Newspaper Page Text
6A Sunday, December 31, 2023
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia I gainesvilletimes.com
SATURDAY FUN+GAMES
CROSSWORD
PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED
c
R
o
P
o
T
T
E
R
W
I
N
H
E
R
O
D
l
E
G
O
N
o
D
E
A
N
E
w
D
R
E
A
M
W
o
R
L
D
R
o
s
E
A
N
D
R
]
s
E
s
R
E
A
D
Y
M
]
s
E
R
D
E
F
A
C
E
S
I
T
E
Y
O
G
U
R
T
L
A
S
S
M
A
D
A
R
I
L
R
A
I
L
S
P
l
c
A
W
A
S
P
E
s
T
I
R
O
N
E
D
w
A
s
H
R
o
l
L
E
D
D
o
R
I
s
w
E
N
D
Y
c
O
v
E
N
N
A
T
G
]
F
T
A
N
E
S
T
H
E
T
I
C
L
A
I
R
T
o
R
T
A
R
E
N
A
o
G
L
E
0
R
T
M
0
R
A
L
T
O
M
E
12-30-23 © 2023 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS
ACROSS
1 Calculations
5 Narrow land form
10 Kiln
14 Vicinity
15 “The — is Right”
16 Sandwich cookie
17 Injure with horns
18 Avid
19 Mend
20 Landing place
for a whirlybird
22 San Fernando,
for one
24 Seize
25 Woman of rank
26 Hoisting device
28 Evade
32 Page-bottom
text
33 Regular
34 The night before
35 Chicken
king
36 Monk’s title
37 Favorite
38 — and dont’s
39 Branchlet
41 Try for a goal
44 Seat
ceremonially
46 Temperamental
47 Makes known
publicly
48 Edible tuber
49 Tempests
52 Ratite bird
56 “Born to Be —”
57 Salty drops
60 Nude
61 Doing not a
thing
62 The cream
63 Arch variety
64 Intend
65 Change purse
items
66 Animal cry
DOWN
1 Make pulpy
2 Comedian —
Johnson
3 Blue green color
4 Environment
5 Sound system
component
6 Commerce
7 Fix fraudulently
8 Rocks in a glass
9 Flow completely
through
10 Lots
11 Asian inland sea
12 Withered
13 Actor — Danza
21 Glass square
23 “So be it!”
25 Difficult star
26 Punctuation
mark
27 Dinner item
28 Wool cloth
29 Neither hot nor
cold
30 “— Breath You
Take”
31 Singer Seeger
32 Lose brightness
36 Fish propellers
39 Slim
40 Woolen yarn
41 Collects
42 Categorize
43 New Orleans
hero sandwich
(var.)
45 Calcify
48 Rich cake
49 Do the crawl
50 Sustain for a
while (with “over”)
51 Pot
53 “Othello” role
54 Plane’s company
55 Shoe part
58 Inventor —
Whitney
59 Intention
Unscramble these Jumbles, a
one letter to each square, f
to form four ordinary words.
ZIPER
"vy'
k Jv A
CWMAA
f N
TAISHU
GSUUNF
y s—
Y Ax
©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
All Rights Reserved.
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
FOR THE mCW STRONGER ARM
WRESTLER, VICTOR? WAS —
-
Now arrange the circled letters
to form the surprise answer, as
suggested by the above cartoon.
HIS
(Answers Monday)
I Jumbles: MUMMY SUITE SUMMER MIDDLE
es er ay s | Answer: when the spiritualist had a TV commercial
made, TV became the - MEDIUM'S MEDIUM
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.
12-30-23
BOGGLE
POINT SCALE
( 3 letters = 1 point”)
( 4 letters = 2 points^
( 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 Friday's Boggle* BrainBusters:
n/w%ir . J ,,,,,, EVE EYE POP LEVEL REFER
BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc.
© 2023 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved. WWW.bogglebrainbuStorS-COm
SUDOKU
DIFFICULTY RATING: ★★★★★
12/30 © 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.
PREVIOUS SOLUTION
9
1
7
8
3
4
2
5
6
3
5
8
1
6
2
9
4
7
2
4
6
5
7
9
8
1
3
5
6
2
7
9
8
1
3
4
1
7
4
6
2
3
5
8
9
8
9
3
4
1
5
6
7
2
7
8
5
2
4
6
3
9
1
4
2
9
3
8
1
7
6
5
6
3
1
9
5
7
4
2
8
RW0RT3
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.
MATTHEW PERRY (1969-2023) Solution: 8 letters
T C H T S U Z
T H N O N O D
A A E A C S E
D N N W L ®(T)
V D I G E B E
O L C A O S E
C E O E G L T
A R N G L A B
T I T A S O A
E B R T Y T A
L A O S T M O
P J L O P N L
U O T I I IE
O H O N F L A
C N E E T N E
ANNERMKT
RAERSRES
N I L D A S T T
®® R L N U E U
LACUDNLO
Y N S I N S O L
L A O I O H H L
W C S N I I W A
H I D O N N M F
SANOUEOO
ALEGEUCO
R L I O R C T L
A Y R S D U I S
NGFORDSN
VESEOREH
© 2023 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 12/30
Advocate, Again, Ally, Boys, Canadian, Champion, Chandler,
Clark, Control, Couple, Fallout, Fools, Friends, Go On, Heroes,
Hockey, John, Kind, Langford, LeBlanc, Life, Lines, Mr.
Sunshine, Nice, Nine, Odd, Ottawa, Parallel, Reardon, Reunion,
Rush, Sara, Seventeen, Sitcom, Stage, Story, Studio, Sunset,
Suzanne, Tango, Tennis, The West Wing, Whole, Yards
Yesterday’s Answer: Fondue
The NEW Volume 76 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
Girlfriend
insults reasons
for estrangment
Hi, Carolyn:
I have been dating a woman long
enough that we've talked about mar
riage. I get along well with her fam
ily, who live near us. She has never
met my family, who do not live near
us, and recently I gave her the whole
story, that I see them only occasion
ally and in small doses because of
the way they have treated me over
the course of my life.
My girlfriend listened to my
explanation and said: “You sound
like a bratty teenager complaining
about your parents. I'm sure they
did their best.'' I was floored. I feel
like her response shows a funda
mental lack of empathy for the fact
that I wasn't blessed with a loving
family like she was, and it is making
me rethink our relationship.
She has apologized for the way
she phrased what she said, but I am
really wondering if it's possible for
me to have a future with a person
who shows such a lack of under
standing about something so funda
mental to who I am. Do you see a
way forward here?
— Anonymous
I see nothing but ways forward.
Most of them just don't include her.
The way forward with her also
starts with her, in some version of
this epiphany: “The problem wasn't
just in how I phrased it. I looked
at your life through the lens of my
own, instead of listening to you and
trying to understand the situation
from your perspective.''
There's also a way forward where
she sticks to her original assessment
and owns it—by breaking up with
you.
Or, if you feel uncomfortable
truth in her interpretation, then it
kicks you toward the hard, produc
tive work of reevaluating your
bedrock assumptions about yourself
and your upbringing.
Another way forward is for you
to use this experience to reflect on
what you missed about your girl
friend and why. Values and world
views don't apply solely to family;
they express themselves constantly
through our behaviors.
And it’s not uncommon to give
our outer-facing selves some nip
ping and tucking, or to put a positive
spin on our partners, when we’re
really invested in making a relation
ship work.
But transparency is healthy. It
allows two true selves to figure out
whether they work.
But it’s hard. It takes being will
ing to break up because you have to,
not because you want to. It takes a
willingness not only to consider that
your partner isn’t as great for you as
you’d hoped, but also to open your
true self to scrutiny and possible
rejection.
Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday
at www.washingtonpost.com.
WORD SALSA ANSWER
FOR DEC. 29
ONLINE PUZZLES
Gotogainesvilletimes.com/puzzlestoaccessinteractive
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
toviewthe options. Once a puzzle is selected, learn how
to play by clickingthe question mark.
r a wl
r e w
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.
0OOP-NATLIREP
ENGLISH
SPANISH
AMIABLE
AMABLE
CONSIDERATE
CONSIDERADO
DECENT
DECENTE
EASYGOING
TRANQUILO
FRIENDLY
AMISTOSO
HELPFUL
UTIL
GENEROUS
GENEROSO
SUPPORTIVE
APOYO
SWEET
SUAVE
SYMPATHETIC
simpAtico
UNSELFISH
ALTRUIST A
WARMHEARTED
DE BUEN CORAZON
©2023 Tony Taiiarico. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC 12/30/23
D E T N
E L E 6
T B E Z
R AWA
AM S R
E AM I
H C O N
MT C Y
RUIQ
A L T R
wiAu
FMP T
I AM I
S W I L
H S S U
C I T E H
E E T R A
V VD E P
A I O S O
UUALY
S T O S O
S I D E R
L D N E I
E T A R E
U I S T A
T L U F P
A P H S I
ABLET
I NGN I
P P O R T
T A PMY S
NQU I L O
HMRAWN
R E N E G 6
QU I D E Z
Z 6 N E N A
AD O C E R
R F Z E R O
D I S NO C
C E N T UN
L E HU S E
F L E S NU
N E C E D B
O G Y S A E
I V E B E D
