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4B Midweek Edition - Sept. 30 - Oct. 1,2020 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com ENTERTAINMENT WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY ACROSS 1 Madhouses 5 Distress acutely 9 “Peter Pan” girl 14 Actress — Adams 15 Colleen’s home 16 “So long!” 17 Long river 18 False god 19 Piano fixer 20 Actor’s place (2 wds.) 22 Maxim 24 Krishna devotee 26 Time span 27 Four-baggers 30 Winter’s start 35 Battery terminal 36 Pastrami seller 37 Wife of Geraint 38 Knight’s title 39 Patois 42 Batting stat 43 Sleep fitfully 45 Two-color cookie 46 “Sesame Street” regular 48 Windflowers 50 Pays homage 51 “Exodus” character 52 Win big 54 Slanted type 58 Answers back 62 Yo-Yo Ma plays one 63 Holy image 65 Pawn taker 66 Banish 67 Diet 68 Weight rebate 69 Retail business 70 Stratum 71 Kind of flurry Tuesday’s answers on next page under “Solutions” 5)2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS Wednesday’s answers on next page under “Solutions” 5)2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS Thursday’s answers on next page under “Solutions” 5)2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS DOWN 1 Stoic founder 2 Valhalla honcho 3 Van Gogh’s medium 4 Barely boiled 5 Wears the crown 6 Bailed out 7 —Magnon man 8 Iodine source 9 Minds the flowers 10 Teach 11 Number of Muses 12 Mysterious 13 Domed tent 21 Opened the window 23 Old keepsake 25 Futile 27 “— la vista!” 28 Pungent vegetable 29 Telegraph inventor 31 Refrigerator stick 32 Harebrained 33 Courteous 34 Margins 36 Boldly attempt 40 Column type 41 Doctrine 44 More petite 47 News accounts 49 Black-and- yellow bird 50 Sharper 53 Put pen to paper 54 Freezes over 55 Manual 56 Brand for Bowser 57 River deposit 59 Dappled horse 60 Corrida sight 61 Slant 64 LI doubled ACROSS 1 Get one’s teeth into 5 Pinnacle 9 Soft metal 13 Vader’s creator 15 Fraud 16 News, briefly 17 Square 18 Escape hatch 19 O’Neal of films 20 Conceit 22 Mark a page (hyph.) 24 AAA suggestion 25 Bartok or Lugosi 26 Make public 29 University administrator 31 Dupes 36 Courier 38 Small accident 39 Medicinal root 40 Admit 41 Brats’ opposites 42 Kind of shower 43 Rodeo gear 44 Suspect 45 Techie 46 Muse of history 48 Prehistoric 50 Go softly 53 Spruce up the walls 57 Karachi language 58 Peace Prize city 60 Elf cousin 61 Lunar valley 62 Iffy attempt 63 Element’s units 64 Playwright — Coward 65 Lighten up 66 Wooden strip DOWN 1 Fingerprint, e.g. 2 Put up pictures 3 Sonic bounce 4 Diner staff 5 Polite cough 6 Racing shell steerer 7 Knight’s fair lady 8 Glorify 9 Trevi Fountain coins, once 10 Grammy winner for “Shepherd Moons” 11 Remote 12 Grandee’s title 14 Hiss 21 Most taxi cabs 23 Slack-jawed 25 Howl at the moon 26 Fell to 27 PABA part 28 A Beatle 30 Foot-pound relative 32 Forebears 33 “— it’s at” 34 Low point 35 Swiftness 37 Finest quality 38 “Bus Stop” star 40 Government org. 42 Tolstoy’s name 44 Party 47 Free to roam 49 Links org. 50 Vocal group 51 Doinq nothinq 52 Haul 53 Night attire 54 Lifeguard’s beat 55 — Samms of “Dynasty” 56 Others 57 Coffee server 59 Refrain syllables ACROSS 1 Goes fast 5 Municipal district 9 Close-mouthed person 13 Face-to-face exam 14 Wary 15 Queen’s quarters 16 Muzzle 17 Maxim 18 Discharge 19 Naval rank 21 Scott’s “The — Quartet” 22 Give medicine 23 Pesky bug 25 Stow 27 Psyched up 31 Opera house cheers 35 Watch what one eats 36 Zoo transport 38 Hilltop 39 I, to Wolfgang 40 Wagers 42 TV brand 43 His and hers 46 Dried-up 47 Cold icicle 48 Ranked in tennis 50 Sword holder 52 Continuously 54 Lands in “la mer” 55 Lengthy story 58 Magna — laude 60 Undamaged 64 Cheery tone 65 San Antonio landmark 67 Post-workout feeling 68 Fat cat’s victim 69 Cantaloupe 70 Garden bloom 71 Chitchats 72 Trial run 73 Dapper DOWN 1 Region 2 Heavy metal 3 Go by 4 Dexterity 5 Roll of bills 6 Petri dish contents 7 Lordly 8 Salon offering (2 wds.) 9 Aged yellow cheese 10 VIP transport 11 Hertz rival 12 Give out sparingly 14 Double-deck game 20 Safari animal 24 Gull relatives 26 Electric bridge 27 Revises 28 Pigeonhole 29 Giggle (hyph.) 30 Takes out 32 Vice — 33 “Titanic” award 34 Rack 37 Yves’ thanks 41 West Coast barker (2 wds.) 44 Forms a thought 45 Gun the engine 47 Refuse to vote 49 Leave hastily 51 Kingsley of “Species” 53 Crown wearer 55 Wade through 56 Met role 57 Smug 59 Masculine 61 Land measure 62 Minty Mexican plant 63 Examination 66 Swab the deck Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, j to form four ordinary words. | TINYU IGBEE DLIFED GTYIZL ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC Ail Rights Reserved. THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek What’s wrong? Are you OK? I think the chicken wasn’t cooked enough. HE HAP NO PROOF THAT THE FOOP WAS 6\m& HIM INPI6ESTI0N, BUT HE PIP HAVE A --- Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. Answer here: T. Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, ■§ to form four ordinary words. | AGEMO NOYRI ' s GROJEG COIYID ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek IsrVtit^ can’t put it down! wonderful? to get my hand! on “Ulysses”! It really:: yet! \| JAMES WROTE NOVELS SUCH AS "PUBLINERS" ANP "UVfSSSS, 1 ANP HIS REAPERS --- Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. Answer “ here: -y- Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, » to form four ordinary words. | NGLUC RAHDO CLIPES GIKSIN ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek v x \ | / x ^ THE ACCOUNTANT F0R60T TO APP THE LAST NUMBER ON „ THE PAtBE ANP SAT THERE — , Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. Answer here: YYTYTYYYY SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING:iMnYwYr DIFFICULTY FRATING:^-^^ DIFFICULTY RATING:^^^ 2020 Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndicalk 2020 Dist. by Andrews McMccI Syndicalk 2020 Dist. by Andrews McMccI Syndicalk Girlfriend insists shes not jealous of ex despite red flags Dear Carolyn: My girlfriend insists she is not jealous of my ex-girlfriend, but I’m not convinced. I have tried to reassure her the old relationship is well over. I have started to notice some of my clothes — hats and T-shirts — are missing. These all had some loose connection to where my ex lived. I suspect my girlfriend has taken these things and disposed of them. I think it’s the only explanation for their disappearance. And it’s giving me a sick feel ing, not because I miss them but because it seems so devious. Do I ask her about them? How can I do that? It doesn’t feel right to con front her, but I deserve to know if she would do such a thing. I want to trust her, but this is in the way. — Anonymous Well that’s disturbing. And if it happened to me, I guess I’d start by asking whether she’s seen my whatever-hat, and watch how she responded. I hope, however, I wouldn’t have stuck around long enough to get to this point. This is a concept that gets treated as typical in couples — and not just by you, by any means — when it’s really a prelude to soul-sucking dysfunction: “I have tried to reassure....” Him or her, over an ex or some thing else, it doesn’t matter. It’s all the same and it’s all bad. If you’re regularly in the position of having to explain yourself, then you don’t need to go all private-detective on your T-shirts to test your relationship’s health. You already have proof of: her unhappiness; her doubts; her unwillingness to believe you; her unwillingness to believe in herself; and your willingness to have your feelings and intentions doubted, if not openly questioned. These problems are in your relationship’s foundation. Trust, comfort, sense of self. If you want a relationship to work, then just inhabit it, as the closest thing possible to your natural self. Swear off reassur ance. Say what you feel moved to say. Act as you feel moved to act. Show your attentions as you feel moved to, and don’t live a never-ending sales pitch for their sincerity. (Be your best moral self, too, obviously; if you feel moved to mistreat people, then you have no business being in any relationship with anyone.) See what happens. If that isn’t enough for someone to feel good in your company, enough for her to stop question ing your commitment to her, then what more information do you need? Would your next impulse really be to try harder to per suade her? Even after pausing to think? Why? Wouldn’t it be time to wonder why anyone stays in a relation ship she finds so unsatisfying? And why you’d tap-dance so hard, in such earnest, to keep her there? While it would be interesting to find out whether your girlfriend is in fact unstable and unscrupu lous enough to act out her inse curities through your souvenirs, that’s reaching for an elusive answer when there’s an easy one in your lap. This isn’t working. Plus, to arrive at that tougher answer, we’d have to pass another easy answer: that you’re still (living?) with someone you even think capable of being this devious. Yikes. Please turn your interrogation onto yourself and your standards. Ask yourself what flag would be red enough. Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www. washingtonpost.com. CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com
