Crossword by: Brad Wilber and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the Saturday July 27 2013 LA Times crossword answers! There isn’t a theme today, just a fun crossword to be had by all.
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Across
1. Many a knockout punch UPPERCUT
9. There’s a charge for it OPTION
15. Navigator’s creator NETSCAPE
16. Mind the sitter BEHAVE
17. Signs at a rally PLACARDS
18. Showed signs of being SEEMED
19. These, in Tours CES
20. Herodotus and Thucydides, for two HISTORIANS
22. Disk-shaped safety device SMOKE ALARM
24. Baby shower gift SLEEPER SET
26. Recordholder’s suffix EST
29. Ridge studied in forensics WHORL
30. One with “Esq.” on the door ATT
31. Liveliness BRIO
32. Citrus-marinated South American fish dish CEVICHE
35. High-level disagreement? YELLING
37. Not kosher TREF
38. Styled after A LA
40. Deep purples PUCES
41. Faltering sounds UMS
42. “The Winds of War” actress ALI MACGRAW
45. Homemade defense against a mind-control ray TINFOIL HAT
47. Hotly contested area SWING STATE
49. Riddle of the Sphinx answer MAN
52. Scratch CANCEL
53. Fortifications BASTIONS
56. Acid neutralizer ALKALI
57. Like Buckley’s columns, say LITERATE
58. Close again, in a way RESNAP
59. In orbit ECSTATIC
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Down
1. Insensitive, in a way UN PC
2. Mononymous kicker PELE
3. K-12 fund-raisers PTAS
4. Backup key ESC
5. Dave Matthews Band label RCA
6. Meals-on-wheels worker? CARHOP
7. “Rabbit Is Rich” Pulitzer winner UPDIKE
8. Mosaic piece TESSERA
9. Horse-and-buggy OBSOLETE
10. Examine closely PEER AT
11. “… __ finest hour”: Churchill THEIR
12. Stephen Colbert bestseller subtitled “(And So Can You!)” I AM AMERICA
13. Roast spot OVEN
14. Beatty and Rorem NEDS
21. Scrumptious TASTY
22. Font flourish SERIF
23. Sporty Spice, familiarly MEL C
24. Col. Potter on “M*A*S*H,” to pals SHERM
25. Pessimistic J. Geils Band hit with the line “It’s gonna make you cry” LOVE STINKS
27. Tough tissue SINEW
28. Garb TOGS
29. Pro-prohibition org. WCTU
31. Spill, with “out” BLURT
33. Petticoat alternative HALF SLIP
34. “Four Quartets” poet ELIOT
36. Annika Sorenstam’s gp. LPGA
39. Good-natured AMIABLE
42. German chancellor Merkel ANGELA
43. Language family including Turkish ALTAIC
44. Drawer holders CHESTS
46. Old Peruvian INCAN
47. Trauma consequence SCAR
48. Corduroy rib WALE
49. Zoo trench MOAT
50. Debate side ANTI
51. One of 60 billion in a min. NSEC
54. Three-day festival TET
55. SS supplement IRA
LA Times Crossword Answers
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