Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Friday March 25th 2022, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Earth, for one : ORB
4 Dred Scott decision Chief Justice : TANEY
9 Leg section : CALF
13 Two-digit sign : VEE
14 Thrifty to begin with? : ECONO-
15 Central Plains tribe : OTOE
16 “__ la vie” : C’EST
17 *Guide for Smithsonian visitors, say : MUSEUM DOCENT
19 Food scrap : ORT
20 Hardly libertine : PRIM
21 Pithy saying : ADAGE
22 *Ken Burns specialty : DOCUMENTARY FILM
26 Fairy tale figures : GNOMES
27 Mother __ : LODE
28 Money with hits : EDDIE
29 Retreats : LAIRS
31 Word with bonds or games : WAR
34 Line holder : REEL
35 Barely detectable : FAINT
36 Tiny particle : MOTE
37 Future H.S. grads, probably : SRS
38 Volcanic eruption sight : PLUME
39 Nested supermarket array : CARTS
40 Nana : GRAN
41 “Amen to that!” : SO TRUE
42 *Southeast Asian colonial region dismantled in 1954 : FRENCH INDOCHINA
45 Earth’s volume? : ATLAS
47 Mandlikova of ’80s tennis : HANA
48 Mexican pinch? : SEL
49 Classic Looney Tunes tagline offering some “direction” in solving the starred clues : WHAT’S UP, DOC?
51 Office figure : BOSS
52 Legends and such : LORE
53 Cloth-dyeing method : BATIK
54 Pro using a siren, perhaps : EMT
55 Went after, in a way : SUED
56 Objects of worship : IDOLS
57 Earth opening? : GEO-
DOWN
1 With 3-Down, sportsbook option based on the final score : OVER-UNDER
2 Game system turn-off options : REST MODES
3 See 1-Down : BET
4 What a siren does : TEMPTS
5 Lexus competitor : ACURA
6 Polite denial : NO, SIR
7 Combat demarcation point : ENEMY LINE
8 “__ busy?” : YOU
9 Indulge : CODDLE
10 Starting players : A-TEAM
11 Sleep-inducing, maybe, as a lecture : LONG
12 Fancy party : FETE
16 Eccentric old guys : CODGERS
18 “Downton Abbey” personnel : MAIDS
23 Man’s name that becomes a measurement when one letter is moved : EMIL
24 Once called : NEE
25 The Alamo, e.g. : FORT
29 Starting point of many modern missions : LAUNCH PAD
30 Intention : AIM
31 Unsettling : WORRISOME
32 Puts in sync with : ATTUNES TO
33 Zips again, as a Ziploc bag : RESEALS
35 Rich dessert : FLAN
36 Subject with shapes : MATH
38 First Amendment concern : PRESS
39 Fish-and-chips fish : COD
40 Like Romano, often : GRATED
41 Chips, say : SNACKS
42 Emergency device : FLARE
43 Couldn’t not : HAD TO
44 How tuna may be packed : IN OIL
45 Hole makers : AWLS
46 “O Julius Caesar, __ art mighty yet!”: Brutus : THOU
50 Where, to Brutus : UBI
51 Entreat : BEG
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