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5 days ago · May 24, 2024. Welcome to the free mini crossword puzzles by the Los Angeles Times. Follow the clues and attempt to fill in all the puzzle’s squares. Check back each day for a new...
Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle. by Joyce Nichols Lewis and Patti Varol. One of the most entertaining puzzles around, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle offers a broad range of vocabulary and cultural clues, along with a sprinkling of humor and wordplay. (Level of Difficulty: 4 on a scale of 1-5)
One of the most entertaining puzzles around, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle offers a broad range of vocabulary and cultural clues, along with a sprinkling of humor and...
- 6 “Get Outta Here!” : Scat!
- 10 Box Office Receipts : Gate
- 19 Head Lights? : Halos
- 23 Park place? : Commuter Lot
- 25 Busy place? : Bee Colony
- 28 Hangout For Hog Lovers : Biker Bar
- 33 to Be, in Marseilles : Etre
- 36 Hailed Wheels : Cabs
- 39 First place? : Garden of Eden
- 43 “Barefoot Contessa” Host Garten : Ina
Our word “scat!” means “get lost!” It comes from a 19th-century expression “quicker than s’cat”, which meant “in a great hurry”. The original phrase probably came from the words “hiss” and “cat”.
The term “box office” may date back to Shakespearean times. In those days long past, patrons would deposit fees for seeing theater performances in boxes. The full boxes would be collected and placed in an office called, imaginatively enough, the “box office”.
The Greek word “halos” is the name given to the ring of light around the sun or moon, which gives us our word “halo” that is used for a radiant light depicted above the head of a saintly person.
Our verb “to commute”, meaning “to go back and forth to work”, ultimately derives from the Latin “commutare”, meaning “to often change”. Back in the late 1800s, a “commutation ticket” was a season pass, so named because it allowed one to “change” one kind of payment into another. Quite interesting …
A simile is a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two things that are unalike. For example, a person might be described as “cute as a kitten” or as “busy as a bee”.
The Harley-Davidson motorcycle company was founded in the very early 1900s by two childhood friends, William Harley and Arthur Davidson, . Their first design was in effect an engine hooked up to a pedal bicycle, but the 116 cc cylinder capacity simply couldn’t generate enough power to get up the hills of their native city of Milwaukee. The pair cam...
Marseille (often written “Marseilles” in English) is the second largest city in France, after Paris. Marseille is also the largest commercial port in the country. I used to live nearby, and can attest that Marseille and environs is a great place to visit …
A hansom cab is a very specific design of horse and buggy that was patented by Joseph Hansom in 1834 in England. The “cab” in the name is short for “cabriolet”, an earlier design of carriage on which the hansom was based. It’s from “hansom cab” that we get our modern term “cab”.
According to the Book of Genesis, Adam and Eve lived in a garden “in” Eden, with Eden being geographically located by reference to four rivers, including the Tigris and the Euphrates. Some scholars hypothesize that Eden was located in Mesopotamia, which encompasses much of modern-day Iraq.
Ina Garten is an author as well as the host of a cooking show on the Food Network called “Barefoot Contessa”. She is a mentee of Martha Stewart, and indeed was touted as a potential “successor” to the TV celebrity when Stewart was incarcerated in 2004 after an insider trading scandal. Garten has no formal training as a chef, and indeed used to work...
The Los Angeles Times crosswords are one of the most played crossword puzzles in the world. It tends to be significantly more challenging than other crosswords. Sylvia Bursztyn creator of the Los Angeles Times Crossword. Bursztyn collaborated with her puzzle partner Barry Tunick on The Times’ word game from April 1980 until his death in 2007 ...
Nov 27, 2022 · LA Times Crossword 27 Nov 22, Sunday - LAXCrossword.com. Advertisement. Constructed by: Katie Hale. Edited by: Patti Varol. Today’s Theme: Let It Go. Themed answers each start with a preposition. And, when we LET GO of the ending noun of each themed answer, we arrive at a common phrase: 23A Ready to move on from reading Beat poetry?
