Crossword by: MaryEllen Uthlaut and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the daily LA Times crossword puzzle for Wednesday July 24 2013! Todays theme was BOARD GAMES with each starred answer being a name of a popular board game. Here are all of the today’s answers:
Across Clues & Answers
1. Small thicket COPSE
6. Dry cleaner’s target SPOT
10. Simple rhyme scheme ABAB
14. Like many who tweet AVIAN
15. John’s love YOKO
16. “Compliments Guaranteed” corn syrup KARO
17. “Vessel with heavy armour BATTLE SHIP
19. “Take ____ from me!” A TIP
20. Foxy SLY
21. Without pretense ARTLESS
23. Suffix with malt OSE
24. Algonquian language CREE
25. Bridge over the Arno, e.g. PONTE
27. 61-Down prison GULAG
30. *Rodent catcher MOUSE TRAP
34. Having a steeple SPIRED
36. ___ Cucamonga, California RANCHO
37. Trident part TINE
38. Evoking the past RETRO
40. Continental capital EURO
43. Ranking angel SERAPH
45. Protruded BULGED
47. *Military campaign OPERATION
50. Snow coasters SLEDS
51. Versifier’s art POESY
52. Varied mixture OLIO
54. “The Fox and the Hound” fox TOD
55. Very hot and dry SAHARAN
59. Big bird
62. Megastar IDOL
64. What the answers to starred clues are BOARD GAMES
66. Ad writer’s award CLIO
67. Actress Petty LORI
68. Military divisions UNITS
69. Get rid of, in a way SELL
70. Omar of “House” EPPS
71. Peeling device PARER
Down Clues & Answers
1. Fare dealers? CABS
2. Like Humpty Dumpty OVAL
3. “No beast so fierce but knows some touch of ___”: King Richard III” PITY
4. Emulated Humpty Dumpty SAT
5. Swell ENLARGE
6. Part of DOS SYSTEM
7. “Jem” sci-fi author Frederik POHL
8. Migrant on the Mother Road OKIE
9. First-rate TOPS
10. APB letters AKA
11. Southern capital with a French name BATON ROUGE
12. Record label owned by Sony ARISTA
13. Crook carrier of rhyme BO PEEP
18. Present Cockney-style ERE
22. Design detail, briefly SPEC
24. *Professional pursuits CAREERS
26. *Shakespeare play that inspired a Verdi opera OTHELLO
27. Clock std. GST
28. News org. UPI
29. Flax product used in paint LINSEED OIL
31. Gardener’s brand ORTHO
32. Old Mideast gp. UAR
33. Condescending one SNOB
35. “Oh fudge!” DRAT
39. Prefix with centre EPI
41. Color in a Crayola eight-pack RED
42. Has too much, for short ODS
44. Light beams RAYS
46. Consuming entirely USING UP
47. Eye doctor’s science OPTICS
48. Curly-haired dog POODLE
49. Chuck of “The Delta Force” NORRIS
53. Youngster LAD
56. Not all thumbs ABLE
57. Cager’s target HOOP
58. 50-and-up group AARP
59. Arabian chieftain EMIR
60. Dole (out) METE
61. Cold War inits. USSR
63. Texter’s chuckle LOL
65. Gasteyer of “SNL” ANA
Wednesday LA Times Crossword Answers
Here is the completed crossword puzzle for Wednesday July 24th:
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