Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday January 23rd 2022, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Spanish for “prairie” : PAMPA
6 __ wind : SOLAR
11 “Carmina Burana” composer : ORFF
15 Breaks down : ROTS
19 Verdi creations : ARIAS
20 Milan fashion house : PRADA
21 Letter-shaped support : I-BAR
22 Hose color : ECRU
23 Hex nut? : WITCH DOCTOR
25 Paints the town red : LIVES IT UP
27 Sinus-clearing aids : NETI POTS
28 Boilermaker ingredient : BEER
30 Go in for : REPLACE
31 Cool, in a way : FAN
32 Palm nut? : FORTUNE TELLER
34 Encircle : HEM IN
37 “__ Bop”: Cyndi Lauper song : SHE
39 Fiver : ABE
40 “Curious George” co-author Margret : REY
41 City on the Skunk : AMES
42 Audrey of “The Da Vinci Code” : TAUTOU
45 Flavorful : SAPID
47 It’s almost always fishy : SEA
50 Date nut? : HISTORY BUFF
52 Brewers’ gadgets : TEA BALLS
54 “Sorry, can’t do it” : ALAS NO
55 Customary : STOCK
58 Mischievous glance : SLY LOOK
59 Bit : IOTA
62 “Sorry not sorry” : SUE ME
64 Old Bruins nickname : ESPO
65 Wing nut? : STUNT PILOT
71 Butternut? : PASTRY CHEF
74 Folksy Guthrie : ARLO
75 Abdominal scar, actually : NAVEL
77 Earth goddess : GAIA
78 One in the alley’s back row : NINE-PIN
81 Pueblo building material : ADOBE
84 Breakfast cereal magnate : CW POST
89 Zigzagged, in a sport : SLALOMED
91 Doughnut? : BANK MANAGER
94 Drink with a painful homophone : ALE
95 Packed (with) : LADEN
97 “Phooey!” : OH DARN
98 Family figure? : TREE
99 Kind of blanket or paint : WET
100 Bubbly prefix : AER
102 New Haven collegian : ELI
103 FDR had three of them : VEEPS
104 Wheel nut? : RACE CAR DRIVER
110 Card game cry : GIN
111 “C’est magnifique!” : OOH LA LA
112 “How ya __?” : DOIN’
113 Punter’s metric : HANG TIME
118 Reggie Jackson nickname based on his postseason success : MR OCTOBER
120 Chestnut? : BODYBUILDER
122 Impress : ETCH
123 “Game of Thrones,” for one : SAGA
124 Dodge : ELUDE
125 Hawaiian veranda : LANAI
126 Squirrels’ haunts : OAKS
127 Train station, e.g. : STOP
128 Bob who was the voice of Future Ted Mosby in “How I Met Your Mother” : SAGET
129 Muscular, in modern lingo : SWOLE
DOWN
1 First to move, usually : PAWN
2 Indy champ Luyendyk : ARIE
3 Glove : MITT
4 Protest group, perhaps : PACIFISTS
5 Sooty receptacle : ASH PAN
6 Allow as a handicap : SPOT
7 “LOTR” menaces : ORCS
8 Delt neighbor : LAT
9 Tangy Mexican sauce : ADOBO
10 More desirable to collectors : RARER
11 Massage parlor services : OIL RUBS
12 Triple Crown stat : RBI
13 Packers QB before Rodgers : FAVRE
14 Streaming service offer : FREE TRIAL
15 “Match Game” regular Charles Nelson __ : REILLY
16 In base eight : OCTAL
17 Fighters’ pact : TRUCE
18 Word that’s its own synonym when a “b” is added to the end : SUPER
24 Family title? : DON
26 Fly past : SPEED BY
29 Due-in hr. : ETA
32 Former embryo : FETUS
33 Bourbon order : NEAT
34 “Funny not funny” : HA HA
35 Pianist Gilels : EMIL
36 Arizona College of Nursing city : MESA
37 “Here’s a thought … ” : SAY
38 Center of activity : HUB
42 Move en masse : TROOP
43 Many times o’er : OFT
44 Aerial enigmas : UFOS
46 Old Spanish dough : PESETA
47 Splash (through) : SLOSH
48 Split to come together : ELOPE
49 Request from : ASK OF
51 “Will do” : ON IT
53 Novelist Waugh : ALEC
56 Golf green insert : CUP
57 Mauna __ : KEA
60 Preserved, as sardines : TINNED
61 Like : A LA
63 Chinese sauce additive : MSG
65 Prefix with belt, in slacks : SANSA-
66 What a wavy line may mean in music : TRILL
67 Long bones : ULNAE
68 Advent air : NOEL
69 Eggs in a lab : OVA
70 “Chopped” host Allen : TED
72 Costa __ : RICAN
73 Sign of boredom : YAWN
76 Western wolf : LOBO
79 Skunk cousin : POLECAT
80 “Haven’t the foggiest” : I’M AT A LOSS
82 “Phooey!” : BAH
83 Week add-on : -ENDER
85 Inventor’s protection : PATENT LAW
86 Nasty sort : OGRE
87 Ooze : SEEP
88 A fourth of doce : TRES
90 Out of juice : DEAD
92 Penn of the Harold & Kumar films : KAL
93 Hosp. test in a tube : MRI
96 MC Chris genre : NERD RAP
99 Big name in jam : WELCH’S
101 Maracanã Stadium city : RIO
103 Watches : VIGILS
104 “Did my heart love till now?” speaker : ROMEO
105 Main artery : AORTA
106 As much as possible : CHOCK
107 Capital near Casablanca : RABAT
108 Empaths pick them up : VIBES
109 __ Gay : ENOLA
110 Serengeti bovine : GNU
113 London’s __ Park : HYDE
114 Help in a risky way : ABET
115 Passport fig. : ID NO
116 It may include several courses : MEAL
117 One in a wet quintet : ERIE
119 __ trip : EGO
121 Exposed, with “up” : DUG
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