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6A Thursday, January 4, 2024 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia I gainesvilletimes.com THURSDAY FUN+GAMES CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED [~S I E I N IO I R~[ | C | R A V ~E~| B E Cl F L A W A O N E N A N A D o L T 1 N H c O O A N T Y B 1 T E ■ C o D ■ ■ 1 H 0 L O N 1 A M M ° P E E nJ | R _E__S |s" A E_ Si R ¥1 L S CURES IT e n t TT1 ^>2024 UFS, Dist by Andrews McMeel for UFS S A F E ° B O L F E L L E D ■ W ■ ■ A B s R 1 T E E L A N L T D E Y E D ] R E B 0 R N L 0 G o E T O N ACROSS 1 Dollop 5 Weakens 9 — Major 13 Cookie brand 14 Stop momentarily 15 Inferior 16 Gets on in years 17 “Kate & —” 18 Diner’s preference 19 In chains 21 Inventor Edison 23 Test 24 Buckeyes’ state 25 Esprit de — 27 Mild 30 Badly 31 Flowed slowly 34 Sandwich shops 36 Commotion (hyph.) 38 Resided 40 Florida county 41 Churns 43 Hawaiian porch 45 Gull 46 Feverish 48 Grinding tooth 50 “Quiet!” 51 Brit’s parting word (hyph.) 52 Some cars 55 Tendon cousin 59 State 60 Application 62 French cheese 63 “All You — Is Love” 64 Like some seals 65 Wine and — 66 Tips 67 Top performer 68 High cards DOWN 1 Bready mass 2 Compulsion 3 Come together 4 Wall hanging 5 Oregon’s capital 6 New Year’s word 7 Greek letter 8 Boil 9 Displaced 10 Go here and there 11 Wetlands bird 12 War personified 14 Sunshade 20 World’s fair 22 Back 24 Poet — Nash 25 Fabric 26 Hit song from years past 28 Beast of burden 29 Duck 30 “— a Wonderful Life” 32 Nothing 33 Actress — Gabor 35 Stitch 37 Apple farms 39 Hurt 42 Shock 44 Least little bit 47 Publishes 49 Greek consonant 51 Big cat 52 Rational 53 Divisible by two 54 Act 55 Pasternak character 56 Actor — idle 57 Workday’s start 58 Casual tops 61 Roosted THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. WONNK 4^ 4^ ^4 ZIEES 4- X SUPMYG 4’ X WYADRT z” y ^ Y yL > ©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. I can help with s' subtraction. Let’s just focus number of fruit. bananas? THEy WERE BEiSINNINtS TO TEACH THEIR CHILD ADDITION, BUT IT WAS 60IN<5 TO — Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. 4 ' Y y yL yL ^4 (Answers tomorrow) I Jumbles: WHIRL KNEEL TOPPLE BEFORE es er ay s | Answer: They earned a living as tightrope walkers which was a dangerous — LINE OF WORK 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. ClRlTjJ IMjUIA e|a|s|y vIrItIh -4-24 BOGGLE” POINT SCALE C 3 letters = 1 point - ) C4 letters = 2 points) (5 letters = 3 points) C 6 letters = 4 points) (7 letters = 6 points) C 8 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 FOUR PLANETS 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 Wednesday's Boggld BrainBusters: r • J , In , , ALGERIA ARMENIA BAHRAIN NAMIBIA BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc, ©2024 Hasbro, Inc, Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved, WWW.bogglebrainbusters.com SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING:★★★☆☆ | /4 © 2024 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 6 8 2 5 1 4 3 9 7 1 4 3 6 9 7 8 5 2 7 5 9 2 3 8 1 4 6 8 3 1 4 6 2 5 7 9 5 2 6 7 8 9 4 3 1 4 9 7 1 5 3 6 2 8 9 6 4 8 2 5 7 1 3 2 1 5 3 7 6 9 8 4 3 7 8 9 4 1 2 6 5 RWOKH 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. TEXAS RANGERS ARE WORLD CHAMPS! Solution: 8 letters I N N 0 I T I S O P Y H C O B D N A A N N O U N C E R E D A G R F C N S T A D I U M R I S R S O I I W H I M I A I R A E O E N F E R D U H G H L E M B S G R E D L E I F T U O G O A S D S D A A D M G F I N A N L M E H V I C R E A S U M E D L A H O C E R R B R J N Y S B R N E R N E E T A V E R A S A E C A T T ® ® ® © E N A R F C H G E S C E F I L R S A G U K C R O T w S I V A D Y A R R S T R A O p P O N E N T B H U D I C L P 0 S T S E A S O N C D P © 2024 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wondenA/ord.com 1/4 American, Announcer, Baseball, Bochy, Bradford, Bruce, Catcher, Center, Chase, Diamondbacks, Duran, Eovaldi, Fans, Game, Garcia, Garver, Gray, Grossman, Fledges, Heim, Hits, Huff, Infielder, Innings, Jung, Life, Lowe, Opponent, Outfielder, Pitcher, Position, Postseason, Ray Davis, Roster, Seager, Shortstop, Smith, Stadium, Taveras, Third Yesterday’s Answer: Buttons The NEW Treasury 57 can be purchased online at www.WonderWordBooks.com, or call 1-800-642-6480. (In Canada, call 1-855-232-2367) CAROLYN HAX tellmeO.washpost.com How to swing anxiety until help arrives? Dear Carolyn: Due to a variety of events (pan demic, birth of twins, moved twice in the last two years with said twins, etc.), my anxiety has really gotten out of control. I have been self-med- icating in different ways to push it away enough to get through the day. I know it's not healthy, which is why I finally sat down and scheduled an appointment with a professional. My hope is that in addition to talk therapy, they can prescribe some thing to help turn off the warning bells that are constantly going off. My first meeting isn't for another month. I'm worried the “help” will take too long to work and I'll be left struggling to keep my head above all the anxiety. Any advice for man aging my anxiety while I prepare to get help for my anxiety ? —Anxious I'm sorry you're feeling so stressed. Before I reel off a list, a reminder of the power of deep breathing. It's not magic or medi cal treatment, but it is a mitigating option and it's available to you instantly, free, 24/7. Okay: 1. Appointment with your pri mary care doctor or OB/GYN. That can get your care started now, and maybe even bump you up in line for mental health care. 2. Do you have support? Friends, family, paid sitters or other domestic help? Call in any and all reinforcements. 3. Sample all free, home-based self-care. Yoga (try “Yoga With Adriene” on YouTube), other exer cise, meditation, music, comedy, hot bath, tea, favorite books/movies/ shows. Walks around the neighbor hood with twins in the stroller were a lifesaver for us (till ours realized they could bite each other in the side-by-side—but it gets better!). 4. Do you have access to an EAP through an employer? Those often include immediate, short-term help, which could be a bridge to your upcoming appointment for longer- term care. 5. Support group? Based on what you're using to self-medicate, maybe? Many are free and accessi ble. Or, coming at it from a different direction, you can also try a parents of multiples group. 6. Last one, because long lists of anything can be stress: Streamline. Pare your lists to the absolute essen tials, focus less on appearances, and forgive yourself upfront for whatever you cross off. You don't mention a partner, but if there is one, then make this a cooperative effort. Hugs for what you're going through. You did the tough and brave thing by taking steps to man age it. Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. 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. WORD SALSA ANSWER FOR JAN. 3 SU I TAPERSONEROP L A I C E P SilO D A U c E D A A D L A I T N E S S E M L B D H E C H O A M E D I D A B A I E L F IJ O I N u I B I D A S D O B S O D L B A S O S E T L E T A P D P O A 0 T D T T I R M C T E A I R S l I O I O U P A E R C P U M I c N M N O S E L F O I I Q A C o T O C R o R A R F A U E D O M O C T D c S O E M L Q Id E T T I F N E I O H P O R E N C A 73 CD O U R N N C C C U S T O M M A D E N 0 A E T C E F R E Ip E R S O N A L H 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. STAY FOCUSBQ ENGLISH SPANISH AIMED DIRIGIDO APPLY ONESELF APLICARSE ATTEND TO ASISTIR A CENTERED CENTRADO DEVOTE DEDICAR FIXATE FIJAR GOALS OBJETIVOS INTENT INTENCION NEEDS NECESIDADES STUDY ESTUDIO UNDERTAKE EMPRENDER WANT DESEAR ©2024 Tony Tallarico. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC 1/4/24 0 D C S F A O D I G I R HH D Y D O E L L I Y D E R E T N E C WA N A E M D T I V O S T M L R P T O I D U T S E T A X I F A P R G O A T J WM P R WA L J U N D V Y 0 S B A S J N S T E I N T E N c I 6 N D C 6 0 T S F D E V O T E J T E E HH V E E S E D A D I S E C E N C I N N E R A E S E D O B N T T T D O L T N 6 D E D I C A R N E T Y F A R I T S I S A 6 A E J O L A K A T T E Y I / O N D T B I P K E M P R E N D E R O N O X P E KWA T N E S R A C HH L P A
