OCTOBER 18, 2024 PUZZLES GROUNDCOVER NEWS COME FLY WITH ME Peter A. Collins 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. Picket line defier 5.___-Lorraine (French region) 11. Proust's "Remembrance of Things ___” 15. Headlight? 16. Do over, as a backsplash 17. Shakespeare's river 18. Grand story 19. "The Eras Tour" star 21. Pulitzer-winning poet of 1987 23. Don't change a thing 24. "The Addams Family" cousin 25. Coffee, in slang 26. 65-Across that dines on stinging insects 28. Drop of water? 30. Animal's coat 31. Bridge bid, for short 32. Biting pest 33. Biblical giant 36. Queue after Q 37. "All I Wanna Do" singer 40. What makes fat fast? 43. Hinders 44. "Last one ___ a rotten egg!" 48. Noses, informally 50. Store window posting: Abbr. 51. It might get stuck in a corner 52. Starbucks staffers 54. Cry of disgust 56. Scotland's longest river 57. Triangular sail 58. 2009 inductee in the Skateboarding Hall of Fame 60. "Pirates of the Caribbean" hero 62. Jai ___ 63. Fit to be drafted 64. Big lizard 65. What can be found at the ends of 19-, 21-, 37-, 58-, and 60-Across bird 66. Fellow 67. More intense 68. Understands DOWN 1. Western hero 2. Lansing, for instance 3. Somewhat 4. ___ Raton, Florida 5. "Star Wars" droid, affectionately 6. Depart 7. Eye woe 8. Feel under the weather 9. It might be decided by a nose 10. Mysterious 11. Fruit with a reduplicative name 12. Earhart or Lindbergh 13. Starts to melt 14. Big bang letters 20. Prefix with -scope 22. Vinyl spinners 26. Intensifies 27. Go bad 29. ___ Cruces, New Mexico 30. Philadelphia icers 33. Ruby, for one 34. "Oliver!" setting 35. ___-80 (classic computer) 38. Angry cats' sounds 39. Comical quality 40. Decline 41. Shipping channel 42. Crusades combatant 45. Portman of "Black Swan" 46. "You don't have to tell me" 47. 2001 Antonio Banderas film 49. Red-wrapped candy bar 51. Bashful 53. Lukewarm 54. Legendary pioneer Daniel 55. Sadat of Egypt 58. Word with sand or speed 59. Montreal Canadiens' nickname 60. Go for a leisurely run 61. Feel awful about
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