LA Times Crossword

LA Times Daily Crossword Puzzle & Answers – Thursday 23rd May 2013

Luke Webber — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:20:57 +0000

Crossword by: David Poole and Edited by Rich Norris

Across

1. Bigger than big
5. Spender of rials
10. It makes cents
14. Hawaiian girl who adopted Stitch
15. Assume
16. Fishing, maybe
17. Bulky bovids
18. Oscar-winning composer Korngold
19. Family
23. First name in talk shows
24. Big Ten or Big East org.
32. Place for stop-and-go traffic?
35. Asian currency name meaning “round”
36. Plains native
41. Box set component
42. Selene’s Roman counterpart
44. Blue moons and hen’s teeth
50. Traveling
51. Splenda rival
60. Home of H. Matisse’s “The Dance”
61. Scarlet fever cause
62. Ambiance
63. Leeway
64. Refrain from singing about a farm?
65. “Phooey!”
66. Plato’s promenade
67. iPad pictures
68. David and Goliath’s battlefield

Down
1. Surprise your friends, wedding-wise
2. Point of resolution
3. Intestine-related
4. Notion
5. Vienna-based commercial gp.
6. ’70s-’80s TV attic-dweller
7. “Fat chance!”
8. ___ Creed
9. Cornell’s city
10. Millard was his vice president
11. Man, for one
12. Almost
13. Slammer
21. Early Christian year
22. ___ sale
26. Stat for Justin Verlander
27. Bandleader Brown
28. 1984 Olympic slalom champion
29. “Truth in Engineering” automaker
30. Smooth, in a way
31. They may be tight or right
32. Massage deeply
33. Sewer’s case
34. Unit of loudness
38. Martin Sheen, to Emilio Estevez
39. ___ pro nobis
40. Bathroom renovator
43. Country band named for their home
45. Drafting implement
47. SADD concern
48. Japanese immigrant’s grandchild
49. Sufi, e.g.
52. Garden variety
53. Corpuscle’s passageway
54. Boxer’s restraint
55. Origin
56. “Typee” sequel
57. Three-layer treat
58. Dusseldorf denial
59. USN noncoms

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LA Times Daily Crossword – Wednesday, 22nd May 2013

Luke Webber — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:20:13 +0000

Crossword by: Doug Peterson and Edited by Rich Norris

Across

1. Short sermon
7. Barrier along a bank
11. Breakfast meat
14. Easy-entry baby outfit
15. “Happy Days” actress Moran
16. Skater Midori
17. *Tiny time unit
19. “Brave __ World”
20. Blues legend James
21. Words with instant and hour
22. Four Tops tune, e.g.
24. *Compromising position
27. “Sesame Street” music teacher since the show’s inception
30. Negative replies
31. Start a bridge hand
32. Standoffis
34. Grifter’s game
35. It’s all in your head
39. *Prop for an emcee
43. “Times of Your Life” singer Paul
44. Popular Calif. destination
45. Buzzy instrument
46. Clump of dirt
48. Tiki bar accessory
50. Capital of Saskatchewan?
51. *Loitered
56. Coastal recess
57. Show willingness to compromise
58. Director Kazan
62. Steeped brew
63. Mood, and a literal feature of the answer to each starred clue
66. Turntable letters
67. Musical syllables
68. “The Wrestler” star Mickey
69. Seventh Greek letter
70. Bark excitedly
71. Orderly arrangements

Down

1. Spot for an office
2. Handling the job
3. Hot sandwich
4. Muhammad Ali’s faith
5. XXVI doubled
6. Unequivocal agreement
7. Transferrable image
8. Like a 7-Down, perhaps
9. Many holiday guests
10. “Bewitched” mother
11. Many a Mumbai man
12. Picked up pizza, say
13. Tended the turf
18. Phases out
23. Nabokov title girl
25. A gumshoe often pays for it
26. Trait transmitter
27. The Crimson Tide
28. Swedish actress Lena
29. Strong lager
33. Mythical source of wisdom
34. Longtime Aniston co-star
36. Throw for a loop
37. Grandson of Eve
38. Kerfuffles
40. Walk heavily
41. Really enjoyed oneself
42. Shallot covering
47. Threw
48. Unique
49. Writer Welty
51. British bishop’s topper
52. Hardly handy
53. Peruvian grazer
54. Update to reflect new roads, say
55. Voice an objection
59. Pre-euro currency
60. Dark and murky
61. Sugary drinks
64. “Norma __”
65. On behalf of

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LA Times Daily Crossword & Answers – Tuesday, 21st May 2013

Luke Webber — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:31:36 +0000

Across

1. Co. with brown trucks
14. Vietnamese holiday
15. Yale or Root
18. *Sculling competition craft
20. “Toreador Song” opera
22. Cheers for Escamillo in 20-Across
28. *”Support our troops” symbol
33. Singer Guthrie
36. Historic women’s gp.
37. Comic actor Dudley
39. New Jersey port with a bridge to Staten Island
45. Prefix with -lithic
59. Lady of Lisbon
61. Freeport’s “Grand” island
65. “Pygmalion” playwright’s initials
66. Els with tees
67. Big name in metal wrap
69. Buddies, in slang
70. British comedian Gervais

1. Seat of New York’s Oneida County
2. Sewing machine lever
3. Thunder source
4. Cool and collected
5. Hawkeye Pierce portrayer
6. London’s Old __
7. Buckeye State
8. Get close to “Empty”
9. Fritter away the hours
10. “Blech!”
11. GRE practice
12. One-named soccer immortal
13. Website with restaurant reviews
19. Transmission choice
21. BLT dressing
25. Medium for some animators
27. “Game of Thrones” network
29. Maine campus town
30. Tree trunk
31. Like Sabin’s polio vaccine
32. Bank teller’s cry
33. Outlet letters
34. Lively dance
35. First name in jeans
39. Brownies with brown sugar in place of chocolate
40. Pond critter
41. Small laptop
44. Much-hyped NASDAQ event for Facebook
46. Fry basket material
48. Cpls. and sgts.
49. Remain close to
50. Sort of
53. Soaring hunter
54. “Raw” pigment
55. Food found in the shapes at the ends of the answers to starred clues
56. Staircase part
57. Famille patriarch
58. Writing sister of Emily and Charlotte
60. “That’s __ need!”
63. __ in the bud
64. Send covertly, as a dupe email

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LA Times Daily Crossword & Answers – Monday 20th May 2013

Luke Webber — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:53:59 +0000

Crossword by: C.C. Burnikel

Across

1. Finders’ shouts
5. Maternity ward event
10. Formal title
13. Destroy
14. Legend automaker
15. 1988 Cy Young winner Hershiser
20. Microbe
21. Minnesota Wild’s org.
22. Status __
28. Boxer played by Will Smith
29. __ the finish
30. Give one’s word
31. Business bigwig
33. Olympics sled
35. Mideast sultanate
39. English : John :: Welsh : __
40. High male voice
41. Pro __: in proportion
42. Like the night
43. Seek prey
44. Agriculture goddess on the New Jersey state seal
45. Bigger than med.
47. Multinational coin
49. Scintilla
55. Hush-hush maritime org.
56. AAA suggestion
57. Just hanging out
64. Work on the deck
65. Steamed
66. The stuff of legends
67. 25-Down student
68. Shows up
69. Gets the picture

Down

12. Excavated anew
16. France’s third most populous cité
18. “Desert Fox” Rommel
19. Dog food brand
23. Meant to happen
24. Tony whose #6 was retired by the Twins
26. Dumbfounded
27. Gave one’s word
32. Oft-sprained joint
34. Hopped out of bed
36. Bread with swirls stolen by Jerry in a classic “Seinfeld” episode
37. What the dog did with the homework?
38. Foul, as weather
40. Showy
44. Time-share unit
46. Greek street food
48. Treats again, as a sprain
50. Dandy fellows
51. Blown away
52. Like YouTube videos gone wild
53. Nostalgia-inducing
54. Homecoming group
59. “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity” org.
60. Nonkosher meat
61. Printemps follower
62. Holy mlle.
63. Puzzled comments

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LA Times Crossword & Answers – Sunday 19th May 2013

Luke Webber — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:41:12 +0000

Crossword by: Alan Arbesfeld / Ed. Rich Norris
Theme: PG-13

Across

1. Within
5. Earthy tone
10. In the neighbourhood
15. Riot control weapon
19. Grabber’s cry
20. Kansas City athlete
21. Cole Porter classic from “Can-Can”
23. It’s designed not to be noticeable
25. Lawman who killed Billy the Kid
26. Single
27. Significant ones?
29. Bad-mouthed
30. Ibsen play with music by Grieg
32. Rulers in a line
36. -y plus -y?
37. Subject with no depth?
43. Dewlapped critter
47. Grafton’s “__ for Alibi”
48. Bistro
49. Battery that’s 8.3 millimeters in diameter
50. Former park near the Harlem River
53. Fun-loving female
56. Env. directive
57. Wise
58. “Angela’s Ashes” sequel
60. Jewish campus organization
61. Begets
63. Swollen
65. Dummy
67. Union in D.C., e.g.
68. Where to see an inflation index?
71. Support
74. Vex
75. Political theorist Hannah
76. Have a feeling
78. Actress Dahl
81. School in Big D
82. River isles
84. “Don’t look at me!”
85. Co-chair of John McCain’s 2007-’08 presidential campaign
88. View from Kuwait City
91. French suffix with jardin
92. Scottish turndowns
94. PC key
95. Dud
96. Hardly luxury boxes
100. Ticked off
101. Toledo time-outs
102. Military monetary scale
107. Petulance
111. More cool, man
114. Caught congers
115. Court quarterback
119. Fictionary, e.g.
121. “You had your chance”
122. Leadoff hitter’s asset
123. Egyptian deity
124. Winter Palace resident
125. Bold type DARER
126. Mitigated EASED
127. Insurance policy contingency

Down

1. Energize
2. Pooh penner
3. Amazed
4. Block
5. Web address ending
6. Ratio indicators
7. __ Regency
8. Not at all patient
9. Ultimatum ending
10. Fake it, in a way
11. Motor add-on?
12. Crash site?
13. Part of DJIA: Abbr.
14. Result in
15. Romans’ 16-Down
16. Greeks’ 15-Down
17. Ticket
18. Founded, on signs
22. Rainbow maker
24. Trim
28. Nutrition letters
31. Quite a spell
33. They follow springs by about seven days
34. Former Belgian camera brand
35. One looking ahead
37. Yearning ones
38. Cause of some ’60s trips
39. Giant rival
40. Follow
41. Outback order
42. Dixie group?
43. “No thanks”
44. “I follow”
45. Extreme
46. Exceptional
47. What “8″ may stand for
51. Like granola
52. Mounting aid
54. Hood with a rod
55. “Egad!”
59. Auteur’s starting point
62. Smack-dab
64. Largest of the Mariana Islands
65. Cruel type
66. All, in scores
69. One wishing for a real-life “undo” button?
70. Really cool
71. Actress Aimée
72. Agave fiber
73. Respect and then some
74. Oscar winner Mirren
77. Ga. Tech grad
78. “Edith, you’re __”: Archie Bunker
79. South Korea’s first president
80. Former capital of Italy
81. Process, as ore
83. Skewered Thai dish
86. Auréole wearer
87. “The Valachi Papers” author Peter
89. Hammer home?
90. Poker?
93. Bad-mouth
97. Be of __: help
98. Self-important authority figure
99. Computer terminal?
100. 1986 Best Actress Matlin
102. One of three 1994 Peace Nobelists
103. Fit for a king
104. It shares its airport shuttle with National
105. Distributions to DJs
106. Idyllic places
107. Jutting shoreline formation
108. Kitchenware
109. Alaska senator Murkowski
110. __’acte
112. Recess near an altar
113. Spanish snack
116. Form follower
117. Rhine tributary
118. Way to get there: Abbr.
120. Perplexing

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Master Daily Crossword & Answers – Saturday May 18th 2013

Luke Webber — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:52:20 +0000

Across

1. Faraday’s field: Abbr.
5. Paris is in it
10. __ champêtre: garden party
14. Love letters?
15. Exploits
17. Bali specification
18. It’s more acceptable when it’s self-mocking
19. Danish director von Trier
20. NBC’s usual “Must See TV” night
21. Flight segment
22. Clerical garment
23. Way to spread the green?
31. Green
32. Shade tree
33. About, legally
35. Single __: tournament type
36. Kinky dos
38. LaBeouf of “Holes”
39. Mollycoddle, with “on”
40. Code word
41. United nations, perhaps
46. Bleep, say
47. Stew staple
48. 5-Across poet
52. “… by good __, yonder’s my lord”
53. Isn’t serious
54. Started to shoot
57. Crowning
58. Conversation barrier
59. Hana Airport’s island
60. Federal inspection org
61. Invite for
62. Old, in Oldenburg

Down

1. Hollered
2. Regional asset
3. One with a long commute, probably
4. Arresting characters
5. Poolside refresher
6. Form foam
8. Philip __, first Asian-American film actor with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star
9. See 49-Down
49. With 9-Down, conspiratorial group in “The Da Vinci Code”
10. Vanua Levu’s archipelago
11. Slaughter with a bat
12. Vegas tip
13. Cabinet dept. with an Office of Science
16. Bad thing to have loose
23. Recoil
24. Prefix meaning “other”
25. Treadmill settings
27. Valley where Hercules slew a lion
28. Where fliers walk
29. Recuperating at the Royal London
30. Covered in bling, say
34. “No sweat!”
36. Child psychologist’s concern, briefly
37. Minnie Mouse’s peke
41. Antioxidant food preservative
43. Demeter’s Roman counterpart
44. Find hilarious
45. Swamp tree
48. Down Under swagman, in the States
50. Fit well
51. “Oíche Chiún” singer
53. Hindu god of desire
55. Miércoles, por ejemplo
56. Three-pt. plays

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Luke Webber — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:00:52 +0000

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