6A Sunday, January 21, 2024
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia I gainesvilletimes.com
SATURDAY FUN+GAMES
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 On-campus
housing
5 West Coast sch.
9 Final-sale
warning (2 wds.)
13 Notion
14 Mother-of—
16 Center
17 Glass container
18 Equivocate
19 Witticism
20 Salad plant
22 Figure with
radiating
segments
24 Aim
26 Small case
27 Traveling show
31 Pate de foie —
34 Mature
35 Art movement
36 Car type
38 Poet — Whitman
40 Synthetic fiber
43 Challenge
44 “Dancing With
the —”
46 “To — his own”
48 Kind of soup
49 Go offstage
50 Runner in a race
52 Glass piece
55 Lacerated
56 Licensed
property brokers
60 Harsh
64 About (2 wds.)
65 Parking
attendant
67 Length times
width
68 Cover
69 Video game
maker
70 Force
71 English
measures
PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED
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72 Energy cartel
73 Pretends
DOWN
1 Plunge
2 Supreme Norse
god
3 Interpret
4 Speak ill of
5 Disruption
6 So-so grade
7 Youths
8 Engage in
debate
9 Secured
10 Not at all fresh
11 Rainbow
12 Clan
15 Time of fasting
21 Null and —
23 Annoys
25 “— Sings the
Blues”
27 Cries like a crow
28 Playing marble
29 Unwind
30 Shoestrings
32 Make fit
33 Garment for a
ranee
37 Come close to
39 Look-alike
siblings
41 Engrossed
42 Word puzzle
45 “On the
double!”
47 Charter
51 Silver State
53 Star that flares
54 Poetic muse
56 Paddy plant
57 Lab compound
58 Shrinking Asian
sea
59 Insult
61 Musician —
Clapton
62 Landlord’s due
63 Diner sign
66 Poetic
contraction
TOfil
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
Unscramble these Jumbles,
one letter to each square,
to form four ordinary words.
EAGAD
7^
L^z
LUWDO
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L^z
CRODAC
7^
^Z
TRRIEW
7^
L^Z
7^
S^-Z
L^z
WHEN THE JUMBLE
CARTOONIST BEOAN SKETCHING
PEOPLE AT THE PARK, HE —
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All Rights Reserved.
Now arrange the circled letters
to form the surprise answer, as
suggested by the above cartoon.
Arts.
here:
7^
S^Z
^Z
7^
(Answers Monday)
I Jumbles: FIGHT DOUGH INVEST OPAQUE
es er ay s | Answer: |_| e know a fathom equaled six feet because
that unit of measure was — OUT OF HIS DEPTH
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.
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( 3 letters = 1 point )
( 4 letters = 2 points)
( 5 letters = 3 points)
( 6 letters = 4 points)
( 7 letters = 6 points )
( 8 letters = 10 points)
( 9+ letters = 15 pointed
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Boggle” BrainBusters Bonus
We put special brain-busting words into the
grid of letters. Can you find them?
Find AT LEAST SEVEN FOUR-LETTER
MAMMALS in the grid of letters.
Answers to Friday’s Boggle 0 BrainBusters:
KNEE ANKLE BRAIN ELBOW HEART
SUDOKU
DIFFICULTY RATING: ★★★★★
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HOW TO PLAY:
Each row, column
and set of 3-by-3 box
es must contain the
numbers 1 through 9
without repetition.
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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.
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK Solution: 6 letters
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Airboat, Bays, Camping, Climate, Crocodile, Cypress,
Deer, Ecology, Endangered, Fern, Flamingo, Florida,
Forest, Heron, Island, Kayak, Lake, Limestone, Marine,
Miami, Moat, Natural, Okeechobee, Panther, Pond, Prairie,
Ranger, Restore, River, Salt, Sawgrass, Shark, Snail Kite,
Snake, Sunrise, Tide, Trail, Turtle, Waves, Wetland, Wildlife
Yesterday’s Answer: Steel Magnolia
The NEW Volume 76 can be purchased online at www.WonderWordBooks.com,
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CAROLYN HAX
fellme@washpost.com
‘Forced togetherness’
of boyfriend s family
is too exhausting
Dear Carolyn:
We did Thanksgiving with my
boyfriend's extended family, who
are intensely close. They were very
nice to me, but I found all the forced
togetherness exhausting. My own
family doesn't gather for Thanks
giving (my parents aren't American,
siblings live too far away), so I
didn't mind doing it, but I think I
would like to opt out in future years.
When is the right time to broach
this with my boyfriend, who seemed
to really enjoy the visit? Do I wait
until next year and then suggest he
go without me? I wouldn't mind if
we alternated and spent every other
year separately; I just don't want it
to be expected that I burn a whole
week's vacation on it in perpetuity.
— Do I Have To?
Don't hold on to this until next
November, because it isn't really
about Thanksgiving. Which is
a good thing for me, because I
flagged your question weeks ago
to answer in a column, then forgot
about it and am now publishing it in
January.
It's important to talk about feel
ings like this as they come up
because they're about compatibility.
Someone with an “intensely close”
family who clears an entire week for
one holiday and “seemed to really
enjoy the visit” deserves to know if
his partner is not as thrilled about
these things as he is.
He especially needs to know that
the scene he loved through his eyes
looked like “forced togetherness”
through yours. You can respect his
family affections while also busting
any illusions he has about you. If
he wants to be with someone who
values the same things he does, then
you're not the right person for him.
You likewise deserve to know
whether he's ungrudging and liberal
with his blessings for you to opt out
of his cherished family rituals. If
he's constantly hoping you'll join
him or wishing you'd change, then
he's not right for you, either.
Forget just “blessings”; you want
him to want you to do your own
thing, to see it as the best possible
partnership luck. It's not a crazy
idea. He will never have to sacrifice
his Thanksgivings for your family's
to appease you. You're a perfect
mismatch, in a way.
But I digress. The point is, you
both deserve to be loved fully for
who you are, and to be with some
one who feels so lucky to have you.
If you hold back how you really
feel, then neither of you will get to
see the truth about the person you're
dating — at least, not until you're
so invested that it will feel easier
to keep being disappointed in each
other than to do the awful work of a
breakup.
Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday
at www.washingtonpost.com.
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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.
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