DECEMBER 13, 2024 PUZZLES GROUNDCOVER NEWS 9 Groundcover Vendor Code While Groundcover is a non-profit, and paper vendors are self-employed contractors, we still have expectations of how vendors should conduct themselves while selling and representing the paper. The following is our Vendor Code of Conduct, which every vendor reads and signs before receiving a badge and papers. We request that if you discover a vendor violating any tenets of the Code, please contact us and provide as many details as possible. Our paper and our vendors should be positively impacting our County. • Groundcover will be a voluntary purchase. I agree not to ask for more than the cover price or solicit donations by any other means. • When selling Groundcover, I will always have the current biweekly issue of Groundcover available for customer purchase. • I agree not to sell additional goods or products when selling the paper or to panhandle, including panhandling with only one paper or selling past monthly issues. • I will wear and display my badge when selling papers and refrain from wearing it or other Groundcover gear when engaged in other activities. • I will only purchase the paper from Groundcover Staff and will not sell to or buy papers from other Groundcover vendors, especially vendors who have been suspended or terminated. • I agree to treat all customers, staff, and other vendors respectfully. I will not “hard sell,” threaten, harass or pressure customers, staff, or other vendors verbally or physically. • I will not sell Groundcover under the influence of drugs or alcohol. • I understand that I am not a legal employee of Groundcover but a contracted worker responsible for my own well-being and income. • I understand that my badge is property of Groundcover and will not deface it. I will present my badge when purchasing the papers. • I agree to stay off private property when selling Groundcover. • I understand to refrain from selling on public buses, federal property or stores unless there is permission from the owner. • I agree to stay at least one block away from another vendor in downtown areas. I will also abide by the Vendor Corner Policy. • I understand that Groundcover strives to be a paper that covers topics of homelessness and poverty while providing sources of income for the homeless. I will try to help in this effort and spread the word. If you would like to report a violation of the Vendor Code please email contact@groundcovernews. com or fill out the contact form on our website. ACROSS 1. Young scout 4. Org. founded during Roosevelt's tenure 7. Nincompoop 10. Kind of farm 13. What 0! or 0^0 equals 14. Lead-in to many carriers 15. Hirsute Addams family member 16. Character who took the red pill 17. Word with bang or bank 18. Trawler trailer 19. *Catcalls? 21. *Handout at some sporting events 24. Timeline items 25. Frank whose diary letters are addressed to "Kitty" 26. Like some names 28. Conducting, as war 31. Spanish appetizer 35. Singer DiFranco 38. *Hold auditions, maybe 41. Real stud 43. Less tame 44. *Game with drawings 48. Mess 49. Sound made with ones finger and palm 50. Minted, as a new term 52. Altoid alternative 55. What you might hear straight from the horse's mouth? 59. Take on 62. *Abusive sort 65. Button appearing at the start of some YouTube videos ... or a hint to this puzzle's starred clues 67. Crypto org. 68. Bygone portable device 69. Next of ___ 70. Old Navy rival 71. Video game lead-in to City 72. Dawdle 73. Text letters 74. Unit in a history textbook, maybe 75. Precognition, for short 76. Pronoun in rebus puzzles DOWN 1. Hooded snake 2. The largest one is the National Education Association 3. Kicked off 4. Buffs 5. Keto or paleo 6. Goddess namesake for a N.A.S.A. program 7. Goal 8. 'Trusty' transport 9. Ward (off) 10. Common pen name 11. Young salamander 12. Throw out 20. Part of an H.M.O. 22. Morning moisture 23. Series of diatribes 27. Tennis' Swiatek 29. Lenovo rival 30. Attire 32. Does some calculating 33. Homer, for one 34. Gone ___ 35. Peaks featured in the Evian logo 36. High ___ (showdown time) 37. Caitlin Clark's alma mater 39. Word with song or dive 40. Word yelled upon hearing a surprise party's guest of honor approaching 42. Didn't dawdle 45. Play division 46. Display a spinning circle, as a computer 47. Prerogative 51. ___ Equis 53. PR agent's concern 54. Tennessee's tree 56. Creation of Jobs? 57. Calendar app tab 58. Mount, as a coup 59. Doesn't 59-Across 60. Hardly pore over 61. Transgressions 63. eBay Condition 64. Like an musty basement 66. Belgian town home to one of 7 racetracks in the inaugural Formula 1 season COMMERCIAL BREAKS Victor Schmitt
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