LA Times Crossword 31, March 22, Thursday - LAXCrossword.com (2023)

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1 day __: SPA

The word "spa" migrated into English from Belgium, as "spa" is the name of a community in the eastern part of the country known for its healing hot springs. The name "Spa" comes from the Walloon word "espa" and means "spring, fountain".

4-door support: JAMB

A door frame or window frame is the vertical part of the frame. The term "jamb" comes from the French word "jambe" and means "leg".

14 China shop threat: OAF

The idiom "like a bull in a china shop" has been around since the early 19th century.

15 Nebraskan Natives: OTOE

Nebraska gets its name from the Platte River, which runs through the state. "Nebraska" is an Anglicized version of the words Otoe and Omaha meaning "shallow water".

16 Newcomer: ROOKIE

The term rookie, used of a raw recruit, first appears in Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, a collection of songs and poems originally published in 1892.

17 Red caterpillar, perhaps: ANT

Fire ants are stinging ants, and many species are referred to as red ants. Most stinging ants bite their prey and then spray acid on the wound. However, the fire ant bites to hold on and then injects an alkaloid poison from its abdomen, which causes a burning sensation in people who have been stung.

Only 24 __: Reserved Sale: ONCE

A warning is a warning or warning. "Caution" is the Latin word for "be on your guard".

32 Modern source of cash: ATM

automatic teller machine (ATM)

36 Back-nine opens: TENTH

There is an urban myth that the standard number of holes on a golf course is 18 because it takes 18 strokes to refine a fifth of Scotch whisky. However, the truth is that the standard number of holes on the St Andrews Old Course in Scotland has settled over time at 18 and this standard has been adopted worldwide.

38 Bezirk Jackson Hole: TETON

Jackson Hole is the name of a beautiful valley in Wyoming that lies between the Teton and Gros Ventre Ranges. The name "Jackson Hole" is also used locally for the valley town of Jackson.

41 Salem's Los?: Abbreviation : ERZ

The Oregon Treaty of 1846 settled a dispute between the United States and the United Kingdom over Oregon's land sovereignty. "The Oregon Country" was the name Americans gave to a large tract of land west of the Rocky Mountains. The same disputed land was named Columbia Department by the British. Oregon became a US state in 1859.

Salem is the state capital of Oregon. It is believed that the city takes its name from the older town of Salem, Massachusetts.

42 Frottage artist Max : SERIOUS

Max Ernst was a painter and sculptor and a pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. Ernst was born near Cologne in Germany in 1891 and, like most young German men at the time, was called up to fight in the First World War. In his autobiography he writes: "Max Ernst died on 1 August 1914", which was a statement about his wartime experiences. In reality, Ernst died in 1976 at the advanced age of 85.

Frottage is an artistic technique developed by Max Ernst. This is basically the same technique as brass rubbing, in that it involves placing a piece of paper on an uneven surface and 'gathering' an image of the surface by rubbing a pencil or pastel across the paper. The term "Frottage" is French and means "to rub".

52 The aptly named "Music From Big Pink" group: THE BAND

The band was a rock band formed in Toronto in 1967, consisting of four Canadians and one American. Dubbed The Hawks, the group acted as a backup band for Bob Dylan when he toured America in 1965 and the world in 1966. In 1968, they changed their name to the Band and began recording as their own band. However, they continued to work with Dylan over the years and toured together in 1974. The band's most famous recording is probably their 1969 release The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

57 Challenge commercialized by cartographer John Spilsbury around 1760: JIGSAW PUSZLE

John Spilsbury was an English cartographer best known for inventing jigsaw puzzles. Spilsbury's puzzle was cards set on wood, which were carved country by country. They were intended for educational purposes.

61 Novelist Graham: GREEN

Graham Greene was an English novelist and playwright. Greene has written some of my favorite novels, including Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, The Confidential Agent, The Quiet American, and Our Man in Havana. Greene's books often deal with espionage in exotic locations. Greene himself worked for MI6, the British foreign intelligence service. In fact, Greene's MI6 superior was Kim Philby, the famous Soviet spy who penetrated deep into British intelligence.

64 Sky High Stunt: LOOP

An aerobatic loop occurs when an aircraft transitions into a vertical climb and then continues to pull until it is upside down and flying level. The loop continues with a downward dive, where the aircraft straightens up again in the horizontal plane. The end result is a 360 degree rotation in the vertical plane.

66 Amazon delivery: PACKAGE

Amazon.com is the largest online retailer in the world. It is also the world's largest Internet company by revenue. The company was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in his garage in Bellevue, Washington. I'm a big fan of Amazon's customer service approach…

68 PC rescue button: ESC

The escape key (Esc) was originally used only to control computer equipment. It was a button that allowed the computer operator to stop the external device from functioning (eg cancel a print job). Nowadays, the escape key is used for all kinds of things, especially in game programs.

71 Faithful sells: CHE

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was born in Argentina and began studying medicine at the University of Buenos Aires in 1948. While in school, he fulfilled his need to "see the world" by making two long journeys through South America, the history of which is told in Guevara's memoirs, later published as The Motorcycle Diaries. On the journey, Guevara was moved by the plight of the people he saw, their working conditions and what he saw as capitalist exploitation. In Mexico City, he met the brothers Raúl and Fidel Castro and was persuaded to join their cause to overthrow the US-backed government in Cuba. He rose to become second in command of the Cuban rebels, and when Castro came to power, Guevara was instrumental in repelling the invasion of the Bay of Pigs and delivering Soviet nuclear missiles to the island. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to continue his work as a revolutionary. He was captured and executed by Bolivian forces in 1967. Fidel Castro led public mourning over Guevara's death, and before long the revolutionary was an icon for many left-wing movements around the world.

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2 types of button or space: PANIC

In Greek mythology, Pan was a lustful god who fell in love with Echo, the mountain nymph. Echo rejected Pan's advances, angering him greatly. Pan's anger caused a "panic" (a word derived from the name "Pan") and a group of shepherds were driven to kill Echo.

4 Margaret fra „The Real Housewives of New Jersey“: JOSEPHS

The reality television franchise The Real Housewives is incredibly successful and far-reaching. The original show was The Real Housewives of Orange County, which aired in 2006. Just a few of the many, many versions of the show are:

• "The Real Housewives of New Jersey"
• "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City"
• "The Real Housewives of Dubai"
• "The Real Housewives of Sydney" (Australien)
• "Dublin Wives" (Irland)
• "The Real Housewives of Jersey" (Storbritannien)
• "The Real Housewives" (France)
• "The Real Housewives of Toronto" (Kanada)

5 Run __: A TAB

When we create a "tab" in a bar, we create a "table", a list of our debts. One such use of "loss" is American slang originating in the 1880s.

6 "Holy __!" : MOLY

The mild profanity "Holy Moly!" is a euphemism for "Holy Moses!"

9 Doom for Narcissus: SETTING

Narcissus was a proud and vain hunter in Greek mythology. He got his death sentence by falling in love with his own reflection in a pool. He was so absorbed in his own image that he could not leave it and withered away and died by the pool. Narcissism gives us the term "narcissism", which means "excessive self-love".

10 "Gigi" - Roman forfatter: COLETTE

French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's best-known work is Gigi, the source material for the wonderful film starring Leslie Caron. The novel that made Colette famous was published in 1920 under the title Cheri. "Gigi" followed much later, in 1944. "Cheri" was adapted into a screen version starring Michelle Pfeiffer. Colette led a very colorful life. She had three marriages, an affair with her stepson and many affairs with other women.

11 Typical four-stringed instrument: UKE

The ukulele (ukulele) originated in the 19th century, imitating a small guitar brought to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese immigrants.

12 peach center: PIT

There are two broad categories of peaches: Freestones and Clingstones. Sticky Peaches (also "sticky peaches") have flesh that sticks well to the stone. Freestones are easier to ingest because the pulp is easily separated from the pit.

21 Crow's cry: CAW

Ravens and crows are very similar species and it can be difficult to tell them apart. Ravens are slightly larger and often travel in pairs, while crows are slightly smaller and are usually seen in larger groups. Crows make a cawing sound, while the raven's call is more like a caw.

25 "__ for you": Dylan's song to his first wife: IF NOT

"If Not for You" is a 1970 recording by Bob Dylan that he wrote as a love song to his first wife, Sara Dylan.

26 British Bishop's Headdress: MITER

A miter (also "mitre") is a traditional headgear worn by bishops in some Christian traditions. The term "mitre" comes from a Greek word for "headband, turban".

27 "I Love Lucy"-Rolle: ETHEL

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz play Lucy and Ricky Ricardo on the hit TV show I Love Lucy. The Ricardos' best friends are also their landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz. The Mertzes are played by William Frawley and Vivian Vance.

30 Matching adjective for Stuart Little: WEE

Stuart Little is a children's novel published in 1945. Written by E.B. White, it was his first children's book. The title character is a human boy from New York City who is only two centimeters tall and looks like a mouse.

32 CIA employees: AGENT

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was created during World War II. The CIA was created by the National Security Act of 1947. The organization is often popularly referred to as "the Corporation".

33 Synagogenrolle: TORAH

Traditionally, the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, is believed to have been written by Moses. Therefore, they are sometimes referred to as the Law of Moses or the Law of Moses. These five books are:

• Bereshit / Genesis
• Shemot/Exodus
• Vayikra/3. Mose
• Bamidbar/tal
• Devarim/Deuteronomium

34 Three Card Con: MONTE

Three-card monte is a confidence trick where someone is encouraged to bet money on the assumption that he or she can find the "money card" (usually a queen) among three face down. The "Mark" being cheated has every opportunity to lose, and there are usually several people involved in the cheating, including other players who appear to be winning.

40 prefix with binary value: NOT-

The non-binary (NB, enbie) spectrum of gender identities includes those who are not considered exclusively male or female.

49 Marx co-author: ENGELS

Friedrich Engels was a German political theorist who worked closely with Karl Marx to develop what became known as Marxist theory. He co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Marx in 1848 and later helped Marx publish Das Kapital.

50s-60s protest GP. : safety data sheet

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was an activist group in the 1960s. SDS organized the largest student strike in American history on April 26, 1968, leaving about one million students absent from classes that day. The name "Students for a Democratic Society" was revived in 2006 with the formation of a new US-based student organization with leftist beliefs. Today's SDS was founded by two high school students from Greenwich Village, New York.

54 Montezuma trailer: AZTEC

Montezuma I and Montezuma II were Aztec emperors. Montezuma II was the ninth Aztec emperor who ruled from 1502 to 1520. He was the leader of the Aztec Empire when the Spanish first made contact and began conquering Mexico. Montezuma II was killed in a battle with the Spanish, although the details of his death are not clear.

58 Dozens and dozens: MANY

Our word "dozen" is used for a group of twelve people. We imported it from Old French into English. The modern French word for "twelve" is "douze" and for "dozen" is "douzaine".

60 The thinker has an iconic one: POSE

Rodin's famous sculpture "The Thinker" has been reproduced many times. Rodin's original version of The Thinker is actually a detail of a much larger work called The Gates of Hell. The original plaster version of The Gates of Hell can be seen in the magnificent Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

61 Travel help, in short: GPS

A Global Positioning System (GPS) is known in the UK and Ireland as a Satellite Navigation System (Sat Nav).

63 Time Capsule Time: ERA

A time capsule is a container of items chosen to help someone in the future understand the society at the time the container was sealed. Although time capsules have been around since at least the 18th century, the term "time capsules" was not coined until 1938.