Crossword by: Barry C. Silk and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the answers to the Saturday September 14 2013 LA Times crossword puzzle!
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Across Answers
1. __ shirt MUSCLE
7. Catholic pilgrimage destination BASILICA
15. Written to last ETCHED
16. Member of DC Comics’ Legion of Super-Heroes ULTRA BOY
17. Coliseum team, once LA RAMS
18. March Madness event NCAA GAME
19. What busy people are on? THE GO
20. WBA decisions TKOS
21. Dos’ followers RES
22. Special screening SNEAK PREVIEW
26. Trauma sufferer’s goal CLOSURE
27. Yellowstone grazer BISON
31. Comic who wrote jokes for Kennedy SAHL
33. Start of a response to a brainteaser HMM
34. Language “jai alai” comes from BASQUE
35. Latin 101 word AMO
36. Jersey Shore resort CAPE MAY
38. Nautilus letters USS
39. Show deference KOWTOW
41. 7 and 11: Abbr. NOS
42. Stuffing material BATT
43. Mullah’s faith ISLAM
44. Regular guest on “The O’Reilly Factor” STOSSEL
46. Where funnels are often seen TORNADO ALLEY
50. Spot at the bridge table PIP
53. Slick OILY
54. Its capital is Valletta MALTA
55. Big name in racing ANDRETTI
58. “Turn Me Loose” singer, 1959 FABIAN
59. Cut across TRANSECT
60. Double-edged IRONIC
61. 1980 hit with the line “I longed to speak but did not dare” HE’S SO SHY
62. Just BARELY
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Down Answers
1. Softens MELTS
2. Pioneer Day celebrant UTAHN
3. Hunter with a distinctive cry SCREECH OWL
4. 1963-’64 painter of the Paris Opera ceiling CHAGALL
5. 1937 title gangster Pépé LE MOKO
6. Life support syst.? EDS
7. Collective feeling of oppression BUNKER MENTALITY
8. Recess ALCOVE
9. East German secret police STASI
10. Portfolio element IRA
11. Fail to keep up LAG
12. Structural beam I-BAR
13. Canine order COME
14. Some votes AYES
20. Ranking suit TRUMP
23. “Bah!” PSHAW!
24. Selling point? EBAY
25. Ill. neighbor WIS
28. It may precede a cold front SQUALL LINE
29. Kick out OUST
30. Emulate bees NEST
31. “The Storyteller” storyteller SAKI
32. Book by a prophet AMOS
34. Low man BASSO
36. Interrogación word COMO
37. Hardly chipper MOODY
40. Use a shuttle TAT
42. Over-explain BELABOR
44. Rat SNITCH
45. City on the Volga SAMARA
47. Basic teaching techniques ROTES
48. Net biz ETAIL
49. ’50s TV adventurer __ Derringer YANCY
50. Way PATH
51. Dictator’s phrase IN RE
52. Modern info holders PDAS
56. BP checkers RNS
57. That, in Tijuana ESO
58. Bit of fiction FIB
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