Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Thursday March 31st 2022, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Day __ : SPA
4 Door support : JAMB
8 Keep busy : OCCUPY
14 China shop threat : OAF
15 Native Nebraskan : OTOE
16 Newcomer : ROOKIE
17 Red crawler, perhaps : ANT
18 Patient shopper’s reward : SALE
19 Bays, e.g. : INLETS
20 Only way to tackle a 57-Across : PIECE BY PIECE
23 Paper bit : SCRAP
24 __ only: sale caveat : ONE TIME
28 Question muttered while tackling a 57-Across : WHY WON’T IT FIT?
32 Modern cash source : ATM
35 Barely flow : SEEP
36 Back nine opener : TENTH
37 Gunk : GOO
38 Jackson Hole’s county : TETON
41 Salem’s lot?: Abbr. : ORE
42 Frottage artist Max : ERNST
45 13-Downs heard in pairs : I DOS
47 Contacts list no. : TEL
48 Popular theme for 57-Acrosses : NATURE SCENES
52 Aptly named “Music From Big Pink” group : THE BAND
53 Enlighten : TEACH
57 Challenge commercialized by mapmaker John Spilsbury circa 1760 : JIGSAW PUZZLE
61 Novelist Graham : GREENE
64 Sky-high stunt : LOOP
65 Shade on a beach : TAN
66 Amazon delivery : PARCEL
67 About : OR SO
68 PC rescue key : ESC
69 Outpourings : SPATES
70 First-time biology student, usually : TEEN
71 Friend of Fidel : CHE
DOWN
1 Cakes not for eating : SOAPS
2 Kind of button or room : PANIC
3 Time-telling word : AFTER
4 Margaret of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” : JOSEPHS
5 Run __ : A TAB
6 “Holy __!” : MOLY
7 Car talk? : BEEP
8 Familiarize : ORIENT
9 Downfall for Narcissus : CONCEIT
10 “Gigi” novelist : COLETTE
11 Usually four-stringed instrument : UKE
12 Peach center : PIT
13 “Without a doubt” : YES
21 Crow’s cry : CAW
22 Charged particle : ION
25 “__ for You”: Dylan song to his first wife : IF NOT
26 British bishop’s headdress : MITRE
27 “I Love Lucy” role : ETHEL
29 Up to now : YET
30 Apt adjective for Stuart Little : WEE
31 Eye-related : OPTIC
32 CIA worker : AGENT
33 Synagogue scroll : TORAH
34 Three-card con : MONTE
39 Literary homage : ODE
40 Prefix with binary : NON-
43 Sentence focus, grammatically : SUBJECT
44 Newcomer : TRAINEE
46 Attack : SET UPON
49 Marx co-author : ENGELS
50 ’60s protest gp. : SDS
51 “Word” with who or me : SEZ
54 Montezuma follower : AZTEC
55 Fail to match : CLASH
56 Therefore : HENCE
58 Dozens and dozens : A LOT
59 Eroded : WORE
60 “The Thinker” has an iconic one : POSE
61 Traveler’s aid, briefly : GPS
62 Knock hard : RAP
63 Time capsule time : ERA
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