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ACROSS

1 Photographer

Adams

6 “Happy

Motoring”

company

10 Cuba, por

ejemplo

14 20 00s first lady

Bush

15 Matty of

baseball

16 Twice-monthly

tide

17 Crème de la

crème

19 Kvetch like a

fish?

20 West of

“My Little

Chickadee”

21 Mr. Peanut prop

22 Dental

hygienist’s

gizmo

24 Essen’s river

26 Russian space

station for 15

years

27 Hurry-scurry

28 “__ Yankees”

30 Spar without a

partner

33 Rascal

35 “Honor Thy

Father” author

Gay

36 Hawaiian porch

37 Ab __: from

day one

38 Uses a sieve

42 Apply, as a

brake

44 Flynn of

“Captain Blood”

45 Extremely lame,

in modern slang

48 Hunky-__: fine

49 Toronto’s prov.

50 Dada co-founder

51 Either H in H2O

53 Home of the

NHL’s Senators

55 A head

57 “A laddin”

monkey

60 Old phone

feature

61 Business

manager skilled

at reducing

expenses

64 Shortest-

named Great

Lake

65 Sci-fi’s Jabba

the __

66 Mars has two

67 Aloha State bird

68 Jazz and disco

periods

69 Popular pie, and

what the ends

of 17-, 30-, 45 -

and 61-Across

have in common

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1 Grad

2 Auto parts giant

3 Clark Kent,

really

4 “... __ he drove

out of sight”:

Moore

5 Tree that

rhymes with a

month

6 Deserve

7 Pivot around

8 “Help!”-ful soap

pad brand

9 Not in the house

10 Ancient Andean

11 Aquanaut’s base

12 Te xas city in a

cowboy song

13 Estimated: Abbr.

18 Wheels, so

to speak

23 Game stick with

a netted pocket

25 Expose

26 Sam who owned

Cheers

28 ISP alternative

29 Fed. law known

as Obamacare

30 Clog

31 “Wreaked” state

32 Creepy sort

34 Tool for two

lumberjacks

39 Completely,

alphabetically

speaking

40 AL’s Blue Jays

41 Scheming

43 Pain in a canal

45 Made of oak,

say

46 Complete

47 Reach, as a goal

51 NC State’s conf.

52 Dull sound

54 On the safe

side, at sea

55 Spanish “this”

56 Lawyers: Abbr.

58 Mercedes-__

59 Big Dipper bear

62 Lord’s Prayer

start

63 You, in French

LA TIMES CROSSWORD By Paul Coulter

SATURDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION

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as Australia, Sweden and Germany.

How do voters pick a candidate?

Most voters have issues that are

important to them. The issues might

include health care, education, the

economy, immigration, climate

change or gun control. The candi-

dates usually campaign for months,

making speeches, buying ads, taking

part in debates and hosting commu-

nity rallies. They also post their views

on these topics on campaign websites.

Journalists research the candidates’

proposals and examine their back-

grounds to give voters additional in-

formation.

How does the voting process

work?

There are two methods: state pri-

maries and caucuses. Most s tates have

primaries. In a primary, voters select

one candidate on a ballot. Each state

political party makes its own rules for

getting on the ballot, so voters in

different states may have different

choices. Candidates earn delegates to

a party’s national convention based

on how many votes they get.

In traditional caucuses, voters who

are registered with a political party

meet in schools or community centers

to talk (and sometimes argue) about

the candidates. They form groups at

these meetings based on which candi-

date they support. Candidates with a

certain percentage of supporters earn

delegates. This year, the Iowa Demo-

cratic Party allowed voters to partici-

pate online, but this process had

technical glitches that delayed the

results by weeks.

When will the parties choose

their nominees?

State parties will send delegates to

national conventions, where they will

nominate one person for the Demo-

cratic Party and one person for the

Republican Party. Democrats will

meet for this purpose in mid-July;

Republicans in late August. The nom-

inees will also announce, if they ha-

ven’t already, who will run with them

as vice president.

By late August, many voters will

focus on just the two people chosen by

the major parties. A choice of two may

seem easy, but it’s an important deci-

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You might get adults thinking that the

next generation of voters already has

voices that need to be heard.

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electIon 2020

Amy Klobuchar

u.s. senator,

Minnesota

elizabeth Warren

u.s. senator,

Massachusetts

bill Weld

former governor,

Massachusetts

donald trump

President

tulsi Gabbard

u.s. representative,

Hawaii

Joe biden

former vice

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bernie sanders

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mike bloomberg

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don’t vote, however. In 2016, only 61.6

percent of eligible voters cast ballots,

according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Adapted from an

online discussion.

Dear Carolyn:

My daughter, 17,

has a boyfriend in

her class. They’ve

been together for

about a year. He is

a very nice kid,

and I think in some ways they

are good for each other. Ye t my

daughter, who is a very feeling

and open person, tells me daily

about all their relationship

issues: miscommunications, her

feelings of rejection when he

pulls away from her, her feelings

of guilt when she pulls away

from him, personality clashes

between him and her girlfriends

... the list goes on.
She also talks about all the
work she does to stay with him
even when it’s hard. She seems
to feel there is something
inherently noble or virtuous in
staying in a difficult
relationship.
If they were much older and
married or had kids, I would
agree with that, but I don’t see
much value in a teenage
relationship that isn’t lots of fun.
She often asks me to listen or
advise about her relationship. I
don’t want to belittle her or the
relationship. How do I advise?
— Listener

Listener: You’ve got all the right

ideas, it sounds like, and just

need to air them strategically:

“You seem to feel there is

something inherently noble or

virtuous in staying in a difficult

relationship. Fair?” Then listen.

You can also ask: “What if

you’re just not well suited to

each other? Can’t a really great

person still not be great for

you?”

Your job is mostly to listen,

but it’s okay to nudge her

understanding along with open-

ended questions. High school

relationships can be so

emotionally instructive that it’s

best not to impose yourself too

strongly on their inner workings.

Again — listen, ask deeper-

thought-prompting questions

when she gives you room to, set

good examples at home and let

her figure herself out.

A relationship that’s

dangerously unhealthy, though,

warrants more forceful

involvement.

Hi, Carolyn: I’m scared to tell

my mother I want to start

therapy. I worked with a

therapist briefly when I was 15

(I’m 18 now and still living at

home) because my depression

spiraled to the point where I was

suicidal. I stopped for a number

of reasons, not the least of which

was that my mother tended to

use it as a weapon against me —

say, when I couldn’t even get out

of bed, making snappish

remarks about how my therapist

would want me to try harder to

do housework. I quit therapy,

slowly got worse and genuinely

did not think I would survive.

But I did! And I’m going to

college in the fall!

I’m in a much better place

now, but I want to thrive, not

just get by. You’ve advised people

to let their loved ones help them

with calls/appointments/etc., but

I’m terrified of repeating what

happened when I was 15.

Thoughts?

— Secretive

Secretive: Good for you for

getting yourself to this point.

Is there a friend who can help

you make calls? Favorite

teacher? Aunt or uncle?

Identifying your “people” is a big

part of staying healthy. You can

also, presumably, just call your

old therapist for advice. That

puts the bar much lower for a

first step.

So does college, generally —

get a jump on it now, and see

what your school offers. Ta ke

care.

Write to carolyn Hax at

[email protected]. get her

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A daughter caught in a bad romance

Carolyn

Hax

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