Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday January 23rd 2020, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Spunky SCRAPPY
8 Longest-serving Japanese prime minister ABE
11 Ave. crossers STS
14 Steel foundry input IRON ORE
15 Traction-improving NONSLIP
17 “Try some!” TASTE IT
18 Lamaze class attendee DAD-TO-BE
19 Expectant time EVE
20 One of the family SIS
22 About 24% of the U.S. Congress WOMEN
23 Stations DEPOTS
26 Place for choppers HELIPORT
29 Not quite right AWRY
30 Oodles A LOT
31 Broadway song that begins, “The most beautiful sound I ever heard” MARIA
33 Brief encounter BRUSH
34 Flag thrower REF
37 Co-tsar with Peter I… IVAN V
38 Saucepan cover LID
39 Missile Command game company ATARI
41 Place to stay LODGE
42 Newcastle Brown __ ALE
43 Starts bubbling, maybe BOILS
44 Fleecy one EWE
45 Loafs LAZES
47 Strong suit ASSET
48 Lost, as a big lead BLEW
49 Way back when ONCE
50 Rum drink DAIQUIRI
54 Competition that includes snowboarding X GAMES
57 Pianist Rubinstein ARTUR
58 California’s __ Gabriel Mountains SAN
60 Egg cells OVA
61 Like the most busy busybody NOSIEST
64 Mid-Michigan city SAGINAW
67 Uganda’s capital KAMPALA
68 Accessory for an Aquaman costume TRIDENT
69 Before, in poems ERE
70 Coffee hour sight URN
71 “Sounds right to me” I’D SAY SO
DOWN
1 Positioned SITED
2 Really want CRAVE
3 New Year’s Day event in Pasadena ROSE PARADE
4 Tiny toiler ANT
5 Name in eerie fiction POE
6 Proper to a fault PRISSY
7 Himalayan legend YETI
8 “Furthermore … ” AND
9 Fluffy wrap BOA
10 Finish impressively END WITH A BANG
11 Sportscast technique SLO-MO
12 River near Vatican City TIBER
13 Exhausted SPENT
16 “Hold it!” STOP
21 Lamb Chop puppeteer SHARI LEWIS
24 Short, in a way OWING
25 It helps you go places TRAVEL BUREAU
27 Gives the slip ELUDES
28 Part of LAPD… LOS
31 Pedometer unit MILE
32 Swear AVOW
33 Sport coat BLAZER
34 Get support, in a way … and what the puzzle circles do RAISE MONEY
35 Writer Gardner ERLE
36 Rock that, oddly, loses to paper FIST
40 Puccini opera TOSCA
46 Boxer Laila ALI
49 Ventura County city OXNARD
50 German word of gratitude DANKE
51 Wildly cheering AROAR
52 Knocker’s words IT’S ME
53 Zinger QUIP
55 Chris of “Captain America” EVANS
56 Handled SAW TO
59 Wine made from Muscat grapes ASTI
62 Camera type, for short SLR
63 You basked for it TAN
65 USO show audience GIS
66 Wyo. neighbor IDA
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