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6A Sunday, February 25, 2024 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia I gainesvilletimes.com SATURDAY FUN+GAMES CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED 0 T I c c A M E A c E F I R E 1 L O V E c L o D A N o N 1 R 0 s E s L A R D E N T c E s Q U 1 R K Y A L L B U R N R E B U K E T R 1 G G E R S l G O R S H A R E L O A F R O S P 1 c E T A G T E N S H 1 N E J 0 s E s T E R L 1 N G s A 1 N T s H O N E A W N D E F I E D A L L E G E D A M A N 1 D 1 O T ■ L U 1 s D I N E G 0 R G E E R L E E R G W E E D S 0 L E 2-24-24 © 2024 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS ACROSS 1 Tinged with pink 5 —blocker drug 9 Bachelor of — 13 Prov. in Can. 14 “ La Mancha” 15 Bucket 16 Close 17 Valuable thing 18 Midway attraction 19 “All hands — —I” 21 Sidestepped 23 Have in one’s bonnet 24 Agt. 25 Story 27 Heritage 33 Narrow passages 35 Abbr. in a schedule 36 Feel sorry for 37 Baby’s napkin 38 — Simpson 40 Z 41 Flightless bird 42 Gold of “Entourage” 43 Young feline 46 Warm and dry 50 Rank 51 Wapiti 52 Wanton look 54 Kansas City football players 57 Harm 60 Chess piece 61 Actress Winslet and others 64 Flit 66 Wager 67 Soap brand 68 “Born Free” lioness 69 Droplet 70 Seines 71 Ooze DOWN 1 Tried for office 2 Margarine 3 Jazz musician — Getz 4 Length 5 Picnicking essential 6 Print measures 7 Shoe part 8 Nighttime (hyph.) 9 Sudden 10 Foray 11 Neap — 12 Winter fun toy 14 Pepper spray 20 Online marketplace 22 Garland 25 Gunk 26 Vinyl record 28 Send, as payment 29 Swallowed 30 Angry 31 “The — Limits” 32 Glowing gas 33 Further 34 Shiny fabric 39 Mouths 44 News bit 45 Harangues 47 Looked furtively 48 Sprite 49 Church leaders 53 Simple 54 Grouchy guy 55 Whetstone 56 Greek letter 58 Wind 59 Irish Gaelic 62 Paved rd. 63 Child 65 Spigot Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek REMYR SUDEO RSTNWE 4 X BRUDAS ©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. Y y Yesterday’s (Answers Monday) I Jumbles: FORCE PROVE FRUGAL DEVOUT | Answer: The bald guy said he was too broke to buy the hair piece, but really he could — AFFORD “TOUPEE” 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. ClAlMlK t|y|l b|p|e|p lIuIrId BOGGLE POINT SCALE ( 3 letters = 1 point”) ( 4 letters = 2 pointsj ( 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 SIX COLORS 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: DAmr t ,w , , CODA ARGO ROCKY CRASH PATTON BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. © 2024 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved. WWW.bogglebrainbuStorS-COm SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING: ★★★★★ 2/24 © 2024 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 6 1 2 3 9 4 5 7 8 4 3 5 6 8 7 2 9 1 8 9 7 5 1 2 3 6 4 5 2 3 1 6 9 8 4 7 7 6 1 4 2 8 9 5 3 9 4 8 7 3 5 1 2 6 3 8 9 2 7 6 4 1 5 1 7 4 9 5 3 6 8 2 2 5 6 8 4 1 7 3 9 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. HORSESHOE CRABS Solution: 8 letters E S G N I F C D B I S E O O L L R R L P I O A T O S H S M I S S S B N O N A I A F I H R F T E G T L E E M E G L L G A I S S W A L O T A I L N A M O S N W A P S O M E D I L A T S A B W A T E O E K L A GRATE L I H C R M I C T H O S Z A R U D A E L T A F N R ©@ ®® D C P E D I E C A P A O R P T N A M I W S C A L M C O C R O I R O P R E W P H E N E E A C C N C R E E I H M P S R I A T E A T C O D M I Y R I O N E S T PALPS R A C O R E I C N A © 2024 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 2/24 Adult, Ancient, Arthropods, Asia, Bait, Beach, Biomedical, Carapace, Chitin, Claws, Coastal, Copper, Ecological, Female, Fertilizer, Fish, Fossils, Gills, Hard, Hinge, Inshore, Large, Legs, Marine, Migrate, Mouth, Nest, Pedipalps, Pharmacy, Prosoma, Receptors, Sand, Science, Shallow, Spawning, Swim, Tail, Telson, Tides, Walk, Water, Worms Yesterday’s Answer: Brothers 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 fellme@washpost.com When should a parent stop trying? Dear Carolyn: My young adult daughter is closer to her mom and makes no effort to see me when she's home, though we've always gotten along well. I've tried suggesting outings I think she'll enjoy, I've tried to watch the shows she likes, I text and get a one-word response. If I call her, she says it's a bad time. I've asked her to call me and she does not. The split was because her mother was cheating, so I don't think there's any grudge toward me. Also, my daughter and I haven't had fights, and things are fine with her siblings. She reaches out when she needs money or help with something, and that's it. She's blown off the last few family vacations. I told her I'm upset; she doesn't appear to care. At what point do I just tell her I'm going to stop trying but I'm here for her if she needs something? —The Other Parent You don't. You don't put the whole relationship on your kid — definitely not a young adult one, but not even one who is fully adult. Especially not when there was traumatic upheaval in the family during her childhood. If she's in college, it's a one-word answer: patience. It can get bumpy when a parent- kid relationship transitions to one between two adults, especially if the parent is slow to let go of old ways. Just in general, too — relation ships get a lot easier when we remind ourselves the other person has a whole life's worth of stuff affecting their interactions with us, much of it outside our knowledge and reach. Imagine she wants some breathing room to sort her stuff. Imagine her mom is more comfortable giving it to her (or a total pushover, alas). Imag ine your daughter doesn't have the maturity (yet) to say any of this. Now imagine how your “I'm going to stop trying'’ would hit. Not great, right? A touch of quit ting on her just as she's launching, some thin-skinnedness, a few notes of “You like your mom better!'' When kids are at their least lovable is when they most need steady love. What does this look like in prac tice? The same as always: Kid's well-being trumps your feelings. Remain in regular but non-needy- smothery contact as she becomes who she is becoming. See the joy in her independence when you feel tempted to complain about it; I'd skip family vacations, too, if I felt guilted to go. Be glad she’s comfortable with one parent instead of resenting that you're not the parent she chose. And maybe most of all, don't base your idea of your relationship on who she was. If she sees you let ting go of that, without asking her to manage your hurt feelings, then she'll know you're ready to see her — whoever that turns out to be. 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 FEB. 23 E H c 0 N A L E T N A R U D Y N D o M D i A i DOM S I M R V i R E U D M E S S E N G E R E A R S R [C? A R R I E R| Y N 0 T S E S Y Iel I C K U P s R S D N I D Y A R L |R E N N u R A A A T O R D 0 M E S S E N A J T I H R E E |c A R T E R 0| C E R U G I V M E N S A J E R O R 0 G I E | A D Y A D T X E N O P I N N L S T X D [ A Y D M A S S R V E I N T [R E I R U O C N A E O D A I V N N T R E G A i V Y O J E OIR O T P F 0 F R D O T OIR A T R O P S N A R T 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. TOURISM ENGLISH SPANISH EXPLORE EXPLORAR FLIGHT VUELO HOTEL HOTEL JAUNT EXCURSION JOURNEY VIAJE LOCATION LOCALIZACION LUGGAGE EQUIPAJE PLACES LUGARES TOURIST TURISTA TRAVEL VIAJAR VACATION VACACIONES WANDER DEAMBULAR ©2024 Tony Tallarico. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC 2/24/24 E X P L R 0 L E U V T A C A V X E Q U D P E B M A E R D V A P G V C E 0 T Y E N 0 I C E C N 0 i T A C 0 L B U L A L N A 6 A A NM I H E J A P I U Q E i T J / 0 B 6 Z N 0 I T A C A V c S A I U Y E N R U 0 J s T A A I R F L I G H T Z u A T R C z R L WA N D E R V R U R A A I U S E R A G U L I I N A R C L T L P R Y G E V A S T V 0 KH A I E C T H T Z L J T X E L 0 C / 0 D Y H 0 Q E S E C A L P N 0 N 6 I H Q N 0 I S R U C X E L U G G A G E R 0 L P X E E S
