Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday, October 17th 2015, LA Times crossword puzzle.
Across
1. Really frighten SCARE THE PANTS OFF
17. 2010 Eminem/Rihanna #1 hit with the lyric “Just gonna stand there and hear me cry” LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE
18. “Despicable Me 2” company UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
19. Something to grab RIDE
20. Eponymous magazine founder Eric UTNE
21. Ruler’s domain? ROOST
22. Barred furniture CRIBS
24. Finely contoured SLEEK
27. God, in a midrash ELOHIM
30. Pickup spots? SCRUFFS
34. City with a Pumpkin Run classic car show OCALA
36. Baguette surfaces FACETS
38. Angry Birds sequel setting RIO
39. Valuable deposit LODE
40. From square one, to Severus DE NOVO
41. Shock JOLT
42. One may be blonde ALE
43. Hard SEVERE
44. Fortune’s 2012 Businessperson of the Year BEZOS
45. Badly deteriorated FAR-GONE
47. Complete ENTIRE
49. Uber ULTRA
51. Means AGENT
53. Grand Canyon ride BURRO
56. Quantum theory pioneer BOHR
59. GI chow MRES
61. Elgar work with an as yet unsolved musical theme ENIGMA VARIATIONS
65. Threat in Season 3 of “24” BIOLOGICAL WEAPON
66. Ways to get high EXTENSION LADDERS
Down
1. Musical connector SLUR
2. Like certain parlor containers CONIC
3. Real page-turner? AVID READER
4. Wake-up call REVEILLE
5. Nice time for toasting ETE
6. Robin’s family THRUSH
7. “I have broke your __ to say so!”: “The Tempest” HEST
8. Obi-Wan portrayer EWAN
9. Doesn’t measure up PALES
10. Shakespearean cries AYS
11. News initials since 1851 NYT
12. British classic cars TOURERS
13. Typically 81-digit diversion SUDOKU
14. Omnium-gatherum OLIO
15. Verizon bundle FIOS
16. Film follower? FEST
23. Zookeeper’s main squeeze? BOA
25. Square, in ’50s slang, as shown by a four-fingered gesture L-SEVEN
26. __-1: “Ghostbusters” car ECTO
28. Should it happen that IF EVER
29. Locks in a paddock MANE
31. Hard-hit liner, in baseball lingo FROZEN ROPE
32. Spanakopita dough FILO
33. They’re often lit SOTS
34. Norwegian saint OLAF
35. Fountain output COLA
37. Fruit remnant CORE
40. Depressed area? DENT
41. Prolonged lament JEREMIAD
43. Builder of Jerusalem’s First Temple SOLOMON
44. Worth writing home about BIG
46. Fountain output GURGLE
48. 1943 Pacific island battle site TARAWA
50. The Bahamas’ __ Islands ABACO
52. Barbershop part TENOR
53. Actress Neuwirth BEBE
54. OS X basis UNIX
55. Shields may be used in one RIOT
57. Operation Torch target ORAN
58. Way up HILL
60. Phishers’ fodder: Abbr. SSNS
62. DOJ pooh-bahs AGS
63. 180 degrees from I VII
64. 2012 film bear TED
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