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LA Times Crossword 26 Oct 22, Wednesday

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Constructed by: Baylee Devereaux
Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Theme (in line with Bill): The Wrong Job, One Might Say

Themed solutions are professions clued with descriptions of a special job:

  • 16A Receptionist at a high-rise resort, one would possibly say : STORY TELLER
  • 22A Instagram influencer, one would possibly say : SOCIAL WORKER
  • 37A Bartender pouring a collection of craft beers for tasting, one would possibly say : FLIGHT ATTENDANT
  • 48A Pathological liar, one would possibly say : MAKEUP ARTIST
  • 59A Audiophile with an in depth assortment of membership mixes, one would possibly say : HOUSE KEEPER

Read on, or soar to …
… an entire record of solutions

Bill’s time: 6m 27s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

Across

1 Homes in Honduras : CASAS

Honduras is a rustic in Central America that was once referred to as Spanish Honduras, with the intention to differentiate it from British Honduras that’s now known as Belize. “Honduras” is the Spanish phrase for “the depths”, which might be a reference to deep coastal waters.

6 “Let’s put a smile on your plate” breakfast chain : IHOP

The International House of Pancakes (IHOP) was based again in 1958. IHOP was initially meant to be known as IHOE, the International House of Eggs, however that identify didn’t do too nicely in advertising and marketing exams.

13 Like a brand-new candle : UNLIT

Our time period “candle” in the end comes from the Latin verb “candere” that means “to shine”.

14 __ drum : SNARE

Snare drums are so known as as a result of they’ve a set of wire strands (snares) stretching throughout the underside floor of the drum. When the drum is struck, the snares vibrate towards the underside drumhead producing a novel sound.

19 __ card : SIM

Most cell telephones have SIM playing cards as of late. SIM playing cards maintain the private data of the subscriber, with the acronym being brief for “Subscriber Identity Module”.

20 Kunis of “Black Swan” : MILA

Mila Kunis is a Ukrainian-born, American actress who performs Jackie Burkhart on “That ’70s Show”. Fans of the cartoon sequence “Family Guy” would possibly acknowledge her voicing the Meg Griffin character. In ”Black Swan”, Kunis performs a rival ballet dancer to the character performed by Natalie Portman. In her private life, Kunis dated Macaulay Culkin for 8 years, however married Ashton Kutcher, her co-star from “That 70s Show”, in 2015.

The 2010 film “Black Swan” is a psychological thriller (described by some as a horror movie) set towards the background of a ballet firm staging Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”. Natalie Portman performs an obsessive ballerina who appears good for the function of the White Swan in “Swan Lake”, however doesn’t appear to have the eagerness to additionally play the Black Swan. Then issues begin to go wonky …

22 Instagram influencer, one would possibly say : SOCIAL WORKER

Instagram (usually abbreviated to “Insta”) is a photo-sharing software, one that’s extraordinarily standard. Instagram began in San Francisco in 2010. Facebook bought Instagram two years later, paying $1 billion. The billion-dollar Instagram firm had simply 13 workers on the time of the sale …

27 French article : LES

The particular article in French will be “le” (with masculine nouns), “la” (with female nouns), and “les” (with plural nouns of both gender).

28 Orchestra chief : MAESTRO

“Maestro” is usually used to handle a musical conductor. “Maestro” (plural “maestri”) is the Italian phrase for “master, teacher”. The plural in English is often “maestros”.

31 Capital metropolis on a fjord : OSLO

The Norwegian capital of Oslo is situated on the northern finish of a fjord referred to as Oslofjord. The fjord is house to 40 islands that lie throughout the metropolis’s limits. Oslo additionally has 343 lakes.

41 Black Mission fruit : FIG

The Mission (additionally Black Mission) fig is so known as as a result of it was launched to North America by Franciscan missionaries. They planted the primary Mission figs on this nation in San Diego, in 1768. The variety of plantings grew because the order opened an increasing number of missions up and down the California coast.

42 Eggs on : URGES

The verb “to edge” has been used to imply to incite, to induce on, from the sixteenth century. Somewhere alongside the best way “edge” was mistakenly changed with “egg”, giving us our time period “to egg on” that means “to goad”.

44 “The Office” gross sales rep who solves crosswords throughout conferences : STANLEY

In the US model of the sitcom “The Office”, the character Stanley Hudson is a disgruntled and grump gross sales rep. Stanley’s saving grace (to us cruciverbalists) is that he’s all the time fixing crosswords as an alternative of doing his work. He is portrayed by actor Leslie David Baker. Early in his profession, Baker performed an workplace employee in OfficeMax commercials.

46 Actor Meadows : TIM

Actor and comic Tim Meadows appeared for tenseasons as a solid member on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). He additionally performed a personality named John Glascott on the sitcom “Schooled”, and the identical character on “The Goldbergs”.

55 Fútbol cheers : OLES

In Spanish, a “fútbol” (soccer, soccer) supporter would possibly shout “olé!” (bravo!).

58 Part of BYOB : OWN

Bring Your Own Beer/Bottle/Booze (BYOB)

59 Audiophile with an in depth assortment of membership mixes, one would possibly say : HOUSE KEEPER

House music is a sort of digital dance music. The style originated in Chicago within the eighties, and has now invaded the entire world. House music is characterised by a rhythmic thumping sound from drum machines and a easy 4/4 beat. It’s not the Beatles …

64 Place of refuge : OASIS

An remoted space of vegetation in a desert is named an oasis (plural “oases”). As water is required for plant development, an oasis may additionally embrace a spring, pond or small lake. We usually use the time period “oasis” extra usually to explain a haven, a spot of relaxation.

Down

4 __ guitar : AIR

The idea of enjoying an imaginary electrical guitar ( an “air guitar”) is so standard that there are a number of championship competitions held. There has even been a world championship since 1996. Crazy …

5 Completely stump : STYMIE

The phrase “stymie” comes from golf, and is a state of affairs by which one’s method to the opening is blocked by an opponent’s ball. We use the time period extra broadly as a verb to explain standing in the best way of one thing.

Back within the early 1400s, the verb “to stump” meant “to stumble over a tree stump”. In the early 1800s, the that means prolonged to imply “to baffle, bring to a halt by introducing obstacles”.

7 “2001” supercomputer : HAL

In Arthur C. Clarke’s “Space Odyssey” (famously tailored for the massive display as “2001: A Space Odyssey”) the pc system that went rogue was known as HAL 9000, or just “HAL”. HAL stands for “Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer”. Even although Clarke denied it, there’s an excellent argument that may be made that the acronym HAL is a veiled reference to IBM, the massive participant on the planet of computing on the time of the novel’s publication (1968). The acronym HAL is only a one-letter shift from the initials “IBM”.

11 Birthstone for some Libras : OPAL

Here is the “official” record of birthstones, by month, that we have a tendency to make use of immediately:

  • January: Garnet
  • February: Amethyst
  • March: Bloodstone or Aquamarine
  • April: Diamond
  • May: Emerald
  • June: Pearl or Moonstone
  • July: Ruby
  • August: Sardonyx or Peridot
  • September: Sapphire or Lapis Lazuli
  • October: Opal or Pink Tourmaline
  • November: Topaz or Citrine
  • December: Turquoise or Zircon (additionally now, Tanzanite)

12 BOLO goal : PERP

Perpetrator (perp)

A BOLO is a police alert, with the acronym standing for “be on the look-out”. A BOLO may also be known as an APB, an “all-points bulletin”.

23 Heavy shoe : CLOG

Clogs are footwear constructed from wooden, at the least partially. The clog originated as a protecting merchandise of footwear to be used by farm, manufacturing facility and mine staff.

29 Cocktail garnish : RIND

Our phrase “cocktail” first appeared within the early 1800s. The actual origin of the time period will not be clear, however it’s considered a corruption of the French phrase “coquetier” that means “egg cup”, a container that was used at the moment for serving blended drinks.

33 Bone-connecting tissues : LIGAMENTS

Ligaments are made from connective tissue, as are tendons and fasciae. Ligaments join bone to bone, tendons join muscle to bone, and fasciae join muscle to muscle.

34 Japanese cattle breed used for Kobe beef : WAGYU

“Wagyu” is a reputation given to 4 totally different breeds of beef cattle in Japan. The well-known Kobe beef is obtained from wagyu cattle. The identify comes from the Japanese “Wa gyu”, which merely interprets as “Japanese cattle”.

38 She-__: Marvel function for Tatiana Maslany : HULK

Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany had her work lower out within the present “Orphan Black”. That’s as a result of she needed to play a number of totally different characters, all clones born by in vitro fertilization. She additionally performs the title character Jennifer Walter within the Superhero TV present “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law”.

39 Ancestry.com printout : TREE

Ancestry.com is the biggest industrial family tree firm on the planet. It operates out of Provo, Utah.

40 Singer Lovato : DEMI

Pop and R&B singer Demi Lovato began her performing profession as a baby actress, enjoying Angela on the children TV present “Barney & Friends” from 2002 to 2004. When she was all grown up, Levato served as a decide on “The X Factor” from 2012 to 2013, and shortly after had the recurring function of Dani on “Glee”.

50 Stout and porter : ALES

The time period “stout” was first used for a sort of beer within the 1600s when it was used to explain a “strong, stout” brew, and never essentially a darkish beer as it’s immediately.

Porter is a darkish beer that originated in London within the 1700s. It is called for the road and river porters with whom it was very fashionable. Porter is a well-hopped beer made utilizing brown malt, which supplies it the darkish shade.

51 Nasal partitions : SEPTA

In the world of anatomy, a septum (plural “septa”) is a dividing wall inside a chamber or different construction. For instance, the interatrial septum separates the left and proper atria of the center, and the nasal septum separates the nostrils of the nostril.

52 Tinker with : TWEAK

To tinker with one thing is to regulate or experiment with it. Back within the late 1500’s, “to tinker” was “to work as a tinker”. In these days, a tinker was somebody who mended pots and pans.

53 Long-extinct chook : DODO

The dodo was a direct relative of the pigeon and the dove, though the fully-grown dodo was often three ft tall. One of the explanations the dodo involves thoughts once we consider extinction of a species, is that it disappeared not too way back (final recorded alive in 1662) and people have been the explanation for its demise. The dodo lived completely on the island of Mauritius and when people arrived, we in the reduction of the forests that have been its house. We additionally launched home animals, similar to canine and pigs, that ransacked the dodo’s nests. The dodo was deemed to be an ungainly flightless chook and so the time period “dodo” has come to imply a dull-witted individual.

54 “Star Wars” critter that appears like a teddy bear : EWOK

The Ewoks are creatures that reside on the moon of Endor within the “Star Wars” universe. First showing in “Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi”, they’re the lovable and cuddly little guys that appear to be teddy bears.

57 Art Deco icon : ERTE

“Erté” was the pseudonym of French (Russian-born) artist and designer Romain de Tirtoff. “Erté” is the French pronunciation of his initials “R.T.” Erté’s various portfolio of labor included costumes and units for the “Ziegfeld Follies” of 1923, productions of the Parisian cabaret present “Folies Bergère”, in addition to the 1925 epic film “Ben-Hur”. Erté’s most well-known work by far is a picture titled “Symphony in Black”. It depicts a tall and slender girl wearing black, holding a black canine on a leash.

61 GI morale booster : USO

The United Service Organization (USO) was based in 1941 on the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt “to handle the on-leave recreation of the men in the armed forces”. A USO tour is undertaken by a troupe of entertainers, a lot of whom are big-name celebrities. A USO tour often consists of troop areas in fight zones.

62 Electric __ : EEL

Electric eels are so known as as a result of they’re able to delivering an eclectic shock that debilitates their prey. They are additionally in a position to electrolocate their prey. They achieve this by producing a weak electrical discipline. The prey causes a distortion on this electrical discipline, which is picked up by the eel’s electroreceptor organs.

Complete List of Clues/Answers

Across

1 Homes in Honduras : CASAS
6 “Let’s put a smile on your plate” breakfast chain : IHOP
10 Chop (off) : LOP
13 Like a brand-new candle : UNLIT
14 __ drum : SNARE
15 Mimic : APE
16 Receptionist at a high-rise resort, one would possibly say : STORY TELLER
18 Pothole filler : TAR
19 __ card : SIM
20 Kunis of “Black Swan” : MILA
21 Sharp cry : YELP
22 Instagram influencer, one would possibly say : SOCIAL WORKER
27 French article : LES
28 Orchestra chief : MAESTRO
31 Capital metropolis on a fjord : OSLO
34 Give up, with no consideration : WAIVE
36 In the know : HIP
37 Bartender pouring a collection of craft beers for tasting, one would possibly say : FLIGHT ATTENDANT
41 Black Mission fruit : FIG
42 Eggs on : URGES
43 Rolls the credit : ENDS
44 “The Office” gross sales rep who solves crosswords throughout conferences : STANLEY
46 Actor Meadows : TIM
48 Pathological liar, one would possibly say : MAKEUP ARTIST
53 “Take a __ breath” : DEEP
55 Fútbol cheers : OLES
56 Female sheep : EWE
58 Part of BYOB : OWN
59 Audiophile with an in depth assortment of membership mixes, one would possibly say : HOUSE KEEPER
63 Top of a semicolon : DOT
64 Place of refuge : OASIS
65 Unleash upon : LET AT
66 Approves : OKS
67 Bring (out) : TROT
68 Cereal tidbit : FLAKE

Down

1 Talk a blue streak? : CUSS
2 Those opposed : ANTIS
3 Replay tech : SLO-MO
4 __ guitar : AIR
5 Completely stump : STYMIE
6 Kin by marriage : IN-LAW
7 “2001” supercomputer : HAL
8 Some underground rock bands? : ORE
9 According to : PER
10 After : LATER THAN
11 Birthstone for some Libras : OPAL
12 BOLO goal : PERP
14 Advice from a nervous stockbroker : SELL
17 Spanish aunts : TIAS
21 “Be glad to” : YES
23 Heavy shoe : CLOG
24 Fails to say : OMITS
25 Carry on : RAVE
26 Sharp : KEEN
29 Cocktail garnish : RIND
30 Chooses : OPTS
31 Send-__: farewells : OFFS
32 Buttonhole, e.g. : SLIT
33 Bone-connecting tissues : LIGAMENTS
34 Japanese cattle breed used for Kobe beef : WAGYU
35 Had a chew : ATE
38 She-__: Marvel function for Tatiana Maslany : HULK
39 Ancestry.com printout : TREE
40 Singer Lovato : DEMI
45 Short snooze : NAP
46 Taxing journey : TREK
47 In and of __ : ITSELF
49 Hypothesize : POSIT
50 Stout and porter : ALES
51 Nasal partitions : SEPTA
52 Tinker with : TWEAK
53 Long-extinct chook : DODO
54 “Star Wars” critter that appears like a teddy bear : EWOK
57 Art Deco icon : ERTE
59 Spicy : HOT
60 Lifeboat blade : OAR
61 GI morale booster : USO
62 Electric __ : EEL

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