Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday May 6th 2022, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Flows back : EBBS
5 Sci. major : BIO
8 Fisher of “Wedding Crashers” : ISLA
12 Eight or nine on the Beaufort scale : GALE
13 Twinge : PANG
14 Hijab and niqab, e.g. : VEILS
16 NVS : GREEN-EYED
18 Like Keebler’s animated bakers : ELFIN
19 Daze : STUPOR
20 Serpentine fish : EEL
22 Toy company with theme parks : LEGO
23 TDS : MIND-NUMBING
26 Bound : JUMP
30 Island chain : LEI
31 Parts of an island chain : CAYS
32 Bagel flavor : ONION
34 Part of a flight : STAIR
36 Steve Carell voice role : GRU
39 IC : DISTANT
41 MT : VACUOUS
43 “__ been a while!” : IT’S
44 Place to have a ball? : DISCO
46 Smog element : OZONE
47 Sweeping : EPIC
49 Olive extract : OIL
51 Some Neruda poems : ODES
52 DVS : UNDERHANDED
56 Costa __ : RICA
57 Pull the plug on : END
58 Top 10 U2 song from “Rattle and Hum” : DESIRE
63 High-five sounds : SLAPS
65 ODS : JUST AWFUL
67 Totally fine : ALL OK
68 Cuatro y cuatro : OCHO
69 Resale warning : AS IS
70 “Betsy’s Wedding” writer/director : ALDA
71 Sporty truck, briefly : UTE
72 Zero : NONE
DOWN
1 What some layers cover : EGGS
2 Toon boy known for chalkboard gags : BART
3 Flag couleur : BLEU
4 Flow slowly : SEEP
5 __ leaf : BAY
6 “This isn’t optional!” : I NEED IT
7 Nash who rhymed “Bronx” and “thonx” : OGDEN
8 First-person contraction : I’VE
9 Date stamp : SELL BY
10 Apparel company with a smiling stick-figure icon : LIFE IS GOOD
11 Set straight : ALIGN
13 Grave danger : PERIL
15 Love thy neighbour, say? : SNOG
17 Snarfing sound : NOM
21 Saint __: only country named for a woman : LUCIA
24 Sticky places? : NESTS
25 Venice’s Piazza San __ : MARCO
26 Novelist Picoult : JODI
27 Peck, e.g. : UNIT
28 Notification while in silent mode, perhaps : MISSED CALL
29 Cauldron : POT
33 Low point : NADIR
35 Skirt : AVOID
37 Mythological character? : RUNE
38 Applications : USES
40 __ market : NICHE
42 Aduba of “In Treatment” : UZO
45 Manage : CONDUCT
48 Online grocer with green delivery trucks : PEAPOD
50 Resulted in : LED TO
52 __ Major : URSA
53 Wafer brand : NILLA
54 Short-necked pear : ANJOU
55 “Snowfall” law gp. : DEA
59 Graceful bird : SWAN
60 “Assuming that’s the case … ” : IF SO
61 Mess up : RUIN
62 Choice word : ELSE
64 Genre with Jamaican roots : SKA
66 __/her pronouns : SHE
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