Daily Themed Crossword January 21, 2024, Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• ___ carte (menu choice): 2 wds.
  ALA
• Videographer’s tool for short
  CAM
• Reserved like a wallflower
  SHY
• Sprinted
  RAN
• Are you ___? (Are you certain?)
  SURE
• Tamper with the truth
  LIE
• Wrestling surface
  MAT
• ___-B dental hygiene brand
  ORAL
• Bart’s sister in The Simpsons
  LISA
• Like a 4 am wakeup call
  EARLY
• Tiny thing to pick?
  NIT
• Toothless heavyweight baleen ocean mammal that often weighs over 200 tons
  WHALE
• Shower ___ (body wash)
  GEL
• Humble grass dwellings with thatched roofs
  HUTS
• Toothless duck-billed Aussie mammal that lays eggs
  PLATYPUS
• The ___ of Innocence Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
  AGE
• Mischief member?
  RAT
• Santa ___ Orange County
  ANA
• Toothless shelled turtle cousin that can live over 100 years
  TORTOISE
• White falling flakes
  SNOW
• Resistance-measuring unit
  OHM
• Job for a rock band
  GIG
• Is he ___ coming with us?
  ALSO
• Socrates’ student
  PLATO
• Frosts as a cake
  ICES
• Bygone periods?
  ERAS
• Wee fellow
  LAD
• Ribosomal ___: Abbr.
  RNA
• ___ Angeles home Venice Beach
  LOS
• NASDAQ debut: Abbr.
  IPO
• Barbie’s beau
  KEN
• Metric counterpart of miles: Abbr.
  KMS
• ___ Delhi capital of India
  NEW

DOWN

• Limb you can find in farm
  ARM
• When doubled the yellow Teletubby
  LAA
• Toothless termite hunter with a long nose and a tongue that can be up to 2-feet long
  ANTEATER
• Hair ringlet say
  CURL
• Like ___ of sunshine (positive uplifting influence): 2 wds.
  ARAY
• Actor Gibson of Braveheart
  MEL
• Narrow skirt opening
  SLIT
• Belonging to that boy
  HIS
• I’m in agreement vote
  YEA
• Like a bad throat
  SORE
• Flower with a pad
  LILY
• Gore and Pacino for two
  ALS
• Decade’s number when read backwards
  NET
• Inquiry starter?
  WHAT
• ___ Boss luxury German fashion house
  HUGO
• Hinged garden entrance
  GATE
• ___ and proper (well-behaved)
  PRIM
• Fear and Loathing in ___ Vegas Hunter S. Thompson novel
  LAS
• Toothless mammal with keratin scales that consumes thousands of insects every day
  PANGOLIN
• Card game where one’s turn can get skipped
  UNO
• Toothy tree-trimming tool
  SAW
• Flip as a coin
  TOSS
• Well well well cry
  OHO
• Park yourself on a chair
  SIT
• Partner of solid and liquid
  GAS
• Unwanted skin visitor for a teen
  ACNE
• Having minimal fat say
  LEAN
• High school dance night
  PROM
• Glasgow girl
  LASS
• Irritate greatly
  IRK
• Yellowstone grazer that bugles
  ELK
• Intelligent primate
  APE
• ___ Jones Industrial Average US stock market index
  DOW