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©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
04/22/19

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

04/22/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Monday, April 22, 2019

ACROSS
1 River-end 
formation
6 Sprinted
9 “Dancing Queen” 
group
13 Disney mermaid
14 “A Doll’s House” 
heroine
15 Snow remover
16 *Last bit of 
decoration
18 “Dirty Jobs” host 
Mike
19 Casual tops
20 Pressure cooker 
sound
21 New Zealand 
fruits
22 Standing tall
24 Off the leash
25 Sentence part
27 Ones gathering 
for a will reading
28 Kimono-clad 
entertainer
29 Droop
30 Little devils
33 Pony up
34 *Coastal wetland 
often exposed at 
low tide
37 Corrida cry
38 Moving like sloths
40 Spanish river
41 Heart-shaped 
photo holder
43 Suddenly 
became attentive
45 Beat the goalie
46 Rural storage 
buildings
47 Serta alternative
48 Church ringers
49 Gives a hand
50 Religious 
subdivision
54 Like many ESPN 
broadcasts
55 Amount of TV 
watching limited 
by parents, 
and a hint to 
the last word of 
the answers to 
starred clues
57 “__-doke!”
58 Harbor structure
59 Slugger Judge
60 Party pooper
61 Pop-up 
annoyances
62 Mix

DOWN
1 Nutty
2 Only Great Lake 
that borders 
Pennsylvania
3 Ticket booth 
annoyance
4 Commercial 
lures
5 Every bit (of)
6 Awaken rudely
7 Fly ball 
trajectories
8 “Don’t think so”
9 Presupposed by 
experience
10 *Talks big
11 “Space Oddity” 
rocker David
12 Fills with wonder
14 “Hold the rocks”
17 Synonym-loaded 
reference
21 Zen garden fish
23 __ Emanuel, 
Obama’s first 
Chief of Staff
24 Attorney’s job
25 Gong sound
26 *Lone Ranger’s 
shout
27 “2001” computer
28 Rte.-finding aid

29 Bay Area airport 
letters
31 Implored
32 Good to go
35 Guacamole, e.g.
36 Jack or hammer
39 State fish of 
South Dakota
42 Seer’s __ ball
44 How-__: DIY 
guides
45 Meal at 
Passover

46 Fancy watch 
brand
47 Stable studs
48 Gooey mass
49 Etching fluid
51 County Kerry 
country
52 “Let’s do it!”
53 Take care of
55 Place for a 
massage
56 Arrest, as a 
perp

In the run-up to “Avengers: 
Endgame,” I’m running down 
every movie and TV show the 
MCU has ever put out and 
ranking them based on how well 
they tell their stories with the 
means available to them. This 
is the final part of a four part 
series.
11. 
“Marvel’s 
Daredevil”: 
Season One (2015)
The 
first 
season 
of 
“Daredevil” signaled another 
turning point for the MCU, 
proving 
that 
the 
idea 
of 
their Netflix series wasn’t 
only viable, it was different 
from 
anything 
the 
studio 
had 
done 
before. 
Instead 
of its zippier counterparts, 
“Daredevil” 
showed 
that 
Marvel wasn’t afraid to get 
dark with an emphasis on 
heavier 
themes 
and 
more 
complex 
characterization, 
brought to life by Charlie Cox’s 
portrayal of the title character 
and 
Vincent 
D’Onofrio’s 
immediately-iconic take on the 
Kingpin.
10. “Guardians of the Galaxy 
Vol. 2” (2017)
Everything “Guardians of 
the Galaxy Vol. 2” does well 
is exemplified in a single 
perfect scene. As Jay and the 
Americans belt out “Come a 
Little Bit Closer,” we watch 
Yondu take his revenge on his 
mutinous crew and massacre 
his way back to control of his 
ship with Rocket and Groot in 
tow. This is the most delightful 
killing 
spree 
ever 
put 
to 
film. True to the spirit of the 
“Guardians” films, it’s fun, 
hilarious, 
inventively 
shot, 
marvelously scored and really 
twisted when you stop to think 
about it. Over the course of 
about three minutes, hundreds 
of people are killed. And our 
heroes laugh.
9. “Marvel’s The Avengers” 
(2012)
The first time the MCU 
came together and showed 
what it was capable of still 
ranks as one of its finest hours. 
The action soars more so 
than almost any other Marvel 
property with no shortage 
of all-time great moments of 
spectacle — the shot tracking 
the 
Avengers 
through 
the 
streets of New York is as 
astounding today as it was 
the first time we saw it — but 
as always, the most important 
work “The Avengers” does is 
on the Avengers themselves. 
The 
character 
dynamics 
established here are what have 
carried us to the precipice of 
“Endgame.”
8. “Avengers: Infinity War” 
(2018)
“Infinity War” is a film so 
gargantuan in scale that it 
seems 
impossible 
anything 
could ever top it. From the 
first scene to the last, the 
pedal is pushed firmly to the 
floor. There’s little time to 
breathe, yet the Russo brothers 
somehow managed to craft an 
emotional story that put our 
heroes through the ringer, 
gave us a showstopper of a 
villain in Josh Brolin’s Thanos 

and ended on a note of pure 
terror that has kept us all 
waiting with bated breath for 
a year now.
7. “Guardians of the Galaxy” 
(2014)
If you’re looking for the 
moment where Marvel started 
to rule the world, I give you 
“Guardians of the Galaxy.” 
Sure, “The Avengers” had to 
bring together characters from 
separate standalone films, but 
“Guardians” had to introduce 
us to its ensemble cast of 
D-List intergalactic a-holes, 
bring them together and make 
us care about them all in one 
movie while working with a 
cast whose most recognizable 
stars played a talking raccoon 
and tree. “Guardians of the 
Galaxy” is a miracle, and the 
fact that James Gunn and 
Marvel pulled it off in such 
fun, emotional and thrilling 
fashion is what earned the 
MCU the loyal fanbase it has 
today.
6. “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”: 
Season One (2015)
The first season of “Jessica 
Jones” is a bruising story of 
trauma and recovery, a fiery 

rebuke of toxic masculinity 
and a stylish “feminist noir” 
all rolled into one. Led by 
Krystin Ritter’s commanding 
performance, there are few 
beats 
the 
series 
doesn’t 
absolutely 
nail, 
from 
the 
treatment of its title character’s 
PTSD to the characterization 
of its villain, David Tennant’s 
Kilgrave. The shared history 
that reveals itself between 
these two lends itself to the 
most unsettling material in the 
entire MCU, made all the more 
horrifying for its real world 
parallels.
5. “Iron Man” (2008)
Hey, 
remember 
that 
time a multi-billion dollar 
superhero franchise got its 
start with a critique of the 
military-industrial 
complex 
starring an actor coming off 
a string of career setbacks 
and directed by the guy who 
made “Elf”? I’ve mentioned 
a lot of miracles the MCU 
pulled off, so it’s fitting that 
the movie where it all began 
was itself totally miraculous. 
On top of everything else, the 
cast and crew were working 
from an unfinished script and 
reportedly improvised most 
of the dialogue. Somehow it 
all came together, though, and 
provided the foundation for 

the biggest film franchise of 
all time.
4. 
“Marvel’s 
Daredevil”: 
Season Three (2018)
“Daredevil” ended its run 
with one of the finest takes 
on faith and identity the small 
screen has seen in years. Based 
on the iconic “Born Again” arc, 
the season essentially plays 
out as an arresting 13-episode 
game of chess between Matt 
Murdock 
and 
a 
seemingly 
omniscient 
Kingpin. 
D’Onofrio 
has 
never 
been 
better in the role than he is as 
he plots and enacts his revenge 
against Daredevil, while Cox 
plays Matt’s struggle with 
his own duality with brilliant 
precision, a man whose every 
belief has been shattered and 
who has no idea how to pick up 
the pieces.
3. “Captain America: The 
Winter Soldier” (2014)
If you thought you wouldn’t 
leave a “Captain America” 
film uneasy about America’s 
surveillance state, you’d be 
wrong. On top of its surprising 
depth, “The Winter Soldier” 
packs some of the best action 
Marvel has brought to bear, 
ranging from Falcon’s high-
flying stunts to the grounded 
hand-to-hand combat of the 
fights between Steve Rodgers 
and the titular villain. Package 
the whole thing as an espionage 
thriller, and you’ve got one of 
the most electric superhero 
films in recent memory.
2. “Captain America: Civil 
War” (2016)
If the MCU is its characters, 
then it’s “Civil War,” not 
“Infinity War,” that functions 
as the true culmination of 
everything that came before it. 
Just about everyone from every 
corner of the world Marvel 
created is here and they all 
bring their own motivations 
to the fight. While the airport 
sequence 
is 
undoubtedly 
breathtaking, it’s in the final 
battle 
between 
Tony 
and 
Steve that everything comes 
together (while the Avengers 
fall apart). It’s not just about 
the spectacle, it’s about the 
futility of revenge and the ways 
we lash out when the person 
we blame most is ourselves.
1. “Black Panther” (2018)
Ryan Coogler’s exhilarating 
introduction 
to 
Wakanda 
was only released last year, 
but there’s nothing else that 
could have claimed the MCU’s 
throne. 
The 
Afrofuturist 
fantasy world Coogler creates 
feels wholly original even as 
he draws from a diverse set of 
influences in both his sharp 
storytelling and immaculate 
visual design. That’s without 
even touching on the cast, 
filled with so many great 
performances and characters 
that picking a single favorite 
becomes simply impossible. 
It isn’t perfect, but then, 
no Marvel movie has been. 
Instead, like its franchise and 
the heroes it has brought to 
life, it rises to the top because it 
serves as a reminder that all of 
us — from kings down to high-
school students — are capable 
of rising above ourselves and 
becoming something more.
And with that, we’re in the 
endgame.

The Marvel Cinematic 
Universe, ranked: part 4 

JEREMIAH VANDERHELM
Daily Arts Writer

COLUMBIA RECORDS 

FILM NOTEBOOK

I’m running down 
every movie and 
TV show the 
MCU has ever put 
out and ranking 
them based on 
how well they tell 
their stories 

The most valuable advice 
I can give to any ardent 
fan of a particular piece of 
media, especially one as deep 
and sprawling as “Game of 
Thrones,” is to avoid Internet 
forums. While it’s great to 
dissect every single tiny detail 
of an episode or hatch the most 
elaborate of theories, you’ll 
notice that you will soon drown 
in pools of cynicism and hatred 
among those most invested. 
There’s probably much more 
to say about how that relates to 
the human psyche, but my point 
is: I entered the final season of 
the biggest TV phenomenon in 
history with as clear a mind as 
possible.
“Winterfell,” the premiere 
of the six-episode final season 
of “Game of Thrones” is a 
suitable episode to kick things 
off. Jon Snow (Kit Harington, 
“The Death and Life of John F. 
Donovan”) and his lover/aunt/
queen/breaker of chains/etc. 
Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia 
Clarke, “Solo: A Star Wars 
Story”) arrive in Winterfell 
to more suspicion than pomp. 
Sansa (Sophie Turner, “Josie”), 
now the Lady of Winterfell, 
is one of those suspicious of 
the Targaryen as well as the 
massive 
army 
of 
Dothraki, 
Lannisters and many others 
they have brought with them. 
Meanwhile, in King’s Landing, 
Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbaek, 
“Borgen”) arrives to form an 
alliance 
with 
Cersei 
(Lena 
Headey, “Thumper”) as well 
as a disturbing relationship of 
sorts.

For better or for worse, “Game 
of Thrones” is a markedly 
different show than it was four 
or five seasons ago. Earlier on, 
showrunners 
David 
Benioff 
(“The Kite Runner”) and D.B. 
Weiss (“It’s Always Sunny in 
Philadelphia”) 
could 
work 
entirely off of author George 
R.R. 
Martin’s 
complicated 

narratives of political intrigue 
and family feuds to great 
effect. Now, with no source 
material to feed off of and the 
show’s worldwide success of 
unprecedented levels, “Game 
of Thrones” is forced to lean 
more 
into 
its 
fantastical, 
spectacular aspects. This does 
have the effect of somewhat 
neutering a few of the more 
fascinating characters of the 
series like Varys and Tyrion, 
as exemplified by the episode 
opening 
with 
an 
off-color, 
barely funny joke about Varys’s 

lack of genitals. Moreover, the 
dialogue in general has shifted 
more into pithy exchanges of 
one-liners and fanservice.
Nonetheless, 
if 
one 
can 
accept 
these 
fundamental 
changes, what’s left is not 
at 
all 
underwhelming. 
The 
actual performances are, as 
usual, excellent, with Sophie 
Turner’s performance as de 
facto Stark family head Sansa 
being a standout. One of the 
best character arcs in the series 
is seeing the young, naïve Sansa 
turn into an exceedingly mature, 
pragmatic 
and 
intelligent 
leader. Another standout is 
John Bradley (“Patient Zero”), 
who plays Samwell Tarly. In 
particular, the scene in which 
he learns about his father and 
brother’s gruesome end and 
the subsequent scene where he 
reveals to Jon his true family 
heritage are some of the best 
peformances 
ever 
seen 
on 
“Game of Thrones.”
On the flip side, Euron, 
after all this time, is still 
an impossibly dull and one-
dimensional 
character, 
especially compared to his 
siblings Theon (Alfie Allen, 
“The 
Predator”) 
and 
Yara 
(Gemma Whelan, “The End 
of the F***ing World”). While 
Clarke is tasked with playing 
one 
of 
the 
most 
popular 
characters on the show, she is 
given little material to work 
with in a compelling manner 
and her scenes with Harington 
are rarely full of chemistry.
“Game of Thrones” has five 
episodes left to bring an end to 
its glorious run. I expect the 
next few to be action-filled and 
epic, and we can all expect to 
enjoy them — even if some or 
many of us miss the political 
thriller of old.

‘Game of Thrones’ opens 
with a pleasant reunion

SAYAN GHOSH
Daily New Media Editor

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