LA Times Crossword Answers

You may be one of those people who like solving LA Times crosswords. If you are now trying to solve the daily crossword in the LA Times which was published on April 14th, 2022, you may find that some of the clues are difficult and you do not know the answers at all. Well, you do not have to be worried because you can find the answers of all clues here.

Answers for LA Times Crosswords on April 14th, 2022

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Explanation About Some Answers Above

According to the Lax Crossword site, here is the explanation of some of the answers of the crosswords above.

• WALT
  Walt Whitman is one of the greatest American poets and he was born in 1819 on Long Island. He lived through the American Civil War. “Leaves of Grass” is a collection of poetry that he created and it was published in 1855.
• SCH
  Initially, the term “Ivy League” was defined as an athletic conference. However, now this term is used to describe a group of schools of higher education that are related to a long tradition and academic excellence. What schools are categorized into the Ivy League? Those are Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.
• DAFOE
  Who is Willem Dafoe? He is an American actor and he was an early member of an experimental theatre company named The Wooster Group. The Loveless was his first leading role in 1982.  Then, he played the main antagonist in Streets of Fire in 1984, and To Live and Die in L.A. in 1985.
• ALA
  The athletic teams of the University of Alabama (“BAMA”) are called the Crimson Tide and it refers to the team colors  namely crimson and white.
• BONEMARROW
  Producing red blood cells is one of the main roles of bone marrow. However, this process is limited to the heads of the long bones in the body. Besides, the lymphocytes that support the immune system of the body are also produced by marrow.
• MOT
  The meaning of Bon Mot is ‘good word’ where it is translated from French. Bon Mot is used to mean “quip, witticism.”
• CINE
  Cinema in French is “cinema” and often it is shortened to “ciné.”
• ANIL
  Another name for the indigo plant is anil. It is also the name of the blue indigo dye that is obtained from it. The anil color is close to navy blue.
• SYRIA
  In Syria, Aleppo is the biggest city and the location of the city is not far from Damascus.
• NATO
  NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and it was founded not long after World War II in 1949. It is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Lord Ismay is the first NATO Secretary General where he was the chief military assistant of Winston Churchill during World War II.
• CREPE
  The French word for pancake is Crepe. The Avenue des Champs-Elysees is one of the most popular streets in the world as explained on the Lax Crossword site.
• GESTATION
  The gestation period which is normal for humans is 280 days. It is a little over 9 months. However, the period of gestation is able to be a little shorter or longer. In 1945, it was confirmed that a pregnancy was 375 days where it is over 12 months.
• NENA
  Nena is a German singer and in 1984 she had a big hit. Luftballon is the name which is given to a child’s toy balloon in German.
• TSARS
  The term ‘czar’ or ‘tsar’ is a Slavic word. It was first used as a title by Simeon I of Bulgaria in 913 AD. “Czar” is from the word ‘caesar’ where it was a synonym of emperor at that time.
• YVES
  Yves Saint Laurent was a fashion designer. At first, he began working as an assistant to Christian Dior when he was 17 years old. Four years later, Dior passed away and Yves Saint Laurent was named head of the House of Dior. In 1950, he was conscripted into the French Army, but he ended up in a military hospital. It was because he suffered from a mental breakdown from the hazing which was done to him by his fellow soldiers. After treatment, he began his own fashion house.