Crossword by: Merl Reagle
Theme: “Redefining The Game”
Above is a picture of the completed puzzle for the Sunday January 5th 2014 L.A. Times crossword and here is a complete list of the clues that Merl gave us:
ACROSS Clues
1 Ways through woods
6 Stay on the line
10 Sacro addition
15 All over the ___
18 Excedrin rival
19 Part of the country
20 Samsonesque
22 Meter intro
23 Sign that your duck is getting older?
25 Pole-boat rental sign?
27 Cursor lead-in
28 Alert
29 Pool need
30 Cheyenne Mtn. installation
31 Electrical safeguard?
38 Part of an Arizona Highways pictorial
39 Ken or Lena
40 Ominous ring
41 Han and Napoleon
44 Baby boy, in Barcelona
46 Sole attraction?
47 Move your tail
50 “No kidding?”
52 Get rid of unwanted hair, cat-style?
57 Helper
58 Greek letters
60 Eagle’s home
61 Ogden Nash’s forte
62 Bacillus shape
63 Custard for Castro
64 Savings options
65 Bazooka, e.g.
66 Feature of this puzzle?
70 Bram Stoker’s birthplace
73 Old tune, “Buffalo ___”
74 Master works
75 Lake bottom
78 Run ___ of (collide with)
79 Pen pals?
81 Speechless
82 Coal hole
83 Two networks showing the same game?
86 Poem part
88 Dulles sight, once
89 Drug program on bumpers
90 Thrust-avoiding leap, in fencing
92 Air element
93 Ostensible
95 Move through mud
97 Poverty symbols
99 South Seas entrepreneur going over his holdings?
106 “Ready ___ …”
107 Damage protector
108 “Garfield” dog
109 Adverb ending
110 Good name for a vacuum cleaner?
114 Term for a certain defensive player, not his painful-sounding takedown?
117 Enzyme ending
118 Refrigerant ingredient
119 Proposal
120 Craftsperson
121 “The Trip” subject, 1967
122 Earls et al.
123 War of the Pacific participant
124 Plays “Wheel of Fortune”
DOWN Clues
1 Insect feelers
2 Bejewel, e.g.
3 Watch this
4 That bloke’s
5 Adagio trait
6 Emperor with a wall
7 Town near Bangor
8 “Ben-Hur” author Wallace
9 Chevy colleague, 1975
10 Cast doubt on
11 Matt of “Today”
12 A hostel environment
13 Not fore
14 Lowdown sort
15 Lament
16 “What ___!” (“Bummer!”)
17 Scum site
21 Netter Ivan
24 That Minnesota guy
26 Hard work
29 V times XXX, plus 1
32 Overact
33 Things to avoid
34 AP’s Baseball Manager of the Year, 1994
35 Giraffe’s kin
36 Join forces
37 Van Gogh’s home: abbr.
41 Shiner?
42 Cincinnati’s river
43 Gatsby portrayer, 1949
45 Symbols
46 Anatomical sac
47 LP flaw
48 In addition
49 Dell
51 Pullover fabric
53 Sore-throat treater
54 Plenty
55 Activist Medgar
56 “Noodle”
59 Is laid up with
63 Nonessential item
64 Silly
65 Fuses
66 The Copa, e.g.
67 Cry of surrender
68 Symbol of surrender
69 Bag closer
70 Pops
71 1999 Richard Belzer book, “___, JFK, and Elvis”
72 Ring event
75 Tacoma-born crooner
76 Designer Ferrari
77 School official
79 False alarm
80 Part of FWIW, in online chatting
81 Sunset Boulevard’s Whisky ___
82 Swamp
84 Perfect place
85 Admit honestly
87 Wrestling duos
91 Creator of Boopsie and B.D.
93 Nebraska county
94 Your, in Tours
95 113 Down bone
96 British Inc.
98 Go ___ (fight)
99 Mr. Perot
100 Not married
101 Flip
102 Gardener, at times
103 Start of Kipling’s mongoose
104 1990s sitcom
105 Oglers
106 Australian gem
111 Letters on a Cardinal
112 “___ says?”
113 Hearing location
114 Little drink
115 Praising piece
116 Twist-off thingy
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