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1. Video blogger’s aid 7. Batting avgs., e.g. 11. Grads-to-be: Abbr. 14. Microscopic life form 15. World War I, World War II, etc. 16. “Who woulda thunk ...?” 17. Walk-through on a real estate site, say 19. Bonobo, e.g. 20. Gaelic language 21. Demeanors 22. ____-Ball (carnival attraction) 23. Lead-in to “la-la” 25. The “me” of “Despicable Me” 26. Prompts 27. U.S. moniker for Canada 31. Question of faux indignation 32. Pull-up muscle, for short 33. Material for fine sheets 34. Scam artists 36. Not the ritziest area of town 40. Actress Blanchett 42. Corp. head 43. Something often lent, but never returned 44. Presidential appointments 49. “Sicko Mode” rapper Travis ____ 50. Lawn starter 51. Put a burden on 52. Common knee injury sites: Abbr. 53. Fished for congers, e.g. 55. Norse explorer Ericson 58. “The Confessions of ____ Turner” (1967 Pulitzer-winning novel) 59. What small kids are often told to use at a restaurant or museum ... or what 17-, 27- and 44-Across each have 61. Ascot, e.g. 62. “____ Eyes” (Eagles hit of 1975) 63. Try to make out 64. Conclusion 65. “Constant Craving” singer k.d. 66. Member of the grammar police, e.g.
1. Surfer’s need 2. Arab League dignitary 3. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Emmy winner Alex ____ 4. Et ____ 5. Friend of Genie in “Aladdin” 6. Title with an apostrophe 7. Russian czar known as “the Great” 8. Hybrid bakery offerings 9. Cross-shaped Greek letters 10. Kazakhstan, e.g., formerly: Abbr. 11. “Dear Mama” rapper 12. Grint who plays Ron in Harry Potter films 13. “The things I put up with!” 18. It travels at nearly 300 million meters per second 22. Bicycle wheel part 24. “Maybe even more” 26. George Carlin became the first one in ‘75 27. Acadia SUV maker 28. Outback hopper, informally 29. Wish list items 30. Peak in the Bernese Alps 35. Tests for future OBs 37. Longtime Yankees first baseman Mark 38. Pick 39. Surg. areas 41. Enters slowly 42. Like computer language 44. Four-time Pro Bowler ____ Samuel 45. ‘08 candidate 46. Took off in a hurry 47. Meting (out) 48. Angelic, in a way 53. Grammy winner who sometimes sings in Gaelic 54. “Pirates of the Caribbean” star 56. Confident words 57. “Star Wars” bounty hunter Boba 59. Under the weather 60. Geese formation
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Last week’s answers
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Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9. No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.
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Dry Times
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere begins on Tuesday, June 21, but many have already begun to enjoy it—heading out to Utah’s great outdoors or else nesting at home in their yards and gardens. Sadly, the 20-year-plus megadrought of the Southwest U.S. is ongoing. Even with the occasional rainstorms that come our way, we all need to hunker down and commit to conserving water.
Utahns have some of the cheapest water bills in the country, and it’s my humble opinion that if we were charged more for our water, we might get serious about conserving this precious gift of life.
I’ve checked out numerous websites to learn about saving water. One of them—slcgardenwise.com—is my favorite. Here are a few tips from my research: •If you use fertilizer, apply as little as possible on your lawn and gardens to get the job done. Make sure the fertilizer stays on the landscape and doesn’t run off into the gutters and pollute downstream. • It’s suggested we water our lawns between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.—especially when there’s no wind, because water can be lost to evaporation when it’s windy. • More harm is caused to plants and grass from overwatering than underwatering. • Don’t cut your grass too short. Taller grass doesn’t need as much water and tends to have healthier root systems. The longer the blades, the deeper the roots. • Use the right kind of sprinklers and irrigation systems for your landscape. • Consider water-efficient landscaping: Plant things that have similar water needs.
Other helpful websites include Utah State University’s cwel.usu.edu to help you plan for water-wise yards. And for tree care, visit www.slc.gov/parks/urban-forestry/
If you have a lawn or are thinking of putting one in, research what type of grass grows well in your zone. We all love Kentucky bluegrass in northern Utah, but there are new seed types that require less water.
Drought-affected cities like Las Vegas have gone so far as to require property owners to remove their turf, patch by patch. We haven’t outlawed lawns in Utah, but Washington County’s leaders are setting waterwise standards on new developments—from indoor appliances and car washes to how much lawn new homes can have.
The county gets most of its water from the Virgin River, which some believe is unreliable. The county has been seeking approval for a 140-mile water pipeline from Lake Powell to rapidly growing Washington County, but that plan is up in the air since the lake is drying up so fast.
To learn how to protect Utah’s water resources and find out about rebates to “flip your strip,” visit slowtheflow.org.
There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight for our Western drought. We can all do our part to save water—from simply not expecting water to be served at restaurants unless requested by guests or by consciously trying to not overwater our lawns and gardens and to conserve water where we can. n
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NEWS of the WEIRD
What Could Go Wrong?
More than 800 New Yorkers age 75 and older are going to get a new friend, The Verge reported. The New York State Office for the Aging is distributing robot companions named ElliQ, built by Israeli company Intuition Robotics, to help with social isolation—for example, engaging in small talk and helping contact loved ones. “It focuses on what matters to individuals: memories, life validation, interactions with friends and families,” said NYSOA director Greg Olsen. Intuition Robotics said ElliQ can project empathy and form bonds with users, even cracking jokes for users who tend to laugh a lot.
Fine Points of the Law
According to the Conrad Public School District in Conrad, Montana, there’s an old law on the books that stipulates that a school principal is responsible for feeding and tending a horse if a student rides it to school. On May 23, WTHR-TV reported, 12 students at Conrad High School put the statute to the test, riding their steeds up to the school and leaving them in the care of Principal Raymond DeBruycker throughout the school day. Apparently DeBruycker had no time to comment while he kept his charges watered and fed and (presumably) mucked the parking lot.
Goals
A man in Japan identified as Toko has spent almost $16,000 to make himself look like a collie, fulfilling his dream and depleting his savings in one fell swoop, Wionews reported. Toko contracted with a professional company called Zeppet, which makes sculptures and costumes for movies and amusement facilities, to create a costume that is extremely realistic. It took 40 days to build. “I made it a collie because it looks real when I put on,” Toko said. “Long-haired dogs can mislead the human figure. I met such a condition and made collie, my favorite breed of dog.”
Criminal No Longer on the Lam(b)
In South Sudan, inmates at a military camp have a new jailbird to get to know—or maybe that should be “jailsheep.” NBC Montana reported that a ram was arrested and convicted in May of murdering an African woman “by hitting her in the ribs and the old woman died immediately,” said police chief Major Elijah Mabor. “The owner is innocent, and the ram is the one who perpetrated the crime, so it deserves to be arrested.” However, the owner was also ordered to pay five cows to the victim’s family.
Weird Science
The Cambodian Ministry of Environment has taken to Facebook to plead with the public to stop picking a rare carnivorous plant known as a “pitcher plant” for the way it captures insects, Live Science reported on May 17. The plant, Nepenthes bokorensis, could be driven to extinction if people continue to harvest it, scientists warn. So why, you might ask, are people, particularly women, so drawn to picking the plants and having their photos taken with them? While the leaves are still developing, the mouths of the plants resemble men’s genitalia. “If people are interested, even in a funny way, to pose, to make selfies, with the plants, it’s fine,” said Francois Mey, a botanical illustrator. “Just do not pick the pitchers, because it weakens the plant.”
Lose Something?
Iberia Parish (Louisiana) Sheriff’s officers were called out at 3:30 a.m. on May 22 because of a house found abandoned on a trailer attached to a truck, KATC-TV reported. The rig was blocking the road, and signs, mailboxes and trees had been damaged along the street. In addition, power lines and poles had been hit, knocking out power to about 700 customers in the area. Deputies arrested Tony Domingue, 46, and Nico Comeaux, 32; they had been told they needed permits to move the home, but they went ahead and tried to do it on their own anyway. Both men were held at the Iberia Parish jail.
I’ll Have the Pasta
Florida International University recently published a three-year study of bonefish living off the South Florida coast that might make you rethink your entree order. The fish they studied averaged seven pharmaceutical drugs, with at least one containing 17 different substances, ClickOrlando.com reported. Lead researcher Jennifer Rehage said the drugs are entering the fisheries through the wastewater systems and include blood pressure medications, antidepressants, antibiotics and pain relievers, among other medicines. Researchers said the drugs could also be changing the fishes’ behavior, making them more susceptible to predators, or affecting their reproduction.
Suspicions Confirmed
Marilyn McMichael, 54, of Queens, New York, was reported missing in January by two of her foster sisters, Simone Best Jones and Sharman McElrath, WPIX-TV reported on May 24. They had not seen or heard from McMichael since June 2020, when she called them during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying she wanted to go to the hospital. McElrath said they did go to her apartment, but she didn’t come to the door. Best Jones said this wasn’t unusual for McMichael: “She wouldn’t talk to us for years, because she didn’t want to. She was particular—and peculiar.” When the sisters tried to file a missing person report in January, officials said they couldn’t because they weren’t next of kin. And police told them McMichael might have “been on vacation.” The sisters asked the building manager to go with them to the apartment, but when the master key didn’t work, “they never tried again,” Best Jones said. But on April 26, as New York City Housing Authority construction workers did maintenance on scaffolding outside her bedroom window, they saw McMichael’s skeleton on her bed. The sisters announced her death on Facebook: “We wanted her to have a voice through us, knowing ‘I was here, and I had a life on this Earth,’” McElrath said.
Bright Idea
Stephanie Kirchner, 33, a farmer who works at a stud farm near her home in Schupbach, Germany, has had to make some changes since gas prices have climbed in the wake of the war in Ukraine. Instead of riding to work in her Toyota SUV, she’s now riding a horse or driving a horse-drawn carriage to her job about 3 1/2 miles away. It makes what was once a 10- to 15-minute commute take up to an hour, the Associated Press reported, but she saves about $264 a month. She said children like the horses, but “humanity is hectic and then some people are annoyed if they can’t get past me fast enough.” Another downside: “I can’t put a horse in a parking garage.”
Honesty Is the Best Policy
After Michael Calvo, 51, of Cape Coral, Florida, crashed his semitruck into the back of a Publix grocery store in Haines City on May 26, he didn’t immediately get out of the cab because, he told an officer, he thought he was being pranked for a reality TV show. When the officer was able to remove Calvo from the truck, Fox13-TV reported, he asked if he had fallen asleep or suffered a medical emergency, to which Calvo answered, “I was smoking my meth pipe.” Calvo was arrested on multiple charges, although the deputy police chief did express his appreciation for Calvo’s honesty.
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