Crossword by: Brad Wilber & Doug Peterson and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the answers to the Saturday September 21 2013 LA Times crossword puzzle! There isn’t a theme today so just play and enjoy.
Across Answers
1. Faux-antique décor SHABBY CHIC – A type of interior design that gives furniture that “deliberate” aged look so many people are crazy about these days
11. Nurses SIPS – A more feminine kind of slurping
15. Words next to many 22-Down YOU ARE HERE – What it says when you try to find where you are on a floor map
16. Malaysian Chinese shoe designer Jimmy CHOO – Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the city is crazy for this shoe designer.
17. It’s hard to write with one NON-DOMINANT HAND – When one’s a righty, the left hand is pretty much one.
19. Cub games setting: Abbr. CDT – Club Games Settings abbreviation
20. Hidden Valley competitor KEN’S – Ken’s sauces actually became more popular than their restaurant!
21. “Hah!” TOLD YA
22. Small-screen princess XENA – The popular warrior princess of the 90’s, whose big bulging body sometimes made us wonder if she really were a woman, or a man.
23. Sing ballads, say CROON – Crooners are considered to have very sexy voices
24. Word in a Le Pew address CHERI – Pepe Le Pew’s girlfriend actually goes by a lot of names: Fabrette, Fifi, Felice, and the most popular of all, Penelope.
26. Tab alternative DIET COKE – It was the first product Coca Cola added to its trademark.
29. Foe of the fictional spy agency CONTROL KAOS – The words CONTROL and KAOS are supposed to be acronyms for something in the show GET SMART, but they weren’t able to think of anything.
30. Pump parts TOES – Peep toe pumps are not only considered to be classic, they can be very sexy too, at the same time giving delicate feminine toes some room to breathe.
32. Authorizing OKING – giving approval
33. First-aid practitioner, briefly EMT – EMT stands for Emergency Medical Technician. This type of person is highly skilled at giving medical attention to patients in emergency situations.
34. In reality DE FACTO – It means it is being practiced, but not necessarily established by law.
36. Cutting remark DIG
37. Don’t bother LET BE
39. Jardín occupant FLOR – Flor in Spanish is Fleur in French, as to Jardin in Spanish as Jardin in French.
40. They’re built on benches PECS – Most of the best pec exercises are indeed achieved on a bench
41. Pretends PLAYACTS – To make believe
43. Yupik craft UMIAK – Umiaks are eskimo boats and are shielded with hide.
45. Thomas who co-created “Free to Be… You and Me” MARLO – Miss Thomas is actually of Lebanese and Italian descent.
46. Spanish autonomy Castile and __ LEON – Is the largest autonomous region in the country of Spain
47. Astronomy Muse URANIA – Urania is actually considered to be very smart, as she always has very interesting, factual information to share to a lot of people.
49. Stick with a spring POGO – The pogo stick was patented in the year 1919 by George Hansburg, an American traveller. Legend has it that he got the idea from a poor farmer he met in Burma, who had a daughter named Pogo. The poor farmer made the stick to ease Pogo’s burden of having to travel to and from a far-away temple to pray everyday.
50. Brief black-and-white flash? APB – Actually means All-Points Bulletin, which is given from one American police department to another, usually containing information about a suspect.
53. Hunter’s companion GOLDEN RETRIEVER – Golden retrievers originated from England, and were normally taken along during hunting trips to retrieve birds, ducks, and other small game.
56. Singer of the children’s album “Camp Lisa” LOEB – Lisa Loeb’s band was called Nine Stories, and she got the name from “Tweetbug,” written by JD Salinger.
57. Prevented from getting unruly KEPT IN LINE
58. Minute ITSY – Itsy is the first of a two part word itsy-bitsy, that came from a Hungarian term ici-pici, meaning tiny or small.
59. Biological cooler SWEAT GLAND – A human body has around two million sweat glands on average, while dogs have none. They cool themselves through panting.
Down Answers
1. What collaborators should be in SYNC
2. Garment feature that’s sometimes detachable HOOD – Hoods were made fashionable in the early 16th century, and were worn mostly by noble women. Anne Boleyn for one, was a huge fan, and made gable hoods very popular.
3. Family title AUNT – Aunts are second moms to millions of daughters worldwide.
4. Like some news BAD
5. Stock character? BROKER – Considering their jobs, stock brokers can become very rich by just arranging deals between buyers and sellers. No wonder a lot of people are trying to be brokers!
6. Dweller on the Red Sea YEMENITE – Yemenites are surrounded by emirates or kingdoms. Theirs is the only republic country in the Arabian peninsula.
7. Hutch contents CHINA – The china chosen by president Harrison’s wife (designed with his favorite flower) was never even used by her as she died two months before it came to the White House.
8. European trio in a Christmas song HENS – The three French hens from the classic Christmas song “12 days of Christmas” stand for hope, faith, and charity. The 12 days of Christmas are actually the days between December 25, Christmas day, to January 6, the Epiphany.
9. Soc. Sec. supplement IRA – IRA stands for Individual Retirement Account which provides Americans tax advantages during their retirement years.
10. Rogers __: Toronto stadium CENTRE
11. Cheesy stuff SCHLOCK – This word has a Yiddish origin that means inferior or cheap
12. “Color me surprised!” I HAD NO IDEA
13. Shot glass PONY – The “pony shot” originated from Canada, which means a short shot, measuring 1 ounce.
14. Bar supply available at the touch of a button SODA – Sodas weren’t the first products vending machines dispensed. Its history dates back 215 BC, when Hero, the Greek mathematician invented one to dispense in Egyptian temples, holy water no less.
18. Pretentious TOO TOO
22. Check alternatives XES
23. “Welcome to the human network” tech giant CISCO – Conceived in 2006, Cisco’s slogan has now been modified to “Together we are the human network.”
24. Desert mount CAMEL – We all know what a camel’s humps is for. But did you know they can rise at least thirty feet from their bodies? And that they can drink as much as two hundred liters of water in a single day? They even have the ability to close their nostrils to prevent a single grain of sand entering.
25. “GET FIRED UP!” candy HOT TAMALES – These chewy candies may have a mild cinnamon flavor but there is nothing mild about its heated taste.
26. Passes out DEALS
27. Phil Jackson, for most of the ’70s KNICK – Phil Jackson was drafted by the New York Knicks in the 2nd round in the year 1967, and retired by the year 1980.
28. Early birds? EGGS
29. It may wash up onshore KELP – To all those thinking the kelp is a plant—you’re wrong. Kelp may look like one, but it certainly isn’t, it is actually a type of brown algae. The really amazing thing about these organisms is that they can grown up to two hundred feet long.
31. Leaving for OFF TO
34. Toots DEARIE – Miss Blossom Dearie has recorded an original bossa nova-inspired number with the arrangement of Bluesette by Toots Thieleman.
35. 2010 Western remake that garnered 10 Oscar nominations TRUE GRIT – Stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin. It was nominated on all major categories in the Academy Awards, but didn’t win any.
38. Presently BY AND BY
40. Success on a mat PIN
42. Haunted house sounds CLANKS
44. Farm sound MOOING
46. Ton o’ LOTTA – “Lotta” is slang for “lot of” which means a lot.
47. Jamaican hybrid fruit UGLI – Ugli is a cross between a mandarin orange and a grapefruit. It got its name due to its appearance.
48. Act like a pig, in a way ROOT
49. Star of Looney Tunes’ “for Scent-imental Reasons” PEPE – Pepe Le Pew, a cartoon skunk, was introduced in 1945 by Warner Brothers. Pepe is constantly in search of love on the streets of Paris, and is very persistent when it comes to pursuing Penelope, a black cat who he thinks is also a skunk.
50. Fitness brand AVIA – This US shoe company was founded in 1979 by former discus thrower, Jerry Stubblefield. It was derived from avis, a Latin word meaning “bird.”
51. Ivy League member PENN – The University of Pennsylvania is one of the oldest universities in the US, and was founded by no other than Benjamin Franklin in 1740.
52. Cultivated BRED
54. FF’s opposite REW
55. Bent piece ELL – Sometimes also called an elbow, it is the bend on pipes with a right angle.
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