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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. 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