Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday January 29th 2022, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Biography beginning? : AUTO-
5 Energy : VIM
8 It may be fictional : ALIBI
13 Works on walls : GRAFFITI
15 Where “Madama Butterfly” premiered : MILAN
16 What spies often do : LISTEN IN
17 Works on walls : PAINTS
19 Cereal bit : OAT
20 Prisoner’s place, in an 1894 adventure novel : ZENDA
22 Most coins have them : RADII
23 Make sharp : WHET
25 2004 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee Isao __ : AOKI
27 Titled woman : DAME
28 Radiation Protection Program org. : EPA
31 Las Palmas lad : NINO
33 Badger : NAG
34 Celebrity’s arrival, perhaps : GRAND ENTRANCE
37 In the negative, unlikely to be fooled : BORN YESTERDAY
38 Bet, in a way : PLAY THE PONIES
39 “Alley __” : OOP
40 Works on, as a lawn : SODS
41 Five mL, in medicine : TSP
42 Is beholden to : OWES
44 __ sauce : WEAK
46 Oodles : TONS
50 Musical skill : CHOPS
52 Sign up, in Salisbury : ENROL
55 Zilch : NIL
56 Wanting success? : HAVING
58 Assign responsibility : DELEGATE
60 Summary : RECAP
61 Serious predicament : QUAGMIRE
62 Wine residue : DREGS
63 Modern marshal’s milieu : SKY
64 Text translation : TROT
DOWN
1 Radiant : AGLOW
2 First name in a Dickens classic : URIAH
3 Preference : TASTE
4 “For the apparel __ proclaims the man”: Polonius : OFT
5 Wisteria, e.g. : VINE
6 Memoir that led to the movie “What’s Love Got to Do With It” : I, TINA
7 Act mannerly : MIND ONE’S PS AND QS
8 Music box, maybe : AMP
9 Yarn spinner : LIAR
10 Homeric epic : ILIAD
11 Versatile head-neck garb : BANDANNAS
12 Getting very close : INTIMACY
14 Tasseled hat : FEZ
18 Extended attack : SIEGE
21 Like : AKIN TO
24 Looped fabric : TERRY
26 Strongly focused : INTENT
29 What a hot dog does? : PANTS
30 “But I digress … ” : ANYHOW
32 Root in perfumery : ORRIS
34 Wig out about : GO APE OVER
35 Clinton press secretary Myers : DEE DEE
36 Crackerjack : ADEPT
37 Windbag : BLOWHARD
38 Dog : POOCH
43 Food flavoring : SPICE
45 “Smallville” actress Kristin : KREUK
47 Studio sign : ON AIR
48 Explosive, briefly : NITRO
49 Letter carrier’s challenge : SLEET
51 Catch-22 : SNAG
53 Skin care brand : OLAY
54 Relay part : LEG
57 Family docs : GPS
59 Clock-setting std. : GMT
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