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6A Thursday, February 16, 2023
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
THURSDAY FUN+GAMES
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Jousting weapon
6 Master of
ceremonies
10 Has
14 Limber
15 Tien Shan
mountains
16 Means of
shipping
17 Barge route
18 Horizontal
support
19 Contribute
20 Arden and Curie
21 Acted up
23 Feast finale
25 White Sale buys
26 Good
connections
27 Juice holder
29 Mongol rulers
32 Wades through
33 Rand of “Atlas
Shrugged”
36 — it (improvise)
37 Office kitties
38 Wry face
39 Informal greeting
40 Zesty dip
41 Noted wine family
42 Kin of mandolins
43 Crony
44 Won’t obey
47 Llama cousins
51 In a jubilant
manner
54 Cartoon bear
55 Coolidge or
Hayworth
56 Lock up
57 Funny Ms.
Burnett
58 Political coalition
59 Murray or Rice
60 Not moving
61 Longings
62 Zen riddle
63 Mineral analysis
PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED
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2-16-23 ©2023UFS, Dist.
DOWN
1 Fastened
2 Tequila plant
3 Softball teams
4 Categorizing
5 Ocean dweller
6 Regular routine
7 Bullfight shouts
8 Volvo rival
9 Interval
differences
(2 wds.)
10 Instruments for
Bach
11 Relinquish a
claim
12 British actor
David —
13 Goes downhill
21 Bride’s title
22 Leak giveaway
24 Naval off.
27 Type of varnish
28 Entertainer —
Polona
29 Utility bill abbr.
by Andrews McMeel for UFS
30 Scurry
31 No matter which
32 Shoe part or fish
33 MSN rival
34 — Brynner
35 Recent (pref.)
37 ‘Wheel of Fortune”
emcee (2 wds.)
38 Kuala Lumpur
natives
40 Tallow source
41 Mountain pass
42 Purple hues
43 Work diligently
44 Horse race
45 Oust
46 Fold-up mattress
47 Steve or Gracie
48 Apple leftovers
49 Where Aesop
shopped
50 Like river bottoms
52 Metric prefix
53 Turner of
“Typical Male”
57 Spies’ org.
Unscramble these Jumbles,
one letter to each square,
to form four ordinary words.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
CEFTA
NREAA
Y y
-A A
DYYAEH
SCAAUB
©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
AH Rights Reserved.
Now arrange the circled letters
to form the surprise answer, as
suggested by the above cartoon.
X Y N
x y S
Y Az
Yesterday’s
(Answers tomorrow)
Jumbles: HURRY AUDIO UNWISE FACADE
Answer: When asked if he was certain his right angles were
90 degrees, the square said — “FOUR” SURE
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.
BOGGLE
POINT SCALE
( 3 letters = 1 point”)
( 4 letters = 2 pointsT)
( 5 letters = 3 points')
( 6 letters = 4 points/)
( 7 letters = 6 point?)
( 8 letters = 10 points)
( 9+ letters = 15 points')
Boggle 0 BrainBusters Bonus
We put special brain-busting words into the
grid of letters. Can you find them?
Find AT LEAST FIVE CHEMICAL
ELEMENTS in the grid of letters.
YOUR BOGGLE 0
RATING
151+ = Champ
101-150 = Expert
61-100= Pro
31 - 60 = Gamer
21 - 30 = Rookie
11 - 20 = Amateur
0-10 = Try again
Answers to Wednesday's Boggld BrainBusters:
daooil- * + i t Li k i POLISH ENGLISH SWEDISH SWAHILI
BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc,
© 2023 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved. WWW.bogglebrainbuStorS-COm
SUDOKU
DIFFICULTY RATING:★★★☆☆
2/16 © 2023 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.
KIRSTIE AT,LEY (1951-2022) Solution: 8 letters
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CLSTCCEOWI CH I TA
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MTMI ECB IT I PCSLU
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BYN®OUREROOPNES
SL©LQUARKULSSER
C © L E T T E LASTDON I
©NSVERON I CASNSK
© 2023 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 2/16
Able, Baby, Boat, Bob, Chance, Chase, Cheers, Closet, Colette,
Cool, Craig, Deal, Emmy, Eyes, Howe, John, Kirstie, Last Don,
Lillian, Lillie, Look, Louise, Love, Madhouse, Maine, Match,
Mollie, Parker, Pier, Poorer, Quark, Queens, Richer, Scream,
Sequel, Series, Sitcom, Stevenson, Syrup, Talking, Taste,
Travolta, Veronica’s, Waylon, Wichita, William, Write, Wrong
Yesterday’s Answer: Blessings
The NEW Treasury 50 can be purchased online at
www.WonderWordBooks.com, or call 1-800-642-6480.
CAROLYN HAX
tellme@washpost.com
Financial hit of
husband’s firing was
not ‘for the best’
Dear Carolyn:
I am so angry at my husband
I don’t know what to do. He lost
his job and it took months to get
the real story. First he was let go
because he was old and making
too much money, then it was that
he was scapegoated for someone
else’s mistake, then finally — when
I was getting ready to consult one
of the lawyers I work with (I’m a
paralegal) — I got the truth. Basi
cally he’d been extremely negli
gent, wasn’t reviewing something
that he was supposed to, just sign
ing off on it without even reading
it. A long-standing mistake came to
light, which he should have caught,
and it cost his company hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
I knew he was unhappy at work
and had wanted to retire early
(he’s 62) but with two children
headed for college we just couldn’t
afford it. Of course he’s been
unable to find another job with this
black mark hanging over him and
he isn’t remorseful. He’s so happy
being a stay-at-home dad while
I had to find a higher-paying job
with a much longer commute and
we had to tell our teenagers that
we won’t be able to contribute any
more to their college funds.
Last night my husband told me
that he felt like everything worked
out for the best! I was furious and
just walked away without respond
ing. He’s not ashamed that he was
basically stealing his salary for
years, jeopardized his children’s
future, or put this burden on me.
One of the worst parts is finding out
about his lack of integrity. I didn’t
want our children knowing that
so we lied and told them their dad
retired suddenly but voluntarily.
The secrecy is another strain on
me.
I still love my husband but I don’t
like him right now. Where do we go
from here?
— So Angry
Counseling. Just you. I know this
is not the time to add an expense
to your balance sheet, but this is a
lot of big information to process:
Your life partner lacks integrity
and empathy, you have children
who you either have to lie to or
burden with knowledge of their
father’s character deficiencies, and
you’re having to work and com
mute longer hours to absorb the
consequences of his failure. And
he’s luxuriating in that. And you’re
supposed to make sense of this and
tend to your own well-being alone?
If you were inclined to skip the
counseling and go straight to the
divorce process, then that is also
an option, but it seems as if you still
have a lot of conflicting emotions
and uncertainty about what you’d
like your life to look like, given the
raw materials he just handed you.
That’s normal, too, in the immedi
ate aftermath of a shocking turn of
events. Take care of yourself, talk
to someone, and let the answers
come to you.
Chat with Carolyn online at noon each
Friday at www.washingtonpost.com.
WORD SALSA ANSWER
FOR FEBRUARY 15
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IA N O I S O RIEl A S Tl
WORP SALSA
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.
STUDIOUS
ENGLISH
SPANISH
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COMPRENDER
CONSIDER
CONSIDERAR
EDUCATE
EDUCAR
EXAMINE
EXAMINAR
INQUIRY
CONSULTA
LEARN
APRENDER
OBSERVE
OBSERVAR
RESEARCH
INVESTIGAR
REVIEW
REVISION
SCHOOL
ESCUELA
SCRUTINIZE
ESCUDRINAR
WISDOM
SABIDURIA
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