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ENTERTAINMENT The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Midweek Edition - August 26-27, 2020 ★ 5B SATURDAY Friday’s answers under “Solutions” 8-29-20 © 2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS ACROSS 1 Barge 5 Humane org. 9 Raise a red flag 13 Kachina maker 14 Burglar deterrent 16 Water, to Pedro 17 Service ender 18 Eat some of 19 Tanker or ferry 20 Choose carefully 22 Gaea’s children 24 Bombay garments 25 Implement to chop weeds 26 Lessened 29 Famed escape artist 33 Uses, as influence 34 Glove leather 35 Wk. starter 36 Tizzies 37 Rapper Lil’ — 38 Behavior pattern 40 Bother 41 Ely of “Tarzan” 42 Say no 43 Pot flower 46 Refined 47 Admin, head 48 Reinforce 49 Put aside for a while 52 Tear roughly 56 This spot 57 Disrespectful talk 59 In a frenzy 60 Bradley or Sharif 61 Have vibes about 62 Bus route 63 Makes up one’s mind 64 ‘The — the limit!” 65 Inferior DOWN 1 Jahan was one 2 Insensible state 3 Free from obstruction 4 Ride a sailboard 5 Lampoons 6 Tranquil 7 Hogsheads 8 Museum contents 9 Squandered 10 Ottoman title 11 Harm irretrievably 12 Brief rests 15 Way 21 International agreements 23 Debt memo 26 Fix up 27 Ooze out 28 Get the mist off 29 Male 30 Suffuse 31 Library no-no 32 Chip producer 34 Aunts and uncles 37 RV haven 38 And so 39 Nevertheless (2 wds.) 41 Girder inserts 42 Gets through to 44 Lascivious lookers 45 Fall mo. 46 Verdant 48 Unwritten on 49 Exclamation directed at a pesky fly 50 Rope fiber 51 Was, to Ovid 53 Brigitte’s friend 54 Large amounts 55 Really skimps 58 Certain musical notes Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, 3 to form four ordinary words. | THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek MEDATN TAULNW 4YY V ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. ku -A- -y- “ r """"" MOTHER NATURE W0ULP FINISH PAMPENIN6 THE M0RNINS LAWNS, — U Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. y y SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING: ★★★★★ 8/29 © 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 DIFFERENT ROADS East-West vulnerable, South deals NORTH AQ2 R? K 10 8 5 3 O K 9 5 *J98 WEST EAST A 10 7653 A A 9 4 R? J 9 4 R? Q OQJIO 06432 *Q5 *A7432 SOUTH A K J8 R? A 7 6 2 O A87 *K106 The bidding: SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1NT Pass 20* Pass 20 Pass 3NT Pass 40 All pass *Transfer to hearts Opening lead: Queen of <> This is another deal from a recent online team competition. It was an invitational event and all the players were experts. Both tables reached four hearts and both declarers won the opening diamond lead with dummy's king, but they took different roads from there. At one table, declarer led dummy’s queen of spades to set up a discard for his diamond loser. East grabbed his ace and led a low club. South ducked, reasonably, as the queen with East would solve all his problems, even if he had a trump loser. West won with his queen, returned a club to East's ace, and the ensuing club ruff meant down one. At the other table, South led a trump to his ace, noting the fall of the queen from East, and then led a spade to the queen. Declarer also faced the shift to a low club, but this declarer put up his king, winning the trick. A heart to the 10 and the king of hearts drew trumps. South cashed his two spade winners, shedding a diamond from dummy, then cashed the ace of diamonds and ruffed his last diamond. A club from the table left the defense helpless. Should West win, he would have to yield a ruff-sluff. East rose with his ace, preventing this, but he gobbled up partner's queen at the same time. The jack of clubs gave declarer an overfrick. Very well played! {Bob Jones welcomes readers' responses sent in care of this paper. Please send your e-mail responses to tcaeditors@tribpub.com) THURSDAY MORE DIFFERENT ROADS North-South vulnerable. East deals NORTH AK84 R? A 10 9 8 3 O J2 *K43 WEST A J 10 6 S? J 4 2 O 10 9 8 6 4 * A6 EAST A 95 R? Void OAK73 *J 10 98752 SOUTH A AQ732 R? K Q 7 6 5 OQ5 *Q The bidding: EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH Pass 1A Pass 2NT* Pass 4A All pass *Spade raise, invitational or better Opening lead: Ace of * This deal is from the semi-finals of a team competition. All four players sitting East chose different actions as dealer. At one table, East opened two clubs, showing at least six clubs with a minimum opening bid - we agree that he was minimum. Another East opened three clubs. Both these players ended up defending a contract of four hearts, which could not be defeated. A third East opened four clubs and saw his partner continue to five clubs when North-South bid to four hearts. Right he was as five clubs doubled escaped for down one and was an excellent sacrifice. At the fourth table, as shown here, East chose to pass as dealer. You might not like the North-South auction, but we have all seen much worse. The defense had a chance against the four-spade contract. West found the excellent lead of the ace of clubs. East played the jack at trick one to deny the queen, silently praying that partner would shift to hearts. There was a fair chance that the ace of clubs was a singleton and that partner would read the jack as a suit-preference signal for the higher ranking of the two remaining suits, not counting the trump suit. The fall of the queen from South was a wake- up call for West, who indeed shifted to a heart. East ruffed and cashed two diamonds for down one. What would you have bid as dealer? (Bob Jones welcomes readers' responses sent in care of this paper or tcaeditors@tribpub.com) FRIDAY TOO MUCH INFORMATION North-South vulnerable. South deals NORTH 4k KQ32 R? 10 3 2 OA107 j, o 4 2 WEST EAST 4k 10 965 4kAJ84 R? 8 6 5 R? A Q 9 4 09 0652 *A9765 *83 SOUTH 4k7 R? K J 7 O K Q J 8 4 3 *K J 10 The bidding: SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 10 Pass 1* Pass 20* Pass 30 Pass 3NT All pass *Fewer than three spades Opening lead: Six of * When this deal was played in a recent online tournament, three no trump became the final contract at almost every table. The contract succeeded after a club lead and club continuation after East won his ace of spades at trick two. Occasionally, North became declarer after a different auction. A low heart lead saw declarer romp home with nine easy tricks. At this table, the expert North- South pair had an unusual agreement - the two-diamond rebid denied as many as three spades. We can’t be sure, but we imagine this pair had agreed to always raise partner’s major with three-card support rather than rebid a six-card minor suit. That might be a useful agreement, but it backfired on them this time. West led a fourth-best club, won by declarer with the jack. A spade to the king lost to the ace and East had all the information he needed to defeat the contract. East knew that South had, at most, one more spade, and it did not matter what that spade was even if South had one. East continued with the jack of spades! West might have to unblock in spades should South have the doubleton nine or ten, but East’s four of spades sat powerfully over dummy’s three-deuce. No unblock necessary on this deal and three no trump failed by one trick. One great thing about bridge is that you cannot have a secret agreement. You must share your agreements with your opponents and risk that the information will help them more than it helps you. SATURDAY WEEKLY BRIDGE QUIZ Q 1 - Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold: AAQOJ75 0J96*AKQ52 As dealer, what call would you make? Q 2 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: AAKJ10O9 53PQ*AQ973 Partner opens 1NT, 15-17, and right- hand opponent passes. What is your plan? Q 3 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: AA10 7OQ874<>Q2*10 975 Partner opens ID and right-hand opponent doubles. What call would you make? Q 4 - Both vulnerable, as South, you hold: A52OA80K875*K9754 Right-hand opponent opens 1S. What call would you make? Q 5 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: A54OQ10<>KQJ8754*AJ EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH IO 20 20 30 39 ? What call would you make? Q 6 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: 4kAJ8749AKOK8744kl0 8 SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 14k 29 49* Pass 9 *Splinter bid, game forcing spade raise with shortness in hearts What call would you make? Look for answers on Monday. 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