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HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR REFLECTS ONE YEAR AFTER TREE OF LIFE
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Rebecca Johnson Staff Writer
Shulamit Bastacky, a Squirrel Hill resident and Holocaust survivor, said she was touched when she saw her photograph on the Cathedral of Learning’s lawn as part of the “Lest We Forget” exhibit on Holocaust survivors — in particular when Chancellor Partick Gallagher noticed her picture. “I told the Chancellor, ‘Here I am. I survived. I accomplished something academically, professionally, and all those skinheads and neo-Nazis they are the losers, and I am the winner,’” Bastacky said. Bastacky returned Sunday evening to the William Pitt Union for the fourth annual installment of a Holocaust survivor lecture series organized by Alpha Epsilon Pi, one of Pitt’s Jewish fraternities. This year’s lecture was Bastacky’s second talk to Pitt students following a visit last year, this time speaking to a crowded Lower Lounge. Noah Rubin, the president of the fraternity, said that they invited Bastacky to return because of her inspirational speech last year and desire to speak again. “We brought her back from last year because she captivated the audience. People love her story, and they love her message,” Rubin, a senior political science and history double major, said. “She actually asked us if she could come back, and we were more than willing to have her.” Bastacky was born in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, on Aug. 25, 1941. Bastacky said 1941 was a year of upheaval for the Lithuanian Jewish community — there was a mass execution of Jews and a large relocation to concentration camps that affected many of Bastacky’s relatives. “70,000 of my fellow Jews were slaughtered execution style — men, women and children. It was absolutely horrible,” Bastacky said. “Many other Jews were taken to the camps, like some See Survivor on page 2
Junior forward Edward Kizza (09) hugs his teammate Jackson Walti (24) after Kizza put up the game winning goal in overtime. Thomas Yang assistant visual editor
HOMEWOOD CEC CELEBRATES ONE YEAR Martha Layne
ties,” Ellerbee said. “The collective is committed to seeing the quality of life improve for Within a year of its grand opening, more many people who look like me, and that gives than 4,500 Homewood community members me hope. I am thankful to play a part.” The Homewood Community Engagement have walked through the doors of Pitt’s community engagement center for one or more of Center, run by the University, celebrated its the 660 programs offered, according to direc- one-year anniversary on Oct. 18. This CEC, along with another future center in the Hill tor Daren Ellerbee. Ellerbee, a 2004 Pitt alumni with degrees District, are part of Pitt’s Neighborhood Comin communication and rhetoric and Africana mitments, a University movement to improve studies, said the opening of the center is a engagement with local communities through large step forward towards a better life for in- long-term partnerships. The University is making a minimum 15-year commitment, dividuals and the community alike. “Community practitioners like me have with a possible extension to at least 25 years, been and will continue to work collectively to to work with these communities on investaddress many of the inequities present in the ment, infrastructure, programming and staff. The Homewood CEC is a 20,000-squarelives of the region’s black population, including health, education and economic dispari- foot space that includes a science lab, a comStaff Writer
puter lab, first floor and lower level conference rooms, a seminar room, a classroom and an art gallery featuring work by local artists. These rooms are available for community and Pitt members to rent out. The center offers a variety of programs for Pitt and for residents of Homewood. For adults, the center offers career information sessions about employment opportunities at Pitt, data literacy and skills training and resources for local entrepreneurs to achieve success through Community Power and to Prosper. The Homewood CEC provides Pitt students, faculty and staff with a place to research and volunteer. There are also several programs for Homewood’s youth, including Camp BioE, a sumSee CEC on page 2
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of my close relatives. I will speak more on my father’s side than mother’s side. I choose not to speak of her ordeal since she passed away.” Bastacky, at just a few months old, was rescued by a Polish Roman Catholic nun who hid her in a basement for the first four years of her life. “I was hidden away in a cellar that isn’t like the ones many of you have in your nice homes. It was damp, dark, and there wasn’t much light. I was isolated, I couldn’t see anything or hear anything,” Bastacky said. “She risked her life, and was the one who provided a bit of human touch. She is an example of one individual who can make a difference.” When the war was over, Bastacky ended up in a Catholic orphanage. As a result of her isolation, Bastacky said she was left with severe injuries and was unrecognizable. Her parents, who survived the Holocaust after being forced to work at local labor camps, looked for Bastacky and were only able to recognize her because of a birthmark. “I was in a horrible health condition. I was malnourished, very underweight, deprived of sunlight and psychologically injured. I didn’t even respond to my original name,” Bastacky said. “My father knew that I had a birthmark. He knew what it was and where it was. That’s how he recognized me.” Bastacky moved to New York City in 1963 and eventually relocated to Squirrel Hill within Pittsburgh, where she learned to speak English and eventually completed high school, as well as undergraduate and graduate degrees at Pitt. Bastacky then pursued a career in social work, before retiring early to spread knowledge about
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anti-Semitism prevention through speaking engagements. Bastacky said she believes education, knowledge and love are the easiest ways to prevent antiSemitism. “Education is the only way to combat antiSemitism. Once you are educated you are able to fight with knowledge,” Bastacky said. “Words matter, what we say matters, what we do matters.” One year after the Tree of Life massacre, the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history, Bastacky said education about anti-Semitism is more important than ever. “It was very painful, it was very difficult as a member of the Pittsburgh Jewish community,” Bastacky said. “The only way to stop it is with education and kindness.” Claire Finnerty, a junior rehabilitation science major, said Bastacky’s talk showed her the struggles of Holocaust survivors, especially after attending a non-diverse high school. “I thought it was inspirational to say the least, and it definitely isn’t a common thing you can find very often,” Finnerty said. “This really opened my eyes. Coming from a non-diverse area and moving to Pittsburgh, so many people can share their stories and help the community.” Bastacky ended her talk by commenting on other crises happening around the world as well as the current political climate and the responsibility that she believes Jews have in helping those displaced people. “The state of intolerance and hate is being expressed politically. We can disagree, but we must disagree respectively,” Bastacky said. “We as Jews have a responsibility to help refugees. They are human beings, and this is what happened to us.”
CEC, pg. 1 mer camp that introduces middle and high schoolers to bioengineering, Manhood 2.0, a program that educates boys about respect, nonviolence and healthy sexuality, and the SPIN Project, which offers leadership opportunities for youth to make a difference in their community. The CEC has an advisory council comprised of 79 members of the Pitt, Homewood and Hill District communities, allowing for continuous input from community members regarding the center and its programs. George Muirhead, a junior political science major and community assistant with Homewood Community Sports — a local organization that provides kids with various athletic experiences as well as mentorship — said the Homewood CEC provides a place for kids of all backgrounds and from all over the community to come together and interact in friendly competition. “It brings the community together. It’s a place where there’s no rivalries, especially with Homewood Community Sports,” Muirhead said. “It’s just you bring your kids from that side of the neighborhood, and I’ll bring my kids from this side of the neighborhood. We’ll eat hotdogs while they’re out there having fun, playing football.” After careful evaluation, the Homewood neighborhood was selected by not just Pitt administration but by the residents themselves. After hosting town halls and community meetings, Homewood extended an invitation to Pitt to implement the CEC. In addition to the invitation, with collaborative efforts from Pitt, the Homewood community created a resource, Online Orientation and Preparation: Homewood, for Pitt faculty, students and staff who are working with the community. Kate Honan, a sophomore chemical engineering major and a current community assistant at Homewood-Brushton YMCA, said the close partnership between Pitt and Homewood is what makes the CEC program especially influential to the community. “It’s not Pitt coming in and telling Homewood ‘This is what we’re going to do.’ It’s Pitt coming in and saying ‘Let us work with you.
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Let us offer you our resources to you, so that you can do what you feel like you need to do,’” Honan said. “It’s just really trying to become an integral part of the community to make sure that we can support Homewood as best we can on their terms.” Future plans for the center consist of “Phase 2,” with “Phase 1” being the establishment of the main center. Phase 2 is an adjacent wellness pavilion, with plans for the opening in January 2020. Elizabeth Steiner, a student ambassador with the Homewood CEC, said the wellness pavilion will not be a competitor for local health centers but an expansion upon them. Plans include a kitchen for nutrition classes, physical and occupational therapy offered by the School of Health and Rehab Science and medication consultations run by pharmacy students. As an added measure to support the community on Homewood’s terms, the University did not purchase the property that the CEC is located in, but rather rented the facility from a local church. Lina Dostilio, the associate vice chancellor for community engagement, said Pitt made the intentional decision to rent instead of buy. “We, in many conversations with our community partners, talked about neighborhoods wanting to retain ownership of their facilities and their land,” Dostillo said. “We felt that was important for us to invest in a community asset, and to be a partner in that.” Pitt doesn’t intend to stop with Homewood though, as plans of a CEC in the Hill District are already underway for an opening in the near future. Dostilio said that it is the responsibility of the University and students to work towards bettering the communities around them. “Higher education has a civic purpose. We have a tremendous opportunity to come together and really build long lasting change — for individuals and for the community, for the City and even for our region,” Dostilio said. “When we get engaged in community work, it completes us. It helps the University of Pittsburgh, to truly be a university of Pittsburgh.”
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Clothing habits can help mental health Grace McGinness Staff Columnist
College is supposed to be the greatest years of our lives, though mental health statistics certainly don’t reflect that. There’s been a rising prevalence of mental health issues among college students in recent years. The increase in diagnosis of major depression and anxiety disorders could be a natural outcome of spreading awareness and acceptance of mental health, but the trend has become significant enough that some medical professionals consider it a crisis. Many stressors can pick away at a person’s mental health, but an unexpected factor may just be lurking in our own closets. And it’s not skeletons. Research has found that clothes are not only a good tool for self expression, but also have subtle effects on their wearer’s mental health. Donning a Superman T-shirt can make a person feel stronger and more likeable to others. And wearing uncomfortable clothes — like jeans that are too small — leads people to perform worse at stressful, high-performance tasks like taking a math test. As someone who proudly wears pajama pants to 9 a.m. lectures, I know that even putting on leggings is often easier said than done. Still, students should consider the ways in which they dress — not because of what others may think, but simply because it could help them feel a bit better on a day-to-day basis. While it is certainly clear that stained sweatpants are not the cause of depression across the nation, students shouldn’t underestimate the power that griminess can hold over one’s mood. Our clothes contribute to our self-image, or how we view ourselves as a person in comparison to others, and our self-image heavily impacts our self-esteem. If we don’t like our self-image, we have lower self-esteem, which is one of the contributors toward developing a depressed mood. This is not a call for making model-runway, conventional fashion the norm across campus. There shouldn’t really be any standard that people stress over to achieve, but students should
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put some more thought into how their clothes really make them feel and what feels good to them. But don’t worry about your wallet — taking control of your clothes doesn’t necessarily mean buying an entirely new wardrobe at all. Most people are secret hoarders when it comes to their closets. We only wear about 20% of our clothes regularly, according to the Wall Street Journal. While there are certainly pieces packed away in there for specific occasions, there are probably more items that are just wasting away. Curating your closet is a small routine that can reap large rewards. Go through the closet and get rid of the clothes that no longer fit — or more importantly, that you don’t like to wear anymore, or never really liked in the first place. Rather than fashion, students should consider what style of clothes makes them look and feel the best in their day-to-day life. If we feel insecure over how we are presenting ourselves to other people, then maybe it’s time to keep the clothes we don’t feel comfortable in — whether that’s sweatpants or dresses — at home. Better yet, we should just get rid of the non-essential
robe can bring about many benefits both psychologically and physiologically. Bringing order can reduce the small, daily doses of stress we experience when things don’t quite go our way, and laundry can become a mountain-madeout-of-a-molehill type of stress that students can avoid. If we’re only working with 20% of our clothes anyway, then every sock needs to be clean and accounted for when we’re rushing out the door. What we put on our bodies can seem like a small hang-up in comparison to all-important life decisions, but exercising control over the small things can help us feel more prepared to tackle the big things. Taking some of the most important tests you may have in your life, like the MCAT, LSAT or GRE, in a crusty workout shirt snatched off the top of the laundry pile won’t have you feeling like yourself. You may not want to show up in a suit, but whatever you wear should be something you wanted and decided to wear. Once your closet is curated with pieces that you’re actually excited to wear out in public, it won’t take any extra time at all to put together a more, well, put-together look. Unless, of course, you feel the most comfortable starting at square one by just rolling out of bed and bouncing in your pajamas. In this difficult, extremely transient time of our lives, there is a lot that is spinning outside of our control that can leave us feeling depressed or anxious. Anyone can be affected by the stress of college life, and there is an equal amount of daily routines that can be established to help reduce the amount of uncertainty plaguing us everyday. Style is a personal choice that allows us to take charge over our self-image and project what we want to become. By taking control over our clothes, we take the first steps to look and feel like the best we can be.
Shruti Talekar staff illustrator clothing we absolutely don’t like to wear regularly. But we still can’t wear what we want if its not appropriately clean enough to be in public. College students despairing over their ever-unfinished laundry is an ever-present, cliche meme on the internet, but it really isn’t such an overwhelming task once you get started on it. It can be hard to drag ourselves down to the laundry room, but there are ways to help get it done like setting alarms and phone reminders throughout the weekend. Even more helpful would be to mark laundry as a priority in whatever daily or academic planner you may use to keep track of meetings, deadlines and events. Make laundry a priority and carve out the time it will take you to do it on your official list of things to do so that it can’t be so easily forgotten about or ignored. It doesn’t have to be a battle to overcome every two weeks, and putting it off just increases the stress over doing, which You can contact Grace with any comments further tanks someone’s mood. or concerns at GEM53@pitt.edu. Developing routines into your life and ward-
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from the editorial board
Pittsburgh voters will be unfairly blamed if parks don’t improve after tax increase The biggest winners of election night last Tuesday were the children in Pittsburgh neighborhoods, according to Mayor Bill Peduto’s Chief of Staff Dan Gilman. Pittsburgh residents voted in favor of a referendum that will generate money for improvements in Pittsburgh’s 165 city parks — including Schenley Park, Frick Park and Emerald Park near Mt. Washington. While the improvements will reach all parks eventually, the City said they will most directly benefit “long-neglected neighborhoods with concentrations of poverty,” according to Jayne Miller, the president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. But of course, this vote didn’t just concern protecting parks. Voting to improve the parks also meant voting for a half-million property tax increase in 2020 to fund the park improvements. The new tax, as it currently stands, will be in place for an indefinite amount of time. The actual plan for park improvement is vague, and if the new tax doesn’t cultivate change in parks, Pittsburgh voters could be blamed. But they shouldn’t be.
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While park maintenance is vital, it was unfair of Pittsburgh’s City Council to put the vote entirely on the residents. Residents are likely taking the idea of park improvement at face value and weren’t given a plan for where resources would be funneled — along with the implications of the tax or the park improvements were. The implications of the tax are relatively unclear. John Pepper, a Conservancy spokesperson, said every park would see “improved maintenance” by 2020, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Though this is vague, as noted by Councilperson Darlene Harris — who urged residents to vote against the proposal. Harris said she is concerned that, since the park improvement proposal is so vague, smaller parks will receive almost none of the funding, while the larger parks like Frick and Schenley — which already look “shiny new,” she said — will receive most of the tax dollars. Although the vote was left up to the people of Pittsburgh, the Parks Conservancy likely heavily influenced the vote, as it contributed $634,000 in direct funding to
advertise the proposal, according to the Pittsburgh PostGazette. Some residents have expressed skepticism as to why this money went towards ads, when it could have simply gone towards improving the parks. But perhaps an even more pressing concern is the way in which the City seems to have diverted all responsibility to City residents for the enactment of this tax increase, when ultimately, it heavily funded campaigning for it and Mayor Peduto publicly expressed support for it. If the parks don’t seem to be improving at the rate in which the City proposed, people are going to be upset about the tax increase — if they aren’t already. And since Pittsburgh residents were the ones who ultimately voted in favor of the tax increase, they will likely take much of the blame. Pittsburgh’s City Council should take partial responsibility for its efforts in raising the property tax. Hopefully, the parks will see improvement. But if not, the city should be prepared to acknowledge pushing for a tax hike that funnels money seemingly nowhere.
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Weekend Sports Recap: Men’s soccer, Volleyball make history
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PANTHERS FLOP WIN VS. WOLFPACK FOLLOWING FLORIDA PUTS PANTHER SOCCER IN SEMIFINALS STATE WIN
Michael Elesinmogun Staff Writer
The Panthers lost their first game of the season to Nicholls State 75-70 Saturday. After opening their season with a statement win over conference foe Florida State earlier in the week, the Panthers earned a failing grade for their disappointing and inexplicable loss to the Colonels this past weekend. Team Grade: D The Panthers lost some momentum after a deflating performance against Nicholls State following such a positive step forward against Florida State. Offensively, it seems like only Ryan Murphy can find any rhythm. The Colonels’ double team stumped Pitt’s ball handlers and led to 21 turnovers. Defensively, head coach Jeff Capel started in a 2-3 zone and adjusted too late to the Nicholls State shooters — who expertly counteracted the zone defense. Terrell Brown Grade: ABrown had a second-straight strong game with eight points, five rebounds and five blocks in 28 minutes. He was critical in Pitt’s last-ditch effort to steal a win and earned the right to enter the starting lineup beginning Tuesday due to his steady play on both ends of the floor. The only thing that needs work is his assertiveness on offense. He should feel free to call for the ball more often, given his efficient shooting around the rim. Ryan Murphy Grade: B+ Ryan Murphy led all scorers with 28 points on an efficient 59% shooting from the field and 57% from three. Murphy also impressed on defense, tallying two steals and five re-
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bounds. He has been Pitt’s best player so far, and was asked to take on an even larger role on Saturday with sophomore guard Xavier Johnson in foul trouble. His scoring is commendable, but he was also responsible for a team-high five turnovers on Saturday, a figure he called “unacceptable.” Au’Diese Toney Grade: C After a disastrous showing in the opener against Florida State, Toney showed improvement against Nicholls State. He had nine rebounds and was all over the court defensively. But with a critical turnover in the last 30 seconds and glaring offensive struggles, he can’t earn higher than a C. Justin Champagnie@ Grade: C Champagnie couldn’t find his shot like he did against Florida State, but got to the free throw line four times and recorded two blocks. He has confirmed Capel’s insistence that he will play a key role off the bench for this year’s Panthers. Gerald Drumgoole Jr. Grade: D Drumgoole is a first-year who looked lost through his first two games. He has struggled, but he deserves some time to adjust to Division 1’s speed and physicality. On Saturday, Drumgoole only played 13 minutes — and was largely uninvolved. A starting role may be too much for him, so expect him to be relegated to a reserve role, with Murphy earning more starter’s minutes.
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Pitt men’s soccer won the biggest ACC game in program history, defeating North Carolina State 2-1 in overtime in the ACC tournament quarterfinals in front of a packed crowd at Ambrose Urbanic Field. It was the first time the Panthers (9-6-2 overall, 5-3-1 ACC) hosted an ACC Tournament game in school history. The win also means that for the first time the Panthers will advance to the ACC semifinals, making up for last season’s devastating loss to Duke in the ACC quarterfinals. And after last year’s heartbreak, junior forward Edward Kizza wasted no time attacking for the Panthers. In the fourth minute he recorded his first shot on goal, but it was blocked and bounced off Kizza for a goal kick. The next chance Kizza got, he didn’t miss. He recorded his first score in the 13th minute to put Pitt up 1-0. The goal was initiated when midfielders sophomore Jackson Walti and first-year Veljko Petkovic dispossessed NC State senior forward Gabriel Machado in the midfield. Petkovic then ran into open space and passed it to junior forward Alexander Dexter on the left side, who delivered a ground pass to Kizza for the easy goal. Dexter again threatened to score in the 21st minute, taking on a pass from senior midfielder Braden Kline and dribbling around junior defender Jamie Smith — but his shot went wide right for a goal kick. Kizza got yet another golden chance to double the Panthers’ lead in the 33rd min-
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ute on a cross from Kline and made a scissor kick shot that redshirt senior goalkeeper Vincent Durand managed to deflect with his gloves. The shot then went up, hit under the crossbar and almost went over the line for a goal. The call even went to Video Assistant Referee, but was deemed no good. Nevertheless, Pitt continued to force the issue. Petkovic delivered a dangerous cross in the 38th minute that forced first-year defender Kendall Edwards to make a body stop with his feet in the air. His last-second deflection allowed Durand to jump onto the ball and secure possession. Pitt’s forwards dominated possession in the first half, holding NC State to zero shots with limited opportunities to score, while the Panthers recorded five shots on goal as part of a trio of scoring chances and one goal enroute to a 1-0 lead at halftime. The Panthers continued to create clear shots at the net, beginning in the 46th minute. Petkovic created the possession by giving a nice ground pass to Dexter who took a touch and then shot on goal. The shot was weak and easily stopped by Durand, but Kizza came up with an immediate steal and shot — forcing Durand to make another save. The Wolfpack then took control of the game with their dominance of possession and offensive pressure. Panthers’ head coach Jay Vidovich said he will need to analyze how they changed the complexion of the game so quickly, but added that his team caused many of the mistakes that allowed NC State to get back into it. See Soccer on page 7
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Soccer, pg. 6 “I think a lot of it was self-inflicted,” Vidovich said. “Tournament play is do or die. Single elimination and when you’re behind, you have nothing to lose. You just push, and they pushed.” The Wolfpack’s first offensive chance of the game came from senior forward Tyler Gabara, who turned and shot on goal in the 51st minute, but redshirt junior goalkeeper Arie Ammann made a diving save to preserve the slim margin. That lead wouldn’t last much longer. NC State leveled the score at one in the 54th minute. Gabarra fired on the Pitt goal after receiving a headed pass from sophomore forward Kuda Muskwe. His shot went right into the face of first-year defender Arturo Ordonez, who blocked it. But the rebound fell right to junior midfielder George Asomani, who tapped it into the right-hand corner from outside the box. Sophomore defender Dyk Sessock got Pitt back into an attack-minded play in the 85th minute as he tried to cross the ball in NC State territory, but ended up causing Durand to tap the ball away for a corner. Despite a myriad of shots, crosses and chances, the score remained tied at one at the end of regulation. With its historic season on the line, Pitt scored the winning goal in the 94th minute to send it onto the semifinal round of the ACC tournament. Petkovic, Dexter and Kizza connected again on the decisive final goal. Petkovic found Dexter on the left side of the box, from where Dexter passed the ball right in front of goal to Kizza, giving him an easy tap in past Durand for his second goal. Pitt moves on to a date this Wednesday with top-seeded Clemson in South Carolina. The Tigers finished the regular season as the No. 1 team in the ACC and beat Notre Dame 3-0 in their quarterfinal matchup to progress. Pitt has yet to face Clemson this season and is staring down an uphill battle on the road to the ACC championship game. “Big game,” Vidovich said. “Another big game. An opportunity to play in the semifinals in the best conference in America. So excited for the guys and what they’re doing.” Kickoff from Clemson is scheduled for 6 p.m. and will be broadcast on the ACC Network.
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November 11, 2019
ACROSS 1 Craftsy website 5 Regarding 10 Like a bug in a rug 14 “I understand now” 15 Crime boss John known as “The Teflon Don” 16 Letter before kappa 17 Spaghetti sauce brand 18 Composer Ned 19 Inside look at a hospital? 20 Sheepless nursery rhyme character 23 Clod chopper 24 Letter after kappa 28 Usain Bolt race pace 31 Bric-a-__ 33 Tokyo dough 34 Irish allegiance shout 36 British sports car, familiarly 37 Cold and damp 38 Many millennia 39 Auditioner’s goal 40 Over-easy item 41 End of a proverb embodied by three monkeys 45 Regret 46 __ legs: rear pair 47 Twins Ashley and Mary-Kate 48 Episodic story 50 WWII female 51 “Why are you laughing?” 58 Apple’s virtual assistant 61 Refill, as a partly drunk drink 62 Actress Falco 63 Day to beware 64 Make used (to) 65 Spy __ Hari 66 Milne’s “The House at __ Corner” 67 Police car warning 68 Scratches (out)
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By Kevin Christian
DOWN 1 Jimmy Carter’s middle name 2 Bangkok native 3 USAF NCO 4 Sarcastic “Could that be more obvious?” 5 Go along with 6 __ tube: TV 7 Mexican “other” 8 Sch. near the Rio Grande 9 Streaming delay 10 Typical dinner hr. 11 Country with fjords: Abbr. 12 Actress Hagen 13 Carefree 21 Like 1,225-page “War and Peace” 22 Apiece 25 Quaint exclamation 26 Add (a player) to the poker game 27 Mike Trout’s team 28 Passover meals 29 Czech capital city 30 Dead __: lookalike 31 __-shouldered
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32 Captain, e.g. 35 “Where have you __?” 39 2004-2011 TV series about firefighters 41 Ousted Iranian leader 42 Core exercise system 43 Sign on a new store
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44 Norwegian saint 49 “If only” 52 Author Morrison 53 Egg on 54 “No prob” 55 Minn. neighbor 56 Nick at __ 57 Nays’ opposites 58 Drink sampling 59 Altar affirmative 60 Rock’s __ Speedwagon
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