Crossword by: Steve Salitan
Above is a picture of the completed puzzle for the Saturday December 28 2013 L.A. Times crossword and here are the clues we were given:
ACROSS
1. There may be tears in them
6. Track event
15. Like some office boxes
16. Track event
17. Yellow-flowered medicinal plant
18. Champing at the bit, and then some
19. “__ Cheerleaders”: 1977 comedy-horror film
21. Campus not far from LAX
22. Camera that uses 70mm film
23. Exploit
24. Casual evening?
26. Inedible orange
27. Aspire to greatness
29. “84, Charing Cross Road” novelist Hanff and others
31. “Violator” band
33. Deco designer
34. Agreeing words
35. Latin quarters?
39. 1996 film with the tagline “YIKES! They’ve Landed!”
41. Arizona retirement community
45. Black-footed albatrosses
46. Ring material
47. Savory, e.g.
48. Tex.-based carrier
49. “Such a shame”
50. It’s a mess
52. Zen awakening
54. Daily reading for many
57. Nitpick
58. New members
59. Whence Icarus fled
60. Ones on the way up
61. Had a row
DOWN
1. Convince otherwise
2. More disturbed
3. Disdain
4. Skipjack, perhaps
5. Tinny
6. Nursery product word
7. Follies
8. Draft picks
9. Traffic blocker?
10. Shade provider?
11. Extol
12. Dealer in old clothing
13. Way more than a cold snap
14. Darius I’s successor
20. Reacts to with an eye roll, perhaps
25. Something to test
26. Cry of approval
28. Laugh line?
29. Respect
30. Corrections staff?
32. Humanities degs.
35. Soup holder
36. Best kind of full house
37. Use lofty words?
38. Pounced on
39. Short time?
40. Caldwell’s “__ Road”
41. Most popular baby girl’s name of 2011 and 2012
42. They may be civil
43. __ acid
44. Prairie predator
47. Bouncing off the walls
50. Large amount
51. Haul
53. Frank Kennedy saved it from foreclosure
55. Moral lapse
56. Twisty character
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