By Susan Gelfand
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10/17/19

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

10/17/19

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ACROSS
1 Quick blows
5 In need of a 
massage
9 “Back to the 
Future” surname
14 Kitchen topper
15 Repeatable toy 
vehicle sound
16 Pine or Rock
17 Duo in the news
18 Pushed the bell
19 Fountain pen 
precursor
20 Article about life 
jackets?
23 Whirl, so to 
speak
24 Brewed 
beverages
25 Didn’t let renege 
on
28 Chi follower
29 Bumbler
30 Steal from
31 Article about 
a European 
language?
36 Serpent suffix
37 Latest thing
38 Monet medium
39 CBS military 
series
40 Texter’s “Yikes!”
41 Article about 
crosswords?
45 Solemn 
assurance
46 Word ending for 
enzymes
47 Deli delicacy
48 Surround, as with 
a glow
50 Cherokee on the 
road
52 Dude
55 Article about a 
dessert?
58 Choral work
60 Small addition?
61 Honey haven
62 Ward off
63 School near 
Windsor
64 __-friendly
65 Entourage
66 “The Metaphysics 
of Morals” writer
67 Cubs spring 
training city

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2 Destination for a 
wedding

3 Like many 
wrestlers
4 Unspecified 
amount
5 Nail salon 
material
6 Irritate
7 Sharpens
8 Class with mats
9 “12 Years a 
Slave” director 
Steve
10 Boor
11 Panda Express 
staple
12 Short short?
13 Designer 
monogram
21 Assignment
22 Classic 1954 
horror film about 
giant ants
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27 More than a bit 
heavy
28 Middle of Tripoli?
29 One advocating 
buying
31 Trees of a kind, 
often
32 San __, city near 
San Francisco
33 Meringue 
ingredients
34 Go slowly

35 Claiborne of 
fashion
39 Scuttle
41 Painter’s set of 
colors
42 Biennial games 
org.
43 Mercury, for one
44 Orchestra name 
reflecting its 
music
49 Superb servers
50 Volkswagen 
sedan

51 Big name in 
stationery
52 Capital WNW of 
Cheyenne
53 Wanders
54 Stage 
performance with 
singing
56 Give a strong 
impression (of)
57 Buddy
58 Hiker’s guide
59 Lacto-__ 
vegetarian

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Sports
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

Ed Warinner hoping Michigan has 
found its identity in the run game

Monday 
afternoon, 
when 
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh 
was asked whether he likes the 
progress from the run game, 
he offered up only one word 
before pausing for further 
contemplation.
“Yes.”
And so far through six games 
of the Josh Gattis era, the 
numbers back him up. Since 
averaging a miserable 2.1 yards 
per carry against Wisconsin, 
the Wolverines have managed 
at least 3.4 in every game since. 
Not lighting the world on fire, 
but progress.
On 
Saturday, 
Michigan 
football’s ground resurgence 
peaked in a 14-carry, 161-yard 
first quarter against Illinois. 
The 
Wolverines 
had 
five 
explosive plays (which they 
define as rushes of at least 12 
yards) on the ground in the 
first 15 minutes — more than 
their last four games combined.
“We got the outside zone 
game going with the pin-and-
pull, getting some linemen 
out on the edge, pulling our 
guards and center out there,” 
said offensive line coach Ed 
Warinner. “They did a nice job 
of that. But it was just good to 
establish the run game.”
Early in the season, teams 
were taking away that pin-
and-pull play — Michigan’s 
most-used run scheme a year 
ago, according to Warinner. 
The play requires the strong-
side tight end to seal the edge, 
allowing either a guard or 
center to pull and get to the 

second level, and opening up 
holes for potential big plays.
But 
facing 
different 
defensive 
looks 
in 
Gattis’ 
spread offense, the Wolverines 
hadn’t been able to open up 
holes on pin-and-pulls until 
Saturday.
“The difference in what you 
see defensively when you’re in 
more spread-out formations 
and when you’re in more 
condensed (is big),” Warinner 
said. “Yeah, that for sure has 
been the biggest difference for 
how you block.”
Michigan’s 
issues 
establishing the pin-and-pull 
underscore that larger point. 
It’s week eight now, and the 
Wolverines are still finding 
out which run packages work 
in Gattis’ offense.
Warinner knows that’s not 
okay. He also believes they’re 
still figuring it out.
“I just think it becomes 
clearer what you can and can’t 
do and what you’re good at 
and what you’re not good at,” 
Warinner said. “And it just, as 
that picture clears itself up, 
then you stick with that, do it 
more, build on it. So we’re all 
into doing that.”
The goal, of course, was 
to have an identity solidified 
long before entering the meat 
of their schedule — a bruising 
slate 
featuring 
marquee 
matchups against Penn State, 
Notre Dame, Michigan State 
and Ohio State in the latter 
half of the season.
Wednesday 
afternoon, 
Warinner said he evaluates 
what a team’s identity should 
be after two to three games. 

This year, its third game was 
a 21-point loss to Wisconsin, 
with just 40 rushing yards and 
a carry split in flux. Senior 
quarterback Shea Patterson, 
who ran for 273 yards a year 
ago, had a long of four yards 
that day.
Now, he has 42 yards in 
Michigan’s last two games. A 
modest total, but enough to 
get the Wolverines’ zone-read 
game working.
“That makes a defense stay 
honest,” Warinner said. “And 
when I say honest, they have to 
protect all the gaps. They can’t 
collapse extra people into the 
box and so they have to be real 
cognizant of him as a threat. 
Because he is a threat, you’ve 
seen it the last couple weeks.”
In 
front 
of 
Patterson, 
the offensive line play has 
been there — “really getting 
consistent, gelling and playing 
with a style of play that’s 
physical, smart and tough,” 
as Harbaugh puts it. The 
running backs, despite their 
inexperience, 
have 
enough 
explosiveness to get the job 
done. The key is putting it all 
together into a coherent run 
game.
“You have to establish who 
you are and what you want to 
do,” Warinner said. “And then 
you evaluate. At some point, 
you have to say, here’s what 
we’re good at.”
As 
the 
11.5 
yards 
per 
carry in the first quarter 
against Illinois showed, the 
Wolverines are getting there. 
As the 3.9 yards per carry after 
that showed, they still have a 
ways to go.

McGrone playing in Bush’s image

Cam 
McGrone 
briefly 
shuffled 
his 
feet 
as 
he 
approached 
the 
line 
of 
scrimmage, sizing up the play 
before launching. He kept his 
eyes forward, identifying the 
roll-out, 
play-action 
Illinois 
was attempting to execute. The 
redshirt freshman linebacker 
then bolted, darting toward 
Illinois 
quarterback 
Matt 
Robinson, grasping his right 
arm and holding tight.
Moments later, he jarred the 
ball loose, as the convulsion 
of Robinson’s body met the 
force of McGrone’s strength. 
The ball came free. Fifth-
year senior linebacker Jordan 
Glasgow fell on it. In doing so, 
the defense put to rest any hints 
of an upset bid on Saturday — 
and McGrone added another 
chapter to his rapidly-evolving 
breakout campaign.
“They didn’t really want 
to play with us anymore,” 
McGrone 
said 
confidently 
after the game. “I had an 
opportunity, and I had to take 
it.
“I saw the opportunity to 
make a big play. So, I had to for 
my team.”
It was the kind of play 
Michigan 
fans 
have 
come 
to expect from their MIKE 
linebacker 
in 
recent 
years. 
Devin Bush, now flirting with 
NFL stardom himself, made 
those plays at Michigan on a 
near-weekly basis, when his 
whirring 
sideline-to-sideline 
speed and uncanny instincts 
landed him among Michigan’s 
best ever. When Bush left, 
charting off to millions of 
dollars as a top-10 NFL draft 
pick, it was reasonable to 
expect a degree of drop-off at 
the position.
Cerebral linebackers with 
running 
back-speed 
don’t 
just grow on trees. Or so the 
coaching staff thought.
“(Bush) was able to cover 

up 
for 
some 
mistakes 
of 
the 
linebackers, 
but 
we’ve 
grown as a linebacker room 
as individuals,” Glasgow said 
before the season. “I feel that 
we’ll be able to cover each other. 
We might not have a top-10 pick 
in the linebacker room now, but 
that doesn’t mean that we can’t 
be as effective as linebackers, 
like, in total. 
“As everyone improves, I feel 
that we’ll be just as good as we 
were last year.”
Even 
that 
confidence, 
though, did not promise a like-
for-like replica of Bush. No 
one assumes that mantle four 
games into a career, no matter 
how impressive, but McGrone 
has shown glimpses of a similar 
skillset.
And with 2.5 sacks and 3.5 
tackles for loss, there’s reason 
to believe he’s learning how 
to translate that talent into 
on-field production.
“You can have a good idea 
of when guys are seeing it, 
because like I said, your eyes 
control the function of your 
body,” said linebackers coach 
Anthony 
Campanile. 
“They 
tell your feet what to do. When 
guys’ feet start playing fast, you 
got a pretty good idea as a coach 
that this guy is taking a step 
and he’s kinda entering another 
level.
“I think the reps he got, even 

in the Wisconsin game, were 
invaluable to him. Any work 
you get as a young guy, in terms 
of developing confidence, it’s 
huge. He’s done a great job with 
it, he’s taken a step each week. 
From camp on, I think he’s just 
gotten progressively better and 
better, incrementally.”
What Campanile describes — 
a kind of measured, incremental 
rise — might well be true. But 
what’s been on display on the 
field for McGrone has been 
meteoric.
Mere weeks ago, he was 
comfortably 
second 
on 
the depth chart at MIKE 
linebacker, with Josh Ross the 
heir apparent to Bush’s throne. 
Ross, in fairness, had filled 
in admirably before he was 
sidelined with an undisclosed 
injury less than a month ago. 
Now there’s a real question as 
to whether Ross will reassume 
that starting spot.
“That’s a good problem to 
have,” Campanile said. “I think 
we’re back to the issue — it’s not 
an issue, it’s a great situation — 
in the summer. We had had that 
situation in the summer. ‘Hey, 
this guy we can (win) with on 
Saturday. We can win with that 
guy on Saturday. We can win 
with that guy on Saturday.’
“Never a bad thing to have a 
bunch of guys that can help you 
win on Saturday.”

Seniors leaving stamp on program

It’s hard to replace 1,000 
points, a two-year starter and 
“Miss Hustle.” It’s even harder 
to replace 2,000 points, a four-
year starter and the pacemaker 
of your team. Nicole Munger 
and Hallie Thome were the 
heart of the Michigan women’s 
basketball team, on the court 
and off it. They graduated last 
year – leaving the Wolverines 
needing a transplant.
But where some teams have 
trouble finding new leaders, 
there was no sign of such 
problems in Crisler Center at 
Wednesday’s media day. Senior 
forward Kayla Robbins and 
senior guard Akienreh Johnson 
have filled the gaps and made 
the team their own.
“I 
think 
sometimes 
the 
younger kids took a kind of 
backseat,” said Michigan coach 
Kim Barnes Arico. “Kind of just 
listened to (Thome) said this or 
(Munger) said this, we’re just 
going to follow what they say 
because they know best. Now, 
I feel like, the team really feels 
like, each individual person can 
contribute to the success of our 
team. Whether that’s from a 
basketball perspective or that’s 
from a voice.”
With the new season, Johnson 
and Robbins are each bringing 
their unique perspectives to 
the team. Neither of them have 
been regular starters for a whole 
season in their college careers 
– 
Johnson 
handicapped 
by 
injuries, Robbins coming off the 
bench. The pair nevertheless 
used their experience to reach 
out and make every member feel 
valued.
“What I’m trying to do is 
sit back and listen,” Johnson 
said. “When I was a freshman, 
I didn’t really have a voice 
because I didn’t think I could 
speak up. I didn’t think there 
was a place for me to speak up. 
But I always make sure that this 
year, everything is a debate.”
The two seniors are taking 
the mantle of what is probably 
the most talented Wolverine 
team under Barnes Arico. The 
coach’s 12th-ranked recruiting 

class from last season now has 
a year of experience under its 
belt. Three players have played 
internationally, and Michigan 
is coming off two straight trips 
to the NCAA Tournament after 
going five without a ticket to the 
dance.
The expectations are higher; 
the next steps are steeper. To 
climb them, the Wolverines 
need to grow over the course 
of the season by having leaders 
empower 
players 
who 
may not make 
an 
immediate 
impact.
“(Johnson 
and 
Robbins) 
opened (it) up 
so 
everyone 
feels like they 
have a voice,” 
Barnes 
Arico 
said. 
“Now 
when you come in there’s just an 
energy of everybody’s looking 
around, everybody’s ready to go. 
And that’s something different 
we haven’t had and I think that’s 
something the kids really like as 
they all feel they can contribute 
to our success.”
Added 
freshman 
guard 
Michelle Sidor: “If they see 
you getting down on yourself, 
if I’m having a bad practice or 
something, they’re definitely 
there to, especially (Johnson), 
to lift you up and be like ‘It’s 
alright, you got the next play, 
keep your head up.’ I think that’s 
huge.”
For Johnson and Robbins, 

though, building a team goes 
beyond 
the 
court. 
When 
freshman center Izabel Varejão 
arrived at her dorm, without 
her family, the team made time 
for her. They welcomed and 
supported her, grabbing dinner 
and ice cream to make her feel 
at home.
“They’ve done a really good 
job of helping us with anything,” 
said freshman guard Maddie 
Nolan. “Not even basketball-

wise, 
if 
we 
needed 
advice 
about 
school 
or stuff around 
campus 
they’ve 
done 
a 
really 
good 
job 
of 
integrating 
us 
into a team.”
Added 
Robbins: 
“Me 
and 
(Johnson), 
we’ve 
had 
a 
different journey than everyone 
on the team and we’ve been the 
freshmen who came in and don’t 
really know what to say or what 
to do so we really just opened 
it up for the team. If somebody 
has a problem or somebody has a 
suggestion, they can always just 
bring it up. It’s never an issue.”
Johnson 
and 
Robbins 
probably 
won’t 
end 
up 
as 
Michigan’s 
leading 
scorers. 
They may not be the type of 
players that dominate a game, 
but they’re already making 
their mark on the team before 
the season has even started: 
a culture that prides itself on 
inclusivity. 

KEEMYA ESMAEL/Daily
Senior guard Akienreh Johnson has emerged as a leader for the Wolverines.

KENT SCHWARTZ
Daily Sports Writer

If someone has 
a problem ... 
they can always 
bring it up.

THEO MACKIE
Daily Sports Editor

MAX MARCOVITCH
Managing Sports Editor

MADELINE HINKLEY/Daily
Freshman running back Zach Charbonnet was part of a 161-rushing yard first quarter against the Fighting Illini.

MADELINE HINKLEY/Daily
MIKE linebacker Cameron McGrone has stepped into Devin Bush’s role.

