LA Times Crossword

January 3, 2024

Emma Oxford

 

The answers to the first four clues below will have something in common that is hinted at in the fifth clue.

1. Jupiter or Eroica

2. Jilted bride in Great Expectations

3. Bureaucratic obstacle to many projects

4. Extreme weather event similar to a typhoon or hurricane

5. Protection of intellectual property

Answer to Clue 5:

COPYRIGHT - parsed as COPY, RIGHT

Answers to Clues 1-4:

1. SYMPHONY

2. MISS HAVISHAM

3. RED TAPE

4. CYCLONE

 

Each word ends in letters - at the right - that spell a word meaning "copy."

1. PHONY

2. SHAM

3. APE

4. CLONE