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FRIDAY FUN+GAMES The Times, Gainesville, Georgia lgainesvilletimes.com Weekend Edition-January 19-20, 2024 50 CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED 2024 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS 1-19-24 ACROSS 1 “To thine own — be true” 5 Quarrel 9 —mater 13 Ersatz butter 14 Hand tool for boring holes 16 Get right 17 —friendly 18 Flat surface 19 “No — like the present!” 20 Slow, in music 22 Foretelling events 24 Newt 26 Require 27 Cockpit VIP 31 Fit for farming 35 Actor — Vigoda 36 Of the nerves 39 Animals in harness 40 Fireplace fuel 42 Downcast 43 Gaelic language 44 Sled 45 Actor — Finney 48 Stimpy’s pal 49 Fashioned 51 Fanatically stubborn 53 English college 55 Sheep’s cry 56 For each one (2 wds.) 61 Cotton thread 65 Strike 66 Salty drops 68 Woodwind instrument 69 Dried out 70 Money substitute 71 Campus VIP 72 “A — Grows in Brooklyn” 73 Twisting and turning 74 Gumbo DOWN 1 Music genre 2 “Born Free” lioness 3 Wanton look 4 Draw a blank 5 Plant fluid 6 “— Fiction” 7 Alga extract 8 Carpentry joint 9 Come before 10 Cafe au — 11 Bobeck in Drew Carey’s show 12 Actor — Guinness 15 Rescind 21 In the twinklinq eye 23 “Hannah and — Sisters” 25 Cravat 27 Phones 28 Close to 29 “— Sue Got Married” 30 Nugatory 32 Yogi — of baseball 33 Light show device 34 Correct 37 Actor — Lowe 38 Filled with solemn wonder 41 Chosen one 45 Takes on 46 Kid 47 Bluish green 50 Abbr. in a timetable 52 Coiffure 54 Family member 56 “Hey. Over here.” 57 Pitcher 58 Hard to come by 59 Vetch seed 60 Seed cover 62 Hide-and— 63 Nonsense poet 64 Novelist — Ferber 67 Agent THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Unscramble these Jumbles, »> one letter to each square, f to form four ordinary words. = GTIFH 4^ 4 N GUDHO 4 > ^4 4 N SETVIN 4 X ^4 ^4 4’ N EQAPOU 4 ' 4 ^ ^4 ©2024 Tribune Content Agency. LLC All Rights Reserved. HE DIDN'T KNOW A FATHOM EQUALED SIX FEET BECAUSE JHAT UNIT OF MEASURE WAS —, Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. r-V Y n ^ A y 4- y Y ^ Ax 4^ Yesterday’s (Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: GRANT PRIOR MUDDLE GLOBAL Answer: The 6’ 9”, 350-pound circus clown showed off his new shirt - UNDER THE BIG TOP 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. 1-19-24 BOGGLE POINT SCALE ( 3 letters = 1 point”) ( 4 letters = 2 points?) ( 5 letters = 3 point?) ( 6 letters = 4 points) ( 7 letters = 6 points') ( 8 letters = 10 points) ( 9+ letters = 15 points') YOUR BOGGLE” RATING 151+ = Champ 101-150 = Expert 61-100= Pro 31 - 60 = Gamer 21 - 30 = Rookie 11 - 20 = Amateur 0-10 = Try again Boggle” BrainBusters Bonus We put special brain-busting words into the grid of letters. Can you find them? Find AT LEAST FIVE HUMAN BODY WORDS in the grid of letters. BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc, ©2024 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved. Answers to Thursday's Boggle‘ BrainBusters: TALENT TABLET THIRST TYRANT www.bogglebrainbusters.com SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING: wlHo? 1/19 © 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 9 8 6 5 7 2 4 1 3 1 4 5 9 8 3 2 7 6 7 3 2 1 4 6 8 5 9 3 9 8 4 6 5 1 2 7 6 5 4 2 1 7 3 9 8 2 1 7 3 9 8 6 4 5 8 2 1 6 5 9 7 3 4 4 7 9 8 3 1 5 6 2 5 6 3 7 2 4 9 8 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. ROSALYNN CARTER (1927-2023) Solution: 13 letters S U E N S I U T A E C D O S M T M A I T T E M S E H N H T S C I R E M A D O S R E F F E E R L I L L I E U E W O M E R O N A E L E G T N I E E R E L O R V Y R D ® D Y M E O M © M M T L R N ® I R L W R I Q) A E S T H O C F C A B I E A F I R S T T I M S R E V I V I T C A D V I S O R R J J A M E S A N E T P S N M N I L T O E H R A P C S E U I L W T T H N I I H C P S N O A G O D F S O L L R L G I R I A U N E T C W E L A D Y A N I G E R A C V O C A T E © 2024 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 1/19 Activist, Advisor, Advocate, Americus, Amy, Author, Awards, Cabinet, Caregivers, Causes, Chip, Commitment, Degree, Donnel, Eleanor, Emory, Fellowships, First Lady, Influence, Jack, James, Jefferson, Jimmy, John, Lillian, Plains, Policy, Rights, Role, Smith, The Carter Center, Tours, United States, University, Women, Writer Yesterday’s Answer: Flexible The NEW TELEWORD VINTAGE COLLECTION EDITION #1 can be purchased online at www.WonderWordBooks.com. (In Canada, call 1 -855-232-2367) CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com Group wants to remove struggling friends social media crutch Dear Carolyn: My good friends from college get together only six or so times a year, but we stay in touch through social media. One friend spends a self- admitted massive amount of time and energy creating a social media image of a perfect family life that is far from reality. In fact, she wants to leave her husband, who checked out of the marriage years ago, but feels it’s not financially viable to do so. Some members of the friend group feel this is a crutch that keeps her from doing something productive about her situation, and want to have an “intervention.'’ I think it gets her through the lonely days, so who am I to judge ? Am I seeing this wrong? —Friend When someone admits she image- curates to feel less miserable and stuck, my first impulse is not to say, wow, you need group-correcting, stat! She's asking for friends, love, support, encouragement, and maybe actions or solutions. Useful responses to that: “Do you want sug gestions or just an ear?’’ “I am here to help. Would X be useful?” After the group smacks down her crutch, what's their plan for her? Have they thought through the obstacles she might face to find ing healthier outlets — emotional, financial, marital, parental? Have they considered how they person ally might help her overcome those obstacles without overstepping? Take it from your friendly local inexpert: Telling people what they're doing wrong is the easy part. Actu ally doing better is the hard part. So please, use your standing as group member to ask more of all of you, collectively. “I'm not convinced what she needs from her friends right now is a group correction. That sounds so alienating to me. I think she needs ideas, options, support. What are we offering her in that regard?” Reader’s thoughts: Have the group “gather” without the friend and talk about the support you as a group might be able to pro vide. Trying to help a friend in trou ble individually can easily become overwhelming, where a group trying to help is much more manageable. For example, friend A has extra room to give her a temporary place to land, friends B and C have no room but can help with X money for Y months while your friend looks for work. Friend D could watch friend's kids during interviews, and friend E can work her network to help your friend land a decent job. Or whatever. THEN you can approach your friend, not about stopping the image- curation but with offers of what you can do if she wants help to change. Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Fri day at www.washingtonpost.com. ONLINE PUZZLES Goto gainesvilletimes.com/puzzlestoaccessinteractive puzzles online, including multiple varieties of Jumble, Sudoku, and crosswords as well as Hitori and Futoshiki. Once there, clickthe “More games” button at the top left to view the options. Once a puzzle is selected, learn how to play by clickingthe question mark. WORD SALSA ANSWER FOR JAN. 18 SHORTCT AUCN I MAC p o D I R R 0 C E R L E A H R 0 c E A N O SIM 0 D E L T P A c I A T E L A N T 0 N C L S O I T U C T R 0 H SI N N A A P C F A H |B U O U E SI R A N N I E I U F/$> O CEAO E H A T H A c c R L A N T D C L I Is T A, fr L A N T I C 0 0 T C o P b C E A N SIO D M N A I I A C N O I S N A P X E V u F F S I I J A T OlY O V N 0 C| I N S C M O D E R N I C X Y V C A A Y A W R E T A W|[0~ J A T A P G 0 C E T I c In o i S N A P X E WO*P 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 a! reves, horizontal, vertical y diagonalmente. "MAN'S BEST FRIENP" ENGLISH SPANISH BARK LADRAR COLLAR EL COLLAR COMPANION COMPANERO CUTE LINDO FAMILY PET MASCOTA FETCH BUSCAR GROWL GRUNIDO LEASH CORREA PAWS PATAS POOCH PERRO PUPPY PERRITO TAIL-WAGGING MOVIENDO LA COLA ©2024 Tony Tallarico. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC 1/19/24 GN I G AMA S LIND OREN C U A I ANTE LIOR O L C A DWS B NH A D E OMK I D T E V I C R O F O E ME L C G AW C GN O R D UO T OWB N L H E U C KR O AGO E F P R E R R T E OCN C H C O L L L I A O I N N E I I R R use I T N D EM R P U P Y T I L L N I U S MD A A P L F E ARP T E T U C A PMO C V OMB O E P S P L A R N L L UGOUA S C P T R P P Y O G Y P R G R H A I OU RWF O N K S I F I HDD YD C Y O L O S A T A P
