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FRIDAY FUN+GAMES The Times, Gainesville, Georgia lgainesvilletimes.com Weekend Edition-March 8-9, 2024 5C CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Soapy mineral 5 Road map abbr. 8 Break 11 Arab ruler 12 World 14 — and coo 15 Merely OK (hyph.) 16 Work by Chopin 17 Greek mountain 18 Emotional upset 20 Fig — cookie 22 Diplomacy 24 Fad 25 Oz visitor 28 Prep school 32 Think 33 Grew pallid 35 “Norma —” 36 Lots 37 Played charades 38 Type of lamp 39 “Able was I — 40 Desert plants (var.) 41 Coaches 42 Wine with fruit drink 44 Wearable thing 46 Corridor 47 Stack 48 Composure 51 Edible bivalve 55 Actor — Bridges 56 inert gas 60 Karachi language 61 Cry 62 Thugs 63 Dig for ore 64 Sea eagle 65 Morse code signal PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED 3-8-24 © 2024 UFS, 66 Health resorts DOWN 1 Trial 2 Love god 3 Simpsons girl 4 Crusty bread cubes 5 Soak flax 6 Greek letter 7 Old times 8 Essence 9 Plus 10 Make arrangements 12 Extend to 13 Threatened 14 Bent 19 Term in chess 21 Minced oath 23 Run-of-the-mill 24 Tar Heel State capital 25 Cupolas 26 “Carmen” is one by Andrews McMeel for UFS 27 Gone up 29 Format a disc 30 Pro 31 Leavening agent 34 Qty. 37 Pouch for postal matter 38 Single payments (2 wds.) 40 Jam 41 Donkey’s cry 43 Demon 45 Long, long times (var.) 48 French cleric 49 Pome fruit 50 Grassy yard 52 Trek 53 — Garrett of ‘The Facts of Life” 54 Regrets 57 Length measure 58 Gunk 59 Toronto’s prov. DiSt. Unscramble these Jumbles, i one letter to each square, ] to form four ordinary words, j THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek TURET SLEBS 7^ W A RIDHOA ^4 K S BICERS THE THIEF PRETENDED SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH HER MARK AND THEN — ©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. 4^ 4^ ^4 4^ Y_4 V_4 Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. 'Y NT UK. xk Y 'Y A A Yesterday’s (Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: VENOM ICIER GENTRY FOSSIL Answer: The tennis pro at the club was fed up with his job and planned to — SERVE NOTICE 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. QBGDQ □□00 BOGGLE POINT SCALE ( 3 letters = 1 point”) ( 4 letters = 2 point/T) ( 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 FOUR EUROPEAN COUNTRY CAPITAL CITIES 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* BrainBusters: DAccc- * , . , w , , COW APE PIG ELK BAT GNU 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 1 3/8 © 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 7 4 3 5 8 9 6 9 6 5 1 7 8 3 4 2 3 4 8 2 6 9 7 5 1 7 8 4 5 9 2 6 1 3 2 1 3 7 4 6 9 8 5 6 5 9 3 8 1 2 7 4 8 9 2 6 1 4 5 3 7 5 3 1 8 2 7 4 6 9 4 7 6 9 5 3 1 2 8 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. GETTING ACQUAINTED Solution: 7 letters A P P L I A N W D O C U M E A B V P R O F R O P I H S D E S T L S T I E S P A E E A C R E M L G D N O R R O K C E B S O R H T I H O F E H L R G N N G W E E I A I O E L P E L ®©@ T X N K E T A D EMPLOYE CESSTCAF NTSLLACA ESSORJCM N E I R F O U I MEKDPBSL S I E E O R T I T N G O L I O A E D K L I E M R E S E I T F E E CRRFEEDK LPOEPDER C I H E V T S O C A R E T N I W E T N E I R O O RTCATNOC CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com Boyfriend anxious about being tied down Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend and I have been together for three years. I'm in my late 20s, he's in his early 30s, neither of us wants children or cares about marriage. Before our relationship, he was very footloose. He can do his job from anywhere, and he shared an apartment with a cousin, so he was used to taking off whenever he felt like it. He recently let me know that he feels, especially after he moved in with me two years ago, that he's no longer able to do what he wants when he wants. This is true; the house often needs maintenance, I work in a labora tory and need to be on-site almost every day, and I have two dogs as well. That stuff ties you down, so I suggested he do one trip with out me every month or I'll join him when I'm off work and can arrange dog care. But that all involves having to plan ahead, which is “part of the problem.'' I asked him if he was trying to let me know he wanted to break up, and he was really hurt and assured me he loved me and wanted to be with me. I asked him what would make him happy, and he said he doesn't know yet; he just wanted to tell me how he's feeling so I'm aware and we could brainstorm together, but he doesn't like any of the solutions I've offered. The conversation was left unresolved, and I'm worried his feelings will turn into resentment if we can't come up with a solution. Is there some answer I'm missing? — Not Footloose Since marriage and kids aren't happening, why can't he just come and go as he pleases? Is that too much planning for him, or too little boyfriend for you? You live your life as it suits you, and he lives his life as it suits him, and you enjoy each other's occasional company and full-time contentment. This isn't necessarily incom patible with the responsibilities of a house and pets. It just means they're your house (cover your self legally) and your pets, and he contributes a mutually acceptable share of the upkeep—in cash or effort. Couples are happier when they do whatever works for them, mutually, onlookers be d—ed. But if the non-boyfriend boyfriend is not your thing, then that's not your thing—no judg ment either way. Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. © 2024 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 3/8 Accustomed, Advised, Appliances, Aware, Books, Boss, Briefed, Call, Contact, Converse, Co-worker, Date, Documents, Employer, Enlightened, Experience, Facts, Familiar, Friendship, Games, Informal, Interact, Job, Kitchen, Knowledge, Life, Neighbors, New, Oriented, People, Personal, Polite, Professor, Role, Talk, Time, Vehicle Yesterday’s Answer: Barbecue The NEW TELEWORD VINTAGE COLLECTION EDITION #1 can be purchased online at www.WonderWordBooks.com. (In Canada, call 1 -855-232-2367) WORD SALSA ANSWER FOR MARCH 7 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. 0 T N I T S I D N T T A B L E T B I 0 D L A C E T E D N I L N D E L K V I S[D~ E U D B U s I N D I R E C t|o S A C S E D E T U “m1[r" A J A B E V A L c N O B V I S B A J R In E I B L 0 V I S u L "El D |0 D A L L A c T A N E V I S U L E E L B T A 0 G D T H G I L S I D N I C N B U I A C T |0 R E G I L N E O V E R C P O D I T E M O s| T O I N E I Is P A R S E L W D E B 0 I C L w K Y C L V K K M D V U F T E L B A T C E T E D N I S T K D E L I C A D OJ Y E U O 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. A TIME LONG AGO ENGLISH SPANISH ANCIENT ANTIGUO BYGONE PASADO CENTURY SIGLO FOLKLORE FOLKLORE FORMER AGE EDAD ANTERIOR HISTORY HISTORIA LORE TRADICIONES OF YORE DE ANTANO OLDEN DAYS VIEJOS TIMEPOS WAY BACK WHEN HACE MUCHO TIEMPO YEARS AGO HACE ANOS QUE YESTERYEAR ANTANO ©2024 Tony Tallarico. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC 3/8/24 V S I G L 0 S Y A D N E D L 0 I 0 G A S R A E Y N T A N 0 P E p B Y R 0 T S I H C B Y WM J M Y R 0 I R E T N A D A D E N E G A T A N C 0 D A S A P I E I 0 E S E N 0 I C I D A R T H T N Y WH N D E A N T A N 0 W S E R J S G A I R 0 T S I H K 0 R E R 0 L K L 0 F 0 L T C C J 0 T L D N D Q S M P 0 N U A E Y S L K F 0 L K L 0 R E M B I F E G A R E M R 0 F E I E Y V 0 Y R U T N E C I E M C C A N T I G U 0 Y S 0 N A T N A WA Y B E U Q S 0 N A E C A H
