Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Friday January 21st 2022, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Like Jack Sprat, one would expect : SLIM
5 Role in a Gershwin opera : BESS
9 Fellow : CHAP
13 Her musical career started at age 16 at the Cotton Club : LENA HORNE
15 Pre-euro currency : LIRA
16 Atomic physicist’s favorite cookie? : FIG NEUTRON
17 “__ a girl who sang the blues”: Don McLean lyric : I MET
18 Musicologist’s term : OPUS
19 Deity with an eponymous day : THOR
20 Gaping mouths : MAWS
21 Uncommon sense : ESP
22 Atomic physicist’s favorite Golden Age movie star? : QUARK GABLE
25 U.N. Security Council permanent member : RUS
26 Poetic adverb : E’ER
27 Say further : ADD
29 Word after look or sound : ALIKE
32 Wafer brand : NILLA
34 “__ awake?” : YOU
35 Atomic physicist’s favorite side dish? : BOSON BAKED BEANS
38 Consume : USE
39 Lion __ : TAMER
40 Mounted, as gems : INSET
41 Rightmost bowling pin : TEN
42 Wrath : IRE
43 Not leave alone : NAG
44 Atomic physicist’s favorite wall builder? : STONE MESON
48 Beret relative : TAM
51 Move a bit : STIR
52 Superior cousin? : ERIE
53 Takes charge of : OWNS
54 Filled food : PITA
55 Atomic physicist’s favorite spy novelist? : ION FLEMING
57 Painter Nolde : EMIL
58 As initially evident : ON ITS FACE
59 Cozy places : DENS
60 Comprehends : SEES
61 Cretaceous giant : T-REX
DOWN
1 Lingerie items : SLIPS
2 Assistance, with “a” : LEG UP
3 Accommodating places : INNS
4 W.C.’s “My Little Chickadee” co-star : MAE
5 ’80s South African president : BOTHA
6 Misstep : ERROR
7 Coral reef visitor : SNORKELER
8 Snowe of ME, once : SEN
9 Begin a flight : CLIMB
10 Region from the Sanskrit for “snow abode” : HIMALAYAS
11 “Anything else?” : ARE WE DONE?
12 Light touches : PATS
14 Many Rwandans : HUTUS
16 Other side : FOE
22 He directed Samuel in “Pulp Fiction” : QUENTIN
23 Do a vet’s job : GELD
24 Versatile mount : ARABIAN
25 “Notorious” studio : RKO
28 Roomba target : DUST
29 Lie next to : ABUT
30 Falls behind : LOSES TIME
31 Possible “Finish your tax return yet?” reply : I SENT IT IN
32 “Got any examples at all?” : NAME ME ONE
33 Dick was his veep : IKE
36 __ minimum : BARE
37 U.K. part : ENG
43 Holiday songs : NOELS
45 Tests without papers : ORALS
46 Orange Muppet : ERNIE
47 Goes (through) carefully : SIFTS
48 Safer way to think : TWICE
49 Wing : ANNEX
50 Umami source : MSG
51 Broke the law, in a way : SPED
53 Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan __ : OMAR
55 Apple product : IOS
56 Young newt : EFT
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