:). So so so happy we don't need to discuss the grid, or the theme, or any of the crosses, or words except one (or is it two, or is it not a word): ITME. Then, I'll say, "Put an asterisk after it," and when he does I will grab the keyboard out of his hands and type: *Clue of the century. They dont have the words, they dont know what the kids will understand, she said. It made me CRY for MOM.We entered SNAFU and we were told there was a NEU MAN in charge. We send the kids out. I also liked the two longer down answers, GAME ROOMS and EMMA STONE. In the middle class, the divorce rate has gone down, and family life is in many ways simpler than it used to be, she said in an interview. I didnt know ARO or even ILER, but they came with crossings. Nevertheless, she frets incessantly about the future. Thanks for that @Greg! Around 6 p.m., Srdan Glusac, 50, arrives home from his job as an avionics engineer at Federal Express. ", Private SNAFU pulls BUGS out of his bag by his prominent EARS in this short. It excites my brain and leaves me feeling buzzed, satisfied, and enriched.Enriched? Harini, it seems, has absorbed the parental credo. 2013 EBBTIDE 2500 DECK BOAT $50,900 (orc > THE BOAT HOUSE OF ANAHEIM) pic hide this posting restore restore this posting. As a ninth grader, Katie was arrested after shoplifting more than $100 worth of clothing from a department store. I dunno. My karate teacher's teacher made it to 104, at least (I lost contact with George, so never heard how long his teacher lasted), but he lived in the mountains of India/Himalaya. And over the river and through the woods notwithstanding, that family mostly meant nuclear, with ties to older or second-order relatives increasingly frayed. Natan Lasts New Yorker puzzles routinely do me in, but this one played much easier for me, thankfully. She pulled him close, but the boy didnt stop. Thank gof for those wonderful across themers that are guessable without the clues! Families are more ethnically, racially, religiously and stylistically diverse than half a generation ago than even half a year ago. Maybe to those who use BOUGIE as slang. Hot Yoga is/has been au courant; not so much for the 7th decade. I have struggled with Natans work but its always an enjoyable struggle because he always seems to give the solver a break or at least let up on the gas a bit in the toughest spots to give the solver a fighting chance. The idea of marriage can be intimidating, so some couples choose cohabitation instead. 'Proper' tai chi is 'single weighted' and requires both innate balance and a modicum of strength in the foot/ankle. And that grid probably isn't even going to be part of a Monday-easy puzzle. And now were a four-car family, Chris says sheepishly. I think its FUBARbeyond all recognition. It says that she "lost her sheep." We think the likely answer to this clue is AUNT . Chuckled out loud. NATO is a military alliance, not a peacekeeping grp!! A fib commonly told by ball players from the Carribean. @Nancy, if balance were all I was losing as I age, I would dance a jig (and fall on my face), but alas, . And the reveal is "I'm all ears", not"I'm all BIG ears. At the front edge of the Asian-American boom are immigrants from South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. That's how this works I think. Just a thought. One big reason is the soaring cost of ushering offspring to functional independence. If youre talking about income, he said, were lower, lower middle class.. ?-rambOnelook actually solved in 3, but l rejected the solution as l (incorrectly) thought it was a proper. Another beloved big-eared character not to be forgotten was Wile E. Coyote. The only thing that really bothered me was ALES as Porter alternatives. With two children, the Glusacs may seem typical, but their story is more complicated. From Wikipedia:VMI's alumni include a secretary of state, secretary of defense, secretary of the Army, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, 7 Medal of Honor recipients, 13 Rhodes Scholars, Pulitzer Prize winners, an Academy Award winner, an Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner, a martyr recognized by the Episcopal Church, senators and representatives, governors, lieutenant governors, a Supreme Court justice, numerous college and university presidents, many business leaders (presidents and CEOs) and over 290 general and flag officers across all US service branches and several other countries. For a second, I saw my children without a mother because I would be in jail., Their relationship ended that night a decade ago, she said, and I never looked back.. I can hardly wait to get to your 1A 'groaner'. I started doing a simple exercise that has helped a lot. Id wait to see if anybody else had a thought or if the answer was truly a gimme, Id ignore the request and let someone else help. Had 'pure' before FREE, 'hEaTS' before MEETS and diSKS before BASKS.Finally got everything to my liking except the NW, which took forever, with the final task being to suss out the meaning of 'lead'. I was a HUGE Brooklyn Dodger fan wen I was a boy.If Stan the Man played for the Dodgers he would have batted 750!Thats how much he tore up Ebbets Field when the Cards came to town. For everybody else, maternity is often decoupled from matrimony: 40 percent of women with some college but no degree, and 57 percent of women with high school diplomas or less, are unmarried when they give birth to their first child. Guess who's Bougie now. Columnus by Ourblogtemplates.com 2008, What's more disappointing is the fill, which really hasn't been held up to a smooth Monday standard here. . $250 each. The children of more than a million inmates are left to cope as best they can. IMALLEARS for your next puzz. Musial is one of my favorites - though based on reputation only as I never saw him play. But today only had one of those (OCEAN VUONG), and as it turns out I could get every letter from crosses and didnt need to infer a thing. He is an award-winning poet, and this novel feels poetic from beginning to end. Type 1 Fire Engine Equipment Single- or two-stage pumps with 750-2,500 gpm capabilities 450-1,000 gal. Same-sex parents. Many a time, my kids lost me, but I was not in fact lost; I was hiding in the coat closet because I didnt want to be involved in their bickering. It's NOT a peacekeeper. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. Were seeing a class divide not only between the haves and the have-nots, but between the I dos and the I do nots, Dr. Coontz said. Hands up for Aix-aux-Bains, also cAVE, hi Nancy:) We don't have EAVES in NYC so much, but walking close to a building during a rainstorm without an umbrella is a fine art form requiring negotiation with other umbrella-less people coming the other way. I started with GRETA, but it worked itself out. #foot li a { font-weight:bold; font-size:14px; color:white;} Today, just slightly off center, the Times brings me back to those giddy informative tween years. Because our ex-POTUS often cracks jokes about his prominent feature, although in MY mind it just tones down his handsomeness to a mortal level. Nor do divorce rates appear to have fallen among those who take the old Samuel Johnson quip as a prescription, allowing hope to triumph over experience, and marrying again and again. I love it when the crossword teaches me some new and bizarre fact. Easy-medium. Straightforward theme for a Monday. Granted, they aren't symmetrical. Tough. COATI seemed unusual to me - this cant be the first time thats its been in the NYT, yet I dont recall seeing it appear before. Is IT just ME? The participating countries agreed to consider an attack against one as an attack against all, and billions of dollars have since been allocated by the U.S. Congress to provide weapons to those countries. Guess Im not ARTY enough.Counterintuitive statistics puzzle: if you have a gathering of 100 Northern Hemishere thoroughbred racehorses, how many will have the same birthday?YOYO may be a verb meaning oscillate wildly to the NYTXW, but its still not a word to the NYTSB.For 4D its broken by hounds, I wasnt sure whether to put in NEWS or SPEL. study, a team of researchers associated with the Center on Everyday Lives of Families focused on dual-income families with two or more school-age children at home in the Los Angeles area. I remember feeling like that was all I ever did I was always in the car driving someone someplace, Jan Glusac says of her familys two-car days. I agree that the revealer did not sparkle, but it did the job of making you stop to realize the existence of the two PARs in the theme. BSMETER. I had no idea (still don't) who lives in the virtual "City" and the AT of ATME seemed like it might have something to do with the "@" Sign which often has something to do with the internet -- and the internet was in the clue. Most of the music school and faculty hit the Bird at least once a day. I think it's the only well-known _MI school in the US, though apparently not well enough. Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Afghanistan? After many decades of upward march, followed by a long, stubborn stay at the familiar 50 percent mark that made every nuptial feel like a coin flip, the rate began falling in 1996 and is now just above 40 percent for first-time marriages. Boooooooooo! just going to City Hall, she said. lol___Peace ~ Compassion ~ Tolerance ~ Kindness to all . (And that's OK with me. Whatever the reason, a vast majority of prisoners get no visits, from their children or anybody else, Dr. Poehlmann said, and they feel very sad about that.. [Spelling Bee: Sun 0, @Z if you're out there you would have liked this one. NYT: One of my fastest Mondays ever. DARN! It has 60W total sound output, including two tweeters, two front-firing speakers and two subwoofers. Your contributions help keep this site strong, independent, and ad-free! He adopted Brandon, and the couple had a son, Griffin. Our COATI came COLD and still had its EARS attached. As one comment noted, the themers should have included DUMBO. Well, if this isn't just one of the cutest revealers ever! Loved CROWDSURFS and HORSEMEN, LIVESALIE and EGALITE. Like Yeah, lets make fun of peoples body parts! In Spanish it means fuse or wick. )One across answer that looked just plain wrong was ITME. Didn't enjoy dealing with a Vietnamese poet crossing a rapper and a Gertrude Stein obscurity. Help from being old: the guess at AARON. )In my experience it has been always and everywhere, 100% of the time a BS detector, not a BS meter. This is the second time in recent weeks I've seen NATO clued as "peacekeeping organization". Im always pushing them hard to do their very best, maybe sometimes a little too hard.. One less factual definition is that due to the Southern drawl of some of the members of the VMI Corps, the common term cadet was transformed into 'Keydet'." *I am looking for 4 seats together; open to trading. WebHow to use the Resident Evil Village treasure map to craft the Azure Eye Ring. More than half of the 2.3 million adults incarcerated in the United States are parents of children under 18. (My late father would most definitely agree) And then the initials created a great word. According to recent studies, Asian-Americans have the highest average household income of any racial group, roughly $68,000 a year, compared with $55,000 for whites and $34,000 for African-Americans. Well done, Caryn. Ana Perez, 35, who moved to New York from the Dominican Republic at age 5, has an open smile, a firm handshake and a vivid, scrappy manner just this side of a fireplug. @Nancy and others, the NYT ran a feature on balance issues, with a compilation of useful exercises, on August 12. offering! favorite this post Aug 4 Classic Miller 21' Jet Boat $18,500 (orc > San Juan Capistrano) pic hide. Mr. Wayser said no. Instead, the young men in her study were eager to establish their paternity. David Walter banks for The New York Times. I cant recall all the NL records Musial held at the time of his retirement, but save HRs I think it was every meaningful NL batting mark.Except batting titles, Aaron broke them all. Dr. Braithwaite and her colleagues have termed such families voluntary kin. For a study published in 2010, they interviewed 110 people in such relationships; they found that for some people, voluntary kinship filled a void left by death or estrangement from biological family, while for others the relationships were supplemental or temporary. The facts have voted, the issue is settled, and Paycheck Mommy is now a central organizing principle of the modern American family. The decline has been even more striking among middle- and upper-middle-income couples with college degrees. Easy Monday. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, diplomacy with the Soviet Union included verbal assurances to limit expansion of NATO eastward. Well, first of all, I only have time for the NYT crosswords. Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog. But he resents people who note the color of his childrens skin as well as his obvious financial resources, and cluck about how noble he is and how lucky the children are. Uniclues:1 Complete list of anthropomorphic rabbits knowing how to say, "Eh, what's up Doc?" But with nine years of hard time yet to go, who knows if all the threads will hold? Dr. Indrakrishnan, 53, who also teaches at the Emory University School of Medicine, is something of a celebrity among South Asian immigrants the sociable, civic-minded and highly successful professional everyone wants to schmooze with at the local Hindu temple each week. 5 letters is cARew? RELAY. So: challenging for me, happy to be able to finish.Rewards - the pleasure at decoding CROWD SURFS, HORSEMEN, SHOOED AWAY. More specifically, it seems that a major strand of published research, starting in the early aughts, is fraudulent, with consequential great loss of time and money. Its to your benefit to have your horse born as close to Jan 1 as possible, for the biggest possible advantage. The researchers, led by Su Yeong Kim, an associate professor of human development and family sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, administered lengthy questionnaires to parents and children, asking about school, work, home life, grades, extracurricular activities and emotions. , @NYDenizen. 17a [Opponent who helps train a boxer] S PAR RING PAR TNER 39a [Most difficult challenge for many a student driver] PAR ALLEL PAR KING 60a [Place in an auto dealership to pick up wiper blades or spark plugs] PAR TS DE PAR TMENT 67a [Common miniature golf goal or a hint to whats found in 17-, 39- and 60-Across] PAR TWO This Same. This is the best option if you might be selling the vehicle later and want to keep the Bluetooth setup. Hope you've got a nice autumn day to enjoy. Thats right up there with Zs Placebo & Tentacle. Thanks for the snail mail help, by the way! LAYMEN.After seeing 68A NODUH, Im inclined to start keeping tabs on the DUH vs. NODUH wars. well . That's about all I have to say. We may soon be empty nesters, Ms. Glusac says. . Forty years ago, the asymmetry went the other way. Wanted sewn before IRON. Five theme answers is on the dense side for a themed puzzle, but still, stuff like ". Fine, Monday easy. And didn't correct my initial BOOGIE, though I meant BOUGIE because I had the U on the cross. Wanting Marriage and Pursuit of Happiness. When I got to this clue, I had _OSE_UD_. Mom: Sure! which for me is unusual.What number is the Croce Freestyle du jour, for those who celebrate? By the turn of the 20th century, the United States had the highest divorce rate in the Western world, a title it retains to this day. But if theyre reasonably pleased with the relationship and happen to find themselves pregnant, she continued, they may realize theyre not in a great place financially to become parents but theyre still happy to have the child. They find a sense of purpose and fulfillment in parenthood even when the rest of life is withholding the goods. I do not think Pujols is using today. Nowadays, the kids largely take care of themselves, Ms. Glusac says, and theyre either out of the house or working in their rooms. Fave fill: ALL I ASK, LOSE THE ATTITUDE, Van Goghs STARRY NIGHT, KITSCH, COUCH-SURF, AVERAGE AMERICAN. A little word unto its own, through which to vacation, dwell, and be an integral part of.Thank you, Natan, for your Saturday-level skill, and for providing this feast today. Fathers wearing prison khakis and work boots were required to stay seated in their molded plastic chairs, but as family members filed in, the mens Humpty Dumpty grins threatened to split their faces. We got much better acquainted at The Bird, a morning coffee late night beer hangout a short block from Smith Hall. This one is crumpled at the bottom of Nancys wall. Just the normal situation:SNAFU is an acronym that is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation normal: all fucked up. I knew the Y was very iffy but at the same time I knew if it were any other letter the cross of VMI and VUONG would still be a consonant crap shoot. It says that the R in Fubar could mean reason or repair.
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