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ENTERTAINMENT The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Midweek Edition-December 2-3, 2020 7B SATURDAY Friday’s answers under “Solutions” 12-5-20 ©2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS ACROSS 1 Small, medium or large 5 School dances 10 Arrogant person 14 Elevator man 15 Sit in on a class 16 “I did it!” (hyph.) 17 Landlord’s fee 18 Like tali grass 19 Purple flower 20 Moderators 22 Muzzles 24 Mediterranean landmark 26 Physics unit 27 Performer’s barometer (2 wds.) 30 Brief snooze 34 Floor 35 Bodily posture 38 Tooth part 39 Twist-off 40 Rips 42 Plead 43 Track down 46 Border 47 Water, on the Seine 48 Store clerk 50 Sets sail 53 Banjo kin 54 — ex machina 55 Exemplar of excellence (2 wds.) 60 Smiles smugly 64 Barn area 65 Perch 67 Actress — Freeman 68 Hideous giant 69 Overact 70 Be compliant 71 Like church mice 72 Prevent from proceeding 73 Notch shapes DOWN 1 Piqued 2 News morsel 3 Brass component 4 High regard 5 Root vegetables 6 Regret deeply 7 Lyric poems 8 Longish skirt 9 Fashions 10 Scorpion’s weapon 11 DEA operative 12 Garfield’s canine pal 13 Food fish 21 Timetable info 23 Sevareid of the news 25 Without company 27 Rumor squelchers 28 Mindful 29 Sherpa’s home 31 Drab, as colors 32 Fine-tune 33 Black cattle 36 Unhappy 37 Urged on 41 Course length 44 Bunch 45 Cartoon shrieks 49 Parented 51 Kind of steer? 52 Noted sci-fi writer 55 Hoofbeat 56 Trademark 57 High hairdo 58 Tag along 59 Whistle sound 61 Night attire 62 Elbow counterpart 63 Pronounces 66 Fern, saint 1 2 3 * 5 6 7 8 3 10 11 12 13 14 5 16 17 ’’ 19 20 21 ■ 22 23 24 * 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 ■ 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 * ■ 46 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 ■ " 61 62 63 64 1 65 66 1 67 68 69 70 71 " 73 Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, j to form four ordinary words, i THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek DUEES ^ s SSLAA ZYNASZ TPECID Lets talk about some highlights from your Hall of Fame career! Talk about, “The Catch!” That was a while ago. I threw it in the 1981 NFC = Championship Game. V ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. emm"job Montana threw FOR 273 NFL TOUCHDOWNS," IS AN EXAMPLE OF — -j Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. 2^ ^2 SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING: l 2/5 2020 Disl. by Andrews McMeel 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 AFFECTING THE RESULT Both vulnerable, South deals NORTH A Q 2 S?A J854 094 *K642 WEST A A J 9 7 5 OK OK76 *8753 EAST *84 O Q 10 9 7 3 2 O Q 10 5 3 2 * Void SOUTH * K 10 6 3 06 O A J8 * A Q J 10 9 The bidding: SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1* 1* 29 Pass 3NT All pass Opening lead: Six of O Today’s deal is from the finals of the World Open Pairs in Montreal early this century. East-West were in hot contention for the title when they ran into Derek Zen, an expert from Hong Kong, who was South. Zen is not well known in the USA, but he has a long and successful record in Pan-Asian competition - a record spanning several decades. West avoided the fatal spade lead and chose a low diamond instead, Zen capturing East's queen with his ace. Zen cashed the queen and jack of clubs, learning a great deal about the West hand — five spades for the overcall, four clubs, and probably three diamonds for the lead. Zen took advantage of what he learned. He led a low spade to dummy’s queen, winning the trick as West ducked his ace. Two more rounds of clubs, ending in dummy, extracted all of West's clubs. Zen also cashed the ace of hearts, extracting West’s only heart, before leading a spade to his 10. West won with the jack but found himself endplayed. West had to lead a spade or a diamond, giving Zen his ninth trick either way. North-South earned more than 80 percent of the matchpoints available on this deal and East-West finished second in the event. Had Zen failed to make his contract, East-West would have been World Champions! (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) THURSDAY FAMOUS HAND North-South vulnerable, West deals NORTH *10 6 3 S?A O AK J65 * K 10 8 4 WEST * 4 SDK J 8 6 5 3 0982 * Q 6 3 EAST * K J8 SDQ 10 4 O 10 7 4 3 *952 SOUTH * AQ9752 SD972 OQ * A J 7 The bidding: WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH 20 s ’ Dbl** 39*** 4* Pass 59 Pass 6* Pass 60 Pass 7* All pass * Multi, a weak two-bid in either major ’’’Diamonds ***Pass or correct Opening lead: Six of S? Che-Hung Kuo, of Chinese Taipei, has been a leading player in his part of the world for almost 50 years. Today’s deal is from 1976, when he was just building his reputation. We are surprised to see a Multi- two diamond opening from as far back as 1976, but that is what the record shows. East’s three-heart bid, pass or correct, indicated a hand that could compete to the three level in either major. Several control bids by North-South were followed by an aggressive leap to the grand slam by Kuo. No doubt he was disappointed when he saw the dummy and partner’s best trump was the 10. Kuo won the opening heart lead with dummy’s ace and led the 10 of spades. East played the eight and Kuo went into deep thought. He finally played low from his hand! This spectacular play brought home his contract and won a huge swing for his team. Major tournaments show some key matches on what is called Vugraph. This is a closed- circuit presentation allowing a large audience and expert commentary. The experts were amazed at Kuo’s play and said so to the audience. Kuo himself made the play seem routine. He knew East had at least three spades for his three-heart bid. Provided the eight from East was an honest card. East had to have both the king and the jack. We are impressed anyway. (Bob Jones welcomes readers' e-mails: tcaeditors@tribpub.com) FRIDAY LARRY LUCKY AGAIN East-West vulnerable. North deals NORTH * K J R? A 10 8 7 4 3 O A 10 9 8 5 * Void WEST *7632 9DKJ5 O K 3 * AQ96 EAST * 5 9DQ962 O Q 7 6 * J 10 8 7 2 SOUTH * A Q 10 9 8 4 R? Void O J 4 2 * K 5 4 3 The bidding: NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 19 Pass 1* Pass 20 Pass 3* Pass 4* All pass Opening lead: Two of * Hard Luck Louie surveyed his chances and decided that he might need East to hold the ace of clubs if he was going to make his contract, but he would probably be OK if the trumps split 3-2 and the diamond honors were split. The opening trump lead was won with dummy’s jack. Louie cashed the ace of hearts, discarding a club and ruffed a heart in his hand. A club ruff in dummy and another heart ruff left Louie in his hand. It took Louie all of his remaining trumps to draw West's trumps, and he needed some luck to get home. A diamond to dummy's 10 lost to the queen, and East cashed the queen of hearts as West discarded the king of diamonds. The defense took four club tricks and Louie was down two. Bad luck! Lucky Larry handled the same contract a little differently. He overtook the jack of spades at trick one with his queen and ruffed a club in dummy. He cashed the ace of hearts, shedding a club from hand, and ruffed a heart. He drew trumps in three more rounds, leaving himself with one trump, and led a diamond to dummy’s 10. This lost to the queen and the defense took two club tricks, but Larry ruffed the third club and led a diamond. He claimed when the king appeared from West. Well played! (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) SOLUTIONS FOR TUESDAY PUZZLES BLEAK DODGE GLOSSY ATTACH With every unit rented, the owners of the apartment building were happy, — TO SAY THE “LEASED” 9 1 7 6 5 8 2 3 4 4 6 3 2 1 7 5 9 8 2 5 8 3 4 9 1 7 6 8 4 6 1 9 3 7 2 5 5 2 1 8 7 4 3 6 9 7 3 9 5 6 2 4 8 1 3 9 2 4 8 1 6 5 7 1 7 5 9 2 6 8 4 3 6 8 4 7 3 5 9 1 2 L A S S O S P E W S A I L I C I C L E E G O A L D A D E c A D E P R E S L I D M I D D L E S C H O O L S H A P E R U T L A T T E I O N S J A M T O Y T U G P U P T R u S S E S E S E A L E H A D W E E S E R A P E S R D S E R A Z A P P I E L A I T A S S A Y A L F M E T E S I M P L A N T A T I O N R ] L E A R N N I N E T Y E L I A T I E I R O N E D S E T S O A T T E N S E S 12-2-20 © 2020 UFS, Dist by Andrews McMeel for UFS FOR WEDNESDAY PUZZLES SCOUR TEMPO EFFECT BONNET The podiatrist was looking at the X-ray results and making some — FOOTNOTES 5 7 9 3 2 4 6 1 8 1 4 2 9 6 8 7 5 3 8 6 3 1 7 5 4 2 9 3 1 7 8 5 2 9 4 6 6 5 4 7 3 9 1 8 2 2 9 8 4 1 6 3 7 5 9 8 1 2 4 3 5 6 7 7 3 5 6 8 1 2 9 4 4 2 6 5 9 7 8 3 1 A R C s E L E N A S 1 D E L I o N N U D E S w O O D E C H 0 c L E R K A T E N C H O w H O U N D L H A S A p E R I I I S P H E R E s H O L L A N D A L I A S p L O w I D E A J A N R I A T A M A R A I D A U R G E S U 1 T E K N U C K L E L E A N T O S C E E l L E G O L L Y F A S T T A L K S A R I A S A R A H | R E E L S E M I O R A T E 1 R E P O E M u M B E R H A R D 12-3-20 © 2020 UFS, Dist by Andrews McMeel for UFS FOR THURSDAY PUZZLES : ROBIN CRANK ATRIUM FORBID The ice skater hadn’t quite mastered a figure eight yet, but she was on the — “BURR-RINK” 1 9 3 7 4 8 2 6 5 4 5 7 9 2 6 8 3 1 8 6 2 5 3 1 7 9 4 7 3 4 1 8 5 9 2 6 2 8 5 6 9 3 1 4 7 6 1 9 4 7 2 5 8 3 3 7 1 2 6 9 4 5 8 5 2 6 8 1 4 3 7 9 9 4 8 3 5 7 6 1 2 P E R u I V A N N I G H G L E A P T O R P A w A Y I N D ■ N E I L YBS TOO DjEA S E Mh F NpMiv I A LjVE R D i1CO N K E A S E ■ v i A c O N K E R G Y N T A L L A S E A V I N S o A T H 12-4-20 © 2020 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS FOR FRIDAY PUZZLES SATURDAY FUSSY CREEK CONFER UNSURE When the landfill started to overflow, employees had to - REFUSE THE REFUSE WEEKLY BRIDGE QUIZ Q 1 - Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold: *A329KQ10 0AK7*QJ10 7 As dealer, what call would you make? Q 2 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: *K79QJ64<>Q75*J64 3 Partner opens IS and right-hand opponent doubles. What call would you make? Q 3 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: *Q10 976497O8653*K8 Partner opens 1C and right-hand opponent doubles. What call would you make? Q 4 - Both vulnerable, as South, you hold: * Void 9 A KQ76408*AQJ762 As dealer, what call would you make? Q 5 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: *K86 97 5OQJ6*10 8754 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH 19 20 29 ? What call would you make? Q 6 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: A985429Q J8707*A64 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH lO 1NT 20 ? What call would you make? Look for answers on Monday. (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.) 5 7 6 8 3 4 1 2 9 9 4 2 7 1 5 8 3 6 8 3 1 6 9 2 4 7 5 6 1 8 5 4 3 7 9 2 4 9 5 2 8 7 6 1 3 7 2 3 1 6 9 5 8 4 1 8 9 3 5 6 2 4 7 3 6 7 4 2 1 9 5 8 2 5 4 9 7 8 3 6 1 N E W T G A M E U T A H A W O K E B A L I L A T E X S T E M L I E P B E E T M E E M P L O Y H A C M O L E S T A C T I D A A U R A S L E N A S L E W E M B R 0 I L S G C I N E R U A L K A L I E E L V E N D N O B E L O G E E E R A S E W O W S E Y E D SACK RSON R VI I E N D A ID Y. ED fL E D ORE NED ATS E X ^>2020 UFS, Dist by Andrews McMeel for UFS
