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• "America America" director Kazan
• An 1820 pen name
• An essayist's pen name
• ''A Chapter on Ears'' essayist
• "A Chapter on Ears" essayist
• "A Chapter on Ears" writer
• "A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig" author
• "A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig" essayist
• Another name for Lamb
• Another word for Lamb?
• "A Letter to ___," 2010 documentary co-directed by Martin Scorsese
• A literary Lamb
• A literary pseudonym
• A Phillies' manager: 1987
• 'A Streetcar Named Desire' director Kazan
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• Actor Chris D'___ of the unfortunate new sitcom "Whitney"
• Actress L”wensohn of "Nadja"
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• "Death of a Salesman" director Kazan
• ''Death of a Salesman'' director Kazan
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• "East of Eden" director Kazan
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• Dissertator on a porker
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• "Distant Correspondents" writer
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• "Essays of ___" (1823 collection)
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• He directed Marlon
• James's "East of Eden" director
• He was a Lamb
• "Imperfect Sympathies" essayist
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• "Dream-Children" author, 1822
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• "The Genteel Style in Writing" essayist
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• ''The Last Tycoon'' director Kazan
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• ''Panic in the Streets'' director Kazan
• "Panic in the Streets" director Kazan
• "The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers" essayist
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• Natalie's director in "Splendor in the Grass"
• "Popular Fallacies" byline, 1826
• "Popular Fallacies" essayist
• "Popular Fallacies" writer
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• London Magazine essayist
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• London Magazine writer
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• Three-time director for Marlon
• "Tales From Shakespeare" writer
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Recent Usage of Essay name in Crossword Puzzles

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• New York Times - Jan. 13, 1975
• New York Times - Aug. 28, 1974
• New York Times - April 29, 1974
• New York Times - April 15, 1974
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• New York Times - June 11, 1973
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Essays NYT Crossword

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43A. The figurative sense of “Fleeces,” which is CONS, emerged soon after the literal one. In the early 16th century, it meant to strip a sheep of its fleece; the verb’s figurative sense — to strip a person of his or her money — appeared a few decades later .

55A. The first entry for a “$5 bill, slangily” is mostly intuitive, since it uses the name of the president who appears on the bill. This one is harder: FIN comes from 1920s slang and is related to “finif ,” the Yiddish word for the number five .

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48D. The “modern portmanteau” this clue refers to was new to me, but it has been around for years . A screenAGER blends screen and teenager to refer to tech-savvy younger generations (sometimes pejoratively).

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• CREPE (33D: Thin pancake similar to malawah) A malawah is a sweet, thin pancake flavored with cardamom. It originated in Somali. A CREPE is also a thin pancake. CREPEs originated in France, and may be sweet or savory.

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• CLUE (7A: Board game with Miss Scarlet) I enjoy playing many different board games, but if pressed to choose one game that is my favorite of all time, it would be CLUE . Nothing against Miss Scarlet, but Professor Plum is my favorite character. When I was young, Professor Plum was my favorite for the strategic reason that his starting space on the game board was the closet to the door of a room. Now when I play CLUE , I generally play the CLUE Master Detective edition, which was released in 1988 and features more rooms, more suspects, and more weapons. In this version, all characters begin in the same space. I still choose to play as Professor Plum.
• EAU (16A: Water, in French) We frequently see the French word for water used in the name of perfumes. For example, I have previously written about EAU de Luna and EAU de Space .
• I'VE (24A: "___ Been to the Mountaintop" (MLK speech)  "I'VE Been to the Mountaintop" was Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech, delivered at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated. In the speech, he said, "...I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land."
• ARABIC (25A: "Alif, ba, ta..." language) Alif, ba, and ta are the first three letters of the ARABIC alphabet. The basic ARABIC alphabet contains 28 letters, each representing a consonant. Vowel sounds are indicated by diacritical marks added to the letters.
• OIL-BASED (29A: Like the paint Van Gogh used for "The Starry Night") I wrote about Vincent Van Gogh's painting, "The Starry Night," a couple of weeks ago.
• MANO (32A: Hand, in Spanish) The phrase "MANO a MANO," which is Spanish for "hand to hand," is used to describe a direct competition or conflict between two people.
• GEM (37A: Jasper or opal) Jasper is a type of quartz. It has a number of different colors, which are the result of mineral impurities. Red is a common color for this GEM (caused by iron inclusions), but it may also be yellow, brown, or green. There are a number of different varieties of opal, broadly classified into precious (these GEMs display iridescence) and common (such as the milk opal or resin opal).
• ON SILENT (48A: Set to not ring or buzz) and JUST A SEC (60A: "Hang on one moment!") These two answers seem to go together nicely. "JUST A SEC ... I need to put my phone ON SILENT."
• ESSAYS (50A: Some Zadie Smith works) Zadie Smith is a writer of novels, ESSAYS, and short stories. Her most recent book, The Fraud , was published last year, and is a historical novel about the Tichborne case, a British trial in the late 1800s concerning a man claiming to be the heir to a family fortune. I enjoyed listening to Zadie Smith talk about her new book in this NPR interview .
• IN A (59A: Catch lightning ___ bottle) To try to "catch (or capture) lightning IN A bottle" is to attempt a particularly challenging or difficult feat, something that seems impossible. The saying dates back to the 1800s, and refers to Benjamin Franklin's experiments (conducted in the 1700s) that attempted to capture electricity from lightning and store it IN A jar.
• STL (70A: Soulard Market city (Abbr.) The Soulard Farmers Market , located in St. Louis (STL), Missouri is the oldest public market in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River. It was established in 1779, and is still operating today. Soulard Market is open Wednesday through Saturday year-round.
• CATAN (1D: Board game with ore, lumber, brick, wool and grain) It's been just a few days since we saw the game of CATAN referenced in a clue for the word ORES.
• OPERA (2D: Show such as "Porgy and Bess") Porgy and Bess is an OPERA composed by George Gershwin, with libretto by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. It was first performed in Boston in September 1935, premiering on Broadway a couple of weeks later. The OPERA has been produced multiple times since then, including in 2019 at the Metropolitan OPERA in New York City. The live cast album from the Metropolitan OPERA production won a Grammy Award for Best OPERA Recording.
• BEA (11D: "Golden Girls" actress Arthur) BEA Arthur (1922-2009) portrayed Dorothy Zbornak on the TV series  The Golden Girls (1985-1992). Prior to that, she portrayed the character of Maude Findlay in the TV series  All in the Family  (1971-1972), and then in the spin-off series,  Maude  (1972-1978). BEA Arthur won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, one for Maude (1977) and one for The Golden Girls (1988).
• EDAM (19D: Cheese aka queso de bola) EDAM is a semi-hard cheese traditionally sold in spheres wrapped with red paraffin wax. It is named after the town in the northwest Netherlands where it was originally made. In Spain, the Philippines and some Latin American countries, EDAM is known as queso de bola, Spanish for "ball cheese."
• UVA (22D: Charlottesville sch.) Charlottesville, Virginia is the home to the University of Virginia (UVA). The abbreviation of school in the clue alerts solvers that the answer will be an abbreviation.
• OIKOS (34D: Greek yogurt brand) Dannon OIKOS is a line of Greek yogurt that has been on the market since 2007. Dannon is the American brand of the French food-processing corporation, Danone. I learned that fact when writing about a previous puzzle .
• EAST (47D: Chad-to-Sudan direction) Chad is a landlocked country in Africa. The capital of Chad is N'Djamena. EAST of Chad is the country of Sudan. Sudan is not landlocked, as it has coastline along the Red Sea. The capital of Sudan is Khartoum.

Crossword Puzzle Theme Synopsis

• MONEY ORDERS (3D: Bank-issued checks)
• CUT ME SOME SLACK (7D: "C'mon, I only made a little mistake!")
• BAG OF TRICKS (26D: Crafty person's repertoire)

The top word of each vertical theme answer (the one on top like a HAT) can pair with the word PAPER, giving us PAPER MONEY, PAPER CUT, and PAPER BAG.

I liked the use of the word HAT to point at the theme being in the top word of the vertical theme answers. It's a cute theme. Thank you, Beth, for this enjoyable puzzle.

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NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism

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NPR suspended senior editor Uri Berliner for five days without pay after he wrote an essay accusing the network of losing the public's trust and appeared on a podcast to explain his argument. Uri Berliner hide caption

NPR suspended senior editor Uri Berliner for five days without pay after he wrote an essay accusing the network of losing the public's trust and appeared on a podcast to explain his argument.

NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "lost America's trust" by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset.

Berliner's five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported.

Yet the public radio network is grappling in other ways with the fallout from Berliner's essay for the online news site The Free Press . It angered many of his colleagues, led NPR leaders to announce monthly internal reviews of the network's coverage, and gave fresh ammunition to conservative and partisan Republican critics of NPR, including former President Donald Trump.

Conservative activist Christopher Rufo is among those now targeting NPR's new chief executive, Katherine Maher, for messages she posted to social media years before joining the network. Among others, those posts include a 2020 tweet that called Trump racist and another that appeared to minimize rioting during social justice protests that year. Maher took the job at NPR last month — her first at a news organization .

In a statement Monday about the messages she had posted, Maher praised the integrity of NPR's journalists and underscored the independence of their reporting.

"In America everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen," she said. "What matters is NPR's work and my commitment as its CEO: public service, editorial independence, and the mission to serve all of the American public. NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests."

The network noted that "the CEO is not involved in editorial decisions."

In an interview with me later on Monday, Berliner said the social media posts demonstrated Maher was all but incapable of being the person best poised to direct the organization.

"We're looking for a leader right now who's going to be unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on, sort of, what America is all about," Berliner said. "And this seems to be the opposite of that."

Conservative critics of NPR are now targeting its new chief executive, Katherine Maher, for messages she posted to social media years before joining the public radio network last month. Stephen Voss/Stephen Voss hide caption

Conservative critics of NPR are now targeting its new chief executive, Katherine Maher, for messages she posted to social media years before joining the public radio network last month.

He said that he tried repeatedly to make his concerns over NPR's coverage known to news leaders and to Maher's predecessor as chief executive before publishing his essay.

Berliner has singled out coverage of several issues dominating the 2020s for criticism, including trans rights, the Israel-Hamas war and COVID. Berliner says he sees the same problems at other news organizations, but argues NPR, as a mission-driven institution, has a greater obligation to fairness.

"I love NPR and feel it's a national trust," Berliner says. "We have great journalists here. If they shed their opinions and did the great journalism they're capable of, this would be a much more interesting and fulfilling organization for our listeners."

A "final warning"

The circumstances surrounding the interview were singular.

Berliner provided me with a copy of the formal rebuke to review. NPR did not confirm or comment upon his suspension for this article.

In presenting Berliner's suspension Thursday afternoon, the organization told the editor he had failed to secure its approval for outside work for other news outlets, as is required of NPR journalists. It called the letter a "final warning," saying Berliner would be fired if he violated NPR's policy again. Berliner is a dues-paying member of NPR's newsroom union but says he is not appealing the punishment.

The Free Press is a site that has become a haven for journalists who believe that mainstream media outlets have become too liberal. In addition to his essay, Berliner appeared in an episode of its podcast Honestly with Bari Weiss.

A few hours after the essay appeared online, NPR chief business editor Pallavi Gogoi reminded Berliner of the requirement that he secure approval before appearing in outside press, according to a copy of the note provided by Berliner.

In its formal rebuke, NPR did not cite Berliner's appearance on Chris Cuomo's NewsNation program last Tuesday night, for which NPR gave him the green light. (NPR's chief communications officer told Berliner to focus on his own experience and not share proprietary information.) The NPR letter also did not cite his remarks to The New York Times , which ran its article mid-afternoon Thursday, shortly before the reprimand was sent. Berliner says he did not seek approval before talking with the Times .

NPR defends its journalism after senior editor says it has lost the public's trust

Berliner says he did not get permission from NPR to speak with me for this story but that he was not worried about the consequences: "Talking to an NPR journalist and being fired for that would be extraordinary, I think."

Berliner is a member of NPR's business desk, as am I, and he has helped to edit many of my stories. He had no involvement in the preparation of this article and did not see it before it was posted publicly.

In rebuking Berliner, NPR said he had also publicly released proprietary information about audience demographics, which it considers confidential. He said those figures "were essentially marketing material. If they had been really good, they probably would have distributed them and sent them out to the world."

Feelings of anger and betrayal inside the newsroom

His essay and subsequent public remarks stirred deep anger and dismay within NPR. Colleagues contend Berliner cherry-picked examples to fit his arguments and challenge the accuracy of his accounts. They also note he did not seek comment from the journalists involved in the work he cited.

Morning Edition host Michel Martin told me some colleagues at the network share Berliner's concerns that coverage is frequently presented through an ideological or idealistic prism that can alienate listeners.

"The way to address that is through training and mentorship," says Martin, herself a veteran of nearly two decades at the network who has also reported for The Wall Street Journal and ABC News. "It's not by blowing the place up, by trashing your colleagues, in full view of people who don't really care about it anyway."

Several NPR journalists told me they are no longer willing to work with Berliner as they no longer have confidence that he will keep private their internal musings about stories as they work through coverage.

"Newsrooms run on trust," NPR political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben tweeted last week, without mentioning Berliner by name. "If you violate everyone's trust by going to another outlet and sh--ing on your colleagues (while doing a bad job journalistically, for that matter), I don't know how you do your job now."

Berliner rejected that critique, saying nothing in his essay or subsequent remarks betrayed private observations or arguments about coverage.

Other newsrooms are also grappling with questions over news judgment and confidentiality. On Monday, New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn announced to his staff that the newspaper's inquiry into who leaked internal dissent over a planned episode of its podcast The Daily to another news outlet proved inconclusive. The episode was to focus on a December report on the use of sexual assault as part of the Hamas attack on Israel in October. Audio staffers aired doubts over how well the reporting stood up to scrutiny.

"We work together with trust and collegiality everyday on everything we produce, and I have every expectation that this incident will prove to be a singular exception to an important rule," Kahn wrote to Times staffers.

At NPR, some of Berliner's colleagues have weighed in online against his claim that the network has focused on diversifying its workforce without a concomitant commitment to diversity of viewpoint. Recently retired Chief Executive John Lansing has referred to this pursuit of diversity within NPR's workforce as its " North Star ," a moral imperative and chief business strategy.

In his essay, Berliner tagged the strategy as a failure, citing the drop in NPR's broadcast audiences and its struggle to attract more Black and Latino listeners in particular.

"During most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding," Berliner writes. "In recent years, however, that has changed."

Berliner writes, "For NPR, which purports to consider all things, it's devastating both for its journalism and its business model."

NPR investigative reporter Chiara Eisner wrote in a comment for this story: "Minorities do not all think the same and do not report the same. Good reporters and editors should know that by now. It's embarrassing to me as a reporter at NPR that a senior editor here missed that point in 2024."

Some colleagues drafted a letter to Maher and NPR's chief news executive, Edith Chapin, seeking greater clarity on NPR's standards for its coverage and the behavior of its journalists — clearly pointed at Berliner.

A plan for "healthy discussion"

On Friday, CEO Maher stood up for the network's mission and the journalism, taking issue with Berliner's critique, though never mentioning him by name. Among her chief issues, she said Berliner's essay offered "a criticism of our people on the basis of who we are."

Berliner took great exception to that, saying she had denigrated him. He said that he supported diversifying NPR's workforce to look more like the U.S. population at large. She did not address that in a subsequent private exchange he shared with me for this story. (An NPR spokesperson declined further comment.)

Late Monday afternoon, Chapin announced to the newsroom that Executive Editor Eva Rodriguez would lead monthly meetings to review coverage.

"Among the questions we'll ask of ourselves each month: Did we capture the diversity of this country — racial, ethnic, religious, economic, political geographic, etc — in all of its complexity and in a way that helped listeners and readers recognize themselves and their communities?" Chapin wrote in the memo. "Did we offer coverage that helped them understand — even if just a bit better — those neighbors with whom they share little in common?"

Berliner said he welcomed the announcement but would withhold judgment until those meetings played out.

In a text for this story, Chapin said such sessions had been discussed since Lansing unified the news and programming divisions under her acting leadership last year.

"Now seemed [the] time to deliver if we were going to do it," Chapin said. "Healthy discussion is something we need more of."

Disclosure: This story was reported and written by NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik and edited by Deputy Business Editor Emily Kopp and Managing Editor Gerry Holmes. Under NPR's protocol for reporting on itself, no NPR corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly.

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PEN America cancels awards ceremony amid backlash to stance on Israel-Hamas war

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Following criticism of the organization’s response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America has canceled its annual awards ceremony recognizing outstanding literature.

Of the 61 authors and translators nominated for the prestigious awards, 28 withdrew their books from consideration ahead of the event, which was set to be held April 29 at the Town Hall in New York City. Nine of the 10 nominees for the top recognition, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and its $75,000 prize, withdrew from consideration.

“We greatly respect that writers have followed their consciences, whether they chose to remain as nominees in their respective categories or not,” Rosaz Shariyf, PEN America’s literary programming chief officer, said in a statement Monday. “We regret that this unprecedented situation has taken away the spotlight from the extraordinary work selected by esteemed, insightful and hard-working judges across all categories. As an organization dedicated to freedom of expression and writers, our commitment to recognizing and honoring outstanding authors and the literary community is steadfast.”

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The nonprofit known for its protection of free expression in literature and its focus on human rights has come under fire for its response to the Israel-Hamas war. In an open letter signed by more than 1,400 writers and members of the literary community, including Roxane Gay and Naomi Klein, the group called the organization’s response “silent, tepid, neither-here-nor-there, self-congratulatory middle of the road.”

Signatories said the organization wasn’t living up to its mission of “protecting, platforming and amplifying those writers made most marginalized by nefarious forces,” and called for the organization to disband, should it not address the letter’s concerns.

On Oct. 10, three days after Hamas attacked Israel, PEN America released a statement that said the organization “deplores the premeditated and vicious attack launched against Israeli civilians.”

The org has since put out more than 35 statements about the conflict, many condemning the loss of life in Gaza or offering support to pro-Palestinian writers and groups on college campuses. It also created an emergency fund of $100,000 to support Palestinian writers. Many critics said the fund was too small and found fault with the organization’s call for a cease-fire in March, which came five months after the start of the war.

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PEN announced Monday that “Soil,” by Camille T. Dungy, the only remaining nominee, was awarded the Stein award. Jean Stein’s estate requested that PEN America donate the prize money to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, writing that Stein was a “passionate advocate for Palestinian rights who published, supported and celebrated Palestinian writers and visual artists.”

“While she established the PEN America award in her name to bring attention to and provide meaningful support to writers of the highest literary achievement, we know she would have respected the stance and sacrifice of the writers who have withdrawn from contention this year,” said the statement from Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Wendy Vanden Heuvel and Bill Clegg, on behalf of her estate.

Among the handful of finalists were Javier Fuentes, who won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel for “Countries of Origin.” Playwright Tony Kushner will also still be honored with the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award for his body of work, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Angels in America.”

PEN’s other spring events — the World Voices festivals in New York and Los Angeles, and the gala at the American Museum of Natural History — will proceed as scheduled, according to the Associated Press .

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