Crossword by: David Poole and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the answers to the Thursday August 29 2013 LA Times crossword puzzle! If you have ever thought celebrities are animals, then today you are right! Each of today’s themed answers are celebrities whose surnames are animals but also have a duplicate letter on the end: Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Tobias Wolff, Bryan Batt and Lynn Swann.
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Across Answers
1. Window sill coolers PIES
5. Waffles no more OPTS
9. In an offbeat way ODDLY
14. Spots teens don’t like ACNE
15. Unoccupied FREE
16. Civic, perhaps COUPE
17. “Django Unchained” co-star JAMIE FOXX
19. Different take TWIST
20. Rings of activity ARENAS
21. Area near a hangar APRON
23. Thoughtful type MUSER
24. “Malice N Wonderland” rapper SNOOP DOGG
28. Cinders ASH
29. Cross word BAH
31. Pirouetted TWIRLED
32. Salk vaccine target POLIO
34. Group with a self-titled bimonthly magazine AARP
35. “This Boy’s Life” memoirist TOBIAS WOLFF
39. Beyond bad EVIL
41. Bedding item SHEET
42. It involves checks and balances BANKING
46. Cenozoic __ ERA
47. Parisian possessive SES
50. Sal Romano portrayer on “Mad Men” BRYAN BATT
52. Stem cell research advocate Christopher REEVE
54. Kitchen gadget DICER
55. First name of two U.S. presidents ANDREW
56. Lost a lap STOOD
59. Super Bowl X MVP LYNN SWANN
61. Streisand title role YENTL
62. The Gaels of college sports IONA
63. __ facto IPSO
64. Candy man REESE
65. Tech news dot-com CNET
66. Broadway shiner NEON
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Down Answers
1. __ party PAJAMA
2. Boy who had a legendary meltdown ICARUS
3. Tangle up ENMESH
4. The Pont Neuf spans it SEINE
5. Wastes, mob-style OFFS
6. For PRO
7. Perot, e.g. TEXAN
8. One who’s really hot SEXPOT
9. Cuttlefish cousins OCTOPI
10. Vertical air movement DOWNDRAFT
11. It makes SADD mad DUI
12. Groovy music collection? LPS
13. However YET
18. Bit of dangly jewelry EARBOB
22. Fracas ROW
24. Islamic branch SHIA
25. Norwegian royal name OLAF
26. An official lang. of Switzerland GER
27. National econ. stat GDP
30. Clay, today ALI
32. Spotty pattern POLKA DOTS
33. CIA forerunner OSS
35. Minute TINY
36. Use a strop on WHET
37. “__ the fields we go” O’ER
38. Hears LEARNS
39. Drop in the ocean? EBB
40. Alt. spelling VAR
43. Sitting at a red light, say IN IDLE
44. “Days of Our Lives” network NBC
45. Language that gave us “galore” GAELIC
47. Señorita’s shawl SERAPE
48. “All the same …” EVEN SO
49. Like some patches SEWN ON
51. Check for fit TRY ON
53. Dickens’ Drood EDWIN
55. Future MD’s class ANAT
56. Leb. neighbor SYR
57. Beginning of time? TEE
58. Half and half ONE
60. Oak Lawn-to-Chicago dir. NNE
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