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alfonzos

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Los Angeles Times Crossword Puzzle
« on: April 26, 2019, 09:39:50 PM »
This past Sunday’s L.A. Times crossword puzzle’s theme is “It’s All in the Game Show.” The editors, Rich Morris and Joyce Nicholas Lewis, deserve kudos for the following clues:

22 Across: bee home + Venus + heron kin (16 letters)
39 Across: “Star Trek” villain + mailed + light beam + take pains to avoid (15 letters)
52 Across: Sass, in slang + inferno + turkey + Babe, with a bat (15 letters)
76 Across: Legume + yank + pound sound + bee product (15 letters)
93 Across: “Cutlet meat + statute + quartet + goatee site (15 letters)
114 Across: Utter + cherish + old laundry detergent + harm (16 letters)

Solutions: “hive + goddess + egret”
“Khan + sent + ray + shun”
“‘tude+ hell + dud + Ruth”
“pea + pull + arf + honey”
“veal + law + four + chin”
“say + love + duz +injury

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Clay Zambo

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Re: Los Angeles Times Crossword Puzzle
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2019, 10:09:47 AM »
Really fun! And 103A is one letter away from fitting the theme, too.

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BrandonFG

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Re: Los Angeles Times Crossword Puzzle
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2019, 10:27:30 AM »
I got “You Don’t Say”/Mad Gab vibes from that. Very cool.
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