4B Midweek Edition - July 29-30, 2020
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6 Spellbound
10 Rotters
14 “Violet” lead-in
15 Kuwaiti leader
16 Pizzeria’s need
17 Vault over
18 Auction site
19 Like Tonto’s
friend
20 Punctuation mark
22 Composure
23 Seize
24 Not yet in stock
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26 Library abbr.
29 Give the pink slip
31 Turkish honorific
32 Wool supplier
33 Ancient story
34 Alpine refrains
38 Director —
Kazan
40 Feeling low
42 Face sketcher’s
start
43 Church readings
46 Seaweed
49 ‘The Name of
the Rose” author
50 Promissory note
51 Russian epic
hero
52 Midwest st.
53 No more (2 wds.)
57 Compartment
59 Broken-arm
support
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65 H.H. Munro
66 Virile type
67 Sci-fi gofer
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pews
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Wilder
70 Spurred on
71 Yin complement
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Madrid?
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gridders
2 She, in Paris
3 Pipe handle
4 Mannerism
5 Unfunny humor
6 Keeps in office
7 Lectern
8 Frontier saloon
feature
9 Hear a case
10 Denver’s state
11 Stay away from
12 Compact
13 Vile smile
21 Word of assent
22 Comic swamp
critter
25 Voice vote
26 Vice president,
slangily
27 Wise old birds
28 Darth’s daughter
30 Army wear
35 Uniform
36 Tighten
37 Messy person
39 Straightening
41 Lowers in esteem
44 Synthesizer
inventor
45 Grab some rays
47 Plunder
48 More arrogant
53 Prospector’s
test
54 Alpaca kin
55 Compare
56 Fragrant
compound
58 Join forces
61 Adjust a guitar
62 Frat party attire
63 Neck and neck
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1 Wooden peg
6 Pt. of week
10 Tie’s place
14 Ruling class
15 On the briny
16 Slow-moving
beasts
17 Honored in style
18 Bank on
19 Popular hemline
20 Rug rat
21 Lipstick type
23 Hotel employee
24 Clueless
26 Slowly vanished
27 Track
competitors
29 “La Traviata”
composer
31 “Village Voice”
award
32 Implored
36 Pacino and Hirt
37 More candid
39 Common
pronoun
40 Short notes
42 RN assistants
43 City groves
44 Most demure
46 Knoll
48 Nonswimmer,
maybe
49 Globe
50 Unit of weight
52 Humbug
preceder
55 Paddy product
56 Morose
57 Get hitched
quick
59 Turkey’s
neighbor
60 Decides
61 Latin dance
music
62 Semester ender
63 Wren’s abode
64 Wool fabric
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1 Skillful
2 Dairy case item
3 Quip
4 Hot time in
Quebec
5 Account book
6 Fortune-teller’s
card
7 Functions
8 Lampreys
9 Remark
10 Like the
Bedouins
11 Banish
12 Surrendered
territory
13 Make socks
22 Hi-fi records
23 “Star Wars”
heavy
25 Maiden-name
indicator
26 On the house
27 Prowl
28 Competent
29 Hawks
30 Is, in Segovia
32 Hogwash
33 Exaggeration
34 Ages
35 Check for prints
37 Mark the herd
38 Animal fat
41 Luxurious
42 Strong soap
44 Little Engine verb
45 Most peculiar
46 Op art pattern
47 Whales like
Shamu
48 Deli offering
49 Judicial order
50 Bishop of Rome
51 Excuses
53 Basilica part
54 Lettuce buy
56 Comedian —
Knotts
58 Statute
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1 Delhi nursemaid
5 Orchestra
offering
10 One-liner
14 Londoner’s
farewell (hyph.)
15 Survey course
16 Libra’s stone
17 Harbinger
18 Fissure
19 Japanese clog
20 Kind of orange
22 Filet —
24 Plop down
25 — noire
26 In a state of
entanglement
29 Glider or jet
33 Field or
Kellerman
34 Set on fire
35 Cry of disgust
36 Lather
37 Strength
38 Semisoft cheese
39 Compass dir.
40 — sense
41 Kiwi language
42 East African
republic
44 Cruise ship
45 One of the
Karamazov
brothers
46 Incline
48 Like lava
51 Got
55 Klutz’s cry (hyph.)
56 Pungent pod
58 Quitting time,
often
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60 Consumed
61 Tiny jumper
62 Hang-glide
63 Jargon
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2 Doll’s cry
3 Two fives for
4 Naughty kids
5 Prefix for wave
6 Square
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8 Tax org.
9 Interchange of
goods between
nations
10 Runner
11 Sign on a door
12 Green Hornet’s
aide
13 Spirited
behavior
21 Accomplice
23 Problem with
hives
25 Canoe wood
26 Liability
opposite
27 Flora and —
28 Bygone
29 Major artery
30 Chef’s attire
31 Laissez—
32 Not our
34 Venom
37 Provides funds
for
38 Deputy sheriffs
40 Use a coupon
41 Fr. miss
43 Stringed
instrument
46 Most beautiful
woman
47 Treat topping
48 Autumn flowers
49 Indiana
neighbor
50 Albright or
Montez
51 Ms. Moreno
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53 Happily — after
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Boyfriend says one-night stands are just a phase
Dear Carolyn:
My boyfriend of
five years, “Max,”
misses “novelty” in
our relationship. We
are in our mid-20s with
career-oriented lives
and we make quality
time together a priority.
We have explored hob
bies together, traveled
and share many friends. He says
I’m perfect for him and he could
see married life together in the
future but is not ready to settle
down yet.
He seeks novelty by meeting
other women for one-night stands
under the pretense of ethical
non-monogamy, since I know
what’s going on. However, I don’t
like it and I have told him so. He
states this is a need I currently
cannot fulfill and he
cannot be happy with
out. He would stop if
I demanded it, rather
than break up.
I don’t like ulti
matums. We’re still
together because he
says this desire for nov
elty is “just a phase,”
and I could see myself
with him long-term in a monoga
mous relationship. I also don’t
want to be closed-minded about
relationships involving multiple
partners.
Should I believe him and stick it
out? Or am I enabling immature,
self-centered behavior?
— Confused
I have no idea whether you
should believe him. It does
appear that doing so breaks in his
favor vs. yours about 100% to 0,
which would explain in one bite
why he sees you as “perfect” for
him (despite your no doubt being
lovely for unique and substantial
reasons), but maybe that’s just
me.
Here’s the more urgent ques
tion: Should you believe yourself?
Your letter is uncanny at open
ing doors for Max to act in his own
interests — he feels this, he envi
sions that, he’s not ready for what
ever, he would do X upon request,
he sees the future and exists in a
realm above human nature!!! —
while closing doors to your acting
in your own interests. You “don’t
like ultimatums”? You “don’t
want to be closed-minded”?
You put up the walls, then run
smack into them.
You can be open-minded in
general about something and still
not be a hypocrite for not taking
part in it personally. You can sup
port the local bar and not have a
drink.
You, not a sociopolitical board
of directors, set the terms of your
own heart.
So. If you don’t like the terms
of your relationship, then change
them. If that’s not possible with
Max, then break up.
That’s it. Maybe it seems dras
tic, but since you made no men
tion of his being perfect (or even
OK) for you, or what you really,
really want in life, it’s possible try
ing to make it work is actually too
generous to him.
Even if I’ve misread you and
you’re in deep, clear-eyed love
with Max, then you still don’t actu
ally have to commit to him now to
hold the spot for him to commit
to you later, when the novelty
of novelty wears off and his
hypothetical settling-down phase
begins. You don’t have to keep
him on layaway.
You can, instead, live your life
without him, with the integrity of
committing fully to your own prin
ciples, without the nagging sense
that you’re making excuses for
your own mistreatment.
Separating will hurt, but this
relationship already hurts.
Should you both grow into ver
sions of yourselves someday who
really are perfect for each other,
you can get in touch.
Chat with Carolyn online at
noon each Friday at www.
washingtonpost.com.
CAROLYN HAX
tellme@washpost.com
