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FRIDAY FUN+GAMES The Times, Gainesville, Georgia lgainesvilletimes.com Weekend Edition-February 23-24, 2024 50 CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED 2-23-24 © 2024 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS ACROSS 1 Of the ear 5 Arrived 9 Pro 12 Discharge 13 “ a Rainy Night” 15 Dirt lump 16 Soon 17 American Beauties 18 Fat 19 Lures 21 Amusingly odd 23 “Once and for —!” 24 Incinerate 25 Speak sharply 28 Sets off 32 Borodin’s “Prince —” 33 Allotment 34 Mauna — 35 Move to and — 36 Zest 37 Playground game 38 Sawbuck 39 Polish 40 Actor — Ferrer 41 British money 43 NFL team 45 Sharpen 46 Plant bristle 47 Opposed 50 Asserted but not proved 54 “ for Ail Seasons” 55 Dunce 57 San — Obispo 59 Eat 60 Canyon 61 First name in mysteries 62 Work unit 63 Do a lawn job 64 Only DOWN 1 At the drop — — hat 2 Fork prong 3 Press 4 Mythical creature 5 Set of friends 6 —vera 7 Peat — 8 Holiday time 9 Of a wing 10 Bottle stopper 11 Mary Baker — 14 Lawyer’s title 15 Adhere 20 Kind 22 Compel 24 Steel oneself 25 Schisms 26 Heron 27 Frontiersman Daniel — 28 “Love is a Many- Splendored —” 29 Rock’s — John 30 Cook 31 Wise guys 33 Backbone 36 Party 39 Gin flavoring 40 Commercial tunes 42 Swiss river 43 Like a pretzel 44 Fear 47 Miami— county 48 Arab VIP 49 Canine tooth 50 Suffix for “million” 51 Seating area 52 Franc’s replacement 53 Pickle flavoring 56 Investor’s concern 58 Understand Unscramble these Jumbles, «> one letter to each square, f to form four ordinary words. = COFER VEORP FLARGU VEDUTO r" N ©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek THE BblV 6\Xi SAP HE WAS TOO BROKE TO BUY THE HAIRPIECE, BUT REALLY HE COULP — Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. (Answers tomorrow) I Jumbles: UNFIT OOMPH ORIGIN MARVEL es er ay s | Answer: y om Q ru j se could make so many “Mission Impos sible” films because he — GOT ON A “ROLE” 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. BOGGLb POINT SCALE ( 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 points') Boggle 0 BrainBusters Bonus We put special brain-busting words into the grid of letters. Can you find them? Find AT LEAST FIVE ACADEMY AWARD BEST PICTURE FILMS 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 Thursday's Boggle 0 BrainBusters: DAmr t , , fu . . MESA DALE PLAIN BUTTE BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc, ©2024 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved. www.bogglebrainbusters.com SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING:**** 8 8 9 1 8 1 2/23 © 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 1 2 6 9 8 5 7 4 3 4 3 9 1 6 7 8 5 2 7 5 8 2 3 4 6 1 9 2 7 1 5 9 6 3 8 4 6 8 3 4 7 1 9 2 5 5 9 4 3 2 8 1 6 7 3 6 2 8 4 9 5 7 1 9 1 7 6 5 2 4 3 8 8 4 5 7 1 3 2 9 6 W 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. TOM SMOTHERS (1937-2023) Solution: 8 letters S S E M E C I N T T M S L A I C N E U U R A T I E P S E I G G A M H I E M M Y B EACZONEO S N I © S N C R R I A © N R O S OE N © E COM DGRFHTGB NMREEOOD EELEDLTH DLHTYCRA ECONAMOY T H E I N F O R R E H T O N A R E M M O C C U G E Y T O O M D E O H R U I L R O U E S I H S D N M T R T P E I I I P U E R C C C A R E A Y K O A N D L C R M E E J O L I E R N R O I D D M I S D S G Y O Y H O T E E M A N T N R S CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com Are gaslighters aware of their behavior? Dear Carolyn: Do you think people who practice gaslighting realize they are doing so? It seems like such a vicious form of manipulation. Could someone be unaware they are doing it ? Just curi ous. No experience with it here. —Anonymous I think they think they are just trying to get what they want. That, of course, involves some degree of selfish intent — a baseline convic tion that they're more entitled to get what they want than others, which allows them to justify achieving that at others' expense. But while the effect can be vicious, I'm not sure the intent is always consciously so. If you imagine gaslighters as emotional children in adult bodies, this interpretation makes sense: When you're little — under 10, let's say, though all development involves a range — it's pretty stan dard to try to manipulate things to your advantage. You try to get the best cookie for yourself, without connecting that to its effect on oth ers (making someone else get the broken one). At some point, kids on an emotionally healthy path start to make that connection and stop elbowing everyone else aside to maintain their own advantage. They learn the more complex benefits of sometimes taking the broken cookie themselves. The gaslighter is the person who never matured to that point. So when they see cookies up for grabs, they do whatever necessary to maneuver themselves toward the best one. Think of some gaslighty phrases — “I'm not wrong, you're wrong." “You always do [something bad].” “I never do [something bad].” “You're too stupid to see it.” “You're so sen sitive.” “Look what you made me do.” So many are straight off an ele mentary school playground. Even the subtler, adult versions of gaslighting have the same foun dation. For example: “I don't know where you're getting this — that's not what I said. All I meant was [offering some more flattering spin on a crappy comment vs. taking responsibility for the actual crappy comment].” Imagine an emotional inability or unwillingness to say, basically: “You got me — I said [crappy thing], and you're right to be upset. I am sorry. I was being defensive and obnoxious, and you didn't deserve that from me.” I see gaslighters as emotionally feral — fearful that granting any one else any power or leverage will reduce them to prey in the emotional wild. I expect, as with everything else, there are varying levels of self-awareness in the people who are this way. But a desperation to hold power, out of a mortal fear of appearing weak, is the engine. Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Fri day at www.washingtonpost.com. © 2024 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 2/23 Acoustic, Actor, Another Nice Mess, Benson, Bolyn, Cheetos, Co-host, Comedy, Commercials, Dream On, Duo, Emmy, Endorsements, Gnus, Guitar, Hot Dog, Laredo, Maggie, Marcy, Mediocre Fred, Musician, Norm, Premium, Remick Ridge, Riley, Rochelle, Ruth, San Jose, Speed, Stephanie, The Informant, Third, Unicyclist, Yo-Yo Man, Zone Yesterday’s Answer: Boarding The NEW TELEWORD VINTAGE COLLECTION EDITION #1 can be purchased online at www.WonderWordBooks.com. (In Canada, call 1 -855-232-2367) 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 FEB. 22 O T N o D L 0 HI R A c R A B A R E H D 0 Z A R B A F O G o^ F E R A S/ B T G E N A N 4 H E 1/ c D A R L R E B 0 Z / 0 F O K R S A R A F E R R E H R A R T c A E S R I R E H D A R B E c R R S Q U E E Z N E Z T FI 0 0 R E M B R 9 ft G F E E c c T A G R I P, D 0 H c H A H K R R Z Q H N c A c R K C R A E <t D S E T T E R B c 1 E S T R U J A R 0 U T O M 1 T F P S A R E L E N L A c E T |s| A E s R E N E T A c U D D L 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. FROM HERE TO THERE ENGLISH SPANISH CARRIER TRANSPORTADOR CARRY TRANSPORTAR COURIER MENSAJERO DELIVERY ENTREGA ENVOY ENVIADO MAILMAN CARTERO MESSENGER MENSAJERO NEXT DAY DIA SIGUIENTE OVER-NIGHT DURANTE LA NOCHE PICKUP RECEPTOR RUNNER CORREDOR SAME DAY MISMO DIA ©2024 Tony Tallarico. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC 2/23/24 EHCONALETNARUDY NDOMDIAIDOMSIMR VIREUDMESSENGER EARSRCARRIERYNO TSESYPICKUPSRSD NIDYARLRENNURAA ATORDOMESSENAJT IHREECARTEROCER UG I VMENSAJ ERORO GIEIADYADTXENOP INNLSTXD I A Y DMA S SRVEINTREIRUOCN AEODAIVNENTREGA 1 VYOJ EOROTPECER DOTORATROPSNART
