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07/11/19

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

07/11/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019

ACROSS
1 Red ink list
6 Editor’s “never 
mind”
10 Fast one
14 Naturally lit 
courtyards
15 Mex. title
16 Roughly
17 Devious 
nestling’s cry?
19 Word on 
diet food 
packaging
20 Like a coach after 
a rough game, 
maybe
21 Marriott-owned 
hotel chain
23 Sets, as a price
24 Div. won by the 
Braves 13 times
26 Besmirch
27 Early-rising 
duck’s call?
32 __ Maria
35 Big bully
36 Protected at sea
37 Counselor
39 Watch for money, 
usually
42 Four-time 
Grammy 
winners Kings 
of __
43 Backspace over
45 Hosp. areas
46 Prizeworthy 
cornfield 
sounds?
49 Amigo
50 Letters from the 
Civil War
51 Mine bonanza
55 Skated on thin 
ice
59 Look into again, 
as a cold case
61 Brought into play
62 Elegant dove’s 
murmur?
64 Many a retired 
thoroughbred
65 “It __ up to me”
66 Catcher’s 
interference, in 
baseball rules
67 Kit Carson House 
site
68 Throw away
69 Nostalgically 
fashionable

DOWN
1 Russian country 
house
2 Cultural spirit
3 Work stoppage?
4 Elaborate cake 
layers
5 Easy marks
6 Kazakhstan, 
once: Abbr.
7 Split into thirds
8 Inscribe
9 Start liking
10 Astronomical 
time period
11 Lit __
12 In the matter of
13 Kohler rival
18 Academic goal
22 Churchill’s “so 
few”: Abbr.
25 Bay leaf source
27 Moon and Starr 
of the NFL
28 Skewered fare
29 “And another 
thing ... ”
30 2003 Masters 
champ Mike
31 Brings home
32 Locker room 
sprinkle
33 Brain wave

34 Admit frankly
38 To a great 
degree
40 Equally hard to 
find
41 Contest where 
participants stand 
for a spell
44 Figures
47 Elevator __
48 Bring out
51 He played Ugarte 
in “Casablanca”

52 Eyeball benders
53 HGTV topic
54 Two before marzo
55 Reddish shade
56 Where to find 
Java
57 Student of 
Seneca
58 Just all right
60 Hungarian wine 
region
63 Rehab symptom, 
for short

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Later in the year around mid-
February, Keer heard an unsolicited 
knock on her door followed by 
the turning of the door handle. 
Without notice, Carlson allegedly 
entered her property. This time, 
Keer said she decided to speak up. 
“I told him all that we wanted 
just a phone call to let us know in 

case someone wants to shower or 
if no one was home,” Keer said. 
“He got up and started yelling at 
me and waving his hand in my face 
and stormed out of the apartment 
and slammed the door behind him. 
It was the most unprofessional 
interaction I’ve ever witnessed, 
and my roommates and I were 
absolutely shocked. We talked to 
him the next day, and I told him 
to never raise his hands in my 
face again because we felt very 
threatened. He never emailed back 

and did not respond to any of our 
questions for the rest of the year, 
even when the dishwasher was 
leaking and there was a bird in our 
apartment.”
Until the last few weeks of the 
year, Keer said Carlson ignored 
her and her roommates’ phone 
calls and emails, which Keer 
thought was because he was 
upset by the February altercation. 
When Keer’s lease was about 
to 
end 
before 
her 
and 
her 
roommates finished their finals, 

one roommate decided to ask 
Carlson to stay a few extra days 
to finish out the semester. For the 
first time in months, said Keer, 
Carlson responded. 
“He replied something like, 
‘given the way I was treated over 
the last year, I have no interest in 
letting you stay,’” Keer said. “But 
my roommate’s aunt is a lawyer, 
so she called him and he let us 
stay for three extra days — which 
was good — but that was pretty 
much all the communication we 
had with him toward the end. 
Although it was an unfortunate 
situation, there wasn’t anything 
that could be done.”
Like 
Keer, 
recent 
Business 
graduate Aishu Chandra didn’t 
think her situation with Carlson 
could be remedied. Taking legal 
action would be too much of a 
process, and fighting with Carlson 
to fix the heat in her roommate’s 
room wasn’t going anywhere: the 
only option, Chandra said, was to 
just deal with it.
“We were just so busy with 
stuff, and I had lived in (horrible) 
places before,” Chandra said. “I 
honestly just didn’t know what our 
rights were; I feel like we just lost 
a lot of energy.”
In an email to the Daily, Carlson 
denied tenants’ allegations of 
carelessness, failing to address 
claims in a timely manner and 
entering 
properties 
without 
notice.
“Since 1976 we have offered 
top-of-the-line 
houses 
and 
apartments for students seeking 
the very best housing on the U 

of M campus,” Carlson wrote. 
“We do not enter the properties 
unless we have been asked to by 
the tenants to fix something or 
we are preparing for an upcoming 
city housing inspection in which 
case the tenants are prior notified. 
For maintenance requests our 
tenants have the option to leave 
a voicemail, send an email or 
submit a maintenance request 
through our website whichever 
is most convenient for them. All 
emergency 
maintenance 
issues 
such as no heat are fixed promptly.”
Gayle Rosen, staff attorney 
of Student Legal Services, said 
she 
commonly 
sees 
attitudes 
like Chandra’s and Keer’s, where 
students — if they even come to 
Student Legal Services at all — 
don’t want to pursue any legal 
action as the process can become 
lengthy and expensive.
“I’m sure there are students 
out there that don’t know we 
exist, or that there is an option 
here,” Rosen said. “One issue that 
I see sometimes that I see with 
students that come to my office, 
they didn’t come here to litigate. 
They don’t often want to resolve 
things through litigation, so that’s 
a big issue too ... There are some 
situations where there is really no 
choice, there are certain situations 
where there is a little bit of a 
choice because the circumstances 
maybe are annoying but not really 
too bad, and they may not want to 
do something.”

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