MONDAY FUN+GAMES
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Sunday, March 3, 2024 7A
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3-4-24 © 2024 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS
ACROSS
1 Injury
5 Four-bagger
10 Church service
14 Jai —
15 Deliver a
speech
16 Racetrack
shape
17 Hear It for
the Boy”
18 Turner’s
machine
19 Budge
20 Chum
22 Grew less
harsh
24 Ripped
25 Witnessed
26 Racing vessel
30 Part of the eye
34 Tap
37 Rains hard
39 Toned down
40 “ a kick
out of you”
42 Brought to bay
44 Honey drink
45 Corrects
47 — and penates
49 Abbr. on an
envelope
50 Shelter for pups
52 Jeans fabric
54 Love god
56 Zippy
59 Powerful
weapon (2 wds.)
63 Drunken state
65 Approached
66 Pentateuch
68 Road division
69 Ardor
70 Muse of poetry
71 Ohio’s lake
72 Fender mishap
73 Refresh
74 “All hands on —”
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1 Partly
2 Wide-awake
3 Proportion
4 loves
company”
5 Grasp
6 man
mouse?”
7 Pads
8 Cultural spirit
9 Type of jacket
10 Driving force
11 English river
12 Except
13 Toboggan
21 - tide
23 Abound
27 Flimsy bed
28 Pitch
29 Tire surface
31 Bit of news
32 At hand
33 Says further
34 Select
35 Chills and fever
36 Seabird
38 Withered
41 Decrepit
building
43 Lair
46 Eastern
European
48 Strain
51 Thief of a kind
53 Manhandled
55 Campfire treat
57 Extra
58 Refreshing
drink
59 Made a hole-in-
one
60 Yarn
61 Muscat and —
62 High fiber food
63 Exposition
64 Smell
67 Devoured
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
Unscramble these Jumbles,
one letter to each square,
to form four ordinary words.
LZAWT
ONWSO
VHIRTE
SAGTEK
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©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
All Rights Reserved.
Are we
ready?
THE IDENTICAL TWINS
STARTED A NEW BUSINESS
AND WERE READY TO —
Now arrange the circled letters
to form the surprise answer, as
suggested by the above cartoon.
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Saturday’s
(Answers tomorrow)
Jumbles: GROUT JEWEL KITTEN MISFIT
Answer: The baby bird was anxious to leave the nest and
decided to - JUST WING IT
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.
3-4-24
BOGGLE 0
POINT SCALE
( 3 letters = 1 poinT~)
( 4 letters = 2 points )
C 5 letters = 3 points')
( 6 letters = 4 points”)
( 7 letters = 6 points^
C 8 tetters = 10 points")
C 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 FIVE EVEN
NUMBERS 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 Saturday's Boggld BrainBusters:
nncrir- t , i , m u i OAK ELM PALM PINE HICKORY
BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc,
©2024 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved. WWW.bogglebrainbuSters.com
SUDOKU
DIFFICULTY RATING: ★☆☆☆☆
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3/4 © 2024 Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndication for UFS
HOW TO PLAY:
Each row, column
and set of 3-by-3 box
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numbers 1 through 9
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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.
BLACKPINK (BAND) Solution: 8 letters
H C S C I R Y L
N A H B I L L B
LAYRLEFA
ABEAOLLR
DOERBMET
YRSUOMAF
G N I S I K O T
APGNOSSO
G I A B E E S P
ANVOLENO
S K U L I I L P
I L I N E D N K
L N N E W S I K
G E C O I D U T
JANE LESS
O D A N C E S
O A R D O T T
S H I O N H S
I G B M C E I
J E H U E A L
S T F S R L Y
U I O I T B A
I R H C L U L
B C O W O M P
E R A U Q S O
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S A R E N A A
A V A G E K R
© 2024 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 3/4
Anime, Arena, Bestselling, Billboard, Blink, Bold, Boombayah,
Born Pink, Chromatics, Concert, Dances, Famous, Fans,
Fashion, Film, Girl, Group, Jennie, Jisoo, Korean, K-Pop,
Lady Gaga, Lisa, Listen, Lyrics, Music, News, Outfits,
Playlists, Popular, Really, Rose, Savage, Selena, Seoul, Sing,
Song, South, Square One, Studio, The Album, Video, Whistle
Last Saturday’s Answer: Taxes
To purchase WONDERWORD books, visit www.WonderWordBooks.com,
or call 1-800-642-6480. (In Canada, call 1-855-232-2367)
CAROLYN HAX
fellme@washpost.com
Under pressure to
forgive ailing mom
for abandoning them
Dear Carolyn,
My estranged mother left our
family very suddenly 10 years ago
when I was almost 14. My dad was
and is a workaholic, so the care of
my younger sister and the house
hold fell on me. Though I lost any
chance of a normal childhood the
day she walked out, things at home
had not been good for a while, so
there was some relief to having her
gone, and I did my best to make life
as normal as possible for my sister.
Now our mom is back in our
lives, saying she had mental health
issues and with therapy is ready to
be part of our lives again. To my dis
gust, my dad and sister are welcom
ing her with open arms.
I kind of understand my sister,
but I'm surprised and angry that my
dad doesn't have more self-respect.
My mom and I talked briefly, and
she apologized, but I feel like her
“Sorry I abandoned you, but I had
problems'' doesn't make up for me
having to grow up overnight.
Everybody has an opinion on this.
My boyfriend is telling me to keep
her out of my life, while my father
and sister say it's healthier for me to
let go of my anger and forgive her.
How do I get through this? She and
my dad seem to be reuniting.
—Angry
Wait — why is your dad off the
hook? A sick parent leaves, and the
healthy co-parent... watches his
older child shoulder an inappropri
ately heavy burden, and does noth
ing to stop it?
Maybe you skipped over his role,
but still, he was the well parent and
spouse, so your misery is not 100
percent your mom's fault.
Forgiveness is healthier for you
than anger, of course—but it's not
a switch. It's a process. Counseling
would at least give you support from
someone without an agenda—and
at best an informed guide.
You went through a difficult,
painful and unjust struggle just as
you were hitting your adolescence.
That means bringing your adult
perspective to your youthful one
will probably be a layered process,
where you address not only your
mom's choices, but also the context
of the absentee husband/dad and
your own thwarted adolescence.
And the boundary issues of every
one coaching you on how to feel
now. It is a lot.
Maybe respect your instinct to
keep your distance, and use the
space you create to let therapy do
its thing.
Readers’ thoughts:
•You can forgive her without
reconciliation. Reconciliation is
about TRUST. She hasn't earned
yours. Be around her in measured
amounts, to see who she is now.
Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday
at www.washingtonpost.com.
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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.
NATIONAL FOUNQ CAKE PAY
ENGLISH
SPANISH
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