Crossword by: Jeffrey Wechsler
Above is a picture of the completed puzzle for the Wednesday December 18 2013 L.A. Times crossword and here are the clues we were given:
Across Clues
1. Poet whose work was read in “Four Weddings and a Funeral”
6. Animal skin
10. Zantac target
14. Mowing the lawn, e.g.
15. Venerated one
16. Ritual heap
17. Andrea __: ill-fated ocean liner
18. Harp constellation
19. Assist in a bad way
20. “Oh, baby, that’s what I like!” oldie
23. Dramatist Coward
24. Beat rapidly
27. Barrier with built-in footholds
32. “Cut me some __!”
33. Corp. bigwig
34. Seventh Greek letter
35. Puts the past in the past
38. Lhasa native
41. Ingested
42. Romance
44. They’re pulled by coachmen
45. Site of the first Winter Olympics
50. 1950s conflict zone
51. Showy perennial
52. What a long shot has, and, literally, what 20-, 27- and 45-Across each has
59. Something extra
61. Acting award
62. Net receipts?
63. “Great” dog
64. Make fun of
65. Tells the cops everything
66. Tacked on: Abbr.
67. Arboretum growth
68. Make fun of
Down Clues
1. Outlet letters
2. “Here comes trouble!”
3. The first Mrs. Copperfield
4. The Auld Sod
5. Fastidious folk
6. Early Talmudic sage
7. Charmingly rustic
8. Small fishing boat
9. Tel Aviv airline
10. Geronimo’s tribe
11. Like the Borg race in “Star Trek” spin-offs
12. Explosive state
13. City of Lions and Tigers: Abbr.
21. Lithium __ battery
22. Explosives regulating org.
25. Fuel number
26. Vegan protein source
27. Thread-spinning Fate
28. Keep available
29. Pitcher you can count on
30. Angler’s scoop
31. Ornamental fish
32. Suggest the presence (of)
36. Take responsibility for
37. “__ don’t”: terse denial
39. Most impertinent
40. Yet, to the Bard
43. Get rusty
46. Outfielder Bob of the 1920s Yankees’ “Murderers’ Row”
47. Muffin grain
48. Citrus grower’s concern
49. Guitarist Ocasek
53. Variety
54. Construction beam
55. Gallic girlfriend
56. The Darlings’ dog
57. Short smokes?
58. “When all __ fails …”
59. High-tech organizer, briefly
60. Shaver
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