ACROSS
1 Alloy component
6 Twosomes
11 Time for
preparations
14 “It was you,” in a
Verdi aria
15 Word on mail
from Spain
16 Unit of RAM
17 King of the Hill
winner
20 Repeated phrase
in Kipling’s
“Recessional”
21 Certain balloter
24 “Milk’s favorite
cookie”
25 Phil Collins’ old
group
26 Grilling aids
29 Bigheadedness
30 Adjust for the
new tax year
31 It’s rarely paid to
a car dealer
35 Large merchant
ships
38 Chihuahua cheer
41 Spread all over
42 Persian Gulf
island nation
46 Instrument to
which an
orchestra tunes
47 Turned down for
easy reference
48 Recovery site?
52 Scholar’s
motivation
56 Single
57 Make dim
58 Mello __
59 ’60s radical gp.
60 Buttonholes, e.g.
61 Teed off

DOWN
1 “Alice” diner
owner
2 Factor in MLB’s
Cy Young Award
3 Quaint
contraction
4 Prime minister
after and before
Churchill
5 Light bulb units
6 Edmond __: the
Count of Monte
Cristo

7 “__ Can”: 2008
slogan
8 Prado hangings
9 Like many
Gallaudet
College students
10 Prefix with gram
11 Female political
refugee
12 Thin layers
13 Picnic game that
can get messy
18 Piedmont city
19 Be half-asleep
21 Candle count,
perhaps
22 Ask to be
excused, with
“off”
23 __-Cat
26 Inspiring msg.
27 Ryssdal of NPR’s
“Marketplace”
28 Corner key
30 Turning meas.
31 “Cowboy Man”
singer
32 Rose-rose link
33 Caesar known for
being funny
34 Fore site?
35 Many moon
missions

36 Make a comeback
37 Makes before
deductions
38 Galley tool
39 Twist facts
40 Pull the plug on
42 Jeer leaders
43 Lago contents
44 English king who
was a son of
William the
Conqueror

45 Original “SNL”
cast member
47 Key above C
49 HQs for B-2s
50 Longtime
Steelers coach
Chuck
51 Half of sechs
53 Kind
54 N.Y. Mets’ div.
55 Word on U.S.
coins

By Scott Ober and Peter Koetters
©2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
07/21/16

07/21/16

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

RELEASE DATE– Thursday, July 21, 2016

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

xwordeditor@aol.com

8

Thursday, July 21, 2016
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS

ACROSS
1 Quads with
wheels
5 Perry of pop
9 Two-iron, before
golf club
numbering
14 Orator’s prowess:
Abbr.
15 Der Spiegel
article
16 Modicum
17 What Fey does in
a mushy
moment?
19 Forward
20 Sandal feature
21 Work the room
23 Long time
24 Ornamental
ducks?
28 Blanket in a belt
30 Beefcake
subjects
31 One given at a
wedding
32 Polo of “The
Fosters”
33 Provençal
possessive
34 1974 #1 country
hit for Dolly
Parton
36 Model high
schoolers?
39 __ Pie
42 Slowing, on
scores: Abbr.
43 Sacha Baron
Cohen alter ego
47 Home office,
maybe
48 Quite cold
50 Number on a
clapperboard
51 Park statue that
might have the
real things
perched on it?
55 Sylvan Tolkien
creature
56 Airport snags
57 Dreaded
59 Hit lightly
60 “No, No,
Nanette” song,
and a
homophonic hint
to 17-, 24-, 36-
and 51-Across
63 Sudden jerk
64 Way off the
highway
65 Der Spiegel
rejection
66 Second chances

67 “__ arigato”:
Japanese “thank
you very much”
68 Where el sol
rises

DOWN
1 “Draw me”
challenge
2 Selective words
3 Avenue next to
Monopoly’s
Water Works
4 Headliner
5 __ straight face
6 Come down with
a bug
7 Big blowup
cause
8 Sycophants
9 Has faith in
10 Sudden
movement
11 Subjugate
12 Command level
13 Exam marking
aid
18 GQ or SI
22 HP product
25 South Korea’s
first president
26 Cleaning aid
27 Baltic Sea
country: Abbr.
29 Airport
connection

33 Joe Cool, sans
shades
35 Exam for a
would-be atty.
37 Surgical
installations
38 The Emerald Isle
39 Text tweakers,
briefly
40 Appointment
41 Patella protector
44 Ophelia’s
avenger
45 “Aha!”

46 Finish
49 Being handled by
a broker
52 What Spanish
Olympians go for
53 Heading for
54 Con beginning
58 Former
Education
secretary
Duncan
59 Original D&D co.
61 Outer: Pref.
62 Intent

07/15/16

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

RELEASE DATE– Friday, July 15, 2016

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

xwordeditor@aol.com

Classifieds

Call: #734-418-4115
Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com

SERVICES

FOR RENT

THESIS EDITING, LANGUAGE,
organization, format. All disciplines.

www.writeonA2.com or joanhutchin- 

son@att.net

CENTRAL CAMPUS, FURNISHED 
rooms for students, shared kitch., ldry., 
bath., internet, summer from $500, fall 

from $650. Call 734-276-0886.

ARBOR PROPERTIES
Award-Winning Rentals in Kerrytown, 

Central Campus, Old West Side, 

Burns Park. Now Renting for Fall 2016. 
734-649-8637. www.arborprops.com

! NORTH CAMPUS 1-2 Bdrm. !
! Riverfront/Heat/Water/Parking. !
! www.HRPAA.com !
! Best Deal in Ann Arbor !

5 BEDROOM HOUSE

Hardwood floor, deck, sunny, 4 parking 

spaces. Available late August
816 Brookwood - $2750 
Call 734-995-5575

! NORTH CAMPUS 1-2 Bdrm. !
! Riverfront/Heat/Water/Parking. !
! www.HRPAA.com !
! Best Deal in Ann Arbor !

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER

@michigandaily
NOW.

City Council pushes 
to raise minimum age 
for tobacco purchase 

Councilmember 
Grand dismisses 
need for student 

input on bill

By ANDREW HIYAMA

Daily Staff Reporter

A resolution raising the mini-

mum age to purchase tobacco 
from 18 to 21 passed its initial read 
with only one dissenting vote at 
Monday’s Ann Arbor City Council 
meeting. The proposed legislation 
will still need to be approved by the 
council in a meeting next month 
before being fully accepted.

The proposed ordinance would 

raise the age at which Ann Arbor 
retailers may sell tobacco prod-
ucts and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, 
while also decriminalizing under-
age tobacco possession of both.

In a phone interview prior to 

the meeting, Councilmember Julie 
Grand (D–Ward 3) — who has been 
the leading proponent of the reso-
lution — explained that, though the 
ordinance would explicitly affect 
those between ages 18 and 20, it 
would also indirectly target tobac-
co usage by younger teenagers.

“Most 15 to 17-year-olds get 

their tobacco products from 18 and 
19-year-olds or other similar social 
sources, so this ordinance helps 
block that source,” Grand said. 
“What it also does for the 18 to 
20-year-olds is it provides an onset 
barrier when those individuals 
are most likely to be moving from 
experimental tobacco use to regu-
lar or habitual tobacco use.”

Pointing to California, Hawaii 

and Massachusetts as examples, 
Grand said she hoped a municipal 
ordinance would eventually pave 
the way for other city governments 
in Michigan as well as the state 
government.

When asked why the ordinance 

was being pushed during the sum-
mer, when most University of 
Michigan students — who would 
be directly impacted by the reso-
lution — are absent from campus 
and unable to participate in public 
debate over the issue, Grand was 
dismissive of student input, say-
ing she has the backing of a broad 

coalition comprising local medical 
and public health professionals.

“My main interest is develop-

ing this model and moving it out to 
other communities,” Grand said. 
“As much as I would like to get 
the input from the University stu-
dents, that’s not my primary goal. 
And honestly, if they were against 
the ordinance, I really don’t think 
it would change my mind.”

While affected, University stu-

dents would still be able to take 
a free city bus line to Meijer on 
Ann Arbor-Saline Road, just out-
side city limits and therefore not 
subject to city ordinances, and 
purchase tobacco products there. 
Grand pointed out that in past 
cases, even if neighboring munici-
palities did not pass a similar 
ordinance, there would still be a 
decline in teenage tobacco usage.

All council members, except 

Jack Eaton (D–Ward 4), voted to 
support the first reading of the bill, 
moving it forward to be discussed 
at a second reading in the future, 
before a final vote will be held. 
Councilmember Eaton said that 
he thought the bill was a good idea 
but that he could not support it 
because of the fact that it violated 
state law.

“I am vividly aware of the cost 

of smoking, but I can’t support 
this ordinance,” Eaton said. “The 
Michigan Tobacco Products Tax 
Act says that we shall not impose 
any new requirements or prohi-
bitions pertaining to the sale of 
tobacco, and that’s exactly what 
we’re doing here. I think that 
when there’s a state law that tells 
us not to do something, we’re ill-
advised to do it regardless of how 
passionate we are about the intent 
behind the law.”

Councilmembers Jane Lumm 

(I–Ward 2) and Graydon Krapohl 
(D–Ward 4) also expressed con-
cerns about the conflict the ordi-
nance would create with state law 
but voted to support the first read-
ing.

Councilmember Sumi Kaila-

sapathy (D–Ward 1) asked City 
Attorney Stephen Postema what 
the legal ramifications of passing 
such an ordinance would be, but 
Postema said he wasn’t prepared 
to answer that question at the 
time.

