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6A Thursday, July 18, 2024 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia I gainesvilletimes.com THURSDAY FUN+GAMES CROSSWORD SUDOKU ACROSS 1 Drinks a little 5 Lukewarm 10 “The Marvelous — Maisel" 13 Jazz great — Fitzgerald 14 Early computer 15 Post 16 Despondent 17 Lies in wait 18 —de-camp 19 Taken for granted 21 Eschewed 23 Tricky act 24 Choose 25 Skewed view 27 Judicious 32 Go missing 34 Shoe part 35 Chopped cabbage 36 Abbr. in business 37 Gather 39 “I can’t believe I — the whole thing!” 40 Open 42 Tattered cloth 43 Merchant 46 Suffer humiliation (2 wds.) 48 Mimic 49 Between Sat. and Mon. 50 Office worker 52 Injection device 56 Set firmly 60 Burden 61 Serviceable 63 Dies — 64 Fairy tale figure 65 Inscribe 66 Shade providers 67 Cravat 68 Pert 69 “Easy - it!" PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED A W A M 7-18-24 © 2024 UFS, Dist. by Andrews McMeel for UFS DOWN 29 Bit of grass 1 Video game 30 “See you —, maker alligator!” 2 Cause for 3f Pitcher complaint 32 Small bottle 3 And 33 Diatribes 4 Old Japanese 38 — and cheese soldier 41 Dwell 5 Yarns 44 Increase (with 6 Piano “up”) composition 45 Made use of 7 Golf standard 47 “Girls Just Want 8 Annoys to Have —" 9 Like an impostor 50 Root pieces 10 Big pipe 51 Nail file material 11 Go on 52 Niche 12 Vehicle with 53 Berra of runners baseball 15 Praying — 54 Hard to get 20 Tousle 55 Sicilian volcano 22 — and downs 57 Singer — 25 Guitar relative Guthrie 26 Old Peruvians 58 Christen 27 Put on 59 Hardy heroine 28 Dawn personified 62 “- My Party” 7/18 DIFFICULTY RATING: ^^^ CAROLYN HAX tellmerqwashpost.com 40 46 32 36 52 60 64 67 16 19 25 53 26 54 23 41 49 20 47 42 61 65 68 33 37 14 17 38 55 27 34 62 21 28 50 56 43 24 51 44 48 22 45 63 66 69 35 15 29 39 57 10 30 58 31 59 12 HOW TO PLAY: Each row, column and set of 3-by-3 box es must contain the numbers 1 through 9 without repetition. © 2024 Dist. by Andrews McMeel Syndication for UF'S PREVIOUS SOLUTION 2 1 9 4 3 6 8 5 7 7 4 6 5 8 9 3 2 1 3 5 8 2 1 7 6 9 4 9 8 3 7 2 4 5 1 6 1 7 2 6 5 8 9 4 3 4 6 5 3 9 1 7 8 2 6 3 1 9 4 5 2 7 8 8 9 7 1 6 2 4 3 5 5 2 4 8 7 3 1 6 9 Fiance’s family wants partner to learn French Hi, Carolyn: I am so in love with my fiance. He’s by far the best partner I have ever had, and I could never imagine my fife without him. However, his family is not nearly that great. They are French, and he’s the only one who has immi grated to the United States. I had already agreed to have our wedding in France, so his family would be able to come, but they won’t let him marry me until I speak fluent French. They say I’m an American impostor and I’m just with him for his money. We contribute equally to finances, and I do my part! I would have started trying to learn French, but I don’t have the time. I’m in my medical residency — emergency medicine! — and pairing 72-hour shifts with Duolingo would risk both my sanity and my patients’ health. I’ve talked to my fiance about it, and he told me to just wait until they give up. I fear that may take years. Other than this, his family is fine, and I’d like to have contact with them in the future. He’s really close to them, but he’s still on my side, so I don’t want to lose him, either! What do I do? Please help! —Effrayee This isn’t a family problem, it’s a fiance problem. He is an autono mous adult, yes? So there is no such thing as "let.” (“Permettre,” not "laisser." Okay, I’ll stop.) Unless you like letting everyone else drive the bus. The bottom line, groped for and eventually found over the years: Never marry anyone who won’t tell their family of origin to fluff off when necessary. It’s lovely and far preferable when one never has to, but right now, he has to. And he won’t. Volumes spoken. Re: French fiance: I’m thinking he’d like you to learn French, too, and is letting his family do the dirty work. Bad sign. —Anonymous 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. BIRTHDAY PARTIES Solution: 7 letters ETTEUQITEKACUPS CANDLESURPRISES N®AVORSPARKLERN A T ©S G N I PPARWSEN DRO©TGAMESFMROS IIGU©NWISHUDOTN NPSNRWEPCBLLFHO VSEZIRPMLILIOLI IGMNNTRAHAGS I AT TUEEKOSCBSTAHUC AEHGSYKOAAEEMGE TSTNNSCDRNNRSHL ITSILYALPFDNFTF OSSSPINATASYEEE NAPKINSOUVENIRR © 2024 Andrews McMeel Syndication www.wonderword.com 7/18 Albums, Balloon, Banner, Cake, Candles, Candy, Children, Cups, Dance, Drinks, Etiquette, Favors, Food, Frosting, Games, Gifts, Guests, Hats, Host, Invitation, Laughter, Magician, Napkins, Pinatas, Plates, Playlist, Prizes, Reflections, Refreshments, Sing, Snacks, Souvenir, Sparkler, Surprises, Themes, Tour, Toys, Trip, Wine, Wish, Wrapping Yesterday’s Answer: Insurance The NEW Treasury 58 can be purchased online at www.WonderWordBooks.com, or call 1-800-642-6480. (In Canada, call 1-855-232-2367) THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek We certainly do Carla! I can't believe this! AFTER ACCEPTING AN OFFER ON THEIR HOME FOR $60,000 OVER THE LISTEP PRICE, THEY --- I think we need to pop some - I just told their realtor that we have a deal! Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. (!) E NABDL GREEME 1 C I SEQTU LEGVAR ©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. Yesterday’s (Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: TACKY CHECK CRABBY SYRUPY Answer: The shaggy-haired ox that would ramble on incessantly was a — YAKETY-YAK 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. Yup. This question is such a downer, I actually hope it’s fake. I want the so-in-love. hard-working emergency physician to come home after 72 hours to a fiance who says, “Of course my family loves and trusts you! And they trust me, of course. Duolingo will wait, mon petit chou, till you're down to 12-hour over night shifts.” Other readers’ thoughts —Leaving my fiance when he wouldn't tell off his parents, who were terribly cruel to me, is to this day the best thing I ever did. Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. WORD SALSA ANSWER FOR JULY 17 |S DO OG1IR A SIVREP U~S By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek 7-18-24 BOGGLE POINT SCALE ( 3 letters = 1 point 3 (4 letters = 2 points') (5 letters = 3 points) (6 letters = 4 points') (7 letters = 6 points) 08 letters = 10 points') (9+ letters = 15 points') Boggle” Brain Busters Bonus We put special brain-busting words into the grid of letters. Can you find them? ONLINE PUZZLES Go to gainesvilletimes.com/puzzles to access interactive 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 to view the options. Once a puzzle is selected, learn how to play by clicking the question mark. 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. RAZ I T|I N VEN T ARI Find AT LEAST SEVEN FIVE-LETTER WORDS STARTING WITH "Q" in the grid of letters. ENTRUST *H* MORE GAMES A G R A C E D E L E U M U T S R E L A S E A S L E § O V E R S E E M A T|E|M P RE S Al RESE R? E L 0HW IAlS TOCKPIL |P AS I L L O S| E [Ri R IS A I C N A C R lY ROTNEVN II N I S U B? Z A R C E A O H A/ G A R 0 T~S] T RY 0 [M A YOR I S T A| Y AD I N G DO C K|M A L S W O T N E IAIV|A~T SIRON I |stella|p|alets| UE LIR AZ I T AM 0 T U M A N E C A M L A 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 Boggid BrainBusters: BOGGLE is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. KIA FORD AUDI HONDA FERRARI © 2024 Hasbro, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved. www.bogglebrainbusters.com ENGLISH SPANISH ALLOCATE ASIGNAR ASSIGN ASIGNAR BESTOW ON OTORGAR COMMIT COMPROMETERSE CONSIGN CONSIGNAR CONFIDENCE CONFIANZA DELEGATE DELEGAR ENDOW DOTAR GRANT CONCEDER RELEGATE RELEGAR RELIANCE DEPENDENCIA TURN OVER ENTREGAR ©2024 Tony Tallarico. 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