L.A. Times Daily - Thursday Jan 6 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 L.A. Times Daily - Jan 6 2022 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Invisible Man" author	ELLISON
"Kidnapped" monogram	RLS
"Medical" sports nickname	DRJ
"The spring is __ when green geese are a-breeding": Shak	NEAR
"__ we on for tonight?"	ARE
2013 Alice McDermott novel that was a National Book Award finalist	SOMEONE
2013 Mandela portrayer	ELBA
Always raring to fight	WARLIKE
Bach wrote one about coffee	CANTATA
Ballet motion	PLIE
Bed for an unexpected guest, maybe	COT
Bring (out)	TROT
Buzz	ASTRONAUTALDRIN,WORDONTHESTREET, MILITARYHAIRCUT, NOISEMADEBYBEES
Bygone employees of cautious royalty	TASTERS
Calculated intake	DOSE
Calculated intake	RATIONS
Comic Rudner	RITA
CSI stuff	DNA
Cuisine including jambalaya	CREOLE
Developing	INUTERO
Diamond flaw?	ERROR
Dowel	ROD
Dubious ability	ESP
Engraver Albrecht	DURER
Enhanced the recipe with	ADDEDIN
Evoke an "ooh" from, maybe	AWE
Food regimen	DIET
Get testy with	SNAPAT
Hornet home	NEST
Increase, with "up"	STEP
Intuitively grasp, in slang	GROK
Like a country at the bottom of a rainfall chart	DRYEST
Like gossip worth spreading	JUICY
Likely to scald	TOOHOT
Lowered	DEBASED
Marathon Petroleum brand	ARCO
Memento	TOKEN
Org. monitoring insecticides	EPA
Persisted noisily, as a storm	RAGED
Place to put your feet up	OTTOMAN
Plenty	ALOT
Puts out, in a way	TAGS
Repeated contraction in the '50s TV "Superman" intro	ITS
Rock box	AMP
RR sched. components	STNS
Russian retreat	DACHA
Santa Fe-to-Dallas dir	ESE
See 49-Down	CLUB
Sideline advisers	COACHES
Small application	DAB
Snitch	RAT
Speaks formally	ORATES
Star-crossed	HAPLESS
Struggle with scissors?	LISP
Swedish superstore	IKEA
Sykes of "black-ish"	WANDA
Tickle	AROUSE
Toothless farm denizens	HENS
Top	ACME
Treats with embossed surfaces	OREOS
Trig. function	COS
USDA concern	ECOLI
Verbal pause	HEM
Vex	EATAT
West African capital	ACCRA
With 50-Down, group for movie enthusiasts	CINE
Within	AMID
__ beast: holiday dinner in a Seuss classic	ROAST
__ gum: common thickening agent	GUAR