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Theme: All in Place - Fitting its grid placement! 17A. Well-suited to a person's abilities: UP ONE'S ALLEY. 62A. Unpretentious: DOWN TO EARTH. 11D. "Correctamundo!": RIGHT YOU ARE. 25D. Made certain: LEFT NO DOUBT. Boomer here. Congratulations to Jana Persky on her debut.  First, to clarify, C.C. and I live in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. It is a northern suburb of Minneapolis and borders Brooklyn Center. Our city was under curfew in the evenings and many businesses have boarded up their glass windows, but we have been safe and free of the Daunte Wright protests.  On to the puzzle. First, you...

  Lay on your back in of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, and you’ll see the cosmos splayed out before you. If you were to look the other way down at the earth, the view would be different. You’d see the reddish lip of the Colorado Plateau spilling out of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico into northeastern Arizona. From a distance, it looks as if the land is in motion, a timelapse of Arizona’s complex geologic history. But the beauty of that transitional swath of desert, conserved as the Tonto National Forest, is best seen up close. That’s when you can...

It shows you took the time and effort to make something truly extraordinary. From coasters to cupcakes to potted plants, there are plenty of creative DIY gifts for everyone—including best friends, grandmothers, parents, and party hosts. We’ve collected 57 unique DIY gift ideas that will inspire you to start creating. Keep in mind that the best gifts are both personalized and practical. Something as simple as a cutting board can be decorated or customized in a matter of minutes.     Note your favorite tutorials and try them out the next opportunity you have to give a special gift. And once...

s Nashville pop punk trio Tramp Stamps are likely this year’s most reviled band even though they formed last year, have never played a show, and have released just three songs. While they first achieved online virality posting earnest covers of Machine Gun Kelly, Paramore, and Taylor Swift hits, amassing over 400,000 followers on TikTok, the internet backlash for the past week to their latest single “I’d Rather Die” is so severe it eclipses whatever positive momentum the group previously had. “There’s a ‘“punk’” band that everyone on [TikTok] is making fun of because they’re  obviously an industry plant and...

While it hasn’t necessarily felt like it due to some recent late-season snow flurries, it’s technically springtime which means I’ve got gardening on my mind! My domain includes the flower beds that surround our house on all sides and my collection of pots that I like to use for annuals, while my eldest son typically oversees the raised beds in our vegetable garden. I can’t wait to get out there and start planting, and I’m sure I’m not the only one itching to my hands dirty! :-) So to help us all start this growing season out on the right...