L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answers - February 22, 2015
Clue | Answer |
"A Bug's Life" colony | ANTS |
"A Series of Unfortunate Events" villain Squalor | ESME |
"Catch-22" pal of Yossarian | ORR |
"Fear of Fifty" author Jong | ERICA |
"I've seen this before" feeling | DEJAVU |
"Is it okay, mom?" | CANI |
"Mad Money" network | CNBC |
"My country __ ... " | TIS |
"Plum Island" author Nelson | DEMILLE |
"So-o adorable!" | AWW |
"You Gotta Be" singer Des'__ | REE |
*"No lie!" | THATSTHEABSOLUTETRUTH |
*1976 Doobie Brothers hit | TAKINITTOTHESTREETS |
*Congressional authorization of its creation was partly contingent on its forbidding polygamy | UTAHSTATECONSTITUTION |
*Gossip | TITTLETATTLE |
*Jolson classic | TOOTTOOTTOOTSIE |
*Knocking sound, in Joyce's "Ulysses" (longest palindromic word in the OED) | TATTARRATTAT |
1930s Rhine/Zener experiment | ESPTEST |
1944 invasion city | STLO |
1991 Pinatubo event | ERUPTION |
2011 FedEx Cup winner Bill | HAAS |
Alabaman, e.g | SOUTHERNER |
Alice's cat | DINAH |
Apple sites | ORCHARDS |
Art of verse | POESY |
As a companion | ALONG |
Asian mushroom | SHIITAKE |
Asimov classic | IROBOT |
Bikini specs | CCUPS |
Blood-typing letters | ABO |
Blowup cause | TNT |
Bone: Pref | OSTE |
Boot camp NCOs | SGTS |
Bug-B-Gon maker | ORTHO |
Butler created by Mitchell | RHETT |
Bygone depilatory | NEET |
City near Provo | LEHI |
Climber's implement | ICEAX |
Common batteries | AAS |
Contained | HOUSED |
Coquette | TEASE |
Corner key | CTRL |
Criminals are often behind them | PRISONBARS |
De-pressurized? | EASED |
DFW postings | ETAS |
Diagnostic tool | MRISCANNER |
Dictionary cousin of arch | OBS |
Dix follower | ONZE |
Docket item | CASE |
Doesn't blow off | ATTENDS |
Durham sch | UNH |
Educational org | PTA |
Egg-shaped | OVOIDAL |
Experiment subjects | GUINEAPIGS |
Falcons quarterback Ryan | MATT |
Fan mag | ZINE |
Fleur in heraldry | LYS |
French game in which the king is the highest card | ECARTE |
From one tone to the next, in music | STEPWISE |
Get cash for | SELL |
Gift-wrapping aid | TAPE |
Goal pair | POSTS |
Good guess in Battleship | HIT |
Great Society program | MEDICARE |
Han River capital | SEOUL |
Henri's here | ICI |
Immaculate | PURE |
Inventor on Serbia's 100-dinar note | NIKOLATESLA |
IRS hiree | CPA |
Italian article | UNA |
Jack Reacher creator Child | LEE |
Judge | DEEM |
Kid | JOKEAROUND |
Kids' TV quartet | TELETUBBIES |
L.D.S. school | BYU |
Little work for a gardener? | BONSAI |
Long range | ANDES |
Many AARP members: Abbr | SRS |
Marvel | GEM |
Metroliner successor | ACELA |
Mild, chili-wise | ONEALARM |
Mischief-maker | IMP |
Money changers?: Abbr | EDS |
Morphological component, in linguistics | NOUNSTEM |
Newsman Roger | ONEIL |
Nintendo controllers | WIIMOTES |
One making many calls | UMPIRE |
Opening day starter | ACE |
Ophidiophobe's fear, perhaps | ASP |
Out of vertical | TILTED |
Pacific finger food | POI |
Parrot | MIMIC |
Possession indicator | OUR |
Prov. bordering four Great Lakes | ONT |
Purposeless | OTIOSE |
Ran through a reader | SWIPED |
Rate word | PER |
Red team | SOX |
Retiree of 2003, briefly | SST |
Roam | WANDER |
Royal pain? | PEA |
Sched. opening | TBA |
See 74-Across | PEEVE |
Shabbily dressed | INRAGS |
Ship staff | MAST |
Show mastery of | SHINEAT |
Shrek creator William | STEIG |
Sirloin alternative | TBONE |
Site of the house that inspired "American Gothic" | IOWA |
Six-yr. pols | SENS |
Skipped town, maybe | MOVED |
Source of Norse mythology | EDDA |
St. Francis' home | ASSISI |
Tailed orbiter | COMET |
Tenn. athletes | VOLS |
Terminus | ENDPOINT |
The Aragón feeds it | EBRO |
The Battle of Austerlitz precipitated its end: Abbr | HRE |
They're under heads | TORSI |
Trailer, say | TOW |
U.K. component | ISL |
Vacuum | VOID |
Vouchsafes | BESTOWS |
Walked | TROD |
Ward with Emmys | SELA |
When vacations often don't start? | SOONENOUGH |
Winning combo | OOO |
With 123-Across, personal annoyance | PET |
World Golf Hall of Famer Aoki | ISAO |
Writer __ de Balzac | HONORE |
WWII weapons | STENGUNS |
Yemen became its 160th mem. in June, 2014 | WTO |
Zenophile? | STOIC |
__ culpa | MEA |
__ Lie, first U.N. secretary-general | TRYGVE |
__ service | CIVIL |