Crossword by: Mike Peluso
Theme: Ladies and gentlemen start your engines. Today’s theme is common terms with the first word replaced with a brand of car including, Audi, Porsche, Saab and Nissan.
Above is a picture of the completed puzzle for the Friday December 27 2013 L.A. Times crossword and here are the clues we were given by Mike:
ACROSS
1. 1967 White House groom
5. “Erin go __”
10. Swedish singer Jenny
14. Thus
15. Former Dodger first baseman James
16. Sharp
17. Windows alternative
18. Microwave brand
19. Microwave
20. Facilities on a 911?
23. Florida University named for a pope
24. Eroded
28. Follow
32. Place to play
33. 13-Down predecessor
36. Oater pal in an A3?
39. Other, overseas
41. Boston drummer Jeff et al.
42. Peruse
43. Tales of a 9-3?
46. Pay stub abbr.
47. Für whom Beethoven wrote a bagatelle
48. Marks of approval
50. Corolla competitors
53. Mexicali-to-Tijuana dirección
57. Relative in a 370Z?
61. Electric weather phenomenon
64. Cornered
65. Roll on a tarmac
66. Hives, e.g.
67. Spiked cakes
68. Verve
69. Velázquez offerings
70. Whooping __
71. Heist haul, to a hood
DOWN
1. Opts for another hitch
2. “… however, I may be all wet”
3. Speakeasy socializer
4. “Complete series” DVD purchase, say
5. Flat
6. 1960 Olympics city
7. Take __: drop off
8. Italian seaport
9. Hilton rival
10. ID holders
11. Hosp. area
12. Peace ender?
13. 33-Across successor
21. ESPN baseball analyst Alex
22. Shed thing
25. Shakespearean servant
26. “Dark-brow’d sophist, come not __”: Tennyson
27. They may be spun
29. Reunion attendee
30. Logical beginning?
31. Taletellers
33. Book after Daniel
34. One way to buy time
35. Character piece?
37. Jeté relative
38. Cruising
40. Potent licorice-flavored liqueur
44. Rig
45. Gin flavoring
49. Beethoven’s Opus 20, for one
51. Easy __
52. Red giant
54. Oil source
55. Odessa native
56. Any of several fictional multimillionaires
58. “The Winner Takes It All” quartet
59. Mumbai bread
60. NASDAQ competitor
61. Source of support
62. Lock insert
63. D-Day lander
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