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ACROSS

1 Meat shaped

for a burger

6 Consider

10 Place to unwind

13 Sound before

“Bless you”

14 Food brand

for Fido

15 Visa competitor,

briefly

16 Like a wet day

17 “Deal me a

hand”

18 __ slaw

19 Nickname for

Elvis Presley

22 One rotation of

Earth on its axis

23 Up until now

24 “I’ll pay any

price!”

28 Nod off

31 Not hers

34 “We’re

having __!”:

retail come-on

35 Jupiter’s wife

36 Marriott rival

37 Nickname for

Ella Fitzgerald

40 Scarlett’s

plantation

41 Acme

42 “Nevermore!”

bird

43 Boy in “Star

Wars” prequel

films

44 Currier and __:

printmakers

45 Seth of “SNL”

46 Ring or

stud site

48 He wrote “The

42-Across”

49 Nickname for

James Brown

58 Funny Bombeck

59 A4 automaker

60 Scarlett’s last

name

61 Close by

62 Marvel Comics

mutants

63 Post-op therapy

64 2,000 pounds

65 Ain’t right?

66 Brutalizes

DOWN

1 Place to spread

a picnic blanket

2 Smoothie berry

3 Slender

4 Half a

barbecuer’s

pair

5 Up-and-down

weight loss

effort

6 Grocery section

with milk

7 Red Muppet

8 “Lawrence of

Arabia,” e.g.

9 2000s

OCD-afflicted

TV sleuth

10 Often sarcastic

“Nice one!”

11 __-mell:

disorderly

12 Ice skater’s

jump

15 Property

measure

20 White part of

beef

21 “Science Guy”

Bill

24 1990s

commerce

pact acronym

25 Thai or Laotian

26 He’s not single

27 Film lioness

28 Fellas

29 Banded

gemstone

30 Place to

observe animals

32 __ circle:

group of close

advisers

3 3 Omens

35 Joke

36 “__, can

you see ...”

38 Loo

39 Having an

irregular design

44 “Roth”

investment

45 Bovine sound

47 Not at all

close by

48 Make a hard

copy of

49 Fellow

50 Black-and-white

treat

51 Uber alternative

52 Runs smoothly

53 Blissful Genesis

place

54 New York stadi-

um dismantled

in 2009

55 Honolulu’s

island

56 Eurasia’s __

Mountains

57 Chocolate dogs

LA TIMES CROSSWORD By Kevin Christian

SATURDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION

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BY DARA ELASFAR

A

s the summer tempera-

tures reached their peak,

our KidsPost readers

cooled off at the highest

peaks of some popu-

lar mountains. Ayesha Alif, 12, of

Alexandria, Virginia, headed to

the Smoky Mountains and

reached the top of Clingmans

Dome in North Carolina. Cling-

mans Dome is the highest point

in Great Smoky Mountains Na-

tional Park at an elevation of

6,643 feet. Ayesha saw four states

from the top.

In New Hampshire, Tyler Ski-

bo, 10, and Morgan Skibo 13, of

Kensington, Maryland, climbed

the top of Mount Washington. It

takes about five hours to hike to

the top, so these sisters got help by

riding the cog. It is the world’s

first mountain-climbing cog rail-

way, taking three hours round

trip. They say the best part of their

trip was cheering on their grand-

father while he was hiking the

Appalachian Trail, which crosses

Mount Washington.

Harry Fishman, 10, and his

brother Sam Fishman, 13, of

Washington visited Cape Town,

South Africa, and saw Table

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BIRTHDAYS OF THE WEEK

MONDAY, AUGUST 26

Actress Melissa McCarthy (1970).

Mathematician Katherine Johnson

(1918).

TUESDAY, AUGUST 27

Arlington’s Gabriel Cohen (2008).

President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908).

Suffragist Katharine McCormick

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Actress Quvenzhané Wallis (2003).

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Business executive Sheryl Sandberg

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Children’s book illustrator Tasha Tudor

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Singer Liam Payne (1993).

Scientist Temple Grandin (1947).

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30

Fort Washington’s Imani Hooks

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Cheverly’s Sara Porcari (2007).

Bethesda’s Max Epstein (2006).

Singer Bebe Rexha (1989).

Racecar driver Bruce McLaren (1937).

Baseball player Ted Williams (1918).

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31

Richmond’s Helena Yellin (2012).

Silver Spring’s Eliza Cook (2008).

Actor Chris Tucker (1971).

Writer G. Willow Wilson (1982).

Educator Maria Montessori (1870).

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Rockville’s Santiago de Lucio (2009).

Actress Zendaya (1996).

Singer Gloria Estefan (1957).

Boxer Rocky Marciano (1923).

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Yellin

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de Lucio

Brothers, Harry

Fishman, left, 10,

and Sam Fishman,

13, of Washington

headed to Cape

Town, South Africa.

Behind them is Table

Mountain. Their

South African journey

took them to see

African penguins

frolicking on the

beach.

Tyler Skibo, 10, and

Morgan Skibo, 13, of

Kensington,

Maryland, went to the

top of Mount

Washington in New

Hampshire by taking

an old cog train.

FAMILY PHOTOS

Ayesha Alif, 12, of

Alexandria, Virginia,

went to the Smoky

Mountains in

Tennessee. It was a

memorable

experience for

Ayesha because she

got to see beautiful

views at an elevation

of over 6,000 feet.

From left to right,

Colin Perrell, 9, Trey

Perrell, 13, and JT

Perrell, 9, of

Gaithersburg,

Maryland, spent their

summer on the road.

Their family drove

through the Rocky

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visited Vancouver,

British Columbia, to

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numbers & facts are working

totally in the opposite direction,”

he charged in a Wednesday tweet.

Many consumers, like my friend

Alexandra who lives in Norfolk,

are fed up with following the

news.

“I’m considering tuning out

again,” she told me the other day

by phone as the Trump news

mounted and the burning of the

Amazon rainforest blazed on.

“This is spiritually debilitating.”

That’s an understandable

temptation. And, in truth, a news

break (until Labor Day?) might

not hurt.

But in general, citizens and the

press both need to stay vigilant.

And to remember that what

seems absurd can be

consequential. And that what

gets shunted aside, in favor of the

latest shiny object, might be the

most important of all.

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message, complete with a

requested selfie and emoji.)

“The fact that the president

just went back on his word to do

universal background checks

should be front page — and these

other moves by Trump are likely

designed to distract from that.”

He’s right. (And he’s also

correct in his analysis of “both

sides” journalistic failings by

some news organizations who

strive for neutrality rather than

fairness and truth.)

That prescription sounds easy

enough in theory. In practice,

when so much from Trump is

happening at the same time,

news organizations run the risk

of looking like they are obsessed

with him — or as if they are

setting out to attack him.

Even as Trump bedazzles the

news media, he blames it — one

of his favorite ploys, along with

distraction and dissembling.

“LameStream Media is doing

everything possible the ‘create’ a

U.S. recession, even though the

what was going on.

Columnist Michelle Goldberg

tweeted this pithy comment after

perusing her own paper’s home

page: “The front page of the NYT

right now looks like one of those

pre-election parodies about what

a Trump administration would be

like.” Among the headlines were

“N.R.A. Gets Results in One

Phone Call With the President”

and “Trump Accuses Jewish

Democrats of ‘Disloyalty,’ Inciting

Fierce Backlash” and a couple of

others on Greenland and the new

regulation that would let the

United States hold migrant

families indefinitely.

The Greenland story was

especially bizarre, and headlines

(“Trump postpones Denmark trip

after prime minister declines to

sell him Greenland”) brought

online cracks like this from

Columbia University journalism

professor William Grueskin: “I

give up,” says every editor at The

Onion.

There is, of course, no perfect

answer to how to cover this

madness. Some like to suggest

that the distractions be all but

ignored — that the press should

focus only on the policy.

But that’s not right either,

because their extreme nature

speaks volumes about the

suitability — and maybe the

mental stability — of the

president of the United States.

“These are episodes of what

would be called outright lunacy, if

they occurred in any other

setting,” wrote James Fallows in

the Atlantic.

Amid all this, it was heartening

to read some sensible media

criticism from an unaccustomed

source: a candidate for president.

In an interview with Ben

Smith, editor in chief of BuzzFeed

News, Texas Democrat Julián

Castro offered this perspective:

“In some ways, journalism in

the Trump era is more

challenging than ever. But it’s

especially important to stay

focused on newsworthiness and

not to let a fascination with

oddity, or simple timeliness,

overtake news judgment about

what’s important for readers,” he

wrote. (The interview was by text

SULLIVAN FROM C1

MARGARET SULLIVAN

Covering the Trump era is challenging,

but it is vital to stay the course

JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST

What are weekends and vacations again? President Trump was

behind several eye-popping news developments over the past week.

“The fact that the president just went back on his

word to do universal background checks should be

front page — and these other moves by Trump are

likely designed to distract from that.”

Julián Castro, Texas Democrat and presidential candidate