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ACROSS
1 Outdated
6 Calf-length
dresses
11 Streaming
alternative
14 Let up
15 Hacienda
material
16 Crew’s control?
17 High-end eye
makeup?
19 Hollywood SFX
20 Part of a process
21 “Pomp and
Circumstance”
composer
22 Concert souvenir
23 First words of
“Green Eggs and
Ham”
25 Creeps
27 One sterilizing
Ping-Pong
equipment?
32 Supermarket
chain with a
mostly red oval
logo
33 Con man?
34 Switches
37 Adorkable one
39 Emcee duty
42 Flute or reed, on
an organ
43 Tibetan legends
45 Fireside stack
47 Org. concerned
with emissions
48 Squad car for
soprano
Kathleen?
52 Sign of fall
54 Fish-eating eagle
55 Romp
56 Old autocrats
59 Historic times
63 Place for a bud
64 Worthless stuff
from Beijing?
66 It may be
financial or legal
67 Skin dye used in
some wedding
celebrations
68 Overdue
69 Measures for
long-distance
runners: Abbr.
70 Mystery award
71 Entertain
DOWN
1 More than casual
acquaintances
2 Touch on
3 __-Coburg:
former Bavarian
duchy
4 Idiotic
5 “If __ I loved her,
all that love is
gone”:
Shakespeare
6 __ of America
7 “Got it, man”
8 Give
9 Gibraltar’s
peninsula
10 Sun. delivery
11 High degrees
12 Ill-defined
13 Small amounts
18 Aden native
22 Simmers
24 Fashioned after
26 Canadian VIPs
27 Like some
Christmas
candles
28 Tommie of the
Amazin’ Mets
29 They’re stuck in
pubs
30 RR depot
31 IMDb search
category
35 Bishop of Rome
36 Sail support
38 Private account
40 Mythical bird
41 Fiona, after
Shrek’s kiss
44 Auto additive with
a mostly red oval
logo
46 __ La Table:
Williams-Sonoma
rival
49 Gave religiously
50 Dieting
successfully
51 Stuck
52 Command to Fido
53 GEICO
submission
57 “Mom” co-star
Faris
58 Stern
60 Wise adviser
61 Objectives
62 Inner Hebrides
isle
64 “The Motorcycle
Diaries”
revolutionary
65 In-flight update
By David Poole
©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
05/24/18
05/24/18
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
RELEASE DATE– Thursday, May 24, 2018
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
In the Daily newsroom exists
a leaning stack of prerelease
books, relegated next to a fil-
ing cabinet. Too often I would
give the pile no more than one
passing glance. But in a flitting
once-over, I recognized a certain
name along one spine: Questlove.
“Questlove wrote a book?” I
wondered aloud. “Sign me up.”
Little did I know that this was
actually book number four in
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s
tenure as an author, following
a memoir, an ode to Soul Train
and a book about chefs. His lat-
est release, “Creative Quest,”
follows an entirely different tra-
jectory. The book offers read-
ers insight into Thompson’s
personal creative process — as
frontman of The Roots, as a DJ,
as a producer, as a writer — and
those of other acclaimed innova-
tors (J. Dilla, Björk
and Ava DuVer-
nay appear fre-
quently). It is up to
the reader to turn
these insights into
what they desire.
Is this a book of
lessons? A list of
resources for cre-
ative minds? Or is
it simply a form of
entertainment for someone who
likes to read? Thompson doesn’t
tell us, but he doesn’t have to.
Deep down, we know.
“Creative Quest” is divided
into nine sections (should we
call them chapters? Thompson
doesn’t, so I won’t). They are
ordered chronologically, the way
the steps in a how-to book would
be, and each depicts a unique
tenet of the creative process.
Part one, The Spark, ponders
what makes a person or idea cre-
ative. “The issue isn’t whether
people can tell that you’re cre-
ative,” Thompson writes. “If
that’s what you’re worried about,
wear a beret. The issue is wheth-
er you can connect to your own
creative impulses.”
The majority of the book, the
meat of the sandwich, delves into
the nitty gritty of creative living.
Thompson talks about the roles
mentors may or may not play. He
writes of creative stagnation and
its web of potential outcomes.
He explores possible definitions
of the creative network, the pros
and cons of imitation and cura-
tion and the yin-yang relation-
ship of success and failure. He
gets more abstract than that,
while still allowing for varied
interpretation of his more anom-
alous philosophies. It’s your per-
sonal creative quest after all.
Then comes part nine, the
final section, aptly titled No End.
Here, Thompson reminds read-
ers that we are, in fact, mere
specs in the creative landscape
of the universe. Anything we do
has already been done in some
variation; in the future, it will
be redone in another. He does an
impressive job of infusing per-
sonality into this section without
making it emotional. In his way,
Thompson is stating what we
already know. In
fact, he wants us
to know that we
already know, that
even this realiza-
tion has already
been
made,
by
each of us, in our
own heads.
“There is spe-
cies-wide
pro-
gramming,”
he
writes, “and then there’s individ-
uality, and the overlap between
those two opens up a space for
creativity. Live in that space.
I’m here to. Maybe I’ll see you
around sometime.”
Each
section
offers
up
Thompson’s two cents, but, as
I’ve said, he never tells us how
to think of them. Rather, at the
end of every section lies a blank
sheet of graph paper. No prompt
is given, only blank space. More
than anything, that’s what “Cre-
ative Quest” provides readers:
Space to be. Whether that being
is creative in a prescribed way is
not his concern. In his mind, the
simple act of existing is enough
to stir up genius.
To answer my earlier ques-
tion, yes. Questlove wrote a book.
Or maybe it’s not a book. I’ll leave
it up to you to decide.
BOOK REVIEW
Questlove, as an
author, returns
TESS GARCIA
Daily Style Editor
“Creative
Quest”
Ahmir “Questlove”
Thompson
Harper Collins
April 24