Crossword by: Billie Truitt and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the answers to the Monday August 26 2013 LA Times crossword puzzle! It’s time to get your hands dirty. Today’s theme is that brown and green stuff you find under your feet which goes by many names including dirt, soil, earth and ground.
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Across Answers
1. “Pay attention!” FOCUS
6. Taj Mahal city AGRA
10. __ of Arc JOAN
14. Tokyo automaker with a liar named Joe in its old ads ISUZU
15. Forehead BROW
16. Neutral shade ECRU
17. Home country NATIVE SOIL
19. Amble WALK
20. Add blonde highlights to, say DYE
21. Whole bunch SLEW
22. Free-for-all MELEE
23. Out of touch with reality IN LA LA LAND
26. Musical with nightclub scenes CABARET
31. Men of the future? BOYS
32. Take to the soapbox ORATE
33. Disco brothers’ name GIBB
34. Church seat PEW
37. Get one’s head out of the clouds COME DOWN TO EARTH
41. Tooth tender’s org. ADA
42. Trim, as a photo CROP
43. Any one of New England’s six STATE
44. Fly alone SOLO
45. So far AS OF YET
47. Strike it rich HIT PAY DIRT
51. Stave off AVERT
52. March Madness org. NCAA
54. Performing pair DUO
57. Missing GONE
58. Position of moral superiority HIGH GROUND
61. Bear in the sky URSA
62. Clarinet cousin OBOE
63. “Rubber Duckie” Muppet ERNIE
64. Checked out EYED
65. 911 responders: Abbr. EMTS
66. Helps, as a perp ABETS
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Down Answers
1. Discover FIND
2. Anthem start O SAY
3. Just darling CUTE
4. Israeli weapon UZI
5. Honda Pilot and Ford Explorer, briefly SUVS
6. Not there ABSENT
7. Watchdog’s warning GROWL
8. “Vive le __!” ROI
9. Piercing tool AWL
10. Tiara sparklers JEWELS
11. Central Florida city OCALA
12. Specter formerly of the Senate ARLEN
13. Microwaved NUKED
18. “Night” author Wiesel ELIE
22. “It’s possible” MAYBE SO
24. Slightly A BIT
25. Gray wolf LOBO
26. __-Cola COCA
27. Longtime infield partner of Jeter, familiarly A ROD
28. Ole Miss rival BAMA
29. Downed ATE
30. Minuteman enemy RED COAT
33. Econ. yardstick GNP
34. Seek guidance in a 34-Across PRAY
35. Suffix with sermon -ETTE
36. Sharpen WHET
38. Air France destination ORLY
39. Lumber WOOD
40. DOJ division ATF
44. Butter or mayo SPREAD
45. McDonald’s golden symbol ARCHES
46. Without a date STAG
47. World Court site, with “The” HAGUE
48. Old white-key material IVORY
49. Anxious TENSE
50. Gold bar INGOT
53. Geometry calculation AREA
54. Sandy slope DUNE
55. Military squad UNIT
56. Keats works ODES
58. Whack weeds the old-fashioned way HOE
59. “Big Blue” IBM
60. Sphere ORB
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