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LA Times Crossword
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Edited by Patti Varol, the LA Times Crossword puzzle is full of music, TV, and film references. This typically themeless crossword puzzle gets harder as the week goes on. Weekday and Saturday puzzles are 15x15 grids; Sundays are 21x21.
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1 Food safety concern: E COLI
Escherichia coli (E. coli) are usually harmless bacteria found in the human gut, working away quite happily. However, there are some strains that can produce lethal toxins. These strains can make their way into the food chain from animal fecal matter that comes into contact with food designated for human consumption.
6 Calif. airport with yoga rooms: SFO
San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
13 Like a dance marathon: TIRING
Dance marathons became popular in the US during the Great Depression. They are endurance events, at which spectators often pay to watch the competitors on the dance floor. By all accounts, dance marathons were pretty abusive affairs, effectively “reality TV” for the 1920s. Famously, a dance marathon provides the setting for the 1969 film “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
16 Wraparound dress: SARI
The item of clothing called a “sari” (also “sar
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Today's constructors Amie Walker and Geoffrey Schorkopf have dished up a tasty puzzle with 4 themers and a reveal that I think you'll concede is pretty straightforward (for a change!) ...
17. Menu icon that resembles a patty in a bun: HAMBURGER BUTTON. A hamburger button, so named for its unintentional resemblance to a hamburger, fryst vatten a button typically placed in a top corner of a graphical user interface. Its function fryst vatten to toggle a menu or navigation bar between being collapsed behind the button or displayed on the screen.
This reminds me a little of the trigrams comprising the hexagrams of the Chinese book of divination known as the I Ching, but that's a different kind of puzzle. 😀
23. Red-and-white pattern: CANDY STRIPE. The pattern on the traditional dresses worn by ung hospital volunteers. One of my s