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 |