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1 Jazzes (up)
5 “Let’s open a
window”
10 Musical riff
14 Louver part
15 Whistle blower
16 Retailer whose
logo colors are
the same as on
its founder’s
national flag
17 The con entered
the bank under
an __, ...
20 Sly critic
21 Became frothy
22 Fertility clinic
supply
24 Prefix with
content
25 Not agin
26 Amazon snake
27 ... told the
banker a __, ...
31 Catching a
break
32 Iditarod runner
33 “High School
Musical” extra
34 Crouched
behind a
boulder
35 This and
that, say
39 Jack of “The
Great Dictator”
42 Colorado’s
“Steel City”
44 ... opened
an account
with a __, ...
48 One in a
tchr.’s key
49 Canadian
whisky
50 Old call letters?
51 “The Hollow
Men” poet’s
monogram
52 Giggle
54 It merged
with CBS in
2019
56 ... and cashed
a check
with a __
60 JFK part:
Abbr.
61 Languid
62 Pic to click
63 Koppel and
others
64 “Long time __!”
65 Like racehorses
DOWN
1 TV ad
promoting
water
conservation,
e.g.
2 Golfer Ernie
from South
Africa
3 Good enough
4 Bowl over
5 Swell
treatment?
6 Classic Ford
7 Word with net
or ball
8 Anxious med.
condition
9 American
agents,
familiarly
10 CV, briefly
11 With hands
on hips
12 Night streaker
13 Bright spot in
the workweek
18 Copycat
19 Language of
Oslo, in Oslo
22 Make the
most __
23 Barn topper
25 Clash of clans28 Sentence
that should be
two or more
sentences
29 Crook
30 Laid-back sort
34 New employee
36 Over the top
37 Societal
woes
38 What a hat
may symbolize40 Trapped,
after “up”
41 Entered
42 Salsa option
43 New York
college town
44 Ta ntrum
45 Pre-shootout
score, perhaps
46 Cyberhandle
47 Political
fugitive53 Driver’s lic.
stats
54 Competes
55 Blues singer
Redding
57 __-cone
58 Hundred
Acre Wood
denizen
59 Apt answer
for this puzzle
locationLA TIMES CROSSWORD By Morton J. MendelsonWEDNESDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION© 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 3/19/ 20CONTESTS
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afternoon temperatures could surge
into the 70 s, winds are light, and
skies are partly to mostly cloudy.
IllustratIon by nIyat abraHam, 7, arlIngtonSports teams hung out a
big sign last week:
Closed Until Further
Notice.
The National
Basketball Association, National Hockey
League, the NCAA college basketball
championships, Major League Baseball
and the Masters golf tournament: All
canceled or postponed their games
because of the threat from t he novel
coronavirus outbreak.
The danger of spreading the virus
makes it too risky to travel or gather in
crowds. So playing sports has stopped.
But just because sports are not being
played does not mean that sports are
finished. Most kids never become
professional athletes or play at the
college level. For most kids, sports are
important because of the lessons they
learn from playing on teams and
competing.
Those lessons may be important in the
coming weeks and months as everyone
tries to cope with this national health
emergency. Here are timely lessons:
Pay attention: T here is no way to
become good at a sport — or really
anything — if you don’t pay attention.
Young athletes have to listen to their
teachers and coaches and try to do what
they say.
Years ago I asked legendary coach
Morgan Wootten of Maryland’s DeMatha
Catholic High School what he looked for
in a basketball player. One of the first
things Wootten said was, “I look for a
player who will listen. If a player doesn’t
listen, he never gets better.”
During this coronavirus crisis,
everyone is going to have to listen to
government officials and medical
experts and follow their instructions
carefully on the best ways to remain safe.
We all have to pay attention.
Be a good teammate: Another lesson
kids get from playing sports is how to be
part of a team. Good teammates think
about the group and not just about how
many points or goals they score.
This coronavirus outbreak is going to
make things tough for kids’ Number 1
teams: their families. Many parents will
have to work in their house or
apartment. Kids will be at home from
school. No one will go out as often.
At times like this, it’s important for
kids to think of how they can help their
group or their team. Maybe you can help
by cleaning up your bedroom or playing
with a younger brother or sister. Think
about the team, not just yourself.
Deal with disappointment: Maybethe biggest lesson kids learn from sports
is how to cope with disappointment.
Even the best players do not win every
game or bat a thousand.
There will be disappointments during
the coronavirus crisis. Maybe you were
looking forward to your spring soccer or
baseball season, and now the games are
canceled. Or perhaps a family trip or
party had to be postponed.
This may be a time when you realize
everything cannot turn out exactly asyou wished. Sometimes you have to
learn to live with disappointment and
make the best of it.
Sports events may be closed, but the
lessons we learn from sports are still
important. Maybe more important than
ever.
[email protected]bowen writes the sports opinion column for
KidsPost. He is the author of 24 sports books
for kids.Teams are t aking a t imeout, but sports l essons are still t imely
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Big and small sports events have been canceled because of the coronavirus crisis, so kids should use these sports lessons at
home: Be a good teammate by helping your family, and l earn to cope with disappointing situations, such as canceled parties.CHIP SAYS
on this day in 1995, michael Jordan returned to the national
basketball association’s chicago bulls after retiring in 1994.
During his retirement, Jordan played outfield for the chicago
White sox’s minor league baseball team.
Carolyn Hax is
away. The follow-
ing first appeared
Nov. 30, 2005.Dear Carolyn:
I’ve got a very
common problem
with an
uncommon twist:
I’m in love with a woman who is
in a long-term relationship with
someone else. She also seems to
be very much in love with me
and not with her partner.
The twist is that she can’t
seem to make up her mind
whether to honor her
commitment to him and live a
life she claims is tepid and
unsatisfying or take a chance on
a real and lasting love with me.
I just got out of a very
unhappy marriage, so I can
understand both her desire for
something more and her
difficulty in taking that
enormous leap. But I’m not
interested in being “the other
man” and she’s not really the
cheating type anyway. What
advice would you give her about
how to choose?
— B.B.: You have a very common
problem with a very common
twist. Sorry to stomp on your
sense of adventure.It is easy for a relationship to
grow tepid. It is easy to become
attracted to someone else while
in a tepid relationship. It is easy
to imagine how much better the
new relationship would be than
the tepid one.
It is also easy to imagine the
new relationship growing tepid
just like the old one — or worse.
And even when you set aside
that (very healthy) skepticism:
Breaking a commitment to
someone you may still love and
have known for so long is really,
really hard. Just because the
relationship is unsatisfying
doesn’t mean there aren’t some
things that are good, some
things she will miss, some things
she hopes might rekindle the
flame.
So my advice to her is to tell
you to go away till she makes up
her mind, so she can make up
her mind. So she can really
think. So she won’t just trade old
blah for new. If ending her
relationship isn’t the best thing
for her, then it isn’t for you,
either, and if it is best, then she
knows where you live.Dear Carolyn: How do I get over
the blahs of not wanting to get
out and meet men? At 28, I’m not
in a huge rush, but I’m also
aware that time is passing. My
problem, though, is that despitebeing very outgoing and social,
I’ve found myself recently
spending my free time with only
friends and family. I just prefer
the company of people I already
know to that of strangers.
But if I keep this up, I’ll never
meet anybody. I’ve even tried
going out with guys from dating
sites, and basically this only
serves to convince me that I
shouldn’t be wasting my few
moments of free time with
people I don’t know or really
care about.
— Va.Va.: You weren’t wasting your
time on those dates — they gave
you a valuable tip: Stop dating.
Maybe hanging with friends
and family isn’t the way to meet
men. But forcing yourself to
meet men you don’t want to
meet isn’t the answer, either. So
stay home. Friends and family
have friends and family who
have friends and family, and who
knows what will sprout from
those roots. If nothing else, you
can call it a much-needed break.Write to carolyn Hax at
[email protected]. get her
column delivered to your inbox each
morning at wapo.st/haxpost. Join the discussion live at noon
fr idays at live.washingtonpost.comThis web of love may not be tangled
Carolyn
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