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C10 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST.THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 , 2019

ACROSS
1 Isla surrounder

5 Real cutup
10 Italian volcano

14 TV series that
had flashbacks,
flash-forwards
and multiple
timelines
15 Kemper of
“The Office”
16 Tr uant GI

17 *Brain trust
member

19 Meander
20 Afflicted with
illness, say
21 Gastric woe

22 *Nixon’s cocker
spaniel

25 PC key
26 Reel Big Fish
music genre
29 Pigs out (on)

30 Flying frenemy
of Godzilla

32 “Beaten” ways
34 One who is
rotten to the
core?

37 Quartet member
38 *Influential
record company
named for
co-founding
brothers Leonard
and Phil
40 Serb or Croat

41 Went over
again and
again
43 Razz

44 Geometric
given

45 Ox tail?
47 Hankering

48 To ward the stern
50 *Playful question
spoiled by
caller ID

53 2010 Supreme
Court appointee

55 Shows
derision for

59 Boast
60 *The USS
Iowa, e.g.
62 Toon mail-order
company
63 Be of use to

64 Sty sound
65 Swamp stalk

66 “Aw, fudge!”
67 Corddry of TV’s
“Mom”

DOWN

1 Help for the

needy

2 Animal on

the Cubs’

20 16 World

Series rings

3 Space Race inits.

4 Room often with

a slanted ceiling

5 Pulled quickly

6 Early Mexicans

7 “Hogan’s

Heroes” colonel

8 German article

9 Crimson, e.g.

10 Bluegrass legend

Scruggs

11 With 28 -Down,

words to a

cheater ... or an

honest hint to

the answers to

starred clues

12 Original

13 At the ready

18 Heart

sonograms,

familiarly

21 Food safety

agcy.

23 Paleozoic and

Cenozoic

24 Retina cells

26 Exchange barbs

27 Curly cabbage

28 See 11-Down

31 Church area

33 The Cardiff

Giant, notably

34 __ Bath &

Beyond

35 Zap with

a beam

36 Equally

matched

38 __ En-lai

39 Iron-rich blood

pigment

42 Portent

43 Giggly sound

45 “Don’t you

agree?”

46 Resides

48 1556 -1605

Mogul emperor

49 Screwball

comedy

51 Celestial

red giant

52 Director Welles

54 Like good Scotch

56 LaBeouf of

“Transformers”

films

57 Informal

contraction

58 Toll rd.

60 Prohibition

61 “__ Maria”

LA TIMES CROSSWORD By Kristian House

WEDNESDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION

© 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 9/5/19

kidspost

The Washington
Redskins’ National
Football League (NFL)
season starts Sunday
with a game against the
Philadelphia Eagles.
But I don’t want to spend too much
time thinking about the Redskins.
Washington has a lot of problems this
season with a leaky offensive line, a lack
of proven playmakers and two new
quarterbacks (Case Keenum and
Dwayne Haskins).
My prediction is that the team will
win between three and six games this
season. Not too exciting.
So I would rather spend time
thinking about a more interesting
football question: Will a woman ever
play in the NFL?
Sports fans are asking this question
because soccer player Carli Lloyd, a
longtime member of the U.S. Women’s
National Te am, recently dropped by a
Philadelphia Eagles practice session.
The 37-year-old midfielder promptly
booted a 55-yard field goal.
Film of the kick became a YouTube
sensation with tens of thousands of
views. It has been reported that some
NFL teams were interested in
contacting Lloyd to try out as a place
kicker.
A couple things should be noted
about Lloyd’s kick. First, she took a four-
step approach to the ball (NFL place
kickers take only a two-step approach).
In addition, she wasn’t wearing football
pads, and there was no rusher coming at
her.
Still, the ball sailed high and true.
Fifty-five yards is not a little chip shot.
So could Lloyd become a real NFL place
kicker?
Lloyd is a terrific athlete who has
performed at the highest level of sports.
She has been an important member of
two World Cup championship teams, as
well as two Olympic gold medal teams.
Remember when Lloyd scored a hat
trick (three goals) in the 2015 World Cup
Final against Japan?
My guess is that she could handle the

pressure of kicking field goals in the

NFL.

But kickers in the NFL often do more

than kick field goals. They also kick off

and run down the field with the special

teams. They sometimes even have to

help tackle the kick returner.

Lloyd is listed at 5 feet 8 inches and

140 pounds. That’s a good size for a

female soccer player but small for the

NFL. For example, the Redskins’ place

kicker, Dustin Hopkins, is listed at 6 feet

2 inches and 205 pounds.

Size isn’t everything for a place

kicker. Garo Yepremian was only 5-foot-

8 and 175 pounds when he kicked for

the two-time Super Bowl champion

Miami Dolphins in the 1970s. More

recently, Cairo Santos kicked several

seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs, and

he was 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds.

And it doesn’t have to be Lloyd. More

girls are playing high school football.

One young woman, To ni Harris,

received a scholarship this year to play

football at Central Methodist University

(which plays in the National Association

of Intercollegiate Athletics). As for place

kickers, there must be a female soccer

player who has the ability to get the job

done in the pros. Someday, the NFL may

have a player named Carli... or Camila

... or Chloe.
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Fr ed Bowen writes the sports opinion column

for KidsPost. He is the author of 24 sports

books for kids. His latest book is “Speed

Demon.”

Carli’s football kick soared, but will the NFL ever hire women?

TODAY’S NEWS

Spared of danger from Hurricane

Dorian, people in South Florida are

donating water, food and household

supplies i n a relief effort led b y descen-

dants of some of Miami’s earliest set-

tlers from t he Bahamas.

Floridians showed up in droves

Tuesday to give c ans of food, water a nd

boxes of diapers to members of two

historically black churches who were

sorting them before they were to be

flown to the d evastated islands of A ba-

co and G rand Bahama.

Hurricane Dorian pounded the is-

lands with winds up to 185 miles per

hour and torrential r ain, ripping apart

homes and trapping people in their

attics.

“We have to channel all that anxiety

into something positive,” relief coordi-

nator Jonathan Archer said. Archer is

the former head of a parish in Long

Island, Bahamas. He’s now a member

of Christ Episcopal Church i n Miami.

Some of the volunteers were franti-

cally trying to text cousins, uncles,

aunts and nieces w ho braved the p ow-

erful s torm in t heir island h omes.

— A ssociated Press

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

People gather donations of food

and clothing at a church in Miami.

Florida residents

assist hurricane

victims in Bahamas

CHIP SAYS

It is National Cheese Pizza Day! How do

you fix a pizza?

With tomato paste.

TODAY

A cold front brings a cloudy and

cooler day, with high temperatures

in the 70 s and a chance of showers.

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U.S. Women’s National Team soccer player Carli Lloyd kicked a 55-yard field goal after a joint practice by the Philadelphia

Eagles and the Baltimore Ravens in August. Some NFL teams reportedly are interested in trying her out as a place kicker.

Adapted from a

recent online dis-

cussion.

Dear Carolyn:

My brother-in-

law and his wife

have struggled

with infertility

for years. I would

be willing to be a surrogate for

them. Is there any sensitive

way to make such an invasive

offer?

I suspect they would not

consider IVF in any form for

religious reasons; even if they

did, they may prefer to use

someone else. I could accept any

decision gracefully. I just can’t

see any way to say, “Hey, if you

wanted, I would do this,” and

my husband is not especially

close to his brother.

Do I continue to keep my

nose out of it? I have two kids,

and do know what I would be

signing on for.

— Willing

Willing: What does your

husband think about this? For a

bunch of reasons, I think your

lovely, compassionate gesture

needs to start with him.

Assuming he’s even comfortable

with the idea, he is the best

person to raise the issue, in a

preliminary, brother-to-brother

talk.

Carolyn: My husband agrees

they are unlikely to consider it.

He thinks they have accepted

that they won’t have kids. I’m

not as certain, just because I

know how long some other

couples continue their struggles.

— (Still) Willing

(Still) Willing: I would follow

his lead on this, then, and stay

out of it.

Dear Carolyn: It came to light

yesterday that my mother-in-

law is lying about me joining

her with my husband for an

upcoming event. She has used

me as bait to get other family to

visit her in years past,

regardless of my actual plans or

presence for the festivities. A

truth-seeker among the in-laws

asked me if I were REALLY

going to be there; it sounded

like I had told my mother-in-law

to count on me being there but

had dropped them last minute.

I have gone ultralow contact

with my husband’s family —

because they tattle — so it

would be awkward to write to

them all that “I won’t be there

... again... because of your
mother’s behavior,” but I would
love to. Address the lie or the
liar? Ignore both?
— Anonymous

Anonymous: If they’re acting as

“truth-seekers,” t hen they’re on

to your mother-in-law’s lies, no?

Possible? No need to share a

difficult truth that’s out there

for all to see.

Regardless, the answer is

just to do your thing as if

there were no weirdness going

on. That includes: making

your own plans; sharing your

plans matter-of-factly with

people; responding to

questions about your plans

with the straight-up truth:

“No, we won’t be there....

She said we agreed to go and

then backed out? Strange —

we told her months ago that

we had other plans.”

Then, respond to any fallout

with the kind of plain

statement you would use with

logical people: “There must

have been a misunderstanding.

I’ll make sure to tell you

directly next time, if you’d like.”

The answer to weirdness in

general — baiting,

manipulating, lying, guilting,

throwing tantrums — is to be

aggressively unweird. And

unaggressive. Good luck.

Wr ite to Carolyn Hax at

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She wants to o≠er her womb, but...

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