Today’s crossword is curated by Jeffrey Wechsler.
The answers to today’s starred clues are:
17 Across: Canteloupes
24 Across: Shanty Town
31 Across: Illinois
40 Across: Werewolf
47 Across: Wonton Soup
Above is a picture of the completed puzzle for the Thursday January 2nd 2014 L.A. Times crossword and here are the clues we were given:
ACROSS
1. Towering
4. Give quite the earful
11. Woody Allen asset
14. Soul, in Somme
15. City that was the source of the marble for Michelangelo’s “David”
16. Squeeze (out)
17. *Sweet melons
19. Taylor of fashion
20. Behind
21. CD return
22. Princess provoker
23. Agile deer
24. *Ramshackle community
28. Forest mom
29. Kublai __
30. Hand or foot
31. *The Prairie State
33. Some words in baby books?
35. Kitten cry
36. Warm-water shark
37. Smooth moves
40. *Horror film shapeshifter
44. “Rag Mop” singing brothers
45. Burden
46. Go (for)
47. *Chinese restaurant staple
51. Broad bean
52. Brief writer: Abbr.
53. Pal of Piglet
54. One with a muzzle, maybe
55. Movement-sensing game console
56. Beginning of labor, and, in another sense, the beginning of each answer to a starred clue
60. Clark’s “Mogambo” co-star
61. Like some elephants
62. Musician Sean Taro __ Lennon
63. Intense hunger
64. Sand dollar habitats
65. Web
DOWN
1. Company that now owns Dewar’s, Bombay Sapphire and Grey Goose
2. “Stupid me!”
3. Well-mannered
4. Swordplay memento
5. “2001” computer
6. Galeón cargo
7. Braz. neighbor
8. Easy putt
9. “__ you ready yet?”
10. Lip-smacking
11. Some Clue cards
12. “My suspicions are confirmed!”
13. Building group
18. Your, to Pierre
24. Broadway attractions
25. It comes down hard
26. “Jeopardy!” monitor display: Abbr.
27. “One L” author
29. Often-torn trouser part
32. “__ down to the seas again”: Masefield
33. At a great height
34. Turner and others
36. Remote button
37. Figured out how
38. Producing intense feeling
39. Blue-flowering plant used in herbal medicine
40. Try to persuade
41. Show of hands?
42. Potential dupe
43. Biblical words of comfort
48. SeaWorld swimmers
49. Lariat loop
50. Colleague of Elena and Antonin
51. Hale and hearty
54. Secretly keeps in the email loop, briefly
57. Computer key
58. Short shortcut?
59. Samaritan’s offering
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