LA Times Crossword 12 February 23, Sunday - LAXCrossword.com (2023)

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1 Printer supply: INK

Four-color printing uses four different colored inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Black ink is also known as the "key". The first letter of the colors (black being the "key") gives the most common name for four-color printing, which is CMYK.

7 __ Fresh: cadena Fast-Casual Tex-Mex: BAJA

Baja Fresh is a Tex-Mex restaurant chain based in Irvine, California. The first Baja Fresh store opened in 1990 in Newbury Park, California. There are now over 200 franchise companies across the country.

22 Cheap Digs: POTSHOTS

When firing a weapon, a "random shot" is a "shot" made solely to get the loot into the "pot" for cooking. The term "chance shot" was coined in the 1830s, and as such distinguishes between a shot fired for sport or marksmanship and a shot fired while hunting.

25 Selected during Duck, Duck, Goose, say: TAPPED ON

"Duck, duck, goose" is a no-brainer, and honestly, I haven't heard of one outside of crossword puzzles...

29 Foul: SANS

In French, avec (with) and sans (without) are opposites.

32 Actor Carell: STEVE

Actor Steve Carell has achieved great success on both television and film. On the small screen, Carell rose to fame on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and later as the lead in the US version of The Office. On the big screen, he starred in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Evan Almighty. Personally, my favorite Carell movie is 2007's Dan in Real Life, in which he stars alongside the wonderful Juliette Binoche.

36 Designer Initials: DKNY

Donna Karan is an American fashion designer, creator of the clothing brand Donna Karan New York (DKNY). Karan grew up in the fashion industry as her mother was a model and her stepfather was a tailor.

39 PBS-Maler Bob: ROSS

Bob Ross was an artist and art teacher. Ross created and appeared on the long-running PBS show The Joy of Painting, a show that provided instruction to budding artists. He was known for some colorful phrases that he loved to repeat on screen, one of the most famous being "Let's add some happy little trees".

41 Kiosk at some wedding receptions: PHOTO BOOTH

Our word kiosk comes from French and Turkish from Persian kushk, which means palace, portico.

47 Vellani, the Kamala Khan in „Ms. Staunen”: WHAT

Iman Vellani is a Pakistani-born Canadian actress best known for playing the title character (also known as Kamala Khan) in the superhero miniseries Ms. Wonder."

49 People of the Great Plains: OTOE

The Native American Otoe (also "Oto") tribe originally came from the Great Lakes region as part of the Winnebago or Siouan tribes. The group that would become the Otoe broke away from Winnebago and migrated southwest, eventually ending up on the Great Plains. On the plains, the Otoe adopted a semi-nomadic horse-dependent lifestyle, with American bison becoming a central part of their diet.

The Great Plains are located between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains in North America. These vast grasslands are known as "Prairies" in Canada.

March 57 Family Creator: ALCOTT

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott. The Little Women quartet consists of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March. Jo is a tomboy, the main character of the story, and she is based on Alcott himself.

58 Theatrekulisse: SCRIM

"Scrim" is the name given to the transparent cloth that hangs over the stage of a theater. It is often used with special lighting for various effects.

59 Forum administrator: MOD

Moderation (mod)

61 River near the Great Pyramid: NILE

Depending on the definition, the Nile is generally considered the longest river on earth. The Nile is made up of two main tributaries, the White Nile and the Blue Nile, which join near Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. From Khartoum, the Nile flows north, flowing almost entirely through the desert, making it a central part of life for those who live along its length.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world, yet it is the only one of the wonders that is essentially intact today. Egyptologists believe that the structure took ten to twenty years to complete and that it dates to around 2560 BC. BC. The Great Pyramid of Giza was the world's tallest man-made structure for nearly 3,900 years, until it was surpassed by Lincoln Cathedral in England in 1311 AD.

64 „Ben-__“ : HERE

Charlton Heston's famous 1959 film Ben-Hur is a dramatization of a book published in 1880 by Lew Wallace entitled Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ. The epic 1959 film won a record 11 Academy Awards, a feat equaled but never surpassed since. The other winners of 11 Oscars are Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Rings (2003).

66 The Kenan Thompson Show Short: SNL

Kenan Thompson is an actor and comedian perhaps best known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL), who joined the show in 2003. Thompson holds the record for the most celebrity impressions on SNL, with over a hundred. He is also the longest-serving cast member in the show's history.

72 Tuba Sound: PAH!

The tuba is the lowest of all brass instruments and is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra (there is usually only one tuba in an orchestra). "Tuba" is the Latin word for "trumpet, horn." Oom-pah-pah…

80 Painter Magritte: PURE

Belgian artist René Magritte was a surrealist. His most famous work is The Son of Man, a painting he created as a self-portrait. It is the work that represents a man with a bowler hat, his face obscured by an apple. The image figures prominently in a great movie, the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.

81 Red "Barry": HBO

"Barry" is a dark television series starring Bill Hader as an Ohio hit man who questions his life as a criminal. Veteran actor Henry Winkler plays an award-winning supporting role as the teacher of an acting class that the killer joins.

82 "The Naked Chef" Koch Oliver: JAMIE

Jamie Oliver is a celebrity chef from England who is the author of several best-selling cookbooks, including Jamie's Kitchen, Jamie's Dinners, and Jamie's America. Oliver has also been known as the Naked Chef since he filmed his first TV show in the late 90s. The show's title "The Naked Chef" refers to the simplicity of Oliver's recipes and not a lifestyle choice. ...

84 pop singer Britney: SPEARS

Britney Spears was the best-selling artist of the first decade of the 21st century. In recent years, Spears has not only attracted public attention through her performances as a musician. Against her will, she was placed in the care of her father and a lawyer in 2008 out of concern for her mental well-being. Originally intended for days, the conservatory was extended to months and then made permanent. A social movement to "release" Britney from the conservatory began in 2019 and a court granted termination of the agreement in 2021.

87 Staley Da Bear, First: FOOTBALL MASCOT

Staley Da Bear is the mascot of the Chicago Bears NFL team. He takes his name from A.E. Staley, the man who founded the team in 1919.

90 mosaic pieces: TESSERA

A tile is a single tile used to create a mosaic. Tiles are usually cube-shaped.

In the Middle Ages, mosaics were often dedicated to the muses. The term "mosaic" means "of the muses".

92 Escritor Silverstein: SHEL

Author Shel Silverstein had a varied career and did much more than write books. She was a poet, composer, cartoonist and screenwriter, among other things. One of her most successful children's books is A Light in the Attic, a collection of poems first published in 1981. Some parents have tried to ban the book from libraries. The collection includes the poem How not to have to dry the dishes, which she calls for disobedience and disorder. Scandalous...

93 banana peel: Peel

Botanically, the banana is actually a berry. And bananas don't actually grow on trees. The "stem" of the banana plant is actually a pseudo-stem. The pseudostem is a false stem composed of rolled leaf bases and can grow up to 2-3 meters in height.

99 Tolkien-Series, and die fans: LOTR

J.R.R.'s novel Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) consists of three volumes:

• "The Fellowship of the Ring"
• "The two Towers"
• "The return of the King"

100 Lauder Cosmetics: ESTEE

Estée Lauder was a very successful businesswoman and someone with an excellent reputation as a salesperson. Lauder introduced her own fragrance line in 1953, a bath oil called "Youth Dew." "Youth Dew" was marketed as a perfume but added to bath water. Suddenly, women were pouring entire bottles of Mrs. Lauder's "perfume" into their bathrooms while wearing just a drop or two of French perfume behind their ears. That's a big difference in sales volume...

101 Standing Rock Gente: LAKOTA

The Standing Rock Reservation straddles the border between South and North Dakota and is home to many Lakota Native Americans.

112 Gilda, who won an Emmy for 66-Across: RADNER

Gene Wilder was an actor known for his comedic roles. Wilder had a successful collaboration with Mel Brooks on three big movies: The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and my favorite Young Frankenstein. Wilder dated his Young Frankenstein co-star Teri Garr for a while, but was primarily married to Saturday Night Live star Gilda Radner.

116 Documentary photographer Lange: DOROTHEA

Dorothea Lange was a great photographer, famous for the images she created during the Great Depression. Long's most famous photo is the beautiful "Migrant Mother," taken in 1936.

120 Slow Tree Dweller: TWO-TOED SLOT

The four extant species of three-toed sloths are native to South and Central America. Cousins ​​of the three-toed sloths are the two-toed sloths, of which two species remain.

122 high-stakes situations on the playing field and an eight-length puzzle answer function: DOUBLE OT

Growing up in Ireland, we never used the word 'gridiron' (meaning a grill used to cook food over an open fire). Perhaps my apologies for living in the US for two decades to discover that the grid on a football field is so named because the layout of the yard lines along the field looks like a grid used for cooking.

126 Fitbit Unit: STEP

Fitbits are wearable activity trackers primarily used to track the number of steps taken, though more features have been added over time. A Fitbit has even been used as evidence in at least one murder case. A Connecticut man claimed a robber shot his wife. Police used data from the woman's Fitbit to refute the man's story, eventually charging him with murder.

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1 frase: IN RE

The term "in re" is Latin and is derived from "in" (in) and "res" (thing, matter). "In re" literally means "in the matter" and is used to mean "in relation to" or "in the matter of".

2 meal and exercise tracker app: NOOM

Noom is an app used to help with weight loss by tracking food intake and providing behavior change guidance related to eating and exercise.

4 Renée __ Goldsberry de "Girls5eva": ELISE

Renée Elise Goldsberry is an actress and singer best known for playing lawyer Geneva Pine on the television show The Good Wife. Goldsberry also originated the role of Angelica Schuyler Church in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton.

7 Ecological Communities: BIOMES

I tend to think of biome as another word for ecosystem.

10 __ of the Lord: ANN

The terms Anno Domini (AD, "Year of Our Lord") and Before Christ (BC) are found in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The dividing point between AD and BC is the year of Jesus' conception, advancing from 1 AD. to 1 B.C. follows, without a "0" year in between. The AD/BC scheme dates back to 525 AD. and gained wide acceptance shortly after A.D. 800. Today a modified version has become popular, using CE (Common/Christian Era) to replace AD ​​and BCE (Before Common/Christian Era). ) used to replace BC.

13 Longtime NASCAR Sponsor: STP

STP is a brand of automotive lubricants and additives. The name "STP" is an acronym that stands for "Scientifically Treated Petroleum."

14 Supervision? : ENG

The so-called sixth sense is extrasensory perception (ESP). Also known as second sight.

17 School near Windsor: ETON

The world famous Eton College is just a short walk from Windsor Castle, which is located on the outskirts of London. Eton is known for producing many British leaders, including Prime Ministers David Cameron and Boris Johnson. The list of Old Etonians also includes Princes William and Harry, the Duke of Wellington and George Orwell. Author Ian Fleming was also an Eton student, as was Fleming's iconic character, James Bond, although 007 was expelled from the school.

18 Ebd. ID: SSNS

The primary purpose of a Social Security Number (SSN) is to track people for tax purposes, although given its ubiquitous use, it's starting to look more like an identity number to me. The Social Security number system was introduced in 1936. Before 1986, a Social Security number was only required for those with substantial income, so many children under the age of 14 were not assigned a number. For several years, the IRS was concerned that many people claimed children on their tax returns who did not actually exist. Beginning in 1986, the IRS made it mandatory for all dependents age 5 and older to obtain a Social Security number. In fact, in 1987 seven million family members "disappeared." Today, a social security number is required for a child of any age to receive a tax exemption.

24 camisetas semi-oxidized: OOLONGS

The name of the Chinese tea called "Oolong" means "black dragon" or "dark dragon".

33 Arrivals "Arrivals" : STD

2016's Arrival is a highly entertaining sci-fi movie based on a short story by Ted Chiang called Story of Your Life. Amy Adams plays a linguist who must communicate with aliens that have come to Earth.

34 Cast a vote: VOTED

Today, a ballot is a piece of paper or something equivalent that is used to cast a vote. In the 15th century, a "ballot" was a small "ball" used for voting.

35 Member of a TikTok subculture: E-BOY

E-girls and e-boys (perhaps "e-kids") can spend a lot of time on social media, especially TikTok, hence the use of the "e-" prefix.

36 __ Alternative: DALAI

The Dalai Lama is a religious leader in the Gelug branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The current Dalai Lama is the 14th in office. He has hinted that the next Dalai Lama could be outside of Tibet for the first time and could even be a woman.

37 squats: kneeling

Our verb "to genuflect" means "to bow the knee in worship." The term comes from French from the Latin "genu" for "knee" and "flectere" for "to bend".

41 Creation of Audre Lorde: POEM

Audre Lorde was an American feminist author and civil rights activist who spent many years in Germany. She held a visiting professorship at the Freie Universität Berlin and in this position she became a leading figure in the Afro-German movement.

43 K.T. der Country-Musik: OSLIN

The singer K.T. Oslin is best known for her country hits from the 1980s.

44 government. Security: T-BILL

A Treasury note (T-note) is a government bond that matures in 1-10 years. A T-Note pays one coupon (interest) every six months. The T-Note is purchased at a discount to face value and is redeemable on the Maturity Date at that face value. A Treasury Bill (T-Bill) is a similar financial instrument, but it matures in one year or less, and a T-Bond matures in 20-30 years.

45 Jekyll's Counterpart: HYDE

Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Curious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' was published in 1886. There are many stories surrounding the writing of the story, including that the author wrote the basic story in only three to six days and spent a few weeks just perfecting it. Supposedly, Stevenson's use of cocaine stimulated his creative juices during those few days of writing.

54 Earth colour: OCHER

Ocher is a light yellowish-brown color, although variations of the pigment are possible, such as B. red ocher and violet ocher. "Ocher" is usually spelled "ocher" across the pond.

60 Ministry of Labor Div.: OSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

65 Richter Sotomayor: SONIA

Sonia Sotomayor was the first Hispanic justice appointed to the United States Supreme Court and the third female justice. Sotomayor was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Judge David Souter, who has resigned.

69 Blogging platform in brief: TUMBLR

Tumblr.com is a website that primarily hosts personal blogs. The name "Tumblr" comes from "tumblelog," a word coined in 2005 to describe microblogging. I guess a micro blog could be considered a quick and dirty blog where words fall on the screen in a stream of consciousness.

71 Mountainous Asian Republic: NEPAL

Nepal is northeast of India. Today the state is known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. In 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal won the country's parliamentary elections. Soon after, the Assembly voted to change the form of government, moving away from a monarchy and creating a secular republic.

72 Pequod co-owner: peleg

The Pequod is the whaling ship featured in Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick. The ship is owned by a consortium of Nantucket Island citizens, including Captains Ahab, Bildad, and Peleg.

77 Dive sheet: Nacho

The dish known as "nachos" was reportedly created by the maitre d' at a restaurant called Victory Club in the town of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. The name of the Maitre d' was Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya.

78 Stream Swimmers: TROUT

Trout is a freshwater fish closely related to char and salmon. Most trout live exclusively in freshwater lakes and rivers, but some species live in the ocean and return to freshwater to spawn.

79 Mixer Brand: OSTER

The Oster brand of small appliances was introduced in 1924 by John Oster. It began by making manual hair clippers for trimming women's hair, followed by a motorized version in 1928. Hair clippers kept the company in business until 1946, when Oster branched out, purchasing a manufacturer of liquefaction mixers in 1946. . The mixer was renamed the "Osterizer" and was a great success. Oster was bought by Sunbeam, which had owned the brand since the 1960s.

Flour Flatbread 80 Atta : ROTI

Atta is a whole wheat flour used in South Asian cooking to make flatbreads like chapati and naan. "Atta" is the Hindi or Urdu word for "dough".

81 Deli subs: ON HOLD

A hero is a submarine sandwich. It originated in 18th century New York City among Italian immigrants who wanted an Italian sandwich that would remind them of their homeland. The name "hero" was reportedly coined by a restaurant critic in the New York Herald Tribune in the 1930s, when he wrote that "you have to be a hero" to eat the giant sandwich. Hero is still a widely used term in New York City today, reserved for an Italian-flavored submarine sandwich.

82 LEWIS CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: JOHN

John Lewis was a civil rights activist and a prominent leader in the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Lewis also suffered a fractured skull while leading the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on Bloody Sunday. Lewis was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1987 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2011. Lewis died in 2020.

83 Museum of Madrid: EL PRADO

The Prado Museum is located in Madrid, the capital of Spain, and has one of the best art collections in the world. The most famous work in the gallery is Las Meninas by Velázquez.

Madrid is the most populous city in Spain and the capital of the country. It is very close to the geographic center of the country. Madrid is the second largest city in the European Union after Berlin. Madrileños called themselves Madrileños.

86 __ Group: GEN

The set of all genes in a given population is known as a "gene pool," a term coined in Russian by geneticist Aleksandr Sergeevich Serebrovskii in the 1920s. In general, the larger the gene pool, the more diverse and robust it is. the population.

88 variedad of sauce: WICKER

Most willows (trees and shrubs in the genus Salix) are called "willows" just like that. Some of the broadleaf shrub varieties are known as "pale" and the narrowleaf shrubs as "willows". Wicker is commonly used in basketry because wicker is very flexible. Strong and flexible willow trunks are sometimes called osiers.

89 Onion Relationship: LEEKS

The leek is a vegetable closely related to onion and garlic. It's also a national emblem of Wales (along with the daffodil), although I don't think we know exactly how it came to be. One story says that the Welsh were ordered to wear leeks on their helmets to identify themselves in battle against the Saxons. The battle apparently took place in a leek field.

91 NFL Passing Stats: ATT

In football, the performance of a quarterback (QB) can be measured by attempts (ATT), a statistic (stat).

96 Three-faced Greek Goddess: HECATE

Hecate (sometimes "Hecate") was a three-faced goddess in Greek and Roman tradition. She has been associated with many phenomena, including magic and witchcraft.

102 Surgeon, informally: O DOC

An operating room (OP) is used to perform an operation (surgery).

104 Icelandic classic saga: EDDA

The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda are two ancient works that are the source of much of Norse mythology. Both Eddas were written in 13th century Iceland.

106 Champagne selection : BRUT

Sparkling wines can be classified according to their sweetness. These classifications are, from driest to sweetest:

• brutal nature
• ugly
• Brutal
• extra dry
• Seco
• medium dry
• Dulce

111 Browser-Flavor: HOME

A web browser is software used to access the World Wide Web. The first web browser was called "WorldWideWeb" and was invented in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. The browser known as Mosaic appeared in 1993 and it was this browser that aroused so much interest on the World Wide Web and indeed the Internet in general. Marc Andreessen led the team that created Mosaic and later founded his own company called Netscape. Netscape developed the Netscape Navigator browser, which continued to popularize the use of the web from 1994 onwards. Microsoft responded by releasing Internet Explorer in 1995, starting the so-called "browser wars," a war Microsoft clearly won. When Netscape failed, the company launched the Mozilla open source project, which eventually led to the Firefox browser. Apple then released its own Safari browser in 2003. Google's Chrome browser, released in 2008, is by far the most popular way to view the web today.

113 „Hex __“: Tomie dePaola Caldecott Ehrenbuch: NONA

Strega Nona is an illustrated children's book by Tomie dePaola, first published in 1975. The title character is a sort of witch doctor living in southern Italy. "Strega Nona" translated from broken Italian means "witch grandmother."

The Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the "most important American children's picture book" of the previous year. The first year of the award was 1938. The medal is named after British artist and illustrator Randolph Caldecott. In 2009, the award structure was adjusted so that runners-up selected for the medal would receive Caldecott Honor Books status.

115 Matthew of The Americans: RHYS

Welsh actor Matthew Rhys landed his breakout role as Kevin Walker in the television drama Brothers & Sisters from 2006 to 2011. He gained even more recognition as a co-star with Philip Jennings in the acclaimed spy drama series The Americans, which ran from 2013 to 2018. Rhys began dating his The Americans co-star Keri Russell in 2014. The couple had a son in 2016 and refer to each other as husband and wife.

"The Americans" is a very gripping drama series set during the Cold War, in which two KGB spies work as a married couple on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. life. The program was created by Joe Weisberg, a novelist and former CIA officer. The lead roles in The Americans are played by real-life couple Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.

117 treats, kurz: TLC

Tender Loving Care (TLC)

The verb "to pamper," meaning "to treat tenderly," was coined by Jane Austen in her 1815 novel Emma. This is at least the earliest written record we have of the verb's use. John Knightley (George Knightley's younger brother) addresses his wife Isabella (Emma Woodhouse's older sister) with the following words:

"My dear Isabella," he called hastily, "please don't worry about my appearance. Be content to pamper yourself and the children and let me see how I do it."

121 Clean Air Act org. : EPA

The Clean Air Act of 1963 is administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).