Crossword by: Ed Sessa
Theme: Bridge The Gap – don’t burn your bridges today folks! If you add the word ‘bridge’ to the start or the end of a number of the answers today you will also get a common term or name.
Above is a picture of the completed puzzle for the Friday January 3rd 2014 L.A. Times crossword and here is a complete list of the clues and their answers:
Across Answers
1. Creepy thing MOSS
5. Oft-used PC key ESC
8. Karel Capek genre SCI-FI
13. “O.G. Original Gangster” rapper ICE-T
14. Stream crosser FOOT
16. Sets of 13 cards HANDS
17. Residential plot ACRE
18. Sweeping target FLUE
19. Prologue INTRO
20. Hindu collection SUTRA
22. Performer ARTISTE
24. 1990 Newman/Woodward drama MR AND MRS
26. Overcome a significant difference THE GAP
29. Promise ASSURE
30. Doc who treats snorers ENT
32. Lake __ College, near Cleveland ERIE
33. Wrong treatment MISUSE
35. Tree knot GNARL
36. 1957 Treaty of Rome org. EEC
39. Consume EAT
40. Consumer’s guide, briefly RDA
42. Caustic chemical LYE
43. It may be pulled at a gym GROIN
45. Bring up to speed INFORM
48. V __ Victor AS IN
49. Road warning SLO
50. Lit at the table, perhaps FLAMBE
54. Oral prosthesis DENTAL
56. Spock and Uhura, e.g. OFFICERS
58. Become rusty CORRODE
60. “Shaddap!” CAN IT!
61. Muse of poetry ERATO
63. Mythical maneater OGRE
65. Sit tight BIDE
66. Place for spectacles NASAL
67. Military fortification HEAD
68. Fly off the handle RAGE
69. Inscribed pillar STELE
70. Sneaky SLY
71. Sch. level ELEM
Down Answers
1. Noxious gas MIASMA
2. Comes to pass OCCURS
3. SmartSurface mattresses SERTAS
4. Rib cage part STERNUM
5. Valedictorian’s nightmare EFF
6. __ eclipse SOLAR
7. Soup-to-nuts listing COURSES
8. Turkish for “skewer” SHISH
9. Hiker’s container CANTEEN
10. Vital INTEGRAL
11. New Deal initials FDR
12. Prefix meaning “equal” ISO-
15. Asian festival TET
21. Brody of “The Pianist” ADRIEN
23. TV cousin ITT
25. Phoenix suburb MESA
27. Light AIRY
28. Soccer superstar PELE
31. Maker of the Super Soaker NERF
34. Monthly exp. UTIL
35. Enticing kitchen aroma GARLIC
36. “Gosh!” EGAD!
37. Scots Gaelic ERSE
38. Place for petty cash? COIN CASE
41. Tip DOFF
44. Taken together IN TOTAL
46. Nags NOODGES
47. Saint-Saëns’ “Danse __” MACABRE
49. Camera letters SLR
51. Lowly MENIAL
52. Apt word to substitute for each of four black squares to make sense of the across answers on either side of them BRIDGE
53. Value ESTEEM
55. Play __ in A ROLE
57. Born in the wild FERAL
59. “How lovely!” OOH!
61. Annapolis grad. ENS
62. Squealer with a tale or a tail RAT
64. Market freezer name EDY
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