LEISUREARAB TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016

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N E W Y O R K T I M E S CROSSWORDSherman’s Lagoon — By J.P. Toomey

Mutts — By Patrick McDonnell

Hagar The Horrible — By Chris Browne

Beetle Bailey — By Mort Walker

Garfi eld — By Jim Davis

Baby Blues — By Rick Kirkman & Jerry Scott

Conceptis Sudoku ChallengerThe grid must be so completed that every row, column and

3x3 box has every digit from 1 to 9 inclusive

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle

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odds ’n’ endsNEW YORK: The killing of a go-rilla at the Cincinnati Zoo after a 4-year-old boy tumbled into the ape’s enclosure triggered outrage and questions about safety, but zoo offi cials called the decision to use lethal force a tough but nec-essary choice.

More than 2,000 people signed a petition on Change.org that sharply criticized the Cincinnati Police Department and the zoo for putting down the animal and called for the child’s parents to be “held accountable for their actions of not supervising their child.”

Cincinnati police on Sunday said the parents had not been charged, but that charges could eventually be sought by the Ham-ilton County Prosecuting Attorney. A spokeswoman for the prosecu-tor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Authorities did not identify the child or his parents. The family could not be reached on Sunday.

A Facebook page titled “Jus-tice for Harambe” had more than 3,000 likes by Sunday afternoon, a day after the 400-pound (181-kg) gorilla was shot dead about 10 minutes after encounter-ing and dragging the child. The animal, named Harambe, was a Western lowland gorilla, an en-dangered species, and the zoo said it had intended to use him for breeding.

“If we think it’s acceptable to kill a gorilla who has done nothing wrong, I don’t think our city should have gorillas,” Manvinder Singh posted on the Facebook page.

A blog post on the website for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals questioned why it was necessary to kill the gorilla and whether zoos could meet the needs of such animals.

“A 17-year-old gorilla named Harambe is dead, and a child is in the hospital. Why?” blogger Jennifer O’Connor wrote. “West-ern lowland gorillas are gentle animals. They don’t attack unless they’re provoked.”

Witnesses told local television that the boy repeatedly expressed a desire to join the gorilla in the zoo habitat. Moments later, the boy crawled through a barrier and fell about 12 feet (3.7-meters) into a moat surrounding the habitat, where Harambe grabbed him, zoo offi cials said.

It was the fi rst time in the 38-year history of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s gorilla ex-hibit that an unauthorized person was able to get into the enclosure, zoo president Thane Maynard said on Saturday.

“They made a tough choice and they made the right choice because they saved that little boy’s life,” he said, adding that a member of the zoo’s Dangerous Animal Response Team fi red the shot that killed the ape.

Maynard said the team decided to use deadly force instead of tranquilizers to subdue the gorilla because it could have taken some time for the drug to take effect when an animal was in agitated state. (RTRS)

A child touches the head of a gorilla statue where fl owers have been placed outside the Go-rilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden on May 29, in Cincinnati. (AP)

DIRECTIONS:Fill each square

with a number, one through nine.■ Horizontal

squares should add to totals on right.

■ Vertical squares should add to totals

on bottom.■ Diagonal squares

through center should add to total in upper and lower

right.

THERE MAY BE MORE THAN ONE

SOLUTION.

Today’s ChallengeTime 1 Minutes

28 SecondsYour Working

Time __ Minutes__ Seconds

Word by Word

Need HajahA guilty conscience needs no accuser.Al thamer al shaer belethem fe ghair ma haja ela mutaham.

Numbers

7233 Seven thousand two hundredthirty three

Sabat alaaf wa meatan wathalath wa thalathon

Yesterday’s solution

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