Crossword by: Gail Grabowski & Bruce Venzke and edited by Rich Norris
Welcome to the answers to the Wednesday August 28 2013 LA Times crossword puzzle! Harness your “inner sole”. Today’s themed answers all start with ‘SO’ and end with ‘LE’. Given away by the answer to 57 Across the real theme is ‘Stuffed Sole’ in that there are letters stuffed between ‘so’ and ‘le’.
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Across Answers
1. Stockpile AMASS
6. A.L. West player ASTRO
11. Place to see reeds FEN
14. Like some trains and anesthetics LOCAL
15. “Gigi” star Leslie CARON
16. Pollution-policing org. EPA
17. Put down toddlers? DECRY BABIES
19. It’s in many poems ‘TIS
20. Wirehair of whodunits ASTA
21. Start of a morning diner order A CUP
22. Hunt illegally POACH
24. Petty of “A League of Their Own” LORI
26. Sediment LEES
28. Put down formal education? DEGRADE SCHOOL
33. Handle the helm STEER
35. They’re not from around here, briefly ETS
36. Ship of Greek myth ARGO
37. Rand who created Dagny Taggart AYN
38. Went by ELAPSED
42. The Matterhorn, e.g. ALP
43. Plumbing concern DRIP
45. GI entertainers USO
46. British __ ISLES
48. Put down thoroughfares? DEMEAN STREETS
52. Hook’s sidekick SMEE
53. Caesarean rebuke ET TU
54. “Me too!” SO DO I!
57. Pay, as expenses MEET
59. Russian assembly DUMA
63. Fuss ADO
64. Put down a rock genre? DEBASE METAL
67. Spruce cousin FIR
68. Soothing application SALVE
69. Cockamamie INANE
70. Comics cry EEK!
71. Ancestral diagrams TREES
72. Dumas swordsman ATHOS
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Down Answers
1. “The West Wing” Emmy winner ALDA
2. Homer’s hangout MOE’S
3. IRA part: Abbr. ACCT
4. Big name in frozen desserts SARA LEE
5. Crafty SLY
6. Thorny shrub ACACIA
7. “Elephant Boy” actor SABU
8. Rare sights in nurseries TRIPLETS
9. Lobster eggs ROE
10. How many writers work ON SPEC
11. Greek salad topper FETA
12. Larger-than-life EPIC
13. 1950s Rambler maker NASH
18. Virologist who worked with Epstein BARR
23. Worker protection agcy. OSHA
25. Storybook baddie OGRE
27. To be, to Brutus ESSE
28. Wrangler material DENIM
29. Station DEPOT
30. 47-Downs have to talk their way out of them ORALS
31. Look at lecherously OGLE
32. Cuts off LOPS
33. H.S. sobriety crusaders SADD
34. Spare, in Soho TYRE
39. Moon over Marseille LUNE
40. Put together ASSEMBLE
41. Waist management DIET
44. Cuban cabbage? PESO
47. Loan recipient, often STUDENT
49. In the center of AMIDST
50. Popular pieces REESE’S
51. Rock follower? -ETTE
54. Sound partner SAFE
55. Drooling comics dog ODIE
56. Idiot DORK
58. Water-draining aid EAVE
60. Canyonlands National Park locale UTAH
61. Hand, to Jorge MANO
62. Pub server’s trayful ALES
65. Tuner’s asset EAR
66. “Mamma __!” MIA
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