Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Friday August 12th 2016, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Read the riot act BASTE
6 Like tightrope walkers AGILE
11 D-backs, on scoreboards ARI
14 Physics Nobelist Schrödinger ERWIN
15 Attendance count NOSES
16 Soft slip-on MOC
17 Strapped FEELING THE PINCH
20 Baja bear OSA
21 Two piece? DUET
22 Paycheck abbr. FICA
23 ”Carefree Highway” singer GORDON LIGHTFOOT
28 Seasoned cookers WOKS
29 Golfer McIlroy RORY
30 Eastern noodle UDON
32 Clued in AWARE
34 What might make a ewe turn? BAA!
37 Island on which much of “Jaws” was filmed MARTHA’S VINEYARD
41 Many a prof PHD
42 In base eight OCTAL
43 First name in jazz ETTA
44 Con ANTI
45 Free ride PASS
47 Grin BREAK INTO A SMILE
54 ”Do or do not. There is no try” speaker YODA
55 Hyatt competitor OMNI
56 Informal British address GUV
57 Finishes a task, and a hint to hidden words in this puzzle’s four other longest answers GOES THE DISTANCE
62 SEALs’ org. USN
63 Baron Cohen’s Kazakh journalist BORAT
64 ”… bombs bursting __” IN AIR
65 High pts. MTS
66 Bends with the breeze SWAYS
67 __ pitch SALES
DOWN
1 Obscure BEFOG
2 Playground comeback ARE SO!
3 Censor’s target SWEARWORD
4 Up to, in ads TIL
5 City SSW of Wichita, KS ENID, OK
6 Source of opera financing ANGEL
7 ”The Teflon Don” GOTTI
8 ”More or less” equivalent -ISH
9 Casual wear biggie LEE
10 Debatable power ESP
11 Test that examines fetal DNA, briefly AMNIO
12 ”Fidelio” jailer ROCCO
13 Phased-out Apple messaging software ICHAT
18 They have their orders NUNS
19 Questionable IFFY
24 ”Cut that out!” DON’T!
25 Holy __ GRAIL
26 38-Down source HORN
27 Back into a corner, in a way TREE
30 One with a stay-at-home job? UMP
31 Code word DAH
32 Sean of “Rudy” ASTIN
33 Penn. neighbor WVA
34 Device that debuted in Detective Comics in 1942 BAT-SIGNAL
35 Knack ART
36 Org. concerned with securing crowns ADA
38 26-Down sound HONK!
39 Dramatic start ACT I
40 Respectful rural response YES’M
44 Small power sources AAAS
45 Discouraging words PANS
46 ”Given the circumstances … “ AS IT IS …
47 Quaint words of resolve BY GUM
48 Place to rule ROOST
49 Paradises EDENS
50 ”No more procrastinating!” TODAY!
51 Passes over OMITS
52 Florida’s Port St. __ LUCIE
53 ’50s-’60s civil rights activist EVERS
58 ”Angie Tribeca” airer TBS
59 Methodology word HOW
60 Period ERA
61 Santa __, California ANA
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