Pan con tomate for dinner Sunday night, and a strawberry Bundt cake to follow? Or grilled rosemary pork tenderloin, with a strawberry Marsala cake for dessert? It’s cook’s choice here at the end of July. Mary Lou Guizzo: Erik got in touch with me last January about co-constructing a themeless crossword. We emailed a few times about it before I shared a grid I’d been playing around with. It had the LION to LIMN to LIMB to LAMB words in the corners and three other theme entries.
Thiem’s best surface remains clay despite the fact that his most significant career title, against Federer, came early this year on a slow desert hardcourt at the BNP Paribas Open, the Masters 1000 event in Indian Wells, Calif. After Mr. Biden referred to him during a speech as a “decent guy,” several Democrats lined up to say the opposite:
Freddi Goldstein, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said Mr. de Blasio was waiting for the Police Department to determine the motive for the shooting and its intended targets. “That will indicate whether it is identified as a mass shooting,” she said. “It’s more complicated than that,” I said. “I can’t force you not to do drugs even though I think you should hold out as long as possible for health and safety reasons. There are going to be a lot of temptations, and maybe there already are, but you can avoid them, and we can talk about how. You also might find it weird that pot is now legal for adults. But so is alcohol, and they’re both illegal until you’re 21.”