The "H" and "P" from ALOHA PARTY are kinda forcing you into ETHEL and ASAP, respectively, and the rest of the gunk pretty much falls into place from there. If you cared about making the grid actively good, you'd tear out ALOHA PARTY (the weakest of the long answers, and the long answer to which the most weak short stuff is attached or adjacent) and rebuild. Constructors just don't put in the time to get it from "acceptable" to "good," and if the theme "works," the editors clearly only care that the fill reach "acceptable." So people come to accept mediocrity. It's all gettable, no one's really gonna balk at anything down there, but the overall quality of the fill could and should be better. Just no attempt at all to clean or spice things up. Just cruddy from KRONA through ATT ASAP BAA down to ARTOO. The thing that's actively annoying about today's puzzle is the fill, which is lazy and stale, especially in the east and southeast. Could be better, but also could be worse. Not bad, just straightforward to the point of dullness.
But these are just literal cities, states, etc. "FIST CITY," ALTERED STATE, COW COUNTRY, WALLEY WORLD, that sort of thing. Might've been more interesting if the geographical areas had been more metaphorical, less on-the-nose. Even says so, right in the middle of the grid: PLAIN. Hoffman continued his activism into the 1970s and remains an icon of the anti-Vietnam war movement and the counterculture era. He died by suicide with a phenobarbital overdose in 1989 at age 52. Hoffman, along with all of the defendants and their attorneys were also convicted and sentenced for contempt of court by the judge these convictions were also vacated after an appeal. Department of Justice declined to pursue another trial. Five of the Chicago Seven defendants, including Hoffman, were convicted of crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot all of the convictions were vacated after an appeal and the U.S.
He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.Īs a member of the Chicago Seven, Hoffman was charged with and tried―for activities during the 1968 Democratic National Convention―for conspiring to use interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot and crossing state lines with the intent to incite a riot under the anti-riot provisions of Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. We thank you for supporting freedailycrosswords as your source for daily LA times puzzles.Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. All LA Times Printable Crosswords & Solutions for December 2013įuture Los Angeles Times Printable Crossword months will be available as the new month begins.All LA Times Printable Crosswords & Solutions for January 2014.All LA Times Printable Crosswords & Solutions for May 2014.