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MONDAY FUN+GAMES
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
Sunday, December 25, 2022 7A
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12-26-22 © 2022 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS
ACROSS
1 Tee partner
6 Trace of smoke
10 Total failures
14 Circle the Earth
15 Paquin of
“The Piano”
16 Flapjack chain
17 Leave for
professional
staff
19 Secluded
20 Frat letter
21 State VIP
22 Grail seeker
24 Looks at
amorously
26 Cauldron
27 Hitching post?
30 Twain’s real
name
34 Light-colored
beer
35 Hideouts
36 IRS time
38 Waugh or
Baldwin
39 Sulks
40 Obnoxious
41 Oui opposite
42 Fake
43 Quibble
44 Apple pastry
46 Merriment
47 Bravo, in
Barcelona
48 Wildlife staple
50 Engaging
54 Muslim honorific
55 201, to Claudius
58 Declare
59 Made an
example of
62 Harmful thing
63 Russo or
Magritte
64 Stay clear of
65 Moved with ease
66 Scorch or burn
67 Early harps
DOWN
1 Canseco or
Ferrer
2 Livy’s “it was”
3 “Waterloo” group
4 Pen point
5 Walk dizzily
6 Dispense with
7 Financial mag
8 Pitfall
9 Yaks
10 Expand
11 “Oops!” (hyph.)
12 Lisbon lady
13 Rushed
18 Phone charge
23 Takes off
24 Sheik’s cartel
25 Shoulder blade
27 Laird’s
household
28 Moon rings
29 Actor’s need
31 Is situated
32 Unwary
33 Bug out
35 Theater section
37 Be certain of
39 Miniature
makers
40 Conceited
42 Onion, for one
43 Chewy candy
45 Thundered
46 Disco dancer
(hyph.)
49 Provide eats
50 Chocolate-
colored dogs
51 Watermelon
shape
52 —, vidi, vici
53 Touche
provoker
55 Mogul
56 Give up land
57 Fateful day
60 pig’s eye
61 Dorm climber
Unscramble these Jumbles,
one letter to each square,
to form four ordinary words.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
AWETH
YTSEL
v A y
GONLAO
v -A
DROTEN
©2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
Ail Rights Reserved.
Now arrange the circled letters
to form the surprise answer, as
suggested by the above cartoon.
Answer K Y Y Y Y Y
here: k Y Y Y Y Y
Saturday’s
(Answers tomorrow)
Jumbles: PUSHY UNWED IMPACT CARAFE
Answer: When they added lights and ornaments to their
Christmas tree, they — SPRUCED IT UP
By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
INSTRUCTIONS: Find as
many words as you can by
linking letters up, down,
side-to-side and diagonally,
writing words on a blank
sheet of paper. You may
only use each letter box
once within a single word.
Play with a friend and
compare word finds,
crossing out common
words.
00Q0
2-26-22
BOGGLE
POINT SCALE
( 3 letters = 1 poinT)
( 4 letters = 2 points )
C 5 letters = 3 points')
( 6 letters = 4 points)
( 7 letters = 6 points^
C 8 tetters = 10 points")
C 9+ letters = 15 points)
YOUR BOGGLE"
RATING
151+ = Champ
101 -150 = Expert
61-100= Pro
31 - 60 = Gamer
21 - 30 = Rookie
11-20= Amateur
0-10 = Try again
Boggle” BrainBusters Bonus
We put special brain-busting words into the
grid of letters. Can you find them?
Find AT LEAST FIVE WORDS
RELATED TO MEAT in the grid of
letters.
BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc,
©2022 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved.
Answers to Saturday's Boggle" BrainBusters:
BEE ANT WASP HORNET BEETLE
www.bogglebrainbusters.com
SUDOKU
DIFFICULTY RATING: ★☆☆☆☆
1 2/26 © 2022 Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndication for UFS
HOW TO PLAY:
Each row, column
and set of 3-by-3 box
es must contain the
numbers 1 through 9
without repetition.
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
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By DAVID
OUELLET
HOW TO PLAY: All the words listed below appear in the puzzle — hori
zontally, vertically, diagonally and even backward. Find them, circle each
letter of the word and strike it off the list. The leftover letters spell the
WONDERWORD.
BY, BYE, BUY Solution: 10 letters
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© 2022 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 12/26
Add, Ads, Ant, Aunt, Ball, Bawl, Blew, Blue, Brake, Break, Cell, Dear,
Deer, Fair, Fare, Flour, Flower, Gene, Grate, Great, Hair, Hare, Heal,
Heel, Herd, Jean, Knight, Mail, Male, Moose, Mousse, Pail, Pale,
Peace, Pear, Piece, Plain, Plane, Poor, Pour, Pronounce, Rain, Reign,
Rein, Right, Sell, Soar, Sore, Spell, Steal, Steel, Tail, Tale, Their,
There, Vain, Vane, Weak, Week, Whole, Wood, Word, Would, Write
Last Saturday’s Answer: White Out
To purchase WONDERWORD books,
visit www.WonderWordBooks.com, or call 1 -800-642-6480.
CAROLYN HAX
tellme@washpost.com
How can I tell
fiance I don’t
like his mom?
Hi, Carolyn:
How do I tell my fiance that I
don’t like his mother? I’m sure he
can tell, but I can’t bring myself to
say it out loud; she is very impor
tant to him and very involved in
his life. However, she rubs me the
wrong way. He doesn’t understand
when I ask him to keep certain
things private. Every time he sees
her, he expects me to go along,
too, which is weekly and way too
much for me.
— Mean DIL
You tell him what bothers you
about her and why— be specific,
but not petty. If you don’t know
exactly why, try to figure it out
before you say anything. And if
you’ve tried but all you have is an
unexplained gut reaction, then tell
him that, too.
In other words, let the fact of
your having to tell your fiance
soon inform the way you tell your
fiance. You are keeping a poten
tially life-changing truth away
from the person who’s about to
hitch his life to yours. Give him
the information he needs, not
by dropping a fait accompli in
his lap, but by inviting him in on
your thoughts: your dislike, your
fears of disappointing him, your
impulse to protect your privacy,
your efforts to honor his mother’s
importance to him. Introduce it
as a problem you need his help to
solve, because it is a problem, and
you do need his help to solve it.
A disapproving DIL can be a
good DIL if she and her husband
work together to adapt; you’re
only a “mean DIL” if you sabo
tage, stonewall or lie.
Dear Carolyn:
I had dinner last week with a
girl I previously dated, and we
ended up getting together again
later in the week for a movie. It
was pretty platonic, but we ended
up talking about our relationship,
and when I realized how much I
enjoyed spending time with her, I
asked if she wanted to get dinner
again sometime. She said maybe
and hasn’t really given me a
straight answer on it since.
I’m not sure what approach to
take with that. On the one hand
I would enjoy seeing her again,
but on the other, “maybe” pretty
much always means “no.” What
would you suggest?
— Anonymous
“She hasn’t really given me a
straight answer on it since” pretty
much always means you’ve been
asking the question since — and
that suggests you’ve asked more
than once, since last week. That
is a pretty sure way to force a
“maybe” into a “no.” If you have
been pressuring her, then apolo
gize for doing so, and then: “You
know where to find me. ” As in,
that’s it, stop asking, the end. She
will find you if she wants.
Chat with Carolyn at noon each Fri
day at www.washingtonpost.com.
WORD SALSA ANSWER
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by Tony Tallarico
Circle these English words and their Spanish equivalents that
appear in the grid horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backward.
Encierre estas palabras en ingles y sus equivalentes en espahol
que aparecen al reves, horizontal, vertical y diagonalmente.
ENER&Y
ENGLISH
SPANISH
BATTERY
BATERIA
BIOFUEL
BIOCOMBUSTIBLE
CARBON
CARBON
CRUDE OIL
PETROLEO CRUDO
ELECTRICITY
ELECTRICIDAD
FUEL
COMBUSTIBLE
GASOLINE
GASOLINA
KILOWATT
KILOVATIO
NUCLEAR
NUCLEAR
SOLAR
SOLAR
STEAM
VAPOR
SUSTAINABLE
SOSTENIBLE
©2022 Tony Tallarico. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC 12/26/22
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