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ENTERTAINMENT The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Midweek Edition - July 29-30, 2020 5B SATURDAY ACROSS 1 Questions 5 Caesar’s river 10 Chanel’s nickname 14 Allot 15 Small pansy 16 Surrounded by 17 Took a card 18 Thresholds 19 Wine and — 20 Fiery horse 22 Use up 24 Old Norse poem 27 Garish light 28 Actress Angela 32 Eggs purchase 35 Fruity drink 36 Fine violin 38 Lionesses’ lack 40 Met celeb 42 Put in crops 44 Dress fastener 45 Clairvoyants 47 Steel rod 49 Ms. Hagen 50 Sudden impulses 52 Length of time 54 West Coast sch. 56 Dice throws 57 Small drums (hyph.) 60 Burglary 64 Distribute 65 Like some communities 68 Game plan 69 Smile 70 Cordial flavoring 71 Outer coat 72 Haze 73 DEA agents 74 Dick Tracy’s wife PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED A M A H M u S I C J O K E T A T A N T R O O P A L O M E N C H A S M G E T A M A N D A R I N M l G N O N F L O P B E T E A F O U L A I R C R A F T S A L L Y T O R C H P A H S U D S F O R C E B R 1 E E N E S I X T H M A O R I T A N z A N I A L 1 N E R I V A N H l L L M O L T E N R E C E 1 V E D U H O H C H l L I ■ F 1 V E M I L E E A T E N F L E A S O A R S L A N G s E R F 8-1-20 ©2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS DOWN 30 At no time 1 Increases 31 Fishtailed 2 Kind 33 Indifference 3 Painter Paul — 34 “Peachy!” 4 Garment 37 Coming out makers 39 Period of time 5 Sports bar 41 Dispute fixtures, for 43 Challenge short 46 Denomination 6 Clock numeral 48 Carry on 7 Audacious 51 Motto 8 Ms. Burstyn 53 Light top (hyph.) 9 Sounded 55 Fridge maker hoarse 57 Actress — Garr 10 Showy solo 58 Name in passages elevators 11 Fail to include 59 Recipe verb 12 Film 61 McClurg or 13 Tribute in verse Brickell 21 Makes a knight 62 Bogs 23 Weaving 63 Kids machine 64 Where the lion 25 Pistachios roars 26 Boo-boo 66 Bailout key 28 Fellows 67 Some, to 29 Word of parting Yvette THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. UMYGM PMILE HNIKRS ^2 LRYASA 2^ v 2 ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. v^2 ^2 V_2 2 ' v^2 2 ' 2^ 2^ SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING: ★★★★★ 8/1 © 2020 Dist. by Andrews McMccl Syndication for UFS FUN + GAMES Find answers to the above puzzles in the weekend edition, along with more puzzles ONLINE PUZZLES Go to gainesvilletimes.com/puzzles to access interactive puzzles online, including multiple varieties of Jumble, Sudoku, and crosswords as well as Hitori and Futoshiki. Once there, click the “More games” button at the top left to view the options. Once a puzzle is selected, learn how to play by clicking the question mark. BRIDGE WEDNESDAY TOMMY’S DISAPPOINTMENT North-South vulnerable, North deals NORTH A Q 9 6 VAKQ O A J 9 8 4 3 ♦ 6 WEST EAST A Void A 10 5 4 3 S? 10 8 5 4 S? J 9 7 2 O 10 7 6 5 2 OK ♦ K Q 10 4 *J975 SOUTH A A K J 8 7 2 063 OQ ♦ A832 The bidding: NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 10 Pass 1A Pass 36 Pass 3 A Pass 4<? Pass 4NT Pass 5A* Pass 7A All pass *2 key cards, among the 4 aces and the king of spades, plus the queen of spades Opening lead: King of ♦ Trump Coup Tommy was very pleased at the sight of dummy. Partner’s four heart bid was clearly a cue bid in support of spades, as he would have bid two hearts rather than three diamonds with a heart suit. It looked like it would only require pedestrian play, but a grand slam was money in the bank! Tommy won the opening club lead with his ace and ruffed a club with dummy’s nine of spades. His plan was to ruff two clubs in dummy and eventually discard his remaining low club on dummy's queen of hearts. This plan came crashing down when he led a low spade to his ace and West showed out. Tommy was strangely happy, as he now had a chance to demonstrate his specialty - a trump coup. This would require that he reduce his trump length to the same as East’s which meant two diamond ruffs. He would still need East to follow to three rounds of hearts, but the first step was to ruff two diamonds. Tommy led the queen of diamonds to dummy’s ace and was sorry to see the king fall from East. That made the play pedestrian again. He was tempted to go for the trump coup anyway, but he decided that his partner might kill him if it didn't work. He simply cashed dummy’s queen of spades, ruffed a diamond to his hand and drew the outstanding trumps. He was able to discard one club on the queen of hearts and the other on the jack of diamonds. No trump coup this time, but money in the bank! THURSDAY NO GOOD PLACE East-West vulnerable, South deals NORTH A K 10 5 9? A 6 5 4 3 O AQ J53 ♦ Void WEST EAST A 9 7 2 A J 6 4 <?J7 <?10982 O 10 9874 OK6 ♦ 10 32 ♦ Q J 9 8 SOUTH A A Q 8 3 <?KQ 02 ♦ A K 7 6 5 4 The bidding: SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST l* Pass 19 Pass 2A Pass 30 Pass 39 Pass 3A Pass 3NT Pass 6A All pass Opening lead: 10 of O North-South had the values for slam but they couldn't find a good place to play it. Six hearts looks best to us. Assuming a club lead from East: ace of clubs, ruff a club, king and queen of hearts, ruff another club, ace of hearts. Now a spade to the queen and run clubs until East ruffs. Six hearts making six. What about six spades? South won the opening diamond lead with dummy’s ace, led a heart to his king, then cashed the queen of hearts and two high clubs. He ruffed a club with dummy’s five of spades and ruffed a diamond with his three of spades as the king fell from East. A club ruff with the 10 of spades was followed by the queen of diamonds. East ruffed with the jack and South over-ruffed with ace. A club was ruffed with the king of spades, leaving a three-card ending with West holding the nine-seven- two of spades and South the queen- eight plus a club. South led dummy’s ace of hearts and discarded his last club. West ruffed but had to lead a spade from the nine-seven into declarer’s queen- eight. A remarkable ending. Well done! Note that had South led a high diamond in the end position instead of the ace of hearts, East could defeat the slam by ruffing with a low trump. (Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this newspaper or to Tribune Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove Dr.. Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001. E-mail: tcaeditors@tribpub.com) FRIDAY DIFFERENT STROKES Both vulnerable. North deals NORTH A K Q 6 Q 10 9 8 OK953 ♦ 52 WEST A A J 8 3 <263 O Q J 10 8 4 ♦ 10 6 EAST A 5 4 <242 O A762 ♦J9843 SOUTH A 10 9 7 2 OAK J75 OVoid ♦ A K Q 7 The bidding: NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST Pass Pass 1<2 Pass 2A* Pass 3A Pass 3A Pass 69 All pass *Drury - heart fit w/10-11 points Opening lead: Queen of O Hard Luck Louie ruffed the opening diamond lead and led a spade to dummy’s king, winning the trick as West ducked his ace. This did not guarantee that the ace was onside, of course, as East might have been the one who ducked his ace. Louie now tried to cash three rounds of clubs. His plan was to discard a spade from dummy and lead a spade. He could then make the rest of the tricks on a high cross ruff, even if the opponents shifted to a trump. Good pian, but West ruffed the queen of clubs. Louie still had chances, but he needed another entry to dummy to ruff a diamond. When he eventually tried another spade, West rose with his ace and gave East a spade ruff for down one. "Yeesh,” said Louie. “All I needed was a 4-3 club split. Was that too much to ask!” Lucky Larry also ruffed the diamond lead and led a spade to dummy’s king. Instead of Louie’s line, Larry ruffed a diamond with a high heart, led a low heart to dummy, and ruffed another diamond high. He led the jack of hearts to dummy's queen, drawing the remaining enemy trumps, and now cashed three rounds of clubs to discard dummy’s last diamond. He then led the 10 of spades, relying on his ability to guess the suit. There was no possible mis- guess on this lie of the spades and Larry scored up his slam. (Bob Jones welcomes readers' responses sent in care of this newspaper or to Tribune Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove Dr., Suite 175, Addison. TX 75001. E-mail: tcaeditors@tribpub.com) SATURDAY WEEKLY BRIDGE QUIZ Q 1 - Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold: AK10 8543298OKQA985 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH 1A 36 Dbl* Pass 4A Pass Pass ? *Negative What call would you make? Q 2 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: AAK86549AK10 4O8A10 4 SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1A Pass 1NT 26 9 What call would you make? Q 3 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: AQ89A20AQJ5AKJ754 Partner opens 1C and right-hand opponent passes. What call would you make? Q 4 - Both vulnerable, as South, you hold: AAJ9764980K8753A6 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH 1A Pass 16 ? What call would you make? Q 5 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: AAQ1069Q10O7 2AAJ753 Partner opens 1H and right-hand opponent passes. What call would you make? Q 6 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: AAK9 9A8653 07 42AA8 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH Pass Pass 1A 19 20 Pass Pass ? What call would you make? Look for answers on Monday. SOLUTIONS FOR TUESDAY PUZZLES VIDEO HIKER DUPLEX LAVISH He wanted to buy the bookcase, but his wife — SHELVED THE IDEA 7 2 6 3 9 4 1 5 8 9 4 5 7 8 1 3 6 2 8 3 1 5 6 2 9 7 4 6 7 9 8 2 3 4 1 5 2 1 4 6 7 5 8 3 9 3 5 8 4 1 9 7 2 6 5 6 3 9 4 7 2 8 1 1 9 7 2 5 8 6 4 3 4 8 2 1 3 6 5 9 7 2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS FOR WEDNESDAY PUZZLES IMAGE EMPTY SONATA BAMBOO If you get tagged while playing tag, just accept the fact and think - SO BE IT 9 5 8 4 2 3 6 1 7 1 2 7 8 9 6 5 3 4 6 4 3 1 7 5 2 9 8 2 3 1 7 8 4 9 5 6 4 6 9 5 1 2 8 7 3 8 7 5 3 6 9 4 2 1 3 1 4 2 5 8 7 6 9 5 8 6 9 3 7 1 4 2 7 9 2 6 4 1 3 8 5 B E S T s 1 R A P T C A D S U L T R A E M 1 R O V E N c L E A R E B A Y L O N E s E M I C O L O N P O 1 S E T A K E O N O R D E R V O L S A C K A G A E w E M Y T H Y O D E L S E L I A S A D O V A L P S A L M S K E L P E C O I O U 1 G O R N E B A L L G O N E R O O M S L l N G S T A T U E T T E S A K I S T U D 1 D R O 1 D A M E N G E N E E G G E D Y A N G T R E s R E A D Y 7-30-20 © 2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS FOR THURSDAY PUZZLES POISE BEVEL MELODY SPIRAL The politician’s words couldn’t be trusted, and therein - LIES THE PROBLEM 6 7 5 3 1 4 8 2 9 8 3 9 6 2 7 4 5 1 2 4 1 8 5 9 6 7 3 5 9 4 7 3 1 2 8 6 1 6 3 4 8 2 7 9 5 7 8 2 5 9 6 1 3 4 3 2 7 1 4 5 9 6 8 4 5 6 9 7 8 3 1 2 9 1 8 2 6 3 5 4 7 D O W E L T U E S N E C K E L l T E A s E A O X E N F E T E D R E L Y M I D I T O T G L O S S V A L E T I N E P T F A D E D R A C E R S V E R D I O B I E B E S E E C H E D A L s B L U N T E R Y O U M E M O R A N D A L P N S P A R K S C O Y E S T M O u N D W A D E R W O R L D P O U N D B A H R I C E D O u R E L O P E l R A N O P T S S A L S A T E S T N E S T T W E E D 2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS FOR FRIDAY PUZZLES AGILE ORBIT EXCITE SOFTEN In order to pinpoint the problem, the auto mechanic needed to — GET A FIX ON IT 4 9 8 1 2 6 7 3 5 3 2 6 5 9 7 1 8 4 7 1 5 8 4 3 2 9 6 8 3 2 6 1 9 4 5 7 1 4 7 3 5 8 6 2 9 6 5 9 2 7 4 3 1 8 2 6 1 7 8 5 9 4 3 9 8 3 4 6 1 5 7 2 5 7 4 9 3 2 8 6 1 A M A H M u S I C J 0 K E T A T A N T R O O p A L O M E N C H A S M G E T A M A N D A R I N M l G N O N F L O P B E T E A F O U L A I R C R A F T S A L L Y T O R C H P A H S U D S F O R C E B R 1 E E N E S I X T H M A O R I T A N z A N I A L 1 N E R I V A N H L L M O L T E N R E C E 1 V E D U H O H C H I L i ■ F I V E M I L E E A T E N F L E A S O A R S L A N G s E R F 8-1-20 © 2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS
