LA Times Daily Crossword December 23, 2022 Answers

1. Common foundation 5. Singer depicted in the biopic "Walk the Line" 9. 1980s cloning target 14. Coil in a garden 15. "The __ for home lives in all of us": Angelou 16. Half a comedy duo 17. *Begin to chase, with "off" 19. "Your table's ready" buzzer 20. Illuminates 21. Seductive quality 23. One ensuring accuracy on a grand scale? 24. *Try to delay, with "for" 26. Vare Trophy org. 27. Praises 29. Up to, briefly 30. Start of an adage about humanity 32. Solar __ 35. Pivotal element, and what each word in quotes in the starred clues literally is to its answer? 37. Emergency signals 39. WWII Polish resistance hero Sendler 40. Illuminated 41. Country roads 43. Coarse file 47. *Gaining prominence, with "and" 50. Revere alternative 51. Rumbled, as thunder 52. Less tender 54. McCartney of Wings 55. *Do some creative accounting, with "the" 57. Broke off 58. Exhort 59. Layered cookie 60. Torment 61. Walked (on) 62. Laura of "Big Little Lies"

1. Type of village in Isaac Bashevis Singer stories 2. Pack, as a moving van 3. __ price 4. Tower of London figure 5. Cozy eatery 6. Show parts 7. Pop duo __ & Him 8. Announce grandly 9. Intimate 10. Corker 11. "The Treachery of Images" painter 12. Early delivery 13. Wheels 18. Cause of inflation 22. Scottish girls 24. Good vibrations? 25. Dartboard wood 27. Leaves be 28. "All bets __ off" 31. Common Scrabble tile value 33. Nikkei index currency 34. Impressive and then some 35. Tower for a pet who likes to climb and hide 36. Not post- 37. Target of an annual vaccine 38. Facial piercing 42. Scene-ending phrase 44. Washed up, maybe 45. One on a quest 46. Marrying sort? 48. Of yore 49. Word said with a curtsy 50. Buster 52. Like drive-thru orders 53. Authorized 54. Place to ruminate 56. "Catch-22" pilot who crashes repeatedly