letters HTTP
24 Atheist activist Madalyn O’HAIR
28 Deface MAR
29 “When We Were Kings” boxer ALI
30 Pola of the silents NEGRI
31 Poetic contraction E’ER
35 Dressed to the nines GUSSIED UP
36 Wild period SPREE
38 Uncommon sense ESP
40 Actor Holbrook HAL
41 Amount past due? TRE
43 Ranch bud PARD
45 Wonder Woman, for one HEROINE
47 Plot-driving song, perhaps ARIA
50 Zilch NIL
51 Rough around the edges COARSE
52 High-pH compound ALKALI
53 Summits ACMES
54 “__ goodness” THANK
55 Temperamental MOODY
59 Edit for size, as a photo CROP
60 Follow TAIL
61 Confident juggler’s props EGGS
62 Candy __ CANE
66 It may need a boost EGO
67 Flanders who inspired the band Okilly Dokilly NED