The Washington Post - USA (2022-04-25)

C10 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST.MONDAY, APRIL 25 , 2022

ACROSS

1 Reminders of

past surgeries

6 Starting squad

11 Lousy

14 Three-time

WNBA All-Star

Quigley

15 Scrapbook

adhesive

16 Deeply regret

17 *Important

figure in sports

betting

19 Ideological suffix

20 Loafer

adornment

21 Isn’t honest with

23 Cherry bomb’s

“stem”

24 *Party pooper

27 Twistable

cookies

29 Sailor’s realm

30 “Chicago” actor

Richard

31 Consequence

33 Adapter letters

36 Journalist

Koppel

37 *Record

submitted to

payroll

40 Yoga surface

43 White part of a

citrus rind

44 Marshy ground

48 Guinness who

was the first to

play Obi-Wan

Kenobi

50 “Chicago P.D.”

extra

52 Region of

ancient

Mesopotamia

53 *Paper for

doodling

57 Pixar film

featuring a

guitar-playing

boy

58 Force into action

59 Chair for a new

parent

61 Sushi-grade

tuna

62 Does a daily

chore using the

elements at

the ends of the

answers to the

starred clues

66 Turn bad

67 Show to be true

68 Mighty mad

69 Sudsy quaff

70 Softens

71 Donkeys

DOWN

1 Sticky tree stuff

2 Debate-ending

procedure in the

Senate

3 False names

4 Wash lightly

5 Adjusts,

as a clock

6 Fruit for cider

7 Sticky roofing

stuff

8 Language suffix

9 In any way

10 “On the __”:

NPR show

about trends

in journalism

11 Cut of meat

used for corned

beef

12 Stark

13 Reduced in rank

18 Use needle and

thread

22 U.K. language

23 Word on a gift

tag

25 Spot for steeped

beverages

26 Composer J.S. __

28 Lingerie item

32 “OMG! Stop

talking!”

34 FDR or JFK,

partywise

35 Corporate VIPs

38 Engrave

39 Folks who

are in it for the

long haul?

40 Lash lengthener

41 Hand sanitizer

ingredient

42 Wood-eating

insect

45 Single-celled

creatures

46 Stash away

47 “No seats” sign

49 Lens cover

51 Analyzes

grammatically

54 Phoenix suburb

55 American Red

Cross founder

Barton

56 Small speck

60 Seed in some

healthy smoothies

63 Bout enders,

briefly

64 Night before

65 __ Moines, Iowa

LA TIMES CROSSWORD By Lynn Lempel

SATURDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION

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kidspost

Explore your yard, around your

front steps, in a favorite park, or in a

schoolyard. Find a place where you

can sit quietly to look and listen.

Focus on finding things you love —

bugs, butterflies, plants with berries

— but be open to finding the unex-

pected.

Daniel Morrisey, 10, and his broth-

er Than, 8, participated in last year’s

City Nature Challenge at Hidden

Pond park in Springfield. “There

were snakes everywhere!” Than said.

Using Seek, a free, kid-friendly app

created by iNaturalist, they were able

to identify the snakes they saw.

While exploring Kingman Island

in Southeast Washington, Faris

Nunn, 8, and her brother King, 5, saw

many plants and wildlife signs in one

small riverside area. A snail shell,

mushrooms, webbed footprints and

woodpecker-drilled holes in trees

were highlights. King discovered a

large pod and used Seek to quickly

identify it as an eastern black walnut.

Observation hints

Move slowly. “If you run along a

path, you could miss something

small like a bug, or slow like a snail,”

Faris said. She and King quietly ex-

plored along the shore so they

wouldn’t scare away ducks swim-

ming nearby.

Look under logs or in dried leaves

— but be careful. “Use a sturdy stick

and wear gloves when poking around

places like that,” said Faris, recalling

how she and King once saw a black

widow spider crawling in dead vege-

tation in their front yard.

Rather than including the actual

animal, your observations can show

evidence of wildlife such as foot-

prints, feathers, nests or scat (poop).

Gnawed tree stumps can indicate

nearby beavers. Faris and King found

snake skins, deer bones and fish

heads on previous explorations.

Recorded sounds of wildlife can

also be submitted, even if you can’t

see what is making the sound. For

example, vocalizations of birds or

deep-throated bellows of bullfrogs

can tell researchers what was nearby.

Remember, it’s fun to explore with

family or friends because everyone

has different talents. Some are better

at f inding bugs, some know bird calls,

some are good photographers. Each

can contribute to the challenge in

different ways.

For more information and Nature

Challenge-related events, visit city

naturechallengedc.org.

CHIP SAYS

On this day in 1990, NASA deployed the Hubble Space

Telescope. The Hubble, which orbits 340 miles above

the Earth, has made more than 1 million observations

of planets, stars and galaxies.

KIDSPOST.COM

See how people around the

world marked Earth Day in

our online photo gallery.

TODAY

The school week may start with

high temperatures reaching the

70s or 80s.

ILLUSTRATION BY EVAN BRODALKA, 7, ARLINGTON

BIRTHDAYS OF THE WEEK

MONDAY, APRIL 25

Arlington’s Violet Snyder (2014).

Chevy Chase’s Will Cronin (2012).

Comic book artist Albert Uderzo (1927).

Singer Ella Fitzgerald (1917).

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874).

TUESDAY, APRIL 26

Arlington’s Miriam Anderson (2011).

The Commanders’ Camaron Cheeseman

(1998).

Artist John James Audubon (1785).

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27

Washington’s Micah Toye (2011).

Aviator Sheila Scott (1922).

President Ulysses S. Grant (1822).

Inventor Samuel Morse (1791).

Women’s rights activist Mary

Wollstonecraft (1759).

THURSDAY, APRIL 28

Olney’s Alice Zimmerman (2011).

Justice Elena Kagan (1960).

Author Harper Lee (1926).

President James Monroe (1758).

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

Musician Duke Ellington (1899).

Newspaper publisher William Hearst

(1863).

Painter David Cox (1783).

SATURDAY, APRIL 30

Timonium’s Quin Koropecky (2015).

Springfield’s James Luby (2012).

Fairfax’s Tyler Long (2010).

The Capitals’ Brett Leason (1999).

Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939).

Mathematician Carl Gauss (1777).

SUNDAY, MAY 1

Tiktoker Charli D’Amelio (2004).

Broadcast journalist Max Robinson (1939).

Architect Benjamin Latrobe (1764).

Snyder

Cronin

Anderson

Toye

Z immerman

K oropecky

Long

Free apps for nature

exploration

Seek: For those younger than 13. No

login or account required, safe for kids,

and the photos stay on your device. Will

not count for the Nature Challenge

unless a parent with an iNaturalist

account uploads them to that app.

iNaturalist.org: Must be 13 or older to

have an account. Observers post their

best photos for verification. Location

information can be public with

iNaturalist, obscured or marked private.

ANN CAMERON SIEGAL

T he City Nature Challenge i nvites kids to photograph plants and animals to help scientists research l ocal species.

Daniel Morrisey, rear, and h is brother Than inspect an area in Alexandria that has diverse plants and w ildlife.

BY ANN CAMERON SIEGAL

I

n 2020, a teen photographed a

“white-spotted slimy salaman-

der” under a log in Arlington.

While not endangered, this spe-

cies hadn’t been documented in

that county for 45 years.

Finding an amphibian that was

undetected for so long was valuable

to scientists studying its habitat

changes.

Between April 29 and May 2, City

Nature Challenge a ims to see how

many plant and animal species

D.C.-area residents can find and pho-

tograph. From May 3 to 8, partici-

pants then help verify information

and identification for images upload-

ed to the website iNaturalist.org.

Once documented, those sightings

become “research grade” — recom-

mended for use by scientists.

The United States is just one of

dozens of countries participating.

“The City Nature Challenge is sci-

entific research — global data collec-

tion — done by the general public

rather than by professionals,” said

Alonso Abugattas, a naturalist and

environmental educator who writes

the Capital Naturalist blog.

How to explore

The nature challenge takes place

anywhere wild plants, animals and

fungi live naturally. (Don’t use your

pets or garden plants.)

In City Nature Challenge,

anyone can be a scientist

Birthday announcements are for ages 6 to 13 and are

printed on a first-come, first-served basis. They do not

appear online. A parent or legal guardian must give

permission. We need photos at least three weeks

ahead of publication. We need names (if photos are not

desired) at least a week before publication. Fill out the

online form at wapo.st/kidspostbirthdays. We are

temporarily unable to accept mailed submissions.

Questions? Contact [email protected].

No, it is just what you say it

is: a quick way of registering

sympathy without the trouble of

offering personal comfort by

writing about what the deceased

person meant to you. If you

really felt terrible about tossing

this off, you wouldn’t grudge the

extra few minutes it takes to

write.

Dear Miss Manners: As the

mother of the bride, I

understand that it is my place to

host the bridal shower. That

said, what other etiquette is

associated with this role, and

when do I involve the

bridesmaids and maid of honor?

Such matters need not trouble

you, as you have been

misinformed about the basic

premise. Miss Manners

reassures you that it is not the

place of the bride’s mother to

give her daughter a shower, but

only to be appreciative if the

bride’s friends decide to do so.

New Miss Manners columns are

posted Monday through Saturday on

washingtonpost.com/advice. You can

send questions to Miss Manners at

her website, missmanners.com. You

can also follow her

@RealMissManners.

© 2022 by Judith Martin

behavior occurs in restaurants

as well, even though those

posting are merely consuming

the meal and did not produce it.

I hungrily await your judgment.

It will be in your favor. Miss

Manners hereby declares that

photographing a meal

constitutes consuming it, in the

sense of feeding on its aesthetic.

You may begin to eat.

Dear Miss Manners: As much

as I love to write and receive

handwritten letters, I have

become so busy I have begun to

use websites that send e-cards

rather than just not sending

anything. I sent a sympathy e-

card to a 20-something, figuring

he was too young to remember

when snail mail was the norm.

I did feel terribly guilty for

being so lazy. Would you say it is

in terribly bad taste to send a

sympathy e-card?

Your repeated use of the word

“terribly” leads Miss Manners to

believe that you are

exaggerating in the hope of

being excused on the grounds of

feeling anguish at deviating

from the proper standard. Or

that you are trying to make Miss

Manners look silly for

considering this to be a serious

infraction.

Dear Miss

Manners: I

understand and

observe the rule

that one should

wait for everyone

at the table to be

served before one

starts eating,

unless the not-

yet-served parties demur and

urge others to eat.

Is it also considered

necessary to wait until others

have photographed their meal

and posted it to social media?

This issue arises for me not in

restaurants, but at home. My

husband and I split cooking

duties, so we each cook on

different nights. He tends to

make elaborate, time-

consuming spreads, of which he

is justifiably proud. So he shares

photos of the plated results on

social media, along with a

paragraph of explanation about

the ingredients and preparation.

Meanwhile, I sit hungrily,

watching my food grow cold. He

considers it impolite if I start

eating before he is also ready to

pick up his fork or chopsticks.

I believe that once we are

both served, it is up to each

person to decide how to proceed

— whether to dive into the meal

or to conduct a photo shoot.

I have observed that this

Should I wait to eat while my husband

takes meal photos for social media?

Miss

Manners

JUDITH

MARTIN,

JACOBINA

MARTIN AND

NICHOLAS

IVOR MARTIN

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