Crossword by: Steve Blais and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the answers to the Tuesday August 20 2013 LA Times crossword puzzle! If you hear music that’s because today’s theme is The Sound Of Music! The themed answers all end with a words associated with music: note, beat, tone and pitch. The theme was given away by 38 Across.
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Across Answers
1. Red planet MARS
5. Put down stakes, maybe CAMPED
11. Jack Sprat’s no-no FAT
14. “Yeah, whatever!” I BET
15. It traditionally translates to “O come” ADESTE
16. Elem. school basics RRR
17. Facts and figures DATA
18. Thing to make when a Post-it isn’t handy MENTAL NOTE
20. Surgeons’ tools SCALPELS
22. Call it a night TURN IN
23. Fan magazine for teens TIGER BEAT
25. Exclusive, as communities GATED
26. Veto vote NAY
27. “Blessed __ the peacemakers” Matthew ARE
29. Carrying a weapon ARMED
32. Clearance event SALE
34. Enveloping glow AURA
38. Best Picture of 1965, and a hint to the ends of 18-, 23-, 50- and 59-Across THE SOUND OF MUSIC
41. Geologic periods EONS
42. Any time now SOON
43. Not up to the task INEPT
44. Distant FAR
45. Supermarket chain with a red-and-white logo IGA
46. Take off LEAVE
50. Warm, muted color EARTH TONE
56. Former Indian prime minister Gandhi INDIRA
58. College class staples LECTURES
59. Frenzied state FEVER PITCH
61. Shabby wear RAGS
62. Prefix with cycle TRI
63. Sprawling property ESTATE
64. To be, to Berlioz ETRE
65. Scale fifth SOL
66. Game with falling blocks TETRIS
67. Revolutionary Trotsky LEON
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Down Answers
1. Central position MIDST
2. Beaded calculators ABACI
3. Change the price of RETAG
4. Blah quality STALENESS
5. Paid a visit CAME BY
6. Fred’s dancing sister ADELE
7. High-IQ group MENSA
8. Pasadena winter hrs. PST
9. Floride, par exemple ETAT
10. Downpour DELUGE
11. Forward-facing side FRONT
12. Clarinetist Shaw ARTIE
13. The way things are going TREND
19. Gun lobby org. NRA
21. Site of much Spanish art PRADO
24. Eagle’s picker-upper TALON
28. Gridiron enforcer REF
29. Had a bite ATE
30. Pi follower RHO
31. Dudes MEN
32. Sleep-disturbing sound SNORE
33. Excitement ADO
34. In the altogether AU NATUREL
35. Take advantage of USE
36. Shred RIP
37. Not just sit by ACT
39. Springsteen’s “Born in the __” USA
40. Physical strength MIGHT
44. Polecat relative commonly kept as a pet FERRET
45. Needs scratching ITCHES
46. London elevators LIFTS
47. Month after diciembre ENERO
48. Aleve competitor ADVIL
49. Be in the game VIE
51. Raised church area ALTAR
52. Prefix with linear RECTI
53. Give a speech ORATE
54. Part of UNCF NEGRO
55. German steel city ESSEN
57. Church recess APSE
60. Former comm. giant ITT
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