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SUDOKU No. 1308

Fill the grid so

that every row,

column 3x3 box

and shaded 3x

box contains

each of the

numbers

1 to 9 exactly

once.

Fill the grids with digits so as not

to repeat a digit in any row or

column, and so that the digits

within each heavily outlined box

will produce the target number

shown, by using addition,

subtraction, multiplication or

division, as indicated in the box.

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1-4. A 6x6 grid will use 1-6.

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Solution No. 1208 CROSSWORD | Edited by Will Shortz

Across

1 Diana who led the

Supremes

5 Masked man’s

sidekick on old TV

10 Assembled

13 Norwegian city with

the Munch Museum

14 “Hey Diddle Diddle”

runaway

15 Rich supply of ore

16 Safe for youngsters

18 One of five Greats

19 Ledecky who has

been named World

Swimmer of the Year

five times

20 Bill killer’s position

21 Cookout crashers

22 Bit of salt

24 Shankar with a sitar

26 Mum

29 Averts

33 Computer company

with a Predator line

34 Soothing lotion

ingredient

36 Valuable bar at Fort

Knox

37 Actress Arthur with a

Tony for “Mame”

38 See 23-Down

40 Kind of testing done at

Ancestry.com

41 Rodeo rope

43 Acquires

44 “Turf” half of surf and

turf

45 Outside surface

47 Deep-sea fishing nets

49 Yoked pair in a field

50 Profit

51 Flight amenity that

costs extra

53 Backbone of a boat

56 Zesty chip dip

60 Savings plans for one’s

later years, in brief

61 Hit the jackpot

63 Old camera need

64 Idiotic

65 Oklahoma city named

for an “Idylls of the

King” woman

66 Class for U.S. citizen

hopefuls, in brief

67 Disgustingly

dirty

68 Pols like Pelosi

Down

1 Alternative to rap and

R&B

2 Fed. monitor of

workplace hazards

3 Narrow cut

4 More substantial

5 Small recipe amt.

6 Founder of Harpo

Productions

7 Common lunchtime

8 Drinking spree

9 Ablaze

10 Droplets seen early in

the day

11 Tend to some p’s and

q’s, say

12 Golfer’s bagful

15 Cause to expand, as

bread

17 College V.I.P.

23 With 38-Across, like

Romeo and Juliet ...

and like the shaded

words?

25 Fervent

26 Expensive dark fur

27 Tool for a Himalayan

climber

28 Lowest in importance

29 Baffling question

30 Musical pause

31 Based on major and

minor scales

32 H.R.s and R.B.I.s

35 Bitten-into apple, for

Apple

38 Apple throwaway

39 “Cómo ___ usted?”

42 Gender discrimination

44 Made do despite

difficulties

46 Finishes, as a cartoon

48 Move up

50 Sparkle

51 Desdemona, to

Othello

52 Flower named for a

goddess

54 Sicilian tourist draw

55 Prohibition

and Victorian periods

57 Solitary

58 Svelte

59 Throws into the mix

62 Critically important

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Sports

At a training session last week ahead of

the United States Gymnastics Champi-

onships, Simone Biles wore a leotard

with a bedazzled goat on the back.

It was a reminder, in case people

somehow forgot, that she is the greatest

American gymnast of all time. With a

combined 25 world championship and

Olympic medals, including 18 golds,

Biles stands alone atop the medal stand-

ings.

She got to this point by fearlessly per-

forming elements that no one else has

dared go near, and as Biles began her

quest on Friday for a record-tying sixth

national title, she became the first wom-

an to perform a triple-double (two flips

with three twists) in the floor exercise of

a competition.

Though she had trouble on the land-

ing and had to steady herself by putting

both hands on the mat, the judges ruled

that Biles had completed the element.

They awarded her 14.35 points for the

routine, the highest total for the floor ex-

ercise on Friday, and Biles promised to

try the triple-double again on Sunday,

when the women’s all-around title would

be decided.

In a display of power and resilience,

Biles nailed the element again as she

cruised to a sixth national title at the

United States Gymnastics Champi-

onships. She finished 4.95 points ahead

of the next closest competitor, Sunisa

Lee — a landslide in gymnastics. After

sticking the landing on uneven bars, her

last event, Biles ran off the podium on

Sunday with her tongue out and head

bobbing back and forth, a huge smile on

her face.

“If you had told me 10 years ago that

someone would be doing that, I’d be

like: ‘That seems a little hard and dan-

gerous. I don’t know,’ ” Nastia Liukin,

the 2008 Olympic all-around champion,

who is now an analyst for NBC Sports,

said earlier in the competition. “Of

course, if anyone can do it, it’s obviously

her.”

When Biles’s coach, Laurent Landi,

approached her about working on the

triple-double last year, she had her

doubts. She played around with the skill

a few years ago, but only in a foam pit,

which protected her from getting hurt if

she messed up.

“My first reaction is no,” Biles said.

“Then he has to push me towards it until

I’m ready to do it myself, and I’m like,

‘O.K., it’s really not that bad.’ He almost

makes the impossible possible some-

times, and I don’t know how he does it.”

Now Biles has such a command of the

move that she often bounces out of the

landing, a sign that she has more than

enough power to complete it.

After taking nearly two years off from

competition after the 2016 Olympics in

Rio de Janeiro, where she won the all-

around title, Biles has been as dominant

as ever, winning six medals, four of them

gold, at last year’s world champi-

onships.

Much has changed, though, within the

United States national team. At 22, Biles

is one of its oldest members, the desig-

nated leader of the team and an impor-

tant example to the younger gymnasts.

She is also the only remaining mem-

ber of the 2016 Olympic team and the

only active elite gymnast who has pub-

licly identified herself as a survivor of

the sexual abuse perpetrated by

Lawrence G. Nassar, the national team’s

former doctor.

While others in the sport, particularly

her 2016 Olympic teammate Aly Rais-

man, spoke out about the failure of

U.S.A. Gymnastics to protect its young

athletes, Biles remained relatively qui-

et. Recently, though, her stance has

shifted.

“I do want to be a voice,” Biles said,

“but it takes time.”

Although she is still figuring out how

and when to best use her voice, Biles has

always led by example. All eyes were on

her during the training session: Her fel-

low athletes and coaches stopped their

workouts to watch her, even applauding

after she completed a skill.

Biles is also taking time to help the

next generation. She was out on the floor

30 minutes before her training period,

talking with the junior gymnasts, ath-

letes under the age of 16, as they prac-

ticed.

“It’s super-helpful,” said Karis Ger-

man, 15, who trains at Biles’s gym. “She

gives us tips on how to make things.”

Biles trained alone in the lead-up to

the 2016 Olympics, but now has elite

teammates at World Champions Centre

in Spring, Tex., the gym her family

owns.

She trains alongside about a dozen

other gymnasts and regularly invites

teammates over to her house just to chill

between training sessions.

Biles has admitted that her love for

the sport was sometimes diminished,

especially as she grappled with the emo-

tional trauma of the Nassar revelations.

But she has worked to find more joy out-

side the gym, spending time with

friends, family and Lilo, the French bull-

dog she adopted last year. It’s impor-

tant, she said, to have balance in her life

as she trains for her second Olympic

Games.

“At the end of the day, once I look up

and it’s coming to 6 o’clock, I’m out of

there,” she said with a smile. “I don’t try

to lollygag around the gym or anything.

Sometimes I don’t even stretch. I’m just

like, ‘O.K., I’m leaving, sorry.’”

The shift in priorities has not reduced

Biles’s training, and she remains at the

vanguard of her sport. If Biles com-

pletes the triple-double at the world

championships in Stuttgart, Germany,

in October, the trick will be forever

known as the Biles II.

Two previous innovations — a floor

exercise pass that succeeded at worlds

in 2013 and a vault she landed last year

— are simply called the Biles, because

each was her first addition to a particu-

lar event.

“They are being pushed by Simone,”

Tom Forster, the performance director

for the national women’s team, said of

her competitors. “Let’s be honest: Ev-

eryone is trying to keep up.”

Simone Biles raises sport to new level, again

KANSAS CITY, MO.

Gymnast’s triple-double

helps carry her to a

record-tying 6th U.S. title

BY DANIELLE ALLENTUCK

Simone Biles on the balance beam at the United States Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City, Mo., where she performed triple-doubles on Friday and Sunday in the floor exercise.

JAMIE SQUIRE/GETTY IMAGES

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