KenKen® is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. © 2020 http://www.KENKEN.com. All rights reserved.down the construction, slowing the traffi c and
reversing the small gains business owners enjoyed
in September and October. Already there were
troubling signs: In one week in late October,
health offi cials reported a 20 percent rise in new
infections across the state, along with a corre-
sponding rise in hospitalizations.
Even if the numbers sink back down through
the remainder of the fall and winter, for many
residents, the damage has been done. To tenants
who owe thousands in back rent to their landlords,
to the former employees of shuttered hotels and
restaurants, to the children of low-income fami-
lies, who often do not have the Wi-Fi or laptops
needed to attend remote-learning sessions and
are frequently conscripted into babysitting sib-
lings while their parents work. ‘‘I think we made
a trade-off , and now we’re living with the conse-
quences,’’ Cohen Morris told me. ‘‘We didn’t want
to close our bars or our movie theaters. It was like,
‘Hey, maybe if we reopen and pretend everything
is going to be OK, maybe that will make it OK.’
Instead of doing what we needed to do, which was
to hunker down. And now you’ve got an already
vulnerable population that has been made even
more vulnerable.’’
Researchers are only beginning to understand
the eff ects of the pandemic and the offi cial han-
dling of it on small businesses, but here, too, the
early fi ndings are grim. Robert Fairlie, an eco-
nomics professor at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, recently published a study trying to
gauge the pandemic’s eff ect on small businesses
in The Journal of Economics and Management
Strategy. Working from U.S. Census data, he found
that the number of active business owners in the
country fell by 22 percent between February andApril — and immigrant business owners fared
much worse, decreasing by 36 percent. Though
many returned to work by June, the numbers still
remained 18 percent below what they had been.
Among the demographics Fairlie surveyed, only
Black business owners fared slightly worse. The
collapse of negotiations between the White House
and Congress over a second round of stimulus
funding, meanwhile, has not only precluded the
possibility of further P.P.P. loans but also produced
problems for business owners who received the
fi rst round. There is little clarity over how the loans
are to be taxed and how businesses that are still
struggling can apply to have them forgiven.
When I went to Monsoon Masala for the last
time, in October, the dining room was cold and
dark. Alam emerged from the kitchen wearing a
mask embroidered with a bear’s nose and whis-
kers — a gift from his daughter. ‘‘I’d give it to you,’’
he said, when I admired it, ‘‘but it has my germs.’’
We sat down at one of the tables. Alam slid a
saltshaker back and forth between his hands. How
was his wife? ‘‘Good,’’ Alam said. ‘‘OK.’’ Then he
corrected himself. ‘‘Bad. We have the same con-
versation almost every day. What to do? What to
do, what to do.’’
Just 10 months earlier, Alam was dreaming of
opening a second location of Monsoon Masala.
Now it was all he could do to keep the original
restaurant afl oat. He recalled that a few weeks ear-
lier, he and his business partners came up with a
last-ditch scheme: Half the space would remain
a restaurant. The other half would be converted
into a combination hookah lounge and bar. They’d
written up a plan and submitted it to their land-
lord. The landlord refused on account of a county
ordinance — the space wasn’t big enough. The far
corner of the restaurant was still roped off.
‘‘Work in progress for better tomorrow,’’ a sign
read. ‘‘Visit again.’’49Georgia
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Fill the grid 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.
A 5x5 grid will use the digits 1–5. A 7x7 grid will use 1–7.
KENKEN
SPELLING BEEBiannually (3 points). Also: Alibi, allay, annual, annually,annul, banal, bialy, biannual, billy, blini, bubbly, bully,inlay, labia, labial, lanai, lullaby. If you found otherlegitimate dictionary words in the beehive, feel free toinclude them in your score.KENKENAnswers to puzzles of 11.1.20Answers to puzzle on Page 48WEST-SOUTHWEST
ONS T AR I CU E B E R T CHUG
REPOSE RAG XAXES ROME
SWA YU PH I GH QUANT A S I N
EMT S ODE SUMME R SWE AR
RESTAPLE POI SWANLAKE
ORA L S ORSO S PA
SWARMR E C E P T I ON S P I T E S
AONE TREND THOR SNARK
MENS CH D I K E ROC T E R I
S EADOVE A IWA OBOE
FORWANTOFABETTERSWORD
OPER OEUF OTHE L LO
ARTY NAS OB I E SUPERB
MAR E S ME AN C E L I A O L A Y
SHORTU SPARKL I NGSWI NE
ANY ACUE E L AT E
ISCARIOT CDT SANDREEF
SWE P T FOR J OY S T Y DANO
LILI OHYOU SWISHLISTS
APTS ROS IN HAL SEVERS
ME SH MOT E T AT L T I EDY EON-SET EXTRAS YIN-YANG
Beverages: Cola, juice, water
Dances: Conga, minuet, tango
Fabrics: Rayon, satin, tweed
Fish: Carp, tuna, trout
Fruit: Banana, lime, plum
Greek letters: Beta, gamma, sigma
Musical instruments: Flute, piano, tuba
Numbers: Eight, nine, forty
Precipitation: Hail, rain, snow
Relatives: Aunt, cousin, sisterACROSS: 1. anag. recipe 5.
or + chard 9. che(Erie)st 10.
possess – ss 11. lat(T)e 12.
a + band + one + d 13. d. +
allied 15. anag. Teheran 17.
dam + ages 19. anag. sisters
21. anag. in dens see 23. R
+ hone 25. l + airs 26. per +
tinent (rev. rep; anag. intent)
27. homophone cygnets 28.
ens(n)are (anag. Serena)
DOWN: 1. pick + led 2. ere + ct. 3. car + eening (anag.
engine) 4. ste + ward (anag. set) 5. out(R )age 6. cup + ID
7. hidden tabs in these 8. Dr. + esden (anag. needs) 14.
slumbering – s 16. rest + rains 17. D + angles 18. s(her)pas
19. re + serve 20. she + at + he 22. initials impose some
sanctions upon English 24. rev. a + repoCRYPTIC CROSSWORD
PIERCESORCHARD
CHEERI ESTIRATUUBRPOSSE
KCEWR I I S
LATTEABANDONED
ENRGTE
DAL L I EDUN EARTHENE E
DAMAGES RESISTS
AB HET H
NEED I NESS RHONE
GRSREAPALA I RSPERT I NENT
ENUAVNRH
S I GNETS ENSNARE