Crossword by: Susan Gelfand and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the Wednesday July 31 2013 LA Times crossword answers! Today’s theme is ‘Parallel Bars’. Each of the answers to the featured clues is a type of bar, a chocolate bar, a soap bar and a gold bar and since they are all ‘Across’ clues they are also parallel bars as indicated in 57. Across. I’ll have the gold bar you guys can fight over the others:)
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Across
1. Rooters with beers, maybe FANS
5. Pampering places SPAS
9. Spunk MOXIE
14. Stargazer’s focus? IDOL
15. Basil or Ginger, e.g. NAME
16. Attention-getters AHEMS
17. “__ put it another way …” OR TO
18. Switch ender EROO – as Get Smart would say, “the old switcheroo ey!”
19. Pinkish wines ROSES
20. Chocolate-and-crisped-rice candy NESTLE CRUNCH (chocolate bar)
23. “Jews and Words” co-author AMOS OZ
24. Heavenly lion LEO
25. Ballpark fig. EST
28. Official symbol SEAL
31. Puzzling problem ENIGMA
33. Like a Chihuahua’s ears ERECT
37. Solid investment? GOLD INGOT (gold bar)
39. Many an auctioned auto REPO
40. P-like Greek letter RHO
41. Sprinted TORE
42. “It floats” sloganeer IVORY SOAP (bar of soap)
45. Lost cause GONER
46. Bird in a clock CUCKOO
47. Pianist Peter NERO
49. Chuckle sound HEH
50. Looker’s leg GAM
52. Beehive, e.g. HAIRDO
57. Gymnast’s event, or what 20-, 37- and 42-Across literally are in this grid PARALLEL BARS
60. Crosswise, nautically ABEAM
63. Refusals NOES
64. Scoreboard figure, at times STAT
65. Coup group JUNTA
66. Vegan staple TOFU
67. German article EINE
68. Inner turmoil ANGST
69. Six-legged marchers ANTS
70. American-born Jordanian queen NOOR
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Down
1. Pop singer Apple FIONA
2. Relevant, in law AD REM
3. Untrue NOT SO
4. Casino lineup SLOTS
5. React to sunlight, maybe SNEEZE
6. Paris’s Bois de Vincennes, par exemple PARC
7. Son of Venus AMOR
8. 1988 Summer Olympics city SEOUL
9. Pioneer in wireless telegraphy MARCONI
10. “Oopsie!” OH OH
11. Survey marks XES
12. “__ Mine”: Beatles song I ME
13. Double curve ESS
21. 2000s TV drama that ended in a church LOST
22. Have to have NEED
25. Encourage EGG ON
26. Camper’s dessert SMORE
27. Spud TATER
29. Prefix with business AGRO
30. Lindsay of “Mean Girls” LOHAN
32. Gung-ho about INTO
33. Psychoanalyst Fromm ERICH
34. Variety show REVUE
35. Noteworthy period EPOCH
36. Eco-friendly tile material CORK
38. Run easily LOPE
43. Place for meditation, for some YOGA MAT
44. Fly high SOAR
45. Hockey score GOAL
48. Animal for which a blood factor is named RHESUS
51. Tropical ray MANTA
53. Hedda Gabler’s creator IBSEN
54. Proportion RATIO
55. Backup-beating brand DRANO
56. Maker of the MyBlend blender OSTER
57. Back strokes? PATS
58. Bird on Canada’s dollar coin LOON
59. Hit the road LEFT
60. 1977 Steely Dan album AJA
61. Burger holder BUN
62. Tower of London loc. ENG
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