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13 Loud noisemaker
15 Knights ___ (Catholic crusaders)
16 Makes happy
17 Wardrobe fresheners (SCATHES anagram) Legume that sounds like a letter Make very happy “No ___, ands or buts!”
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The “R” of BART About 30% of Earth’s land “One Night in Miami” star Goree Where a pop-up may send you Emerald or aquamarine Love, in Italian Price add-on Fertility lab eggs Arrivals of notable things
Bit of gear for a cross-country trip? Stimpy’s pal Dough raiser Domesticates Inconsequential matter
Pull to a garage Period before Easter
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1 River in Egypt
2 The “A” of BART
3 *With some of 4-Down and all of 22-Down, shoo Book after Daniel End of an ultimatum Befuddled *With some of 6-Down and all of 24-Down, disentangle Film lover’s network Ladybugs’ prey Staff symbol, in music They’re thrown into a metaphorical ring Trauma ctrs. Tablet download Code-cracking org. Three-month period 22 24 25 26 27 28 30
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Latin for “that is” Scrub, as a mission Cut off Persian, today It may cool into obsidian Response to “Who’s there?” Spoken for
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El ___ (cause of disrupted weather) Fired up
Ab’s neighbor Some laptops Parisian pal Actor Danson “My boy”
Dear Abby: I have been married for 26 years. Five years ago, my husband gave a young lady $5,000 through credit card charges over a six-month period. We are not wealthy. When I found the charges in our credit report, he took a second job to pay it off.
I don’t think their relationship was sexual because he is impotent. It was hurtful. While he was taking this young lady shopping, he told me he was at work.
Recently, I (accidentally) caught him going to another young lady’s apartment to help her with things like hanging a TV. I don’t care if he helps people. What I DO care about is his sneaking around to do it. I have tried talking to him about why he feels he needs to sneak. He has no answer. What makes men sneak?
— Deceived In Kentucky
Dear Deceived: Your husband may fear your disapproval of his relationships — however platonic they may be — with these younger women. What makes people of both genders sneak, by the way, is usually a sense of guilt.
Dear Abby: My boyfriend, my 33-year-old son, his girlfriend and their 4-year-old son all live with me. They are expecting their second child. I own the home and pay all the bills (utilities, phone, food, etc.).
The problem is, my kids don’t like my boyfriend. His grandkids call me Grandma, so I would like my grandkids to call him Grandpa. My son and his girlfriend won’t allow their son to do it. They insist on calling him by his first name.
I asked for a compromise and to call him Uncle. They refuse and say he didn’t “earn” that name. I said it’s just teaching the children to respect their elders. I’m not sure what to do.
— Wishing For Respect In Hawaii
Dear Wishing: Because you foot all of the bills for the roof over his and his family’s heads as well as the food in their mouths, remind him that you are the head of that household, and you will not have anyone with whom you are involved disrespected. As it stands, you and your boyfriend are being disrespected, so as head of the household, please assert yourself.
Dear Abby: Our son, “Justin,” is getting married. He told his dad the other day that his fiancee would like for my husband to go with Justin to his salon to get his hair cut and beard trimmed for the wedding. My husband is upset about it because he feels his soon-tobe daughter-in-law is implying that his haircut isn’t good enough. As the wife and future mother-in-law, I’m unsure how to handle this situation. Help, please.
— Grooming Groom’s Dad In Georgia
Dear G.G.D.I.G.: Try to get your offended spouse to laugh about it. Point out that EVERYONE looks better with a fresh haircut and a trim. Even you and me. Most people want to spruce up and make themselves more presentable for a special event.
Today is Tuesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2021. There are 304 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1867: Howard University, a historically Black school of higher learning in Washington, D.C., was founded. Congress passed, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, the first of four Reconstruction Acts.
1877: Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
1917: Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-shafroth Act.
1932: The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which moved the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to January 20, was passed by
Congress and sent to the states for ratification.
1939: Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (puh-chel’-ee) was elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius XII. The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify the Bill of Rights, 147 years after the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone into effect. (Georgia and Connecticut soon followed.)
1943: The three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea began in the southwest Pacific during World War II; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on an Imperial Japanese convoy.
1962: Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a game against the New York Knicks, an NBA record that still stands. (Philadelphia won, 169-147.)
1965: The movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, had its world premiere in New York.
1977: The U.S. House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics.
1985: The government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.
1989: Rrepresentatives from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFCS (chlorofluorocarbons), the synthetic compounds blamed for destroying the Earth’s ozone layer, by the end of the 20th century.
1990: More than 6,000 drivers went on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc. (The company, later declaring an impasse in negotiations, fired the strikers.)
Actor John Cullum (“Northern Exposure”) is 91. Author John Irving is 79. Actor Cassie Yates is 70. Actor Laraine Newman (“Saturday Night Live”) is 69. Singer Jay Osmond of The Osmonds is 66. Singer John Cowsill
of The Cowsills is 65. Singer Jon Bon Jovi is 59. Blues singer Alvin Youngblood Hart is 58. Actor Daniel Craig (“Casino Royale”) is 53. Singer
Chris Martin of Coldplay is 44. Actor Heather Mccomb (“The Event,” “Party of Five”) is 44. Actor Rebel Wilson (“Pitch Perfect” movies) is 41. Actor Bryce Dallas Howard (“The Help”) is 40. Guitarist
Mike “Mcduck” Olson of Lake Street Dive is 38. Actor Nathalie Emmanuel
(“Game of Thrones”) is 32. Singer-rapper-actor Becky G is 24.