L.A. Times Daily - Sunday Jan 2 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - Jan 2 2022 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"... and __ of thousands!"	ACAST
"Billions" airer, briefly	SHO
"Level Up" singer	CIARA
"Mad Men" business	ADAGENCY
"Mudbound" director Rees	DEE
"Ready when you are!"	IMALLSET
"Stranger Things" genre	SCIFI
"Such a cute cat!"	AWW
"This __ to stop"	HAS
"Wine Country" actress	FEY
"__ we all?"	ARENT
2021 Pixar film set in Italy	LUCA
A bit less than a canter	LOPE
Actor Morales	ESAI
At the moment when	ONCE
Aussie colleges	UNIS
Baconator chain	WENDYS
Barcelona bar bite	TAPA
Banh mi condiment	PATE
Big name in bread	PANERA
Bits of wisdom	SAWS
Blood drive fluids	SERA
Brightly plumed songbird	ORIOLE
Bygone Ford div	MERC
Candle count, maybe	AGE
Candle used in a lighthouse?	WAXBEACON
Casper-to-Denver dir	SSE
Childhood hero, perhaps	IDOL
Colombian capital	BOGOTA
Come out on top	WIN
Common tweet symbols	ATS
Convenient envelope-opening strip	TEARTAPE
Cornish of "Jack Ryan"	ABBIE
Corp. honchos	CEOS
Costa __	RICA
Craftsy etailer	ETSY
Craving	URGE
Created	BORN
Debate side	ANTI
Decathlon number	TEN
Degrees for some execs	MBAS
Disobedient	REBEL
Drag show toppers	WIGS
Dry runs	TESTS
Edit, in a way	CUT
Even now	STILL
Expressive chat image	EMOJI
Fictional Kazakh journalist	BORAT
First-string squad	ATEAM
Foil alternative	EPEE
Fr. misses	MLLES
Garden-variety	USUAL
Genesis tower locale	BABEL
Golden years funds	IRAS
Goofy drawing?	CEL
Goree who played Cassius Clay in "One Night in Miami..."	ELI
Graceful horse	ARAB
Grazing area	LEA
Great Lake near Detroit	ERIE
Half a toy train?	CHOO
Head-turning birds	OWLS
Horse victim?	TROY
Imitations of disapproving sounds?	RASPBERRYCOPIES
iRobot vacuum	ROOMBA
Island off Tuscany	ELBA
Its supreme body is the Universal House of Justice	BAHAI
Jamaican citrus fruits	UGLIS
James Gang associate Starr	BELLE
Jet speed measure	MACH
Jeter's jersey number	TWO
Julia's "Ocean's Eleven" role	TESS
Jump in a tutu	JETE
Lauderdale neighbor	BOCA
Lebanon's capital	BEIRUT
Legal order	WRIT
Like "Lost" characters	MAROONED
Liquid meas	GAL
Loud laughs	ROARS
Love to pieces	ADORE
Make an oopsie	ERR
Mallorcan seaport	PALMA
Many, many years	EON
Match sound to video	SYNC
Medium gift	ESP
Microscope part	LENS
More current	NEWER
More frilly	LACIER
Mt. Hood's state	ORE
Museum tour rule	NOCAMERAS
Nolde watercolor with a turbulent title	STORMYSEA
Obnoxious sort	CREEP
On one's __: having recovered	FEET
Online source for film buffs	IMDB
Orderly	NEAT
Panama pal	AMIGO
People	ONES
Perform a pregame NFL ritual ... or, in four parts, phrase that hints at seven long Across answers	TOSSACOIN
Pinnacle	ACME
Pitcher Sparky, first American League reliever to win the Cy Young Award	LYLE
Place out of the sun	ARBOR
Pool and pickleball	SPORTS
Pop singer Del Rey	LANA
Problem that plagues the grid?	POWERSCOURGE
Pump number	OCTANE
Recede	EBB
Research places	LABS
Reward for a fan at a smokehouse drawing?	LIFETIMEBACON
Risky way to save	TAXEVASION
Rochelle Walensky's org	CDC
Rock-clinging mollusks	ABALONES
Russo of "Thor"	RENE
Safari find	SITE
Sci-fi author Palmer	ADA
Shop with record sales	MUSICSTORE
Short statement or question	ITIS
Shrill bark	YIP
Small container	TIN
Small drying aids	FACETOWELS
Smart guy?	ALEC
Snake secretion	VENOM
Snake that can walk on water?	MIRACLECOBRA
Snow day coasters	SLEDS
Soft minerals	TALCS
Staff for sailing	CREW
Stir up	AROUSE
Summa cum __	LAUDE
Tax prep pros	CPAS
TD Garden NBAer	CELTIC
Thick-heeled shoes	WEDGES
Throw out	DUMP
Tot's belly	TUM
Travel stop	INN
Traveling jokester?	HIGHWAYCOMEDIAN
Treasury Dept. variable	GNP
Truth alternative	DARE
Unwinding luxury	BUBBLEBATH
Vaper's stick, for short	ECIG
Where teams annually make ice picks?	NHLDRAFT
Wildlife trail	SPOOR
Word after string or sing	ALONG
Word in a beauty brand since 1952	OLAY
Workout trainers?	MUSCLECOACHES
Yearly record	ANNAL
__ Yello	MELLO