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6A Thursday, March 21, 2024 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia I gainesvilletimes.com THURSDAY FUN+GAMES CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED 2024 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS ACROSS 1 Dramatis personae 5 Letters 9 Take no food 13 Frost 14 Terra firma 16 Buckeye State 17 Karenina” 18 “ Grows in Brooklyn” 19 Flow slowly 20 Annoyed 22 Conspired 24 Antiquity 25 Cause to move 26 Aid to navigators when foggy (2 wds.) 31 Gazes 35 Actress — Gardner 36 Played a part 38 Massage site 39 Clears 41 Metric units 43 if not 44 Brilliance 46 Boat with one mast 48 ATM code 49 Cooked in water 51 Kissed 53 Forehead 55 ‘You’ll never know until you —” 56 “Evita” star 59 Surrounds (2 wds.) 63 Form of “John” 64 Giraffe relative 67 innocent one 68 Airborne speck 69 Daughter of King Lear 70 Dismounted 71 Fleecy animals 72 Ditty 3-21-24 73 Minus DOWN 1 Guy 2 Top notch (hyph.) 3 Rational 4 Go from here to there 5 Goner (2 wds.) 6 “I could — a horse!” 7 Go wrong 8 Walks 9 Marathon 10 “Cat on Tin Roof” 11 Dimensions 12 Two— sloth 15 Lends a hand 21 Place of exile 23 ins and — 26 Reveals 27 Throw out 28 Kitchen item 29 Cornelia — Skinner 30 Hollers 32 Actor — Fiennes 33 Borden’s cow 34 Put out money 37 Condemn 40 Surgeon, colloquially 42 Like a lullaby 45 Gull 47 Leaf opening 50 Generous one 52 Percussion instrument 54 Rouses 56 Street performer 57 Confess openly 58 Assignation 60 Black Friday event 61 Leggy bird 62 Trawls 65 “Long — and Far Away” 66 Kitchen utensil THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. TNNHI 4^ RIDYT GANFEL HNRCET r y" > ©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. Arts, here: (Answers tomorrow) I Jumbles: WHACK BUDDY FEMALE UNWISE es er ay s | Answer: b a k er wasn’t going to rush making the bread and would take as long as — SHE “KNEADED" 4 Y > viz 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 By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek words. 3-21-24 BOGGLE” POINT SCALE C 3 letters = 1 point?) C4 letters = 2 points) (5 letters = 3 points) C 6 letters = 4 points) (7 letters = 6 points) C 8 letters = 10 points) ( 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 FOUR FORD AUTOMOBILE MODELS 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 Wednesday's Boggld BrainBusters: nnccip- + j . , u , | ASP BOA MAMBA COBRA PYTHON BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc, ©2024 Hasbro, Inc, Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved, WWW,bogglebrainbusters.com SUDOKU DIFFICULTY RATING:★★★☆☆ 3/21 © 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 2 1 5 9 4 3 7 6 8 7 9 8 5 1 6 2 3 4 3 6 4 2 8 7 5 9 1 6 2 1 4 9 8 3 7 5 9 8 3 7 2 5 1 4 6 5 4 7 6 3 1 9 8 2 4 3 6 1 5 9 8 2 7 8 5 2 3 7 4 6 1 9 1 7 9 8 6 2 4 5 3 RWOKH 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. A MENAGERIE OF Solution: 9 letters A P S L I S S S U O S T E N A E T S N O I L F U O T C E B I T Q G C A U S M U I R A M H S D B T A S H E L L S N STEPANS N S S C I M O O Y D N A C I B S T O A O A B U G S L L O I E E U L L E R S S S M P S OF LOWERS GAMPARKS TCELLOCT MNPOSAUN SBLTRGSE UQASLAEM RMNDBROU PDTAGDHR AHSAEEST CESMTNSS BEUTATSN N F ©®®© O I R A R E R O I O ZRETTULC R I N E V U O S © 2024 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wondenA/ord.com 3/21 Albums, Animals, Antiques, Aquarium, Autographs, Badges, Baseballs, Bugs, Candy, Cars, Cases, Clutter, Collection, Comics, Dice, Dolls, Fish, Flowers, Fossils, Garden, Instruments, Magnets, Marbles, Meals, Mugs, Park, Pens, Perfume, Pets, Plants, Postcards, Rare, Ribbons, Shells, Shoes, Souvenirs, Stamps, Statue, Stones, Tattoo, Tools, Toys, Zoo Yesterday’s Answer: Politician The NEW Treasury 57 can be purchased online at www.WonderWordBooks.com, or call 1-800-642-6480. (In Canada, call 1-855-232-2367) CAROLYN HAX tellme(c|washpost.com Brother’s lack of communication causes familial rift Dear Carolyn: How do you confront a person who is distancing themselves from you, without feeling like it will fur ther push them away ? My brother is married, has a 17-month-old boy and helps his wife run a fairly successful restaurant. However, he barely acknowledges my mother, who is not overbearing and is very kind. It almost feels like he purposely wants nothing to do with any of us without ever telling us why. He lives far away, and whenever I try to talk to him on the phone, it feels like he's being watched. So, every conversation ends up feel ing calculated and distanced. It also makes it hard to bring up tough subjects when these conversations are very rare. I fear that he'll further avoid us if we bring up how we feel. I know the easy answer is “just talk to him,'' but when communica tion isn't his strong suit, what do you do? —Distant There are so many unknowns here, and it’s possible all of them can have an explanation that’s com pletely benign. He doesn't like the phone, he loves you guys but took his own path so you don't have as much in common anymore, he has a toddler and a busy restaurant and has zero bandwidth left after that—each of these seems credible to me. I can also list ways these awkward phone conversations might indicate a bigger problem: He had a more over bearing experience with your mom, or his wife is the overbearing one, or he's holding a grudge against you for something. Just a few of many pos sibilities. But unless you have direct evidence to support a darker view, then I suggest you assume the best, take nothing personally, be yourself, and keep making a steady, nonin- trusive effort to keep the connection alive. “Confront'' puts someone on the defensive and adds to the plate of stress. Maybe be curious about the brother and his life and see where it leads. Maybe go visit during the offseason. That might answer some questions. “Confront'' is overused, by the way, both the word and the concept. It's a last resort, if that—after you've done the work to improve a relation ship overall and over time. Reader’s thoughts: •Write to him! Maybe start with a funny postcard or greeting card. Don't nag, don't say “I miss you’; just “saw this and thought of you.’’ In his busy life (new baby! new mar riage? restaurant!), he might find time to reciprocate, or he might not, but he'll know you love him and he'll see that you aren't pressuring him. Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. WORD SALSA ANSWER FOR MARCH 20 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. K Y L D R m o P T C E R D L Y L O D U L A ISl O C I A B L E N D S N B N V, ^>r A I D R O c D N o 6 I D/ \g n I T E E R G N E R 6 i C P E C E R A I E S S E N W I M E T C M R S S U W O A 6 B P A C A 5 A 0 E O P T M N R T D A B <3 I c N R E R A T A I O C I o C D I D E I 6 B E C O M O L T R R A N N D N L S E N M M I c T O B I E N V E N I D O O D E E C L K G I IS“E T R O C D A F S E E S U O E T R U O C A D A IH T M R A WIIA B A R C A R WOfcP 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. PWEL.LIN05 ENGLISH SPANISH APARTMENT APARTMENTO BUNGALOW BUNGALOW CABIN CABINA CHALET CHALET COTTAGE CABANA DUPLEX DUPLEX FARMHOUSE CASA DE CAMPO HOUSE CASA RANCH RANCHO SPLIT-LEVEL DE DOS NIVELES TOWNHOUSE CASA ADOSADA TUDOR TUDOR ©2024 Tony Tallarico. 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