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Thursday, August 15, 2019
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By Gary Larson
(c)2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
08/15/19

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

08/15/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Thursday, August 15, 2019

ACROSS
1 “Cheers” cheer
5 Lyft or Uber
8 Makes fun of
13 Melville’s “Typee” 
sequel
14 Seafood delicacy
15 “Oh, darn!”
17 E-cig user’s 
package
19 Dollhouse 
accessory
20 Playground retort
21 ER “Now!”
23 “What fun!”
24 Place for an 
apian colony
27 Married person
30 “Furthermore ... ”
31 Keats’ “Sylvan 
historian”
32 Actor McShane 
and novelist 
McEwan
35 Fields of study
39 Come to a 
compromise 
... and a 
homophonic hint 
to what each of 
four long answers 
contains
43 Offspring
44 Merrie __ 
England
45 Alumna bio word
46 “Argo” setting
48 One of the four 
Evangelists
51 Self-arming 
protection system
56 May, to Peter 
Parker
57 North-of-the-
border brand
58 Kick to the next 
level
62 Scribe
64 Beach party with 
shellfish
66 Inhumane one
67 The whole lot
68 Frank
69 Flows slowly
70 Chi follower
71 Gridiron play

DOWN
1 Super star
2 “Rubáiyát” poet 
Khayyám
3 One may be tied 
around a saddle 
horn

4 Chinese dish 
with pancakes
5 Torah holder
6 Composure
7 Picayune
8 Fisher-Price 
parent
9 Need to pay
10 “Mommie 
Dearest” 
mommie
11 Buckwheat dish
12 Ranch critter
16 Goblet part
18 Outback hoppers
22 Cut down to size
25 Teutonic 
turndown
26 Morales of “La 
Bamba”
27 Basic math 
homework
28 Help the chef
29 Draft card 
designation
33 More than 
apologizes
34 Org. with 
Canadiens and 
Canucks
36 Poet St. Vincent 
Millay
37 Astro or Angel
38 Car radio button

40 Drawstring 
alternative
41 Crucifix letters
42 Painted Desert 
landform
47 Heads off
49 Airport 
conveyance
50 1997 chart-
topper for 
Hanson
51 Bear hands
52 Mysterious glows

53 Like some 
remarks
54 Music licensing 
fee-collecting 
org.
55 Takes it easy
59 Nickname for 
Haydn
60 Hawaiian strings
61 Rollerball items
63 Ability to pick 
things up?
65 Boxing legend

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Admissions more selective, new data shows

First-year acceptance rate decreased, average ACT score increased compared to last year’s admitted students

Early numbers from the University 
of Michigan Office of Undergraduate 
Admissions show a lower first-year 

acceptance rate and stronger ACT 
and grade point average scores 
compared to last year’s admitted 
students.
The first-year acceptance rate 
decreased by 0.08 percent, while 
the transfer student acceptance 
rate increased by 3.3 percent and 

the number of transfer applications 
decreased from last year. The 
admitted students’ average GPA rose 
by 0.02 points and ACT test scores 
rose by one point in the middle 50th 
percentile ACT score range, while 
the SAT test scores see no noticeable 
change. 

LSA freshman Sukainah Khan 
wrote in an email to The Daily she 
believes high test scores and the 
increasingly 
competitive 
college 
process correlate with the use of 
prep books and tutors, which are 
primarily available to higher-income 
students.
“Increasing 
test 
scores 
definitely 
indicates 
an 
upward 
trend in academic excellence and 
competitiveness, but it also brings 
a certain degree of uniformity to 
the student body,” Khan wrote. 
“Certain academic results correlate 
to demographic factors that have 
contributed to students’ ability to 
succeed. There’s a reason why a large 
percentage of the student body at UM 
comes from high-income families.”
LSA sophomore Isabella Yockey 
attended Northville High School, 
a school that regularly sends a 
high percentage of students to the 
University. She said the school 
offers a multitude of resources to 
keep students on the college track, 
such as counselors, tutors and 
representatives from the University.
“At Northville, they took a lot of 
pride on their SAT and ACT scores,” 
Yockey said. “They offered a lot of 
help with raising your scores, in the 
counseling office they offered a lot 
of resources to find tutors and go to 
classes. ... We worked really close 
with our counselors to make sure we 
were on the right track.”
Yockey said she believes the 

help Northville offered her gave 
her an edge when applying to the 
University. She said she thinks 
in-state high schools who are unable 
to offer as many resources may be at 
a disadvantage from an admissions 
perspective.
“I think it’s unfair in the sense that 
the schools don’t have the resources 
to give their students,” Yockey said. 
“I think that since (Northville) is a 
wealthier area, the biggest difference 
is that we were able to be given those 
opportunities.”
Business sophomore Ariana Khan 
agrees with Sukainah Khan, stating 
in an email to The Daily she believes 
test-prep classes play an important 
role in the increase in test scores. 
To 
combat 
this 
socioeconomic 
disparities in college applications, 
Ariana Khan created RealU, a 
company that gives low-income 
and first-generation students an 
opportunity to receive mentorship 
from a college student.
“Many lower-income and first-
generation students did not have 
the opportunities and access to 
connections of experienced adults in 
their field of interest,” Ariana Khan 
wrote. “For this reason, many of the 
students feel lost in the application 
and college search process. We hope 
to make the college search process as 
easy as possible to ensure students 
can enter college confidently.”

MICHAL RUPRECHT & 
JIALIN ZHANG
Daily Staff Reporters

ALEC COHEN/Daily

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