Crossword by: Marti DuGuay-Carpenter
Above is a picture of the completed puzzle for the Saturday December 21st 2013 L.A. Times crossword and here are the clues Marti gave us:
ACROSS Clues
1. Raises one’s spirits?
7. Reasons for seeing double?
15. Rapt
16. Easter activities
17. Whistler, at times
18. Paintball kin
19. __ du Diable
20. Loser’s word
22. Surgical tube
23. Point of Grant Wood’s “American Gothic”?
25. Hulu offering
28. Mythical archer
29. Ahead
31. Headache cause
33. Marie Antoinette and Louise de Lorraine
35. “It is the __, and Juliet is the sun”
36. Org. that employed Julia Child during WWII
39. The first one appeared on this date in 1913
42. QVC rival
43. Nitpick
44. Deprive fraudulently, in slang
45. Figure-hugging
47. Milne mom
48. “Just the __, …”
51. Host
53. Sailor’s port
54. West Indian sorcery
56. Didn’t recover from a trip?
58. Bit of a chuckle
59. Bunk
62. Buck’s Fizz cousin
64. “Hold your horses!”
65. Silvery food fish
66. Pitched
67. “A Writer’s Life” author
DOWN Clues
1. Backyard party decoration
2. Routine fare?
3. Care
4. Tosspot
5. Cultivate
6. “A rose is a rose is a rose
is a rose” author
7. Finish a 39-Across without a single mistake, e.g.
8. Market chain based in Chicago
9. OT enders, often
10. Crops of the pick?
11. 1519 Yucatán arrival
12. Doctor
13. The plain in Spain
14. Certain NCOs
21. French possessive
24. Ages
26. Like much folk mus.
27. “Roman Holiday” vehicle
30. “Home Alone” actor
32. Unable to go further
34. What a scythe may cut
36. Montreal Protocol concern
37. Games with many runs
38. Calm
40. “For here __ go?”
41. Fervor
45. Big spreads
46. 34th POTUS
48. First name in skating
49. In the neighborhood of
50. Epitome of brightness
52. Title loc. in five ’80s films
55. Cure
57. Bean named for a capital
60. DOD arm
61. Tester or Boxer: Abbr.
63. Tillis of country
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