I hope your Saturday is going great! Here are today’s answers to the LA Times Crossword puzzle as well as some fun facts and interesting trivia to keep you entertained.
Across Answers
1. Some legal cases ATTACHES
An attaché, in diplomatic terms, is an individual who is assigned or is a part of the administrative staff of someone who is higher in position of a certain agency or service.
9. Its results commonly fall between 70 and 130 IQ TEST
IQ stands for “Intelligence Quotient.” IQ tests are designed to assess one’s intelligence. THe results are divided by the individual’s age, then multiplied by a hundred.
15. Take inventory? SHOPLIFT
Tsk tsk…
16. Shade NUANCE
17. Nurturing MOTHERLY
18. Shilling spender KENYAN
The shilling is the country of Kenya’s currency, divisible into a hundred cents.
19. O or A, e.g. ALER
The Baltimore Orioles (O’s) and the Oakland Athletics (A’s)
20. Bottom topper TALC
Talc is the results of the metamorphism of serpentine, amphibole, and pyroxene, some types of magnesian minerals when mixed with water and carbon dioxide. Talc or talcum powder is used on skin to avoid the occurrence of skin rashesas well as other mild skin allergies or reactions.
22. Old-school lament EGADS
23. Discharged British soldier DEMOB
The term “demob” was used after World War II, when servicemen went through the process demobilisation by first being given the “demob suit,” a suit of civilian clothes to use in going back to their normal lives as civilians in the UK.
25. Electronic music genre TECHNO
27. Cologne article DER
Cologne is a city in Germany. And “der” is German for “the.”
29. Sign of summer LEO
30. Roxy Music alum ENO
Brian Eno won the Brit Award for British Producer in 1994, and th Frankfurt Music Prize also in the same year. Three years after that, he slipped on a wet street and got run over by a taxi.
33. Sirius B, for one WHITE DWARF STAR
The Sirius B is the nearest White dwarf star from the Earth. White dwarf stars are what stars become after its collapse, just before it becomes a black hole.
38. Food safety aid MEAT THERMOMETER
39. They included Chopin’s “Prelude in E Minor,” in a film title FIVE EASY PIECES
“Five Easy Pieces” was a movie directed and co-written by Bob Rafelson. Carole Eastman co-wrote it with him. It was shown in 1970 and starred a much younger, more handsome Jack Nicholson, who played the role of Bobby Dupea, who was a piano prodigy, but is employed as an oil rig worker. He finds out his father is dying, and he goes home and takes his girlfriend (who’s also pregnant) with him. Jack Nicholson won an Academy Award for best Actor in a Leading Role for this movie.
40. Princeton Review subj. GRE
GRE stands for Graduate Record Examination, a requirement to be let in to Graduate School.
41. MIT Sloan degree MBA
The MIT Sloan degree was named after MIT graduate and General Motors’ former chairman, Alfred Sloan.
42. Wheels CAR
43. Took in MISLED
46. Staircase support NEWEL
50. Arabic for “struggle” JIHAD
JIhad is a Muslim’s religious duty to go to holy war and spread or fight for their beliefs.
53. Salts TARS
55. “The Diana Chronicles” author Brown TINA
“The Diana Chronicles” was written by British journalist Tina Brown, who was also a good friend of Princess Diana. It was published in 2007.
56. Fulfills a need AVAILS
58. They get high on occasion SOPRANOS
60. More futile VAINER
61. Ring ENCIRCLE
62. Makes hot ANGERS
63. 2012, e.g. LEAP YEAR
A leap year would have 29 days in February. It happens every four years.
Down Answers
1. Equally hot AS MAD
2. Oarlock pin THOLE
A “thole” can be found in a boat. It is a wooden peg used in rowing, to serve as fulcrum while the oar is in motion.
3. Tribal emblem TOTEM
A Totem is a symbol or representation of a group of people. It’s usually in the form of a plant or an animal.
4. Venus counterpart APHRODITE
Aphrodite, in Greek mythology, is the goddess of procreation, pleasure, beauty, and love.
Venus is the goddess ofsex, fertility, beauty, and love to the Romans. Julius Caesar claims that she is one of his ancestors.
5. Indians’ home, on scoreboards CLE
The Cleveland Indians of Baseball
6. “Cotton Candy” musician HIRT
Al Hirt was a musician whose career spanned more than fifty years. He had a total of 21 Grammy nominations, and won in 1964 for “Java,” the best non-jazz instrumental.
7. Key for some clarinets E-FLAT
8. Panache STYLE
“Panache” is a French term which means flamboyant and reckless courage.
9. Newspaper supply INK
10. Nickname for Leona Helmsley QUEEN OF MEAN
Leona Helmsley was known for her tyrannical behavior as a businesswoman, which is why people call her “Queen of Mean”
11. Sierra follower, in the NATO alphabet TANGO
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mama November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo SIERRA TANGO Uniform Victor Whiskey X-ray Yankee Zulu
12. Singer born Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin ENYA
Enya is a singer-songwriter of Irish descent. She has had over seventy five million record sales worldwide, and is considered to be the best-selling solo artist of Ireland.
13. Whole lot SCAD
14. Place for an adder? TENS
21. Wood shop device C-CLAMP
C-clamps, also called G-clamps, are used to securely hold a metal or wood workpiece, in welding or carpentry.
24. Author of the children’s book “The Saga of Baby Divine” BETTE MIDLER
Bette Midler’s mom was a fan of Bette Davis, which is why she made her name’s last syllable unpronounced.
She is one of the most talented celebrities in Hollywood, which is what “The Saga Of Baby Divine” tells us. It is an illustrated children’s book 1st published in 1983.
26. Valiant HEROIC
28. Therapy goals REHABS
30. Major finale? -ETTE
31. Highland rejections NAES
32. Bruin great ORR
Bobby Orr was the best in defense which was why he won consecutive Norris trophies from the years 1968 to 1976.
33. Small dam WEIR
34. Eat HAVE
35. Make potable, as seawater DESALT
36. Like some humor WRY
37. Cabinet part SECRETARY
38. Plant activity: Abbr. MFG
A plant’s function is to manufacture certain products. MFG is the abbreviation of “manufacturing.”
43. Bates College locale MAINE
Bates College, founded in 1855, is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine.
44. Oil holder EASEL
45. Go (on) dully DRONE
47. Recoil WINCE
48. Name on a WWII flier ENOLA
The Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, is a B029 bomber which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. It was named after the pilot’s mother.
49. Surgery tool LASER
50. Language of software engineers JAVA
51. Novelist Turgenev IVAN
Ivan Turgenev was a novelist, a playwright, and a short story writer from Russia.
52. White House chief of staff after Haldeman HAIG
Alexander Haig was the chief of staff of President Ronal Reagan. He was a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam war. He died on 2010 at the age of 85 due to complications from staphylococcal infection.
54. Humane org. SPCA
SPCA stands for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It was founded in 1824 in England.
57. Yearbook sect. SRS
Srs is the abbreviation for “Seniors.”
59. Criticize RIP
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