
Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Sunday January 5th 2025, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Big name in shortening : CRISCO
7 Roman _ : NUMERALS
15 In base eight : OCTAL
20 Give a terrible review : HATE ON
21 Neapolitan standard that provided the melody for Elvis’s “It’s Now or Never” : ‘O SOLE MIO
22 Birch of “Hocus Pocus” : THORA
23 HS podcast recording sites : AV LABS
24 Produced charts? : MODIFIED STARCH
26 Disclose : TELL
27 Oscar winner Guinness : ALEC
29 Quaint lodging : INN
30 Basketball position : CENTER
31 _ of Skye : ISLE
33 Heap affection (on) : DOTE
35 Stormed (in) : BARGED
36 Stirred up rages? : SHIFTED GEARS
41 Hardly windy? : TERSE
42 More refined : PURER
43 “Deal me in” payment : ANTE
44 Twist a peg on a guitar, say : TUNE
45 _ tape : DUCT
49 Earlier : AGO
50 Latin “and others” : ET ALIA
53 Announce, on a stream : POST
54 Cause for a blessing : ACHOO
55 Father on the sidelines : SOCCER DAD
57 Brain activity tests, briefly : EEGS
58 “If these walls _ talk” : COULD
59 Gem with fire and matrix varieties : OPAL
60 Perfect 10s : IDEALS
62 Animated film about a racing 61-Down : TURBO
63 “Agatha All Along” star Kathryn : HAHN
66 Developed genres? : MIXED GREENS
70 Tampa Bay team : RAYS
71 Pain relief brand : ALEVE
73 Ball honorees : BELLES
74 Lummoxes : APES
76 Direct (to) : REFER
77 KOA client : RV’ER
78 Many crime drama characters : FBI AGENTS
83 Uncredited actor : EXTRA
84 Graph lines : AXES
85 Classic theater name : RIALTO
86 “Got it!” : AHA
87 Yard holder : MAST
88 Pulls even with : TIES
89 Swing music : JIVE
90 Faith founded by Muhammad : ISLAM
92 Water pitchers : EWERS
94 Acquired taste? : ALTERED STATE
97 Some family cars : SEDANS
99 Sharp plumlike fruit : SLOE
100 Gospel-singing sister of Aretha Franklin : ERMA
101 1980s game consoles : ATARIS
102 Colorado Native : UTE
103 Kunis of “Bad Moms” : MILA
105 Viral social media bit : MEME
109 Discovered vin rosé? : REVISED VERSION
113 Less biased : FAIRER
115 Raise : ERECT
116 Fistfighter’s fist : MEAT HOOK
117 Harder to see : TINIER
118 Range where tomatoes originated : ANDES
119 Some smartphones : SAMSUNGS
120 Biases : SLANTS
DOWN
1 Kibitz : CHAT
2 Give a great review : RAVE
3 “_ make your head spin!” : IT’LL
4 Aquarium collection : SEALIFE
5 Corn discard : COB
6 Up for auction : ON SALE
7 Norton Sound port city : NOME
8 Sports org. that added a “P” to its initials in 2019 : USOC
9 Stylish, in the 1960s : MOD
10 First name in pharmaceuticals : ELI
11 Brings in fresh equipment : REFITS
12 Nitrogen compound : AMINE
13 Security for a debt : LIEN
14 Outfield layer : SOD
15 Furry swimmers : OTTERS
16 Found Crusoe? : CHANGED COURSE
17 Flourless cake : TORTE
18 Like a rainbow : ARCED
19 “If I Only Had the Nerve” singer Bert : LAHR
25 Cause alarm : SCARE
28 Commanded : LED
32 Actress Meryl : STREEP
33 Statistician’s focus : DATA
34 Buried treasure : ORE
35 Not straight : BENT
36 Daycation locations : SPAS
37 Victor of French literature : HUGO
38 Sporty Camaro : IROC
39 Glamorous event : GALA
40 Seat of Garfield County, Oklahoma : ENID
41 Little dustup : TUSSLE
44 Forum frocks : TOGAE
46 “Star Trek” lieutenant : UHURA
47 Cheese similar to cheddar : COLBY
48 Flaps : TO-DOS
51 Hong Kong transport : TRAM
52 Unprepared remark : AD LIB
53 Looks : PEERS
54 Magician’s set : ACT
56 Begat Eric? : CONVERTED RICE
57 Lawn care tool : EDGER
60 Runs in neutral : IDLES
61 Garden creeper : SNAIL
63 _ pants: baggy trousers : HAREM
64 “_ & Katie”: Netflix sitcom : ALEXA
65 Tests by lifting : HEFTS
67 Ancient Persian king : XERXES
68 Fabled toymakers : ELVES
69 Little dustup : SPAT
72 Timeline division : ERA
75 Teamwork hurdle : EGOISM
78 High follower : FIVE
79 Braddock’s opponent in “Cinderella Man” : BAER
80 “The Lion King” lion : NALA
81 Not this : THAT
82 “The feeling is mutual” : SAME
84 Puts on the tube : AIRS
85 Initiation, e.g. : RITE
88 Like a tightrope : TENSE
89 “Atlas” actress, familiarly : J.LO
91 Triathlete’s asset : STAMINA
93 Pants measurements : WAISTS
94 Weather advisories : ALERTS
95 Slippery swimmer : EEL
96 Pub offerings : DRAFTS
97 Firm : STERN
98 Like an icicle-covered house, perhaps : EAVED
99 Cause of a kettle’s whistle : STEAM
101 Field : AREA
102 Iris layer : UVEA
103 Synthesizer pioneer : MOOG
104 Printer refills : INKS
106 Environmentalist Brockovich : ERIN
107 Track event : MEET
108 Makes a wrong move : ERRS
110 Private exchanges, briefly : DMS
111 Moo _ pork : SHU
112 Electron transfer result, maybe : ION
114 Feel sick : AIL
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