Crossword by: David J. Kahn
Themed Answers: Rail, Sere, Rule, Nard, Dove, Doh
Above is a picture of the completed puzzle for the Friday December 20 2013 L.A. Times crossword and here are the clues we were given:
ACROSS Clues
1. *A bar of wood or iron (one of nine starred clues/answers that appear here exactly as they did in the first crossword puzzle)
5. Assuming that
9. Disastrous
14. Dashiell Hammett dog
15. It may follow eleven
16. Dumb
17. Feature of the first crossword puzzle, seen inĀ 56-Across on 12/21/1913
20. Red Cross supply
21. Fix, as a knot
22. Opinion
23. Letter string
25. Agent’s clients
29. D.C.’s __ Mall
32. What some pros shoot
33. Spice Girl __ B
34. Pianist Templeton
35. *A talon
36. Like the first crossword puzzle
39. Short warning
40. Quart, e.g.
41. Speaker systs.
42. Ab __: initially
43. Reinforcing construction piece
45. Like some tea
47. Not fast
48. Site of the George W. Bush presidential library
51. Chan player
54. “The door’s open”
56. See 17-Across
60. __ pants (baggy women’s trousers)
61. Youngest Wilcox child in “Howards End”
62. *To govern
63. New Eng. campus
64. Go fast
65. Arabic for “commander”
DOWN Clues
1. Woodworking tools
2. Refuges
3. “Possibly”
4. Takes off
5. Whole
6. With 8-Down, as a `welcome change
7. “Bon __”
8. See 6-Down
9. Of a son or daughter
10. Broadway supporter
11. Paving substance
12. “Wheel of Fortune” buy
13. Took by the hand
18. Preserve, in a way
19. Stick on
24. Two-time Oscar winner Wiest
26. Sporting weapons
27. *An aromatic plant
28. Crowd at Lake Como?
29. In order
30. Number from the past
31. Baby Ruth maker
33. Unimportant
35. *Part of a ship
36. *A bird
37. Not allow
38. “This Is 40” director Judd
39. *The fibre of the gomuti palm
43. “__ Lot”: King novel
44. Broadway supporter
46. 2002 Alice Sebold bestseller “The Lovely __”
48. Flu fighter
49. Pop’s __ Vanilli
50. Hypnotized
52. Putin put-down?
53. *A pigeon
55. *Opposed to less
56. Calendar abbr.
57. One acting badly
58. Time worth remembering
59. Small Inlet
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