LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols
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Spec. for tires Alphabetical lunch
7 Show stoppers
10 PC component
13 Close to a
delivery
15 Searches, like a pig does for truffles
17 Attending
18 Starts up again
19 *Failed-delivery
words
21 Perfect spot
22 Lease alternative 23 Bond, say
26 Home of Triple-A baseball’s Rainiers
32 Order to leave
35 Eyeroll inducer,
perhaps, briefly 36 Not seen as much 37 *Arrives back at
square one
41 Worship
42 Dubai’s fed.
43 Information
44 Diddles (around) 46 __ opposite
48 Granola bit
50 Folk tail?
53 *Bamboozled
... and what the circled letters, when connected in the proper sequence, can be?
Incredulous response to an unexpected revelation
61 Oxford campus 63 Blow off some
steam, maybe? 64 Many a door
opening
65 Neruda wrote
one to “things” 66 Many a golfer’s
aim
67 Naval initials
68 46-yr.-old
satire
DOWN
1 Wilbur of “Charlotte’s Web,” e.g.
2 It might keep you
up
3 “Fine, you got
me”
4 Many air rifles
5 Trilogy with
hobbits: Abbr.
6 1982 sci-fi film
set in a computer 7 Common keyboard symbol
8 “It __ add up”
9 Iced tea brand named for a Florida neighborhood
10 Lump
11 Best on drums
12 Cold War initials 14 Predators named
for their prey 16 Overwhelming homework amount
20 Equal, as a sum 24 Beach lotion
meas.
25 School URL
ending
27 NFL’s Cardinals,
on scoreboards 28 Bridge locales
29 Penguin
predator
30 Tuna __
31 Geometry figure 32 Bit of trickery
33 JavaScript lines,
say
34 “Famous” cookie
guy
38 “Get the
picture?”
39 Asian language 40 Road Runner
frame 45 Beethoven’s
“Waldstein,” e.g. 47 Where to see strikes but not strikeouts
49 Subsequently
51 Stirs up
52 One of three companies in the Seiko Group
53 This clue has on 54 Rain protection 55 “No shirt, no shoes, no service,” e.g.
56 Symbol of
wisdom
57 Demolish
58 Amazon Fire TV
Stick alternative 59 Brew choices
62 MLB’s Cardinals,
on scoreboards
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