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SATURDAY FUN+GAMES
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
Sunday, June 25, 2023 5A
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2) 2023 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS
ACROSS
1 Mellow
5 Wild shrub
10 Off-road vehicle
14 Kitchen
appliance
15 Agreement
16 Tub in the
fridge
17 Rani’s garment
18 Utah city
19 Types
20 Cuddles up
22 Most logical
24 Me, in Marseilles
25 Sulk angrily
26 On the train
29 On a bicycle
33 Forest grazer
34 Iditarod terminus
36 Airport code for
O’Hare
37 Body part
38 Pajama coverers
39 Find fault
40 Pinch off
41 Enthusiastic
42 Radiate
44 Accomplish
47 Taps
48 Transaction
49 Fabric surface
50 Clear, as a
drain
53 “My Cousin
Vinny” star
(2 wds.)
58 Present
59 PR matter
61 Phobia
62 General —
Bradley
63 Dynamite
inventor
64 Pliny’s bear
65 Macho
motorcycles
66 Vapors
67 In shape
DOWN
1 Sea in
Antarctica
2 John, in Siberia
3 Inca Empire,
once
4 Mysteries
5 Impassive
6 Sudden
impulse
7 Wet soils
8 King beater
9 Population
surveys
10 Sociable type
11 Model —
Macpherson
12 Cartoon shrieks
13 Assignment
21 Murder and such
23 Check fig.
25 Well-known
26 Fridge maker
27 Eyewash acid
28 Bubbling vigor
30 Greek column
style
31 Guzzled
32 Moves little by
little
34 Gothic romance
35 Kimono sash
38 Pillaging
42 Break
43 Confident
45 Time wasters
46 Fair-hiring letters
47 Uses a prayer
rug
50 “Oops!” (hyph.)
51 Jules Verne
captain
52 Rocky ledge
53 Pokes
54 Pointed arch
55 Desiccated
56 Senor’s dwelling
57 Big oil supplier
60 Kiwi’s extinct
cousin
H&IK
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one letter to each square, f
to form four ordinary words. =
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©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
All Rights Reserved.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
THE BOTTOM OF THE (BRAND
CANTON REQUIRES LITTLE
UPKEEP BECAUSE IT'S — „
Now arrange the circled letters
to form the surprise answer, as
suggested by the above cartoon.
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(Answers Monday)
I Jumbles: THINK MERCY PLAGUE UNLOAD
es er ay s | Answer: q-^gy could afford an RV big enough to live in
because they saved enough — TAKE-HOME PAY
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.
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BOGGLE
POINT SCALE
( 3 letters = 1 poinT)
( 4 letters = 2 pointsj
C 5 letters = 3 points^
( 6 letters = 4 points^
( 7 letters = 6 points')
( 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 INSECTS 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 Friday's Boggle• BrainBusters:
ANGOLA CANADA FRANCE POLAND
BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc.
© 2023 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved. WWW.bogglebrainbUSters.COrn
SUDOKU
DIFFICULTY RATING: ★★★★★
6/24 © 2023 Dist. by Andrews McMccl 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.
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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.
TINA TURNER (1939-2023) Solution: 7 letters
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© 2023 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 6/24
Album, Anna Mae, Better, Bullock, Cast, Collaborations, Concert,
Craig, Diva, Eros, Erwin, Evelyn, Floyd, Got To Do With It,
Grammy, Hanes, Hits, Icon, Ike, Jagger, Legend, Legs, Life,
Mad Max, Michael, Mick, Mountain High, Musical, Nutbush,
Private Dancer, Proud Mary, Queen, Raymond, Rhythm, River,
Rock, Ronnie, Ruby, Rule, Stage, Tour, What’s Love, Zelma
Yesterday’s Answer: Sand Dunes
The NEW Volume 73 can be purchased online at www.WonderWordBooks.com,
or call 1-800-642-6480. (In Canada, call 1-855-232-2367)
CAROLYN HAX
tellme@washpost.com
Post-pandemic
relationship rut
Dear, Carolyn:
My boyfriend and I graduated
from high school as the pandemic
hit, and instead of going to univer
sity with all the uncertainty about
classes, we moved in together and
started working full time.
Everyone was working from
home, and it felt like a dream job,
but now that everyone’s back to
their normal lives, I’ve been stuck at
home, and I feel isolated and lonely.
I feel out of touch and have started
to feel depressed. I gained weight
and became more solitary than I
previously was.
Nowadays I work from home,
watch TV, make dinner, wait for my
boyfriend to come home, we watch
TV together and I start the day over
again. He works 10-hour days, after
which he just wants to watch TV
and rest. When we do go out, it’s for
grocery shopping and other errands
and we argue all the time. I’ve been
feeling neglected, and it feels like
I’m not a priority anymore despite
multiple conversations.
So finally, three weeks ago, he
brought me out to dinner at a nice
place and we had a wonderful time!
The weekend after that, he bought
me flowers and scones from a local
bakery, and I started to feel like he
was making me a priority again.
Then last weekend he proposed, and
I said yes.
Now I’m worried I just said yes
because there wasn’t a reason to say
no, the relationship is “good” and
“safe,” and breaking up and moving
out would be messy and hard.
I know he would be a great father
and husband one day, and he’s a
very sweet and a genuinely caring
person. He is the type of guy you
would want to marry.
Am I doing this for the wrong
reasons?
— Worried
I think you know you are without
my having to say it.
“Good” and “safe” are neither if
you’re lonely, depressed, isolated,
overeating, out of touch and deep in
a repetitive domestic rut.
He may be as great a person as
you say, and even as good a match
for you as you’ve told yourself he
is. You trust him, you respect him,
and when you voiced your ongoing
concerns about feeling neglected, he
listened to you and made “genuinely
caring” changes.
But that doesn’t mean you have
enough to build on, or are anywhere
near ready to build.
That’s because you have not made
yourself enough of a priority, lapsing
into dependency on the quality of
one person’s attention. No mate can
be everything, for anyone.
Some of this you will need to say
to your fiance. That you appreciate
how attentive he has been, for start
ers. That you realize now it wasn’t
all on him that you felt so neglected.
That losing touch with friends and
working from home and cycling
from job to TV to sleep is not healthy
for people who’ve barely cracked
open their 20s — or for anyone,
really.
But some of this you will have to
reckon with fully on your own.
Your relationship will either
adapt and improve as you take bet
ter care of yourself, or you will grow
strong enough to address the fact
that it hasn’t kept up. Either one
beats living your life by default.
Chat with Carolyn online at noon each
Friday at www.washingtonpost.com.
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