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Author Topic: LA Times PUZ, April 2021  (Read 19156 times)

Glenn9999

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LA Times PUZ, April 2021
« on: March 31, 2021, 11:23:38 PM »
As always, copy the text, save it to a text file and then open it with Across Lite to get your PUZ file...

<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA TImes, Thu, Apr 1, 2021
<AUTHOR>
Joseph A. Gangi / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
BILE.ITEM...ZAP
IDID.BAYS.SCENE
RING.EKES.PASTE
DOGEARED.WINTER
STOODIN.PING...
...FDA.GIN.ORAL
HALOS.JOEGREENE
AVANT.ETC.AIDES
VIDEOGAME.STOWS
EVES.ANE.ASH...
...SEES.ILLEGAL
SQUEAL.ALTEREGO
AURAS.ARIA.WELT
MISTY.BEAR.ASOU
ETA...CADS.YEWS
<ACROSS>
Anger
List member
Reheat, in a way
"That's on me"
Service station sections
Crime site
One may symbolize friendship
Gets with difficulty, with "out"
Ctrl+V, commonly
*Like some pages in used books
It arrives just before Christmas, for many
Substituted (for)
Send an IM to
Public health org.
Card game cry
Like some exams
MLB's Angels, in sportscasts
*"Mean" Pro Football Hall of Fame lineman
Before, in Brest
List-ending abbr.
Helpers
*Arcade staple
Puts away
Pre-event periods
Chemical suffix
Fire remains
Calls in poker
Criminal
Tell when one shouldn't
Secondary persona, or what's hidden in the answers to starred clues
Distinctive characters
Verdi solo
Paintball souvenir?
With 7-Down, teary
Tolerate
Not worth __
LAX info
Rogues
Trees used to make bows
<DOWN>
Fowl
Facetious target of a series of guides
Talk of the town?
*Metaphor suggesting suspense
Spain and Portugal, mostly
Unavailable
See 57-Across
Ed.'s stack
Word with lemon or orange
Pot starter
Jury member
English
*Is a fifty-fifty proposition
Extends, as a building
Building extension
Jigsaw bit
"No clue"
Start over
Over
No __: surprisingly
Possess
Tel __
Fill with freight
Casual pants
React to fightin' words, maybe
Hebrides native
Wedding destinations, often
Like 55-Down
Inspiration for the 2004 film "Troy"
Parts of some V's
Lit up
Kind of position used for meditation
"Ditto"
Pack it in
__ Major
Triangle calculation
See 45-Down

Glenn9999

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Re: LA Times PUZ, April 2021
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2021, 11:15:48 PM »
<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Fri, Apr 2, 2021
<AUTHOR>
Jeffrey Wechsler / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x16
<GRID>
NOH.ASISAID.BMW
ENE.LAMOTTA.LAI
WHATSDONEISDONE
MIRROR...SHOWIN
ASTI..CPU..CAFE
NBA.STRATUS.FER
SAC.YOUCANT.USS
.CHANGETHEPAST.
.KEG.......LEO.
...AIRS.OTRO...
.FORGETABOUTIT.
TAU.AVOCETS.NUB
WITS.AWARE.ALTO
ITSTIMETOMOVEON
THELAPD.NICETRY
..TONS...CARS..
<ACROSS>
Honshu drama
Words before a recap
Audi rival
Boise-to-Billings dir.
"Raging Bull" boxer
Infamous Vietnam War site, My __
"Take my advice: no use crying over spilled milk ... "
Compact part
Greet warmly
Spumante source
PC core
Spot to get a bite on the street
Rockets' org.
Low cloud
Two-__: half-price opportunity
Pouch
With 36-Across, "There's no going back ... "
Ship letters
See 34-Across
Brewery vessel
Celestial feline
Snoots put them on
Other, in Oaxaca
"Put everything behind you ... "
Sigma follower
Shorebirds related to stilts
Crux
Cards
Up on the latest
Sax type
"And look ahead."
Force featured on "Bosch," for short
"So close!"
Oodles
They often take turns
<DOWN>
__ Own Organics
Where "The Man With the Hoe" carried the world, in an Edwin Markham poem
Great sadness
Plus
Iraq's __ City
Brief "I think"
Oceanus, to Gaia
Snacked
"How sweet __!"
Sprint
Lose it
Public policy declaration
Cookout fare
One less than tetra-
OB or ENT
Rock's Mötley __
Formal agreement
Four Corners state
Roget entry: Abbr.
Dress, with "up"
Le Monde article
Auto additive with a red oval logo
Seaweed product
Quite often
Supermarket chain with a red oval logo
Overhauls
Put away
Titania's husband
Serving as a symbol
Fin. neighbor
Loyalty
Start
"Human beings ... may hide their feelings, but __ does not": Hemingway
Fjords, e.g.
Teach privately
Foolish sort
Superskinny
Battle of Normandy town
Claim
Actor McKellen
Andean root vegetable

BJMcBean

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Re: LA Times PUZ, April 2021
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2021, 11:46:27 PM »
Thanks, again, for posting the LA Times for us.

Glenn9999

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Re: LA Times PUZ, April 2021
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2021, 02:00:51 PM »
Thanks, again, for posting the LA Times for us.

You're welcome.  Hopefully, everything is alright with the Admin here and the whole PUZ question can be worked out (rather be posting PUZ here than this, definitely, if there's no problems with doing it!).

Glenn9999

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Re: LA Times PUZ, April 2021
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2021, 10:44:06 PM »
<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Sat, Apr 3, 2021
<AUTHOR>
Ryan McCarty / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
PECK.SOCCERSTAR
ICAN.ECHOLOCATE
TOME.THANKSALOT
CHEEP.ONTHEMEND
ROLLUP.GRASP...
ERR.BOO.ARLES..
WRAP.PUNCTURED.
SOCAL.TOT.GENIE
.RENEGEDON.DIAN
..ROTOR.RAN.OLD
...PABST.GYMRAT
PAELLAPAN.CAPRI
AUDIOTAPED.GRIM
URGENTCARE.MODE
LAYSEYESON.AMES
<ACROSS>
One may be planted on a cheek
One who gets famous just for kicks?
Volunteer's words
Use sound to get around
Large volume
Reaction that can be grateful or sarcastic
Call from a brooder
Getting better
Arrive by car, say
Perception
Make a typo ... or miss one
Surprising sound
Setting of van Gogh's "Café Terrace at Night"
Stop shooting
Let the air out of
Area where skateboarding likely originated, briefly
Activity cube user
One may get rubbed out
Failed to uphold
Gorilla researcher Fossey
Turning part
Directed
With 42-Down, unlikely racetrack pick
Milwaukee draft pick?
One obsessed with guns?
Utensil in Valencian cooking
Isle off the Sorrento Peninsula
Captured soundly?
Hardly promising
Walk-in clinic focus
Fashion
Espies
City on the Skunk
<DOWN>
Retiring groups?
Film genre for Shyamalan's "The Happening"
Competitor who's over the hump?
Prepare to talk to a tyke, maybe
Prepared
Figure eight, in tango parlance
Harry Potter love interest Cho __
Independent __
South Bend suburb
Larva that attacks Valentine's Day plants
Ran playfully
Fabulist's work
Buckets or barrels
Out of a job, perhaps?: Abbr.
Trivia site
__ fly
Arena for the stars
Annual coronation event
Impressive displays
Rest for a bit
Transport service for the disabled
Much less
Armageddons
Lose it
See 47-Across
Site of the HQ of five major sports
Croquetas or caracoles
It forms igneous rock
Microsoft co-founder Allen
Intangible quality
Norm-challenging
Role in the Monteverdi opera "The Coronation of Poppaea"
Big-screen TV site

BJMcBean

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Re: LA Times PUZ, April 2021
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2021, 09:36:05 PM »
This whole thing is weird and we're not getting any answers. How difficult is it for you to make the puzzles available to us? Maybe we're paying the wrong person!

Thanks again.

Glenn9999

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Re: LA Times PUZ, April 2021
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2021, 11:31:09 PM »
This whole thing is weird and we're not getting any answers. How difficult is it for you to make the puzzles available to us? Maybe we're paying the wrong person!

It is weird.  Really the only reason I've been doing this is the lapses on the site like this.    It's happened enough that I've worked on things to make it so it's not too difficult to get the PUZ files for me at the moment.  To that end, I've really only just been filling in since I was one of the frustrated users on the site that had a way to do something about it.  Trust me, I'd be even more frustrated if money got involved. 

I really don't want to get into the business of doing it regularly if I can help it.  One or two days every once in a while is one thing, but we're on Day 14 of this current run so it has started to turn into a regular thing.  And like you say, no answers.  Indeed, it's frustrating.

Glenn9999

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Re: LA Times PUZ, April 2021
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2021, 11:31:41 PM »
<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Sun, Apr 4, 2021 - "Key Characters"
<AUTHOR>
Ed Sessa / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
21x21
<GRID>
OCCASIONAL.SLING.LION
CLEMENTINE.OILER.UMNO
HAdashOTAT.FALSE.MPEG
OPENTOES.TRANS.WEIRDO
...DEMS.LEILA.DIANE..
PEtITE.AGREE.PENCASES
RAiN..URbangROWTH.SAL
OGlE.FLIT...OREO.PISA
WEd.FINequalITY.BUOYS
.ReTINAL.VILLA.HANNAH
..AERIE.KUDOS.CENTI..
LATHES.RELAY.ALLCAsH.
ETHER.HUMandYNAMO.tOY
AIDE.CUSP...AIRS.LaWS
PLO.caretODANCE..ErIE
STUDENTS.DANKE.JESTER
..SILTS.ADDIS.TINS...
NAPALM.UNJAM.NOHITTER
AMAL.ITSSO.ALOhashIRT
MERE.SIDEB.LIVEDLARGE
ESTD.SEALS.SPARSENESS
<REBUS>
MARK ;
<ACROSS>
Happening now and then
Support for an injured limb
Oz traveler
Hybrid citrus fruit
Edmonton NHLer
Terse rejection
Was in the running for
Like some prophets
Compressed video format
They show off pedicures
Part of 32-Down
Oddball
Reps' rivals
Girl in Byron's "Don Juan"
Steak __
Small size
Have a meeting of the minds
Boxes for drawers?
Drops from the sky
City planner's concern
Muppet chimp __ Minella
Gawk at
Move lightly
Snack often eaten inside-out
City with a notable tower
Bring together
Like much jewelry, in ads
Anchored floats
Like some FBI security scans
Country house
Miley's Montana
Falcon's nest
"Congrats!"
Prefix with grade
Bowl-making tools
Pass on
Kind of offer that avoids financing
Old-time anesthetic
Ball of fire
Longtime Cracker Jack prize
Second
Critical juncture
Broadcasts
Bar codes?
Gaza Strip gp.
Prom invitation
Canal that roughly parallels I-90 in New York
Ones who have class
"Merci," in Mainz
Palace prankster
Delta deposits
__ Ababa
Spam holders
Incendiary fuel
Fix, as a printer
One of Nolan Ryan's seven
Rights activist Clooney
"__ you!": fashion compliment
Colorful top
Paltry
"I Am the Walrus" was one
Emulated the wealthy
Abbr. on a cornerstone
Crofts' partner
Meager characteristic
<DOWN>
Seis y dos
Small part of a big hand
Turn over
Trout __: nutty fish dish
Group of geese a-laying
Like some medical care
Great Plains natives
Small grievances
Santa __ winds
Prynne's scarlet stigma
Parlor furniture support
Climbing vine
Ailments
Mario Bros. console
Got big enough for, as oversized clothes
Former midsize Chevy
Monets, Manets, etc.
Having only length, for short
Aborted, at NASA
It means nothing to the French
"To __ his own"
Pride initialism
1948 also-ran
Figurehead spot
Champing at the bit
Marriage phrase from the Book of Common Prayer
Animated film mermaid
Potty opening?
Gut course
Date component
Radii neighbors
Churns up
End of the Tour de France
Uruguay's __ del Este
One wielding an ax?
Soft palate extension
Quinn of "Elementary"
Architecture middle name
Baccarat call
Quiet laugh
Whalers' wheels
Rarely used antonym of disheveled
Limerick neighbor
Quantum events?
Not quite true?
Artful dodges
"Have __ day!"
Mandel of "America's Got Talent"
Causes pain
Bosox rivals
1914 Belgian battle river
Surefire
Not as much as
Spreadsheet unit
Honey-do list components
Word new fathers love to hear
Ark passengers, mostly
Like most 20th-century phone calls
Sacred struggles
Maroon, in a way
Adams of photography
"I've Grown Accustomed __ Face": "My Fair Lady" song
First blank on many forms
Iowa college town
Fed. food overseer
Bright star
One that's worn on road trips
Bits of work
Lines on Google Maps: Abbr.
Secure, with "down"
Sass

Glenn9999

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Re: LA Times PUZ, April 2021
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2021, 11:15:11 PM »
<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Mon, Apr 19, 2021
<AUTHOR>
Jana Persky / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
FRISKS.REAP.ROW
LAGUNA.ELSA.ISH
UPONESALLEY.GTO
...KESHA.APCHEM
BALE..ATE.ALTO.
OPENIT.EMPLOY..
INF.CURSOR.TOES
LETTUCE.JOBHUNT
SANE.CAVIAR.ARI
..ONTIME.MATRON
.ODOR.SNL..RENT
FLORAL.TABLE...
ADU.DOWNTOEARTH
NIB.ECHO.NATURE
GET.ROAR.DRYEYE
<ACROSS>
Pats down in a weapons search
Gather, as crops
Theater ticket word
__ Beach: Southern California city
Memorable lioness
Imprecise suffix
Well-suited to a person's abilities
Pontiac muscle car
One-named "Tik Tok" singer
College-level HS science course
Bundle of hay
Kid's riddle: "Why is six afraid of seven?" "Because seven __ nine!"
Range above 41-Down
Gift giver's eager urging
Hire
Like Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony"
Arrow controlled by a mouse
Little piggies
Salad green
LinkedIn user's quest
Of sound mind
Fancy fish eggs
Shapiro of NPR
Punctual
__ of honor: wedding party VIP
Smell
Late-night NYC show
Tenant's payment
Like bouquets of roses
Dining room piece
Former soccer phenom Freddy
Unpretentious
Pen tip
Reverberate
Science journal since 1869
Obtain
Lion's warning
What there may not be "in the house" during a tearjerker
<DOWN>
Annual shot target
Knock (on)
"Here __ again!"
Submerged
Joint above the ankle
Cheeky talk
Tells, as a story
Building wing
On the ocean
Online remittance app
"Correctamundo!"
Bone: Pref.
"To __ it may concern"
"Figured it out!"
Fabric
Reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit
Sleep disorder
Made certain
Expressive online image
RN's workplace
Stanley of "The Hunger Games"
Golf tournament kickoff
Paper purchases
Disgraced energy firm
Period of work
Range below 28-Across
Half a bikini
Only "V" Monopoly avenue not named for a state
__ Joe's
Peace agreement
Song from the past
Chin-up muscle, briefly
Vampire tooth
Not of sound mind
"007" James
Kind of jet
"Huh!?"
Regret
The old college __
Giggle sound

 


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