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ENTERTAINMENT
WEDNESDAY
Tuesday’s answers
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under “Solutions”
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ACROSS
1 Physicist Nikola
6 Beg pardon!
10 Living room
piece
14 Some vines
15 Roman fiddler
16 Kyrqyzstan
range
17 Old keepsake
18 Surpass
20 Darkroom gear
22 Them there
23 Elected ones
24 Passing grade
25 Beach near Los
Angeles
29 Becoming
swollen
34 Without company
35 Sporty fabric
36 Caustic
substance
37 Holy image
38 Wear the crown
39 Goes to low
beam
40 — de guerre
41 Prom attenders
42 Cleansers
43 Toward sunrise
45 Crow’s nest cry
(2 wds.)
46 Boathouse item
47 Indy area
48 Rubber city
51 Revoked
57 Dangerous
driver
59 Like an arbor
60 Besides
61 Fergie’s duchy
62 Write bad
checks
63 Shortfall
64 TV award
65 Linked
DOWN
1 Trunk item
2 Level
3 Window ledge
4 Spunky movie
princess
5 Give credit
6 Feeds the kitty
7 German gent
8 Historical periods
9 Tues. preceder
10 Drawer
freshener
11 Muffin spread
12 Sports
enthusiasts
13 Staff member
19 Lieu
21 Veld grazer
24 Fountain toss-in
25 Quebec neighbor
26 Bauxite user
27 Weaving
machines
28 Rustic lodging
29 Like some alleys
30 Fails to maintain
the pace
31 Homeric tale
32 Dryad
33 Artist’s plaster
35 Jury member
38 Situated at the
back
39 Slip on
41 Guitar sound
42 Fill the bill
44 Drove, slangily
45 — Abner of
comics
47 Cartoon pig
48 Egyptian sun
god
49 Leafy vegetable
50 Small hill
51 Quark’s home
52 Shoulder
53 Wave away
54 Listen!
55 Slight advantage
56 Changed color
58 Sailor’s reply
THURSDAY
Wednesday’s answers
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under “Solutions”
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ACROSS
1 Grind one’s
teeth
6 English poet
11 New England
cape
14 Pedro’s father
15 Cosmopolitan
16 Cato’s hello
17 Asparagus
morsel
18 Cosmetic buy
19 Writer’s need
20 The thick of
things
22 Deserves
24 Tolkien creatures
28 Minor injury
29 Recently (2 wds.)
30 Hero’s journey
32 Getz or Kenton
33 Knoll
35 Pilots’ sightings
39 Lean toward
40 House site
41 Mme.’s
daughter
42 “Diana” singer
43 Wyoming range
45 Birthday suit
wearer
46 Vee makers
48 Spouted
rhetoric
50 Have in view
53 Picnic take-
alongs
54 Marauds
55 Lake swimmers
57 Explain further
58 Reversal (hyph.)
60 Specks
65 Unisex wear
66 Tailoring job
67 Proclamation
68 Pause fillers
69 Goes out
70 Signs a lease
9-10-20
DOWN
1 Family docs
2 Doze
3 Citrus-based
drink
4 Tijuana “Mrs.”
5 Recluse
6 Some Iraqis
7 Romantic deity
8 Border on
9 Assign the
blame to
10 Mocks
11 Island off Naples
12 Kilns
13 Thick
21 Information of
note
23 Pertaining to fall
24 Shade-loving
plant
25 Frequently
26 Unwritten on
27 Gave first aid
28 Sea floor
30 Cite
31 Golden Rule
word
34 Flamenco shouts
36 Champagne
glass
37 Of longer
standing
38 Future flowers
43 Koppel of the
news
44 Midnight opposite
47 Make certain
49 Less bleak
50 Steamed
51 Consumer
advocate Ralph
52 Spring and ebb
53 Tilts
55 Muslim mystic
56 Court order
59 Okla. neighbor
61 Byron work
62 Nonrusting metal
63 Statute
64 City rtes.
FRIDAY
Thursday’s answers
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under “Solutions”
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ACROSS
1 Patio cousin
5 Accumulate
10 British school
14 Wheel part
15 Jeweler’s
measure
16 1899 gold rush
town
17 Meat turner
18 Plugged in
19 Hwys.
20 Catcalls
22 Party decor
24 Laundry amount
27 Sock part
28 More perky
32 Mr. Presley
36 Devoured
37 Hearth leftover
39 Retirement plan
40 Writer Ayn —
42 Rural structures
44 Ms. Fitzgerald
45 Gumshoe’s
finds
47 Major no-no
49 Wernher —
Braun
50 Doglike
scavenger
51 Annual
53 Outback mineral
56 Slant
57 Herb tea
61 Bucket of song
65 Elmer Fudd, e.g.
66 Fencing
weapon
69 Cleopatra’s
river
70 Gator kin
71 Quay
72 Gluck of opera
73 Robust and
vigorous
74 Backspace on
a PC
75 Chimney deposit
DOWN
1 Race off
2 World’s fair
3 Ad award
4 Soup pot
5 APB datum
6 Gullet
7 Tent dweller
8 Jazzy —
Vaughan
9 Stone marker
10 Signer-upper
11 Oz pooch
12 Harbinger
13 Gangbuster
Eliot —
21 Part of a pump
23 Scallion kin
25 Does target
practice
26 Opposite of
credit
28 Kind of conifer
29 Where Rome is
home
30 Sports locale
31 Pass along
33 Car import
34 Domed
residence
35 Lower leg
38 Pajama
coverers
41 Censure
43 Overcharge,
slangily
46 Tree juices
48 Hydrox rival
52 Safari leaders
54 Walkway
55 Quieter
57 Prickly sensation
58 Director —
Ephron
59 Hoodwink
60 Astronomer’s
sighting
62 About 2.2 lbs.
63 A Muppet
64 In good order
67 Musical notes
68 Joey or Kiki
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Don’t attempt to social engineer new parents’ lives
Dear Carolyn:
Just as COVID
arrived, a couple my
wife and I are close
friends with, “Mary and
Bob,” had their first
child. They decided
Mary will not return to
work and Bob will con
tinue in his job.
These adjustments
can be hard, and with COVID-19,
the feelings of isolation make it
even harder. My wife recently
learned that Mary is feeling like
Bob is spending too much time
on activities that don’t involve his
family. While the activities are
safe and permitted under local
guidelines, the time Bob spends
away from his family is putting a
significant strain on his relation
ship with Mary. Unfortunately,
they don’t seem to be
communicating very
well.
There is a small
group activity — safe
and permitted by
local guidelines — I’m
planning with just the
guys. My wife and I are
both torn on whether I
should invite Bob. The
last thing I want to do is put more
stress on Bob’s relationship with
Mary, but I don’t want Bob to feel
bad about being excluded.
— What About Bob?
Invite Bob, and let Bob figure
out whether to accept and how to
navigate his marriage, baby and
friendships.
I don’t recommend even well-
meaning attempts at social engi
neering based on second — and
third-hand information.
What friends are well-posi
tioned to do, almost uniquely so,
is ease the new-parent workload
and isolation. Pandemic protocols
will limit you, but not completely.
You can still drop off dinner, run
errands for them, invite them out
as a family to a socially distanced
activity. You can still and always
be the friends who give them a
safe place to talk as they figure
this out.
Maybe one of the kindest
things you can do is not think of
Mary and Bob just as this, just in
these terms. As you said yourself,
these adjustments can be hard,
and adjusting when you can’t fill
your home with helpers and sup
porters is no less than a cosmic
cruelty.
But every life has its grueling
phases. People living one difficult
part of, in all likelihood, a long life
together can really benefit from
friends who focus less on the “gru
eling” and more on the “phase”
— who see them as people and
as friends and as individuals and
as two people their baby is lucky
to have as parents. Be the people
who believe in them when they’re
low on belief in themselves.
Dear Carolyn:
Whenever my roommate is
confronted with a task, she tries to
get me to do it. This ranges from
regular requests for me to hand
her things to pounding on the bath
room door when I’m on the toilet
to ask me to intervene when her
cat gets into something of hers.
I’m trying to set boundaries
gently, because she’s fragile, but
I’m stuck on the mild versions of
this — the constant requests that I
get her things she can reach her
self. They’re annoying, but do I let
them go?
— Roommate
Pounding on the bathroom
door? That’s every “no” I’ve got.
I urge you to learn, quickly,
to decline with calm, unflinch
ing good nature any unwelcome
request for non-emergency assis
tance. And to say this: “Unless
there’s a fire, do not bother me in
the bathroom.” After which you
ignore the pounding every, single,
time.
Chat with Carolyn online at
noon each Friday at www.
washingtonpost.com.
CAROLYN HAX
tellme@washpost.com
