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Trans-O-Grams were often themed puzzles, with clues related to the quote. The name Duo-Crostic was used by the Los Angeles Times for puzzles by Barry Tunick and Sylvia Bursztyn. Charles Preston created Quote-Acrostics for The Washington Post. Charles Duerr, who died in 1999, authored many "Dur-acrostic" books and was a contributor of acrostics ...
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday
The Los Angeles Times is an American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, [4] it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760.
The publisher of the Los Angeles Times since June 16, 2018, has been Patrick Soon-Shiong, who purchased the newspaper from the Tribune Company of Chicago. Soon-Shiong replaced Ross Levinsohn , who was appointed to the position in August of 2017 following the firing of publisher Davan Maharaj . [ 1 ]
The Times’ comics and puzzles pages run Monday through Friday in the Calendar section, Saturday in the California section, and Sunday in the Sunday Comics section.
He has said that his favorite crossword of all time is the Election Day crossword of November 5, 1996, designed by Jeremiah Farrell. It had two correct solutions with the same set of clues, one saying that the "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!)" would be "BOB DOLE ELECTED", and the other correct solution saying "CLINTON ELECTED". [ 18 ]
A huge mountain of trash is piled up inside the cavernous Athens material recovery facility in Sun Valley on Dec. 28. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Times Mirror owned the Sporting News from 1977 [1] until 2000, when it was sold to Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. In 1987, Times Mirror acquired Field & Stream, Yachting, Home Mechanix, and Skiing. [1] In 1983, Times Mirror owned not only the Los Angeles Times but also Newsday, [6] The Denver Post, The Dallas Times Herald, and the Hartford Courant. [3]