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ACROSS
1 Former Yankee
slugger,
familiarly
5 Barrel of laughs
9 “Joy of
Cooking” writer
Rombauer
13 Take away
15 Skeleton prefix
16 Is sorry about
17 *Chilled
caffeinated
drink
19 __-lock brakes
20 Pt. of HDTV
21 __ facto
22 “Moby-Dick”
ship
24 Slim woodwind
26 Not well
27 “Star Wars”
pilot Dameron
28 *Cold War
barrier
32 Blueprints
33 Orderly
34 Comply with
38 Frying liquids
39 Holy book
40 Small valley
41 Ward on “FBI”
42 Brazilian berry
43 Medicinal units
44 *Close-knit,
influential
group
47 Legal org.
50 Lummox
51 Peters out
52 Tearjerker
featuring Anna
Chlumsky in
her feature-film
debut
54 Ceramics oven
56 “__ the
season ...”
59 Radar screen
spot
60 *English
name of a
West African
republic
63 Refrain
syllables
64 Majorino of
“Veronica Mars”
65 Cosmetician
Lauder
66 Meadow moms
67 Affirmative
votes
68 Pass (through)
slowlyDOWN
1 In the thick of
2 Risotto grain
3 Part of the
Three Muske-
teers’ credo
4 Lemon
5 NFL officials
6 The 411
7 “__ of Girls’
Things”: poem
by Sharon Olds
8 Metal tab that
protects a shoe
9 Baghdad’s
country
10 Accumulate,
as charges
11 “Same here!”
12 “All kidding
__ ...”
14 Descendants
18 Oil cartel
acronym
23 “Riverdale”
actor Goree
25 Tiny potted tree
26 Slanted, as a
typeface
28 1970s tennis
star Nastase
29 Worldwide
humanitarian
gp.30 Concrete-
reinforcing rod
31 “Sorry, can’t
help ya”
32 Spots to buy
stamps: Abbr.
35 Mid-American
Conference
university in
Indiana
36 Actress Fanning
37 “Of course!”39 Triteness
43 Royal son
45 Fin. neighbor
46 In a lazy way
47 Saunter
48 Internal regula-
tion for a club
49 Nimble
53 Hoppy brews,
briefly
54 Beer company
based in Hawaii55 Some nest
eggs, for short
57 Words of
comprehension,
and a phonetic
hint for the
answers to the
starred clues
58 Dance move
61 “C’est la __!”
62 CIA
predecessorLA TIMES CROSSWORD By Robert E.L. Morris
SATURDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION© 2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 5/2/22
input. Do you intend changes
(moving, for example)? If so,
maybe the bending needs to be
on your end.
l Deploy the internal
ultimatum — something I picked
up from reading this column and
use fairly often in my own life.
Think about the drop-dead last
age you are comfortable starting
a family. Then figure out what
window of time you want to try
to conceive (Six months? One
year? Two years?). That tells you
the deadline by which your
husband needs to decide on kids.
If he hasn’t told you by then, you
freeze your eggs and also walk
away, whether toward solo
parenthood or finding a more
aligned partner. Don’t threaten
your husband with this deadline,
simply repeat what you want: to
start building a family today. But
know inside when you will pick
up and leave, and if that time
comes don’t be afraid to do it.
It sounds like your husband
doesn’t want kids — maybe he’s
afraid you’ll leave him if he
admits that.Write to Carolyn Hax at
[email protected]. Get her
column delivered to your inbox each
morning at wapo.st/gethax. Join the discussion live at noon
Fridays at washingtonpost.com/live-
chats.without his help, but I don’t
know how okay it is ethically. I
lie awake worrying about this
more nights than I don’t. What
should I do?
— AwakeAwake: Ugh. What is the mental
block people have with fertility
math. It’s not complicated: 2 + 2
= stop freaking stalling as if you
have forever.
What you do is stick to your
message no matter how hard he
works to knock you off it: “We
will need frozen eggs if you drag
your feet right past my fertility
expiration date. And you don’t
get to decide when that
expiration date is. And stop
trying to change the subject by
getting defensive.”
This is a good time to suggest
you both say back to each other
what you think the other person
is saying. Sounds like each of you
doesn’t feel heard.
And if he keeps playing three-
egg monte with you, then maybe
he’ll turn out to have been right
about your splitting up to trade
up, only in a self-fulfilling-
prophetic kind of way.
Readers’ thoughts:
l Just in case: I would caution
you to not overlook his concerns.
Do you have a plan for
incorporating the kid into your
existing life? If so, share it and
make sure you are getting hisAdapted from an
online discussion.Hi Carolyn: I’m
34, and my
husband is 33.
Married for four
years. When we
got together, we
both wanted kids,
no question. Now, my husband is
not sure parenthood is
compatible with our lifestyle —
demanding jobs we’re both
devoted to, mostly childless
friends, live in a kid-unfriendly
area. I still want kids.
He had promised me he would
commit to a decision by this
summer, but he now says,
because of the pandemic, he
hasn't been able to give it the
mental energy it deserves.
Meanwhile, I'll be 35 in a couple
months and am acutely aware of
what that means.
I would very much regret not
having children. I'm also aware
that he may have forever to
decide, but I don't, and so I have
been thinking about freezing
eggs.
My research about it offends
him. He thinks that if he decides
he wants kids, then we don't
need frozen eggs; and if he
decides he doesn't, then my
freezing eggs is a way of implying
we will eventually split up.
Financially, I can do it with orHusband is stalling on having kidsbut upset that wife might freeze eggsCarolyn
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