Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday, January 31st 2016, LA Times crossword puzzle.
Across
1. Time to hang on? … A SEC
5. Dinner __ DATE
9. Trunk hardware HASP
13. Future flowers BUDS
17. Sheltered area COVE
18. Declare frankly AVOW
19. NFL Titan, before 1999 OILER
20. “But I could be wrong” OR NOT
21. Place of business THE OFFICE
23. Powerful display SHOW OF FORCE
25. 49-Down counterpart: Abbr. SOR
26. “Assuming that’s true … ” IF SO …
27. Heap TON
28. Sics on LETS AT
29. Like some guitar music TWANGY
31. Comic Jay MOHR
34. Not nice at all SNIDE
36. U.S. govt. broadcaster VOA
38. Mandlikova of ’80s tennis HANA
39. Recidivists REPEAT OFFENDERS
42. Louise __, National Book Award winner for “The Round House” ERDRICH
45. Empire with provinces called suyu INCA
46. Superman nemesis Luthor LEX
47. Hebrew for “skyward” EL AL
48. Olive branch PEACE OFFERING
51. Still being tested, as software IN BETA
53. Objectivism advocate Rand AYN
54. Stadium shaker ROAR
55. “There __ darkness but ignorance”: “Twelfth Night” IS NO
56. Undefined number ANY
57. Thieves’ room? DEN
58. Cheat ROOK
60. Wound covering SCAB
62. __ center MED
63. Sweater sizes: Abbr. LGES
65. Ancient Roman garment TUNIC
67. Camaro option T-TOP
69. Where shakes may be seen ROOF
71. Udder parts TEATS
75. Quarterback Tony ROMO
77. It receives many returns: Abbr. IRS
79. Become less hostile THAW
81. Frigate front PROW
82. Meas. reduced by fog VIS
85. Major conflict WAR
86. Country singer McCann LILA
88. Picnic side SLAW
90. Place for a nail TOE
91. Van Cleef & __: French jeweler/perfumer ARPELS
93. Red Label spirits SMIRNOFF VODKA
96. Crisis team acronym SWAT
97. Letters before F? TGI
100. Mr. Knightley’s wife, in the novel of the same name EMMA
101. Leaning AT A TILT
102. Clique CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
106. Olympic hawk ARES
107. Teen’s opening number? ONE
108. Actress Ryan IRENE
109. Close NEAR
110. Common rejoinder in one-upmanship OH YEAH!
112. “Full House” actor STAMOS
114. Forest female DOE
116. Rhein tributary AARE
118. MLX ÷ X CVI
119. Vivien Leigh’s last film SHIP OF FOOLS
121. Misaligned … or, literally, a perfectly aligned aspect of seven answers in this puzzle OFF CENTER
123. Farm girls MARES
124. Polonius hid behind one ARRAS
125. Razor brand ATRA
126. Source ROOT
127. Blown away AWED
128. Reddish horse ROAN
129. General __ chicken TSO’S
130. Shelter sounds ARFS
Down
1. Does as expected ACTS THE PART
2. “But enough about me” follower SO, HOW ARE YOU?
3. Occasionally EVER AND ANON
4. Board VIP CEO
5. Black toon duck DAFFY
6. Alamo competitor AVIS
7. In the future TO COME
8. Farm girl EWE
9. Greeting from Kermit HI-HO
10. King in “The Tempest” ALONSO
11. Put in stitches SEW
12. Hot-button political platform term PRO-LIFE
13. Warner __ BROS
14. Came apart UNRAVELED
15. High degree DOCTORATE
16. Fr. holy woman STE
19. Exclusion OSTRACISM
20. Quite a bit OFTEN
22. Fruit often dried FIG
24. Shipping overnight, perhaps FEDEXING
30. Certain undercover cop NARC
32. Andy’s son OPIE
33. Painter Rousseau HENRI
35. 32-team gp. NFL
37. “The Lord of the whole wood,” per Mr. Beaver ASLAN
39. Blood typing concern RH FACTOR
40. Worker with hides TANNER
41. Ball girl DEB
43. Suffix with front -IER
44. Sweet talk COOS
49. Rites group FRAT
50. Titular character with no lines GODOT
52. “My eye!” in Minsk NYET
56. “__ Aunt”: Little Rascals short ALFALFA’S
59. Cassis aperitif KIR
61. Starts to bubble, maybe BOILS
64. NFL season opening mo. SEP
66. Monastery garb COWL
68. Easy read PRIMER
70. Extremely OH SO
72. Production design team member ART DIRECTOR
73. Said farewell to TOOK LEAVE OF
74. Resort area souvenirs SWEATSHIRTS
76. With “a,” eminently skilled at, as disguise … MASTER OF
78. Severe disrepute SLIMINESS
80. Be carried gently WAFT
82. Explorer __ da Gama VASCO
83. “The Young Lions” novelist IRWIN SHAW
84. External Jeep attachment SPARE TIRE
87. Napoleon’s légion ARMEE
89. Mountain State: Abbr. WVA
92. List-limiting letters ETC
94. Gram NANA
95. Our Gang assent OTAY
98. Makes it big GOES FAR
99. Dogpatch conditional IF’N
103. Rides to the prom LIMOS
104. Sinatra trademark FEDORA
105. They may be rough DRAFTS
110. Black-and-white swimmers ORCAS
111. Bit of a chuckle -HEE
113. Mimicked APED
115. “The Good Earth” wife O-LAN
117. Hendrix hairdo AFRO
119. Wee SMA’
120. Granada gold ORO
121. Meal opener OAT
122. Food service trade org. NRA
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