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©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
04/24/19

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

04/24/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019

ACROSS
1 Keepsake 
containers
7 Biological pouch
10 “I’m up for it!”
14 Change in a big 
way
15 Santa __ winds
16 Singer Adams
17 World’s largest 
peninsula
18 Antagonist in 
many le Carré 
novels
20 Nemesis
21 Teeny-tiny 
fraction
23 “Better Call Saul” 
actress Seehorn
25 Wrigglers sought 
by snigglers
26 Demean
29 Floating ice 
hazard
31 Hearing things?
35 Leader of a flock: 
Abbr.
36 Remote 
precursor
38 Hooch
40 Sport-__
41 Oatmeal-crusted 
treat
43 12 meses
44 Uproarious 
confusion
46 Places to shoot 
hoops
47 Big kahuna
48 Jai __
49 Places, as a bet
51 Signs of the 
future
53 Those opposing 
us
55 Counting-out 
word
57 Seven-sided
61 Saintly glow
65 “Madame 
Bovary” subject
66 Competitive 
edge, as 
illustrated in 
the answers to 
starred clues 
from left to right
68 Steady look
69 Bridal bio word
70 Excitedly 
unwrapped
71 Layer over some 
cities
72 Mar.-to-Nov. hrs.
73 Genesis follower

DOWN
1 __ bisque
2 Mount Olympus 
queen
3 McGregor of 
“Christopher 
Robin”
4 Sleeps it off, with 
“up”
5 Prefix with atomic
6 Circle the rink
7 H.H. Munro’s 
pseudonym
8 One opening a 
can of worms?
9 *Telegraphed 
message
10 *346-piece Big 
Ben, e.g.
11 Paradise
12 Salon treatment
13 Meyers of “Late 
Night”
19 Have a bug
22 Moroccan capital
24 Gossip columnist 
Hopper
26 Dutch-speaking 
Caribbean island
27 Asian palm nut
28 “Plant-powered” 
hair care brand
30 *Gray wrote 
one in a country 
churchyard

32 Tequila source
33 Scrap
34 Puts an end to
37 *Post-
apocalyptic Will 
Smith film
39 Welles who 
played Kane
42 What “two” 
meant to Paul 
Revere
45 *What makes 
Guy a guy?
50 Ovid collection

52 “You saved me!”
54 Tipped top
56 Make very 
happy
57 Fairy tale crones
58 Paraffin-coated 
cheese
59 “The Godfather” 
novelist
60 Nureyev’s no
62 On in years
63 Tropical party
64 Chooses
67 Bagel topper

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Salman Rushdie has had, in no particular 
order, more than a life’s share of excitement, 
success and peril. His fourth novel, “The Satanic 
Verses,” enraptured both pop culture and world 
politics with its controversial 1989 release 
(leading to, among other things, assassination 
attempts 
against 
Rushdie 
himself). 
He’s 
published nineteen books — fourteen since the 
controversy — for which he’s been awarded a 
Booker and PEN Pinter Prize. This excludes, of 
course, his most recent “Quichotte,” which is 
currently shortlisted for the 2019 Booker, and 
still a potential prize winner.
But 
nothing 
about 
his 
well-completed 
biography is inhibiting Rushdie. “The road 
ahead is shorter than the road behind,” Rushdie 
said to an audience in Rackham Auditorium 
Thursday night. Yet this means little — he’s 
more concentrated on his writing than ever 
before, hoping to put his work to use more 
by diagnosing and accepting its purpose and 
potential.
The event, put on by Literati Bookstore, 
facilitated a talk covering subjects from 
writing methodology to age to immigration. 
In conversation with “PBS Books” host Rich 
Fahle in front of an audience laden with 
new copies of the 400-page “Quichotte,” 
Rushdie made clear that degree of thought 
and intention injected into both his novels 
and philosophy. He spoke easily and quickly 
in response to even controversial political 
topics, though his responses never felt half-
hearted 
or 
incomplete. 
Rushdie’s 
humor 
landed happily — each bit of drollery said with 
script-placed perfection — over the audience. 
Rushdie spoke of the intrigue of a spy novelist 
in his new book, the details pulled from his 
first-hand experience with spies after “The 
Satanic Verses” controversy. And he spoke 
to the ups and downs of the writing process, 
which included hours of binge-watching reality 
television. Done as research for his reality-
television-induced main character, Rushdie 
made it no question that he finds such cultural 

norms absurd. In moments like these Rushdie 
excelled on stage.
Recurring in the conversation was the 
theme of a road in Rushdie’s work, particularly 
“Quichotte.” Compared to his prior novel, 
which was placed entirely in New York City, 
the Booker Shortlister falls over a much larger 
space, with characters traveling during much of 
the story. In writing his earlier novels, Rushdie 
remembered telling himself, “Next time, you 
need to leave town.” It was too restricting, 
being contained to one space. And so he did. 
Hoping to capture the greatness of many novels 
that mechanize movement — “The Hobbit,” say, 
or “Lolita” — Rushdie incorporated the road 
throughout “Quichotte” as his main character 
traversed the country with his (imaginary) son 
in search of love. The road is “an ancient form 
of pilgrimage,” Rushdie explained, a physical 
change that can mirror the internal twists a 
character experiences.
Nearing the end of the discussion, the 
talk turned distinctly political. “Quichotte” 
has been described as a “gutting satire of 
America right now,” and Rushdie owned up 
to such clamor without hesitation. We are in a 
transitional moment, he explained. One where 
things — technologically, politically — are 
changing at a more rapid pace than ever before. 
Much of today’s politics are unrecognizable 
from 
a 
past 
perspective. 
In 
crafting 
“Quichotte,” Rushdie said he hoped to mold a 
comedy with something of a darker side that 
can simultaneously critique and make sense of 
the chaos of present-day America. With these 
hopes he aimed to incorporate subtle themes 
of race and immigration into his reworking of 
“Don Quixote.”
“In times of tyranny, literature becomes 
particularly important,” Rushdie said, looking 
thoughtfully to the crowd at Rackham. Even 
when the state pushes information that may 
not be true, the significance of art remains, 
he explained — it is the artist who gets to set 
the narrative straight. “We get to tell the story 
to the future.” It seemed, throughout his talk, 
that if there is an author of competence this 
responsibility should be delegated to, Rushdie 
may be it.

Rushdie on travel & prose

EVENT REVIEW

JOHN DECKER
Daily Book Review Editor

Walking into the Van Andel Arena, I felt exactly 
as I did when I saw the Jonas Brothers open for 
Miley Cyrus 12 years ago. While the crowd was 
transformed from grade-school girls to college 
students, the rest felt oddly familiar: 2009 tour 
T-shirts, eair-piercing screams, even some tears. 
The Jonas Brothers have become a symbol for the 
golden years of my youth, and the band has played 
into the nostalgia by revisiting the music that now 
serves as an artifact of our childhoods. 
As the lights dimmed in the small arena, the 
screens on stage displayed a video of three young 
boys representing the young Kevin, Joe and Nick. 
The short imagined the boys wandering around a 
carnival scene, and after it ended the brother-band 
floated onto the stage while performing the song 
“Rollercoaster” off their new album, Happiness 
Begins. 
The story of the three boys played a large role 
in the show, with short clips inserted in between 
songs. They included motifs from previous albums 
and resolved with a meeting between the boys and 
their older selves — the current Jonas Brothers. 
The band primarily dedicated the first half of 
the show to their newer music, including popular 
songs like “Cool” and “Only Human.” Sprinkled 
throughout their repertoire of new music were 
some throwbacks as well, including their 2007 hit 
“S.O.S..” 

While the majority of the show was played from 
the main stage, the band migrated to the back of the 
arena where they performed more of their older 
work, including a seven-song medley of some of 
their most popular songs. The show was made a 
unique experience with two song requests taken 
from fans and performances of two tunes from the 
Disney Channel movie “Camp Rock.” Among the 
other iconic songs were their love anthem “When 
You Look Me In The Eyes” and the classic sing-
along “Burnin’ Up.” 
The show itself was very fast-paced, with the 
Brothers jumping into one song after the next 
without much pause, keeping the energy high from 
start to finish. During a brief break, Kevin thanked 
the crowd for “giving us the time to figure it out” 
before the brothers performed the most sentimental 
song of the night: “Comeback.” The trio also gave a 
toast to the crowd, thanking their dedicated fans for 
supporting them back when they were just starting 
their careers and even thanked their fans’ parents 
for taking their kids to their earlier shows. 
Unlike most reunions where bands try to 
rebrand themselves in a totally new way, the Jonas 
Brothers have embraced their past and transformed 
it into something relevant for both themselves and 
their fans today. While the band has gone from 
a group of teenage heartthrobs to a group of men 
with wives and kids, they still hold a special place 
in their fans’ hearts. The brothers are learning and 
growing alongside their fan base, and it’s this kind 
of relationship that makes the Jonas Brothers so 
successful in the music world today. 

The Jonas Brothers bring
back the pure glory of ’07

CONCERT REVIEW

KAITLYN FOX
Daily Arts Writer

HOLLYWOOD RECORDS / FLICKR

In the 70-year history of the NBA, in a league 
with personalities and mystiques that tend 
to outshine the sport itself, Dennis Rodman 
manages, to this day, to be the player whose 
legend remains a tier above the rest. So much has 
been written, conjectured and analyzed about 
the Hall of Famer. The new “30 for 30 Rodman: 
For Better or Worse,” narrated by Jamie Foxx, 
provides a valuable and sympathetic look at how 
he became the man behind the myth.
Rodman’s tumultuous childhood is presented 
as the main contributing factor to all the endless 
controversies that followed in later decades. In a 
way, his childhood was a prolonged one. Shy and 
introverted to the extreme, with few interests 
and friends even in high school, his consistent 
conflicts with his family led to extended periods 
of homelessness. Like many “30 for 30”’s focusing 
on a single personality, Rodman is there to narrate 
it all in the image that is more recognizable today. 
Despite all the flash and outlandishness people 
know him for his inherent shyness is on display 
in these interviews. Deion Sanders, as portrayed 
in his own “30 for 30” earlier in the year, is as 
cocky and self-assured as ever in his interviews 
for the film, but when watching “For Better or 
Worse,” it is very easy to see how Rodman is still 
the soft-spoken teenager who got his late start at 
Southeastern Oklahoma State.
The film also features interviews with various 
figures from throughout Rodman’s life, each 
profoundly impacted by the man in extremely 
different ways. Foxx mentions at the beginning 

that reducing Rodman’s life story to a tragedy is 
a massive oversimplification, but hearing from 
his mother, former coaches, friends, teammates 
and others makes it hard to overlook the very 
tragic aspects of his life. Sure, words like ‘lunatic’ 
and ‘crazy’ are thrown around, but one gets the 
impression that these people felt a mixture of 
pity, respect and admiration all at once. Isaiah 
Thomas, the legendary point guard of the “Bad 
Boy” Pistons with whom Rodman felt the closest, 
tears up at a point when describing the sensitive 
nature of Rodman, and how he could not accept 
the fact that the NBA is a business where teams 
don’t always stay together, retire together, as 
families.
Even Michael Jordan himself, one of the 
most sociopathically competitive athletes to 
ever live, speaks about Rodman in a measured, 
understanding manner, recognizing the troubled 
soul lashed out due to a deep-seated anger 
and abandonment issues. However, none of 
these platitudes condone the other realities of 
Rodman’s life the film presents, those in which 
he abandoned his own children from multiple 
mothers. Alexis Rodman, his first child, makes 
the point that she could never understand 
how her own father could treat her the way 
he did, considering her relationship with her 
own children. The documentary suggests it all 
plays into the tragic cycle of abandonment that 
Rodman himself both experienced as a kid and 
contributed to as a father.
Despite the legendary career he had and the 
impact he has had on the league ever since, it is 
clear that there is a sadness that underpins it all, 
and one can hope that he and the people around 
him find peace.

Exploring the enigma that 
makes up Dennis Rodman

TV NOTEBOOK

SAYAN GHOSH
Daily Arts Writer

ESPN

By Paul Coulter
©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
09/16/19

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

09/16/19

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

Release Date: Monday, September 16, 2019

ACROSS
1 Really big hit
6 Numero uno, with 
“the”
10 One always 
ready with quick 
comebacks
13 W.C. Fields 
persona
14 Strand during a 
sleet storm, say
16 Green prefix
17 Football non-
passing offense
19 Fish eggs
20 __ the table: 
arrange 
silverware and 
such
21 MBA or MFA: 
Abbr.
22 Behind, or hit 
from behind
24 Farm song 
refrain
26 Hasenpfeffer, e.g.
27 Open-and-__ 
case
30 Get one more 
card for twice the 
bet, in blackjack
34 36-Across skunk 
Pepé
36 Warner Bros. 
creation
37 Author Tolstoy
38 European peak
39 “Gosh, look at the 
time”
42 Sundial seven
43 You, to Goethe
44 “Peter Pan” dog
45 Sediment
47 Car engine 
measure
51 Arthur of tennis
52 “Unforgettable” 
singer
53 Peter, Paul or 
Mary
55 Philosophy 
school with no 
classes?
58 Biol. or geol.
59 “Bingo!”
62 Australian bird
63 Opening kickoff, 
say, and what 
both parts of 
17-, 30- and 
47-Across can be
66 Sailor’s “Help!”
67 Woodsy path

68 Deed
69 Gallery hangings
70 Bldg. with a pool
71 “I Am of Ireland” 
poet

DOWN
1 Lat. and Est., 
once
2 Grimace
3 Em, to Dorothy
4 Nine-digit ID
5 Alpine heroine
6 Astros Hall of 
Famer Craig __
7 Cardio readout
8 Blacken
9 Schedule 
opening
10 Human/canine 
shape-shifters
11 Screen symbol to 
click on
12 Open-__ shoes
15 Tidied, as a 
room
18 Require
23 Cabernet color
24 Summer in Lyon
25 Western bad 
guys
27 Cut drastically, 
as prices
28 Prefix for “sun”

29 Elite group
31 Fancy neckwear
32 Mull over
33 Bam, bang or 
boom
35 Sommelier’s 
menu
40 Complex woven 
textile
41 __-Caps: candy
46 Backstabber
48 Fenway team, 
familiarly

49 SoCal Latinx 
neighborhood
50 Puerto __
54 Really cool
55 Big butte
56 Love, in Lima
57 Hat-tipper’s word 
of address
59 Opposite of baja
60 “Stop right there!”
61 Shipboard yeses
64 Rocker Ocasek
65 Dessert pastry

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