Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday, January 2nd 2016, LA Times crossword puzzle.
Across
1. Diamond surprise UPSET
6. Change keys often? ISLAND-HOP
15. “You’ve got me on my knees” woman in a 1971 hit LAYLA
16. Competition covering many miles SPACE RACE
17. Wing ANNEX
18. Unix guru, e.g. POWER USER
19. Biblical miracle component LOAVES
21. “Wedding Bell Blues” songwriter NYRO
22. Last Hebrew letter TAV
23. eBay feature UPPERCASE B
25. Designer Ricci NINA
26. D.C. United’s org. MLS
27. King ratsnake’s defense ODOR
28. Arctic GELID
29. Pencil contents, perhaps EYELINER
32. “Particularly small and particularly wicked-looking” villain MR HYDE
33. Fateful day IDES
34. Pick up HEAR
35. Neighbors of Frauen FEMMES
38. “The Roosevelts” documentarian KEN BURNS
42. Jordan’s only port AQABA
43. Benefit from work PERK
44. Classified initials EOE
45. Tamblyn of “West Side Story” RUSS
46. Silk Road component KHYBER PASS
49. Down EAT
50. Bug FLAW
51. Ace the test NAIL IT
52. Dogfish Head sellers ALEHOUSES
55. Mobutu’s land ZAIRE
56. Most unforgiving STRICTEST
57. Inception ONSET
58. Slinky spots TOY CHESTS
59. Learning methods ROTES
Down
1. Poe title answer to ” … ‘What is written … / On the door of this legended tomb?'” ULALUME
2. Impressive array PANOPLY
3. Neural junction SYNAPSE
4. Professeur’s charge ELEVE
5. Government, often TAXER
6. Juno, e.g.: Abbr. ISP
7. Back SPONSOR
8. Many a president LAWYER
9. Having a bite ACERB
10. 50s-60s emperor NERO
11. R&B group __ Hill DRU
12. With urgency HASTILY
13. Mythological sea nymph OCEANID
14. Fill PERVADE
20. Tea cart items SCONES
24. Vitamin C sources ADES
25. Prime minister sworn in by Mountbatten NEHRU
28. Land __ GRAB
30. An arm and a leg LIMBS
31. Bean product? IDEA
32. “The Little Mermaid” composer Alan MENKEN
34. Wormwood, e.g. HERB
35. China setting FAR EAST
36. On a par with EQUAL TO
37. Domination MASTERY
38. Site of Truman’s winter White House KEY WEST
39. Dreamer’s opposite REALIST
40. “Ain’t happening!” NO SIREE!
41. Sonnet parts SESTETS
43. Stages PHASES
46. 1971 title detective KLUTE
47. Carry-on no-no RAZOR
48. Schroeder’s love PIANO
50. WWI French marshal FOCH
53. It’s heard at 52-Across HIC!
54. D and C, in D.C. STS
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