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6A Tuesday, June 27, 2023 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com TUESDAY'S FUN+GAMES CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED B L A K E L A M E M A Y A R 1 P E N O V E N A T O P 1 M P E L B O T H R A K E C A T N 1 P W R A N G L E R V J S O N E 1 L L S P A R E S T C A N H A V E N A R I E L C A V A S 1 S c L A N S J A M A G O V L 1 K E D S O A P S B E T I M M E N S E A F L O A T A L E F L A U N T E D B A C A L L R A V E | 1 R A N R O M E O A M O s O S L O E M E N D T O R T N E 1 N D E N S E 6-27-23 © 2013 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS ACROSS 1 Held one’s own 6 “Gold” or “black” ender 11 Infuriated 14 Defense ploy 15 Sun, in combos 16 “Honest” fellow 17 Boughs 18 Talk, talk, talk (2 wds.) 20 —eared bunny 21 Shape or form 23 Desist 24 Post of etiquette 26 Intended 28 Put into words 30 Reserves a flight 31 Undersized pups 32 Pomme de — 33 Lightning by product 36 Pointed arch 37 Welsh dog 38 Lectern 39 TV knob 40 Fish-like 41 Oldie “Stupid—” 42 Burn slightly 43 Thick liquids 44 Dwindles 47 Broadcast again 48 Sighed with relief 49 Daughters’ brothers 50 Tooth pro’s deg. 53 Impasses 56 Moron 58 Pipe bend 59 Arsenio’s buddy 60 Pat’s cohost 61 Do batik 62 Sacks out 63 Psychic — Cayce DOWN 1 Phone 2 Jumble 3 “The Scarlet —” 4 Diminish 5 Brush aside 6 Timidly 7 Beowulf’s drink 8 Sort 9 Dressy accessory 10 Flapjack 11 Uxmal resident 12 Humble 13 Faked out the goalie 19 Desires 22 Yea, to a matador 25 Spouse 26 Gershwin hero 27 Petty or Loughlin 28 B.C. or N.S. 29 Sci-fi award 30 European capital (var.) 32 Kitchen tool 33 About to happen 34 NYC theater award 35 Drowses off 37 Film 38 Mystique 40 Square dance musician 41 Handwritten 42 Kind of pearl 43 Coop 44 Hit the ceiling 45 Bright and — 46 Atacama Desert locale 47 —are red... 49 Comedy routine 51 Lady of Spain 52 Black hole, once 54 Keats opus 55 LP successors 57 Parent Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. VOREP THAMC ^ y N - GTINHK Y Y LUDOEM lA THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek rz Do you have any ,,, u othsrshades? not buy them all? IN ORDER TO DECIDE WHICH COSMETICS TO PURCHASE, SHE'D NEED TO — ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. Y Y Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. ■ y Y (Answers tomorrow) , I Jumbles: YIELD FRONT SPEEDY SAILOR eseraysj Answer: The termite and the cockroach became best buddies, which made them — “PEST” FRIENDS 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. 6-27-23 BOGGLE° POINT SCALE ( 3 letters = 1 point ) (A letters = 2 points) (^5 letters = 3 points) (^6 letters = 4 points) C7 letters = 6 points) C8 letters - 10 points) ( 9+ letters = 15 points') Boggle” BrainBusters Bonus We put special brain-busting words into the grid of letters. Can you find them? Find AT LEAST FIVE FIVE-LETTER THINGS MADE TO BE WORN in the grid of letters. YOUR BOGGLE” RATING 151+ = Champ 101 -150 = Expert 61-100= Pro 31-60= Gamer 21-30= Rookie 11-20= Amateur 0-10 = Try again Answers to Monday's Boggle 0 BrainBusters: , J , IM L , OUT BAT HIT FOUL FIELD PITCH BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc, ©2023 Hasbro, Inc, Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, All Rights Reseived. WWW.bogglebrainbusters.com SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING: 5/27 © 2023 Dist. by Andrews McMecI Syndication lor 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 2 9 6 4 5 1 7 8 3 4 3 7 2 9 8 1 5 6 8 5 1 3 6 7 4 2 9 3 1 2 6 4 9 8 7 5 7 4 5 1 8 3 6 9 2 6 8 9 7 2 5 3 1 4 1 6 8 5 3 2 9 4 7 5 7 4 9 1 6 2 3 8 9 2 3 8 7 4 5 6 1 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. METALLICA IS BACK Solution: 7 letters Y D D E N D E L P V L T N A U E S D V R I W R O O F E A I C T N T D K E N I A T H B U R O N A G N R O S G I O T S C F R R H G A T U I S E F B H M I C E K C A L R E G N A I E M A L P L T (D B S P © L U G © E X M © C M T S S U M A S L R A N J U T H A O H L S J S A H E A V I M E S E F I R O A THING B M O O R R T S E C F E T A C L S R T I A I U L S T R J A U R C I S M E L L A I B I L N R O F O D R R F A M O Y I D A R A S O N S M B A N D S K R I K © 2023 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 6/27 Albums, Atlas, Band, Bass, Big Four, Blackened, Burton, Cliff, Dave, Flame, Guitar, Hammett, Heavy, Hetfield, James, Jason, Kirk, Lars, Live, Load, Lux, Master, Metal, Mirrors, Music, Mustaine, Newsted, Orion, Puppets, Radio, Riff, Rise, Roam, Robert, Ron McGovney, Rock, Room, Sandman, Seasons, Sets, Songs, Stranger, Things, Thrash, Times, Trujillo, Ulrich Yesterday’s Answer: Seasoning To purchase THE COLLECTED WONDERWORD, Volumes 56 through 73, order online at www.WonderWordBooks.com. (In Canada, call 1-855-232-2367) CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com Fiance says money concerns are Trivial small talk’ Dear Carolyn: Many topics that I find impor tant, my fiance views as irrel evant, inefficient small talk. When I moved in with him, we established a joint bank account for regular expenses like food and utilities and other joint expenses. We equally put in a few thousand dollars to start it off, and each equally put in a few hundred with each paycheck. Just this week, he withdrew 50 percent of the balance without a word to me. It took a lot of effort for me not to explode and just SMH. I tell him I need to know what is going on, I need an ongoing dialogue. His stance is that if I trust him, there’s no need for him to tell me what the with drawal was for. He classifies it as meaningless small talk that is a waste of his time. The explanation is that a few months ago, we started using his new credit card that gives us/ him a good rebate on groceries. So the withdrawal was for three to four months of groceries and other monthly expenses. Any ideas how I can break his habit of evaluating topics and unilaterally deciding what top ics are worthy of discussion and what are not? I sense that he’d prefer no conversation and just to make decisions as if he were single. — Need Communication This is shooting off red flags like a T-shirt cannon. “Evaluating topics and unilat erally deciding what topics are worthy of discussion and what are not” is not a “habit.” It is a disregard for you and for your agency in your own life. This is a dealbreaker. See this, please, and say it to him. And run. Also, “a lot of effort for me not to explode” identifies a root prob lem to address, not a symptom to celebrate your ability to gut out. Don’t marry him, or anyone, until you speak freely and feel heard, and valued for who you are. Full stop. Readers’ thoughts: ■ Please don’t marry this guy. If he won’t even tell you what he spends your joint money on, is he also going to buy a house, or speculate on the stock market, without your knowing, because you should “trust him?” ■ Omigosh, Carolyn was so even-keeled in her response! Girl, RUN. Your fiance takes out half your shared stash and won’t share the reason (at the time)? That is NOT COOL. To classify finances as “meaningless small talk” is such... I can’t even... you know one of the first reasons for divorce is that couples are not on the same page financially? He won’t even DISCUSS his finances with you — your SHARED check ing account! Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. WORD SALSA ANSWER FOR JUNE 26 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 howto play by clicking the question mark. WOfcP 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. &EO&RAPHY ENGLISH SPANISH ATLAS ATLAS CONTINENT CONTINENTE EAST ESTE EQUATOR ECUADOR HEMISPHERE HEMISFERIO LANDFORM FORMA DE RELIEVE LATITUDE LATITUD LONGITUDE LONGITUD NORTH NORTE OCEAN OCEANO SOUTH SUR WEST OESTE ©2023 Tony Tallarico. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC 6/27/23 CWE V E I L P OLEQUATO NOCSTHCO TNEFTMFH I GAME DMP ETRONEDL RHSALTAC E L LMI T R O HAHELFSO PTPAPHDN SISPELYA I TMI L L A E MUHWT A E C E D U T I G N O H E V E I L E R HMT A LCD RTQEHOU N T I N E N T AECOMTI HQHN I I G V T O A S NN UQD E F E O D AU C E N L RML O R T A O R T H I E T QHATOAI E T S E O S T O N S C S T U LTLAUED E D AMR O F
