L.A. Times Daily - Saturday Jan 1 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - Jan 1 2022 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"My stars!"	EGAD
"Sexual Politics" author Millett	KATE
"The Phantom Menace" boy	ANI
"The Villain in Black" rapper MC __	REN
"To recap ... "	INSUM
"Who, me?"	WHATDIDO
2.5 miles, at Indy	LAP
2000s Red Sox hero, familiarly	BIGPAPI
Aid in fixing rough borders	EDGETRIM
Amy Klobuchar, for one	YALIE
Antedate	PRECEDE
Blackened	CHARRED
Bread named for how it's baked	ASHCAKE
Brought together	AMASSED
Building partly burned by Britain in 1814	CAPITOL
Cause to race	GUN
Chorus of approval	AMENS
Conceives	IDEATES
Connection point	NODE
Crew implement	OAR
Dance step	PAS
Dickered	HAGGLED
Dmitri Mendeleev, religiously	DEIST
DOL watchdog	OSHA
Drawing game	KENO
Elgort of "The Fault in Our Stars"	ANSEL
Fairy-tale disruption	PEA
Figurehead?: Abbr	CPA
Former CNN journalist David	ENSOR
Galvanized	AROUSED
Get hooked?	HANG
Gig gear	AMP
Gracefully exits	BOWSOUT
Hill assistant	AIDE
Inlet, to the sea	ARM
Iran, for one	ISLAMICSTATE
Island in a popular board game	CATAN
It accounts for about 7% of all printed English words	THE
It may be plucked on a beach	UKE
Japanese art piece that symbolizes good fortune and longevity	ORIGAMICRANE
Jazz great Puente	TITO
John in court, maybe	DOE
Last part	BACKEND
Law school course	ETHICS
Little one	TOT
Madeleine or Napoleon	DESSERT
Maintained	UPHELD
Much-photographed event	TOTALECLIPSE
Offer not seen by competitors	BLINDBID
Over the moon	HAPPYASACLAM
Papyrus plants, e.g	SEDGES
Parking __	LOT
Permanent marker?	TATTOOARTIST
Photo-sharing app, for short	INSTA
Pinches together	CRIMPS
Placing in direct competition	PITTING
Program resource	HELPMENU
Provocative opinion	HOTTAKE
Snowball pile, say	AMMO
Soap Box Derby entrant	GOCART
Some contests	MEETS
Son of Akhenaten	TUT
Sound of alarm	GASP
Talking stuffed bear in a 2012 film	TED
Tangents	ASIDES
Throbs	PULSATES
Triangular pelvic bones	SACRA
Unleashes	SICS
Vader underling	STORMTROOPER
Vet	SCREEN
Wall St. asset	MBA
Witness to a delivery, often	DAD
Women's Rights Project org	ACLU
__ Age: post-Civil War period	GILDED
__ Tour	PGA