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52-SKIDDOO ................................................................4
500 RUMMY ....................................................................49
A-PLUS ....................................................................... 14
ART ON THE SQUARE ...................................................24
BATTLESHIPS ........................................................... 23
IN THIS ISSUE BOOMERANGS ...............................................................30
CODE CROSSWORDS ............................................... 28
Let’s Do the Twister!
Learn about the origins of this classic game 34 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 ............................................60
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2 ........................................ 61
Your Word Against Mine CRYPTOLISTS ................................................................20
Scrabble bans slurs and obscenities DOUBLE CROSS ........................................................ 51
from competitive play 38 EITHER/OR PUZZLES ...................................................67
FAMILY REUNIONS ................................................... 66
Flashback 40
An ongoing retrospective of this magazine’s history 40 FLUSTERED.....................................................................29
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Presidents from A to Z HELTER-SKELTER...........................................................31
A presidential quiz for this election year 42 HEY, BIG SPENDER! ....................................................7
HEY, JA! ............................................................................15
This Old Game: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Why
Vintage games from the collector’s closet 48 KID STUFF....................................................................8
LOSING IT ........................................................................21
PLUS… MATCHBOXES ............................................................6
MIXED DOUBLES ...........................................................3
Wild Cards MOUSE PARTY .......................................................... 10
A potpourri of amusing little puzzles
for your solving pleasure 26 ONE, TWO, THREE..........................................................32
PAINT BY NUMBERS ................................................ 56
PENCIL POINTERS 1 ......................................................5
Change of Art
Find the 10 differences between PENCIL POINTERS 2 ................................................ 18
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Gears Tactics, Desperados III 46 SPLIT DECISIONS .........................................................50
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 1ǣǔȨȰ(ǝǗȲǠȨǙ BY MIKE NOTHNAGEL

Each answer word in this crossword variation has two clues leading to it, using different meanings of the word. The
clues are separated into Across and Down, but are otherwise ordered randomly.
When you find two Across clues or two Down clues that seem to have the same answer, add up their clue numbers
to determine the place in the grid at which the answer should be entered. For example, if the clue for 1-Across were
“Metallic element” and the clue for 17-Across read “Starring role,” the answer would be “lead,” which would go in
18-Across (1 + 17). Note: Tags such as “Hyph.” and “2 wds.” have been omitted. ANSWER, PAGE 70

ACROSS 27 19 48
1 Mixed ___
15
2 Pumpkins and
zucchini, e.g. 51
3 Enjoyed an ice
cream cone 39 20
4 T.G.I. Friday’s
competitor 40

5 2012 Pixar film about 33 23

an archer named
Merida 22 29 47
6 It goes into an outlet
7 Anthropologists 24 17 28
study them
43
8 What sour milk might
leave in your mouth 44 41 25
9 Penthouse perk
10 Imitated a bee 59
11 Youngsters who live
46 35 45
in Neverland with
Peter Pan
12 Courageous
13 Steps on, as a grape 34 59 46
14 Quotes for hotel
rooms 42
15 Perspective
37 55
16 Candy bar introduced
in 1923
17 Cause of poor
decorating choices 31
18 Bunch of cards and a
couple of jokers?
19 Bonkers
20 Leave an elected
office
21 Awards stars to
movies 3 Commemorative statues, often 19 Horse’s home
22 1987 film about teenage 4 Serve up a knuckle sandwich 20 “Get to know you” party
vampires 5 React to a mosquito bite 21 Starts to take effect, as medicine
23 Two-point football play 6 Motion before a pitch 22 Goes bankrupt, informally
24 Some yogurts have active ones 7 Seek political favor 23 Baker’s appliance
25 Utterly defeated 8 Greek vowels 24 Sink the cue ball, in billiards
26 Extend a contract 9 Waiting area alongside train tracks 25 Kansas City squad
27 Prepare for a trip 10 Queen Elizabeth and family, 26 Match divisions
28 Galaxy that’s home to our solar collectively 27 Took a bike trip
system 11 Phony coin 28 Totally exhausted
29 Summoned via intercom 12 Jeopardy!, for one 29 Collectors’ goals
30 1967 Rolling Stones hit 13 Repeated periodically 30 Gomez and Morticia’s daughter
31 Talk-show promo for a current 14 Air outlets 31 Prolonged
project 15 1994 film about a 1950s TV 32 Not wobbly
32 Security guard’s concern scandal 33 Blows off steam verbally
16 Hotel’s foyer 34 Guesses posted at airport gates,
DOWN 17 Like many items on Craigslist briefly
1 Adds to the pot 18 When Solomon Grundy was 35 Come to a conclusion
2 Took advantage of married 36 Political party’s principles

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 3

 7ǡǣȰȰǝǝ BY JOEL NANNI

There is one place for each letter of the alphabet in the 26 empty squares of each blank column in the diagram below. Fill
in each letter so that a word of at least five letters is formed reading across only. Not all of the letters to the left and right
of the empty box are used; it’s up to you to determine which ones are needed to complete familiar words. Some letters
may fit in more than one of the empty squares to complete words, but we only came up with one arrangement that would
complete a word in each row. Maybe you’ll find a better solution. Proper names are not allowed. ANSWER, PAGE 70

A F J A G A R I U A N A A
B T W I L E B E S T O K B
C Q G O V R E X O S E G C
D X Q B P C K A V K J G D
E I B G E U R I T X J R E
F G W S C L P T R J D Q F
G F R A T I C I E U N H G
H T W E W E R E E R N N H
I Q X O D A T C W O R K I
J U U A R I T R T O R L J
K B D E F E C T N G G W K
L A E T S U E A E D C E L
M F J L O L O O E R A N M
N I B S Y C C L D E D J N
O Z Z C O C O M E X A J O
P A U P E B D O E N D D P
Q K P L O T I N I E P R Q
R X S T E E D O E M P E R
S H X L E I B L Z H H C S
T B H X V T R E U O U S T
U P X R M S T I U E Y G U
V V O C I E R A E F F E V
W F Q A S Y D E O D K H W
X H F Y N I T Y I D E H X
Y P X Q F L U T I E R B Y
Z B C M U O R K A R E W Z

4 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

 4ȨǞȱǣǠ4ǝǣǞǘȨǚǙ BY FRANK LONGO

In this crossword puzzle, the clues appear in the grid itself. Enter the answers in the direction of the pointers.

ࡨࡨ ࡨࡨ ࡨࡨ of ࡨࡨ
Stock ᳝ Pinkish- ᳝ Away- Cinema Beluga, 1990s ᳝ Unit Jack Not Less Really Purpose ᳝ Web
sales and red game buff’s for one Israel/ naval rabbit, divided pretty must of a surfers’
such players setup PLO talks vessels e.g. gutter handles

Big dogs ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ Genetic

with wiry ID
coats ࢝
Negative Really, Made ࢣ
replies really mad
࢝ ࢝ ࢝
“Do __ Beer Brush up
say!” grain on
࢝ ࢝ ࢝

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guards it Hotel girl Frozen
࢝ of kid-lit ࢝ ࢝
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201 blue hue some ƽ]MRKXLI volcano match
࢝ ࢝ high hair coop in Sicily ࢝ parts

Charged Arcade Sleuth’s ࢣ ࢣ Gads ࢣ

atom game lead about
࢝ pioneer ࢝ ࢝
Plantlike ࢣ Fezzes Indoor Go back “You
pond and contact into don’t
buildup ࢝ berets ࢝ sport say!” ࢝

Bunch of, Force Most ࢣ ࢣ

casually hair-
࢝ raising ࢝
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picks up with spy writer
the tab ࢝ or silver ࢝ Walton

Ram Certain ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ The, in

from Olympic Paris
behind ࢝ fencer ࢝
Regards Engine ࢣ
highly lubricant
࢝ brand ࢝

Gullets Ending ‘Wich Carted Journalist Cochlea It may

for Rock that may off to the Curry locale hold Earl
or Motor use Jif jailhouse Grey ࢝
ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ
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in odes
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on the
Hudson ࢝

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Orleans colonial bit sea e.g.
cuisine ࢝ ࢝ ࢝

Locked Take a Identical Pats Like an ࢣ ࢣ Hoppy

lips with pic of gently active brews
volcano ࢝
ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ
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score
Catches,
as a perp
࢝
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mem.
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sweetie ࢝ ࢝

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ANSWER, PAGE 70

of an short on
Angolan ࢝ T-shirts ࢝
English Like
poet sweat-
Edmund ࢝ pants ࢝

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 5

 1ȳǘȱǤȲǝǔȨǙ BY DON HENDERSON

Here’s your chance to play with matches. Enter words relating to each puzzle’s theme, one letter per box, so that the
boxes with connecting lines have matching letters. We’ve shown one such connection to start you off.
ANSWER, PAGE 71

1. GEOMETRIC FIGURES 2. CARD GAMES

Example: ellipse Example: euchre

6 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

 ,ȨǓ&ǣǥ7ǜȨǞȰȨǚ BY STANLEY NEWMAN

ACROSS 55 Geography 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1 Deserve reference book

6 Gasp after running 58 Old-fashioned car 14 15 16
starter
10 Partner of Crackle
and Pop 60 High ___ kite: 17 18 19
2 wds.
14 Honda’s luxury 20 21 22
vehicle division 63 Big spender’s
remark: 3 wds.
15 Dollar bills 23 24 25
66 Cleveland’s lake
16 Come out of slumber
67 Shortly, in poetry
17 Big spender’s 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
remark: 4 wds. 68 “Eight Days ___”
(Beatles song):
20 Lawn-grower’s 2 wds.
34 35 36 37 38
shortcut
69 Clothing, slangily 39 40 41 42
21 “Peter, Peter,
Pumpkin-___” 70 Salamander
22 Appliances used 71 The Mets and the 43 44 45

on Thanksgiving Jets
46 47 48 49 50
23 Chum
24 Smoothly polite DOWN
1 They say “Welcome” 51 52 53 54
26 Signed up for a
subscription on porches
55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62
extension 2 Canyon sound
30 Experience again 3 Regretted 63 64 65
4 Tax-collecting

ANSWER, PAGE 71
34 Musical set in
Argentina agency: Abbr. 66 67 68
35 Actor James ___ 5 Detract (from):
Jones 2 wds. 69 70 71
38 Angels & Demons 6 Fence support
director Howard 7 Poker pot
contributions 19 It makes the world 32 Spoken 52 Part of a play
39 Big spender’s go ’round 33 Contest form 53 Item in a quiver
remark: 4 wds. 8 India’s first prime
minister 23 SNL cast member 36 Picnic-invading 55 Mightily impressed
43 Hawaiian instru- Davidson insect
ment, for short 9 Mao ___-tung 56 Until, in ads
10 Rotate, as office 25 Singer Guthrie 37 Colonial flagmaker 57 Put down, as
44 ___ and pieces 26 Uncle of
chairs 40 “Yeah, right!”: 2 wds. carpeting
45 Moon-related storytelling fame
11 Appoint 41 Halloween symbol: 59 “___ She Sweet?”
46 Peacefully tranquil 27 Draw forth 2 wds.
12 Related 60 Sailing
49 Like a manor 28 San Francisco 42 Burlap fiber
13 Pooches and 61 Goblet part
51 “___ luck!” footballer, for short 47 Overjoys
parrots, e.g. 62 Makes inquiries
54 Hockey rink 29 Lucy’s husband 48 Schnozzola
surface 18 Harvard rival 64 Mover’s truck
31 Dancer Castle 50 Add color to 65 Have debts

6ȨǣǥǞǣǞǥ'ȳǘǙȳǞȰ(ǝǥǙ BY ANNIE MULLIVER

Our four-legged friends are the stars of this puzzle—each clue below leads to a word, phrase, title, or name containing the
word CAT(S) or DOG(S). For example, the answer to “Comic Western starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin” is CAT BALLOU,
while “Utterly exhausted” would be DOG-TIRED. It’s no pet-ty achievement if you can guess all 14. ANSWER, PAGE 71

1. Hottest, sultriest part of summer _________________________________________________________________________________

2. Seuss creature played by Mike Myers in 2003 ____________________________________________________________________
3. Harry Chapin’s biggest hit ________________________________________________________________________________________
4. 1997 Hoffman-De Niro comedy about a fake war ________________________________________________________________
5. Allow a secret to become known _________________________________________________________________________________
6. Led Zeppelin song that starts “Hey hey mama…” _________________________________________________________________
7. Player who’s expected to lose ____________________________________________________________________________________
8. The Borscht Belt’s mountain range _______________________________________________________________________________
9. Container for restaurant leftovers ________________________________________________________________________________
10. Pulitzer-winning play by Tennessee Williams _____________________________________________________________________
11. First female Iron Chef ____________________________________________________________________________________________
12. “Peace Train” singer, as he was known in 1971 ___________________________________________________________________
13. 2008 drama about a teenager from Mumbai _____________________________________________________________________
14. Slangy name for a WWII infantryman ____________________________________________________________________________

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 7

 /ǣȰ7ǘǗǦǦ
COMPUTER TALK
Fit all of the computer-related words and phrases listed below into the grid so that they interlock as in a crossword
puzzle. Each of the words will be used exactly once, so you may cross them off as you use them. We recommend
starting with the 10- and 11-letter words, since there is only one place that each will fit. ANSWER, PAGE 71

3 LETTERS 7 LETTERS
APP DOC URL COMMAND DESKTOP PRINTER

4 LETTERS CONNECT MONITOR PROGRAM

CODE FILE LINK READ SPAM 8 LETTERS
DOWNLOAD INTERNET
CTRL ICON OPEN SAVE TYPE
5 LETTERS INTERNAL SCANNING
ERROR MOUSE TOUCH VIRUS 9 LETTERS
MICROSOFT UNDERLINE
6 LETTERS
BROWSE GOOGLE MEMORY ROUTER 10 LETTERS 11 LETTERS
RIGHT-CLICK SCREEN SAVER
CURSOR KEYPAD OFFICE

8 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

JOKE BOXES
To solve these puzzles, drop the letters from each vertical column—not necessarily in the order in which they appear—into
the empty squares below them to spell a joke reading from left to right, line by line. Words may continue from one line to
the next; black squares indicate ends of words. The first letter in the first puzzle has been shown to get you started.
The answers to the jokes can be found on page 71, along with the jokes themselves.

S B Y L E F F T H T H R
I A A G T O I O OWE E
T T T D L L WE R L
H I D E
W

G R E O C E E S T O H E
A H Y V U R R AMH I N
W Y E V A N Y T U N
T E S Y

S S S O D R S G U YMZ
U H A N R A I Q H E E E
WR O EWY N T E S N
E R R E S

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 9

 1ǝǗǙȨ4ȳǚǘǓ
Just one teeny little typographical error on our instructions, and instead of pictures containing the word HOUSE, we got
back these MOUSE pictures. For example, if we had asked for an illustration of a HOUSEBOAT, we would have gotten
back a picture of a MOUSE BOAT. Can you figure out the original HOUSE words, titles, and phrases that were originally
supposed to have been pictured here? ANSWERS, PAGE 70

❶ ❷

❸
❹

❺ ❻

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 FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY

❼ ❽

１0

１１ １2
ILLUSTRATED BY STEVE MELLOR

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 11

 5ǗǝǘȨ&ǝǔȨǙ BY JENNIFER OREHOWSKY

To solve Quote Boxes, drop the letters from each vertical column—not necessarily in the order in which they appear—
into the empty squares below them to spell a quotation reading from left to right, line by line. Words may continue
from one line to the next; black squares indicate ends of words. The author of each quote is given above its grid.
ANSWERS, PAGE 71

1. WILLIAM MORRIS
N A V E E T H B T B Y S E I U L T I F R L H
O I E V T O O O H I U O B F N O Y O O U B E
H O W E N T A E E G U E D U N U T K
L U S T N A O R

2. AUDRE LORDE
I I Z T S A S A D P V F D E R E C E I S B R G
N T U R H A C C E I O I R Y D T O F R T E I A
T O I H I N O B D L I A E D U N C E E C O C
E E T O N E T I I U F N I S E E N S
S E T T T F L R

3. CLAUDE MONET
P S T T N O C A H D R R S U T I E L T V W
U N R E N E C E N S I E C T I F S U O I E
R A E A N A N W S P A A Y E N O S I N D E
E R E R R S N E S E N R T T O S T O M
E L D Y E T E D A S I S D S M Y
V Y D D S Y S

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 BY CONCEPTIS LTD.
7ǠǣǘǤȨǚǠǣǞǡ WWW.CONCEPTISPUZZLES.COM

Your goal in these puzzles is to fence off a part of the grid with a closed circuit. Just draw a line 2 1 0
from dot to dot (horizontally or vertically—never diagonally), continuing until you return to your 0 3
3 3 1
starting dot. Each digit indicates the number of fence segments you must draw along the sides of 3 1
that numbered square. The example at right shows a solved puzzle. 0
0 2 2 3
ANSWERS, PAGE 71

PUZZLE 1 PUZZLE 2

3 3 2 3 3 3 1 1 3 0 1
2 0 3 3
1 1 1 2 1 2 3
0 2 3 3 2 2 0 2
0 1 3 0
2 3 0 3
3 2 1 2 3 1 2 1
3 2 0 2 3 3 0
2 0 0 3
3 1 3 3 3 2 3 2 1 1 3

PUZZLE 3 PUZZLE 4

0 3 2 2 3 0 1 3 2 2 3 2 2 3 2
0 3 2 3 3 3
3 1 3 2 2 2
2 1 2 1 3 2 3 2 3 3 1 2
3 0 3 3 3 1
3 3 3 1 2 0 3 0 2
2 0 0 2 3 2 2 2
3 2 2 0 0 1 3 1
2 2 2 1 1 3 3 0
1 2 2 2 3 2 0 2
2 3 3 3 0 1 2 2 2
2 2 2 0 3 3
3 1 3 3 1 3 1 3 2 2 2 3
3 3 1 2 3 3
2 1 2 1 3 1
1 3 2 2 3 2 1 3 3 3 1 2 1 3 3
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 %4ǠǗǙ BY RAYMOND YOUNG

Amusement awaits! All of the 66 words and phrases listed below start with A. Fit them into the grid so that they interlock
in standard crossword style. Use each one exactly once. Can you anticipate where they go? Absolutely!
STARTING HINT, PAGE 71 ANSWER, PAGE 72

5 LETTERS
A AND R ADAPT A LULL ANGEL ASCAP AT LAW
ABC TV AESOP AMPED ANIME ASCII AWARD
ACORN A HEAP AMVET APRIL ATE UP AWNED

6 LETTERS
ABACAB AD UNIT ALBANY AORTAL ARCTIC ASYLUM
ACCORD AGEING ANNUAL APPEAL ARRACK AT PLAY
ADROIT ALARUM ANUBIS AQUILA ARTURO AWHIRL

7 LETTERS
ABRAHAM ALCHEMY ANAGRAM ARCHAIC ART DECO ATE CROW
ADAMANT ALL-STAR ANYBODY ARC LAMP ASTAIRE AT NIGHT
ADSPEAK AMERIGO ARAPAHO ARMBAND ASTRIDE AWKWARD

8 LETTERS
ACAPULCO ADAM’S RIB ALLEY OOP AMBROSIA ANN ARBOR ART CRIME
ACID RAIN AIR CADET ALTA LOMA A NATURAL ARK ROYAL AUNT ERMA

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,ȨǓ.ȳ BY RAYMOND YOUNG

Ja think you can solve this? Ja, of course! All of the words and phrases listed below contain JA, which means “yes” in
German. Find them in the diagram, reading horizontally, vertically, and diagonally (always in a straight line). When you
come to a consecutive J-A, substitute a . If you come up short, the answer appears on page 73, ja know!

B H R A

S E L G N O B T

R L T W P U K I R R E

H A R A H A M O L S S

E P U I S T V E U L

U N P N A N S M N I C O

L I C P R H D A P A R C P

E C K E O M T V V E E Y

L I S R F N I N G E R D L

L D S I A I G I A K Y O

A E M W L T C C K C G

H M Z A A K O X A

U I Z C D S P A C E M

S C I O K S K P T S

A M O A T T C Y C E R

D P B A O T C

P I E H I

AJAX SOAP JACKDAWS MAHARAJAH

BAJA CALIFORNIA JACK EVANS MEDICINE JAR
BOJANGLES JACKPOT MICK JAGGER
ELIJAH JACOBI MTV VEEJAY
E-TYPE JAG JAI ALAI PAJAMAED
HALLELUJAH JALOPY PAT SAJAK
HOT JAZZ JANKOVIC SLAPJACKS
ICE JAM JAPONICA SPACE JAM
J’ACCUSE JASPERY TROJAN HORSE
JACINTH LOGJAMS UPPER JAW

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 7ǝǠǣǘȳǣǚȨ,ȳǞǥǟȳǞ
As in the two-player version of Hangman, the object of this solitaire challenge is to guess a word before being
“hanged.” To begin, choose any letter that you think might appear in word I below. Suppose you pick E. Go to
the Letter Chart on the facing page and find the number listed in row E of Column I (because you are
working on word I). The number is 68; you now look in box number 68 in the Position Chart (to the right of
the Letter Chart) and locate the number 4. This means the letter E occurs in the fourth position (and nowhere else) in
word I. If a letter occurs more than once in a word, the Position Chart will show all its locations.
If you find from the Position Chart that a letter appears in position 0, then that letter does not appear in the word. As a
penalty for an incorrect guess, you must draw part of a stick figure below the scaffold beside the blanks. On your first
incorrect guess, draw the head; on the second, the body; and on the next four, the arms and legs. If you complete the
figure (that is, make six incorrect guesses) before identifying the word, you are “hanged.”
If you can identify 8 of the 12 words before being hanged, either you’re psychic or you have a remarkable gift for words.
ANSWERS, PAGE 73

WORDS TO BE GUESSED LETTERS MISSED

I.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

II.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

III.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

IV.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

V.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

VI.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

VII.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

VIII.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

IX.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

X.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

XI.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

XII.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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 BY JENNIFER OREHOWSKY

LETTER CHART
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII
POSITION CHART

A 27 66 15 81 43 1 81 23 17 45 21 83 A —
1
—
2
—
3
—
4
—
5
8 8 3 1 1
B 40 53 97 18 72 82 49 77 15 74 26 80 B 6 7 8 9 10
— — — — —
0 6 4 0 0
C 7 54 83 39 16 73 87 13 21 84 31 59 C
11 12 13 14 15
— — — — —
D 37 25 96 83 9 10 35 12 81 33 93 82 D 4,9 0 0 1 0
16 17 18 19 20
E 68 85 18 11 88 9 92 63 6 9 64 23 E — — — — —
9 2,5 2 2,7 3
F 49 49 93 89 65 28 12 33 76 23 79 81 F 21 22 23 24 25
— — — — —
6 0 0 1 0
G 15 32 62 27 93 48 28 35 4 90 35 26 G
26 27 28 29 30
— — — — —
H 5 13 94 37 59 98 14 49 82 46 13 65 H 0 0 0 5 9
31 32 33 34 35
I 71 12 41 61 55 20 61 3 48 60 49 58 I —
7
—
0
—
0
—
2
—
0
J 9 28 22 50 23 58 96 53 93 10 66 87 J 36
—
37
—
38
—
39
—
40
—
0 0 8 5 9
K 83 87 33 33 48 69 6 66 37 28 10 53 K 41 42 43 44 45
— — — — —
L 66 59 30 15 63 12 26 86 65 71 32 93 L 3 1 4 1 1,10
46 47 48 49 50
M 38 7 65 28 14 90 83 100 36 96 53 25 M — — — — —
6 2,5,6 0 0 3
N 50 24 4 35 32 66 8 87 32 25 96 15 N 51
—
52
—
53
—
54
—
55
—
3 4,7 0 4 8
O 19 79 82 67 86 26 29 9 2 52 90 47 O 56 57 58 59 60
— — — — —
8 3 0 0 9
P 65 58 37 9 36 83 57 76 62 75 57 36 P
61 62 63 64 65
Q 23 90 27 58 81 37 71 44 89 — — — — —
6 28 6 Q 7 4 7 4,8 0
R 33 56 78 100 49 93 22 71 13 51 89 89 R 66 67 68 69 70
— — — — —
0 1 4 10 3
S 96 71 35 65 53 42 59 58 100 13 71 100 S 71 72 73 74 75
— — — — —
0 5 5,9 8 5
T 100 36 59 7 41 43 46 48 58 89 44 66 T
76 77 78 79 80
— — — — —
U 22 10 76 26 27 76 33 84 12 15 22 27 U 0 4,5 8 5 1
81 82 83 84 85
V 26 6 6 91 96 25 10 81 22 36 12 22 V —
0
—
7
—
0
—
2
—
2,7
W 76 70 25 90 15 99 23 27 49 83 76 68 W 86
—
87
—
88
—
89
—
90
—
6 0 2 0 0
X 89 100 87 22 22 32 93 25 90 65 37 20 X 91 92 93 94 95
— — — — —
Y 39 23 69 53 13 89 34 96 27 48 95 13 Y 8 9 0 5 2
96 97 98 99 100
Z 10 48 71 66 100 36 56 37 20 87 33 48 Z — — — — —
0 6 6 2 0
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII

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 4ȨǞȱǣǠ4ǝǣǞǘȨǚǙ BY COREY KOSAK

In this crossword puzzle, the clues appear in the grid itself. Enter the answers in the direction of the pointers.

ࡨࡨ ࡨࡨ ࡨࡨ
Some Ivy place Diarist Total One of Suitors Liar in the Award ᳝ Carrier ᳝ Operate a Writer ᳝ Saudi __ Put in a Franco
sample for future Nin changes the Bible show for a car Stein —————— forgotten Harris
apps doctors Brontës rollout courier —————— One more place was one
Portent
 ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ
ࡶ
᳜

Stinging “This is ”
reef not a
dwellers ࢝ joke!" ࢝

Many Long-
unseen winded
spots ࢝ ࢝

Rough Give the

physical right
force ࢝ ࢝

Ancient FDR’s Lexicon Bobby of

Nineveh ƼVWXPEH] for street auto
resident ࢝ talk racing ࢝

Garden in Soothed 1EƼE Platoon ࢣ ࢣ Beverly Blinking

Genesis boss honchos Hills Cop body part
Frank ࢝ star ࢝
 ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ
ࡶ
᳜
Wilted Said
letter by
࢝
Steal
from
No longer
outlawed
letter

Alice, for ࢣ Add-on Amazon ࢣ Plan to ࢣ Pearl

the Kindle, do harm sources
Bradys ࢝ e.g. ࢝ to

Spring- ࢣ “Yikes!” ࢝ ࢣ ࢣ
steen’s ——————
group ࢝ Borden’s
cow
Get clean Reaction #1 hit for ࢣ
in rehab of a sore Helen
࢝ loser Reddy ࢝

Dimwits ࢣ Logician Duct, in

Kurt anatomy
࢝ ࢝ ࢝

Striking, Seinfeld Expert ࢝ __-cone Cup Tonsil ࢝

dramatic cartoon —————— (icy treat) edges doc
scenes ƼPQ Sluggish ࢝ ——————
quality Slump
 ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ
ࡶ
᳜
Smoke
shop
Cooking
style
࢝
offering

Be in Viral gene ࢣ Doctor or

charge of material nurse ࢝
࢝ ࢝ ——————
Flue dirt
“Really? Here- Tabloid ࢣ Cupid,
__ who?!” there link- dirt Loki, and
࢝ up ࢝ Thor ࢝

Beetho- ࢣ Ruckus ࢝ Opera Part in a Pivotal

ven’s —————— solo ƼPQ line
Fifth key ࢝ Poet
Ogden
 Lover of ࢣ Gillette ࢣ ࢣ ࢣ
Cleopatra razor ࢝
᳜ ࢝ ——————
ࡶ NFL VIP
LP player First of Roald ࢣ
—————— two sec- Dahl title
Finished tions ࢝ animal ࢝
࢝
 Small Filled
ANSWER, PAGE 72

plateau pasta
᳜ ࢝ squares ࢝
ࡶ
Lane of In a bash- Peels, as
comics ful way a potato
—————— ࢝ ࢝
Minus ࢝

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 8ǤȨ7ǜǣǚȳǠ BY FRANCIS HEANEY

This puzzle turns in two directions. The spiral’s Inward clues yield a sequence of words to be entered counterclockwise
in the spaces from 1 to 100. The Outward clues yield a different set of words to be entered clockwise from 100 to 1. Keep
track of which way you’re going, and have many happy returns. ANSWER, PAGE 72

2 1
3
31 30
4 29
32
28
5 33 56 55
54
57 27
34 53
75
6 76
58 74
77 52 26
35 90
59 91 73
7
78 89 25
92 51
36
100 72
60 88
8 79
93 50 24
99
37 71
61 87
9 80
94 49 23
98
38 70
62 86
10 81 95
97
96 48 22
39 85 69
63 82
11 84
83 47 21
68
40 64
67
12 65 46
41 66 20
45
13 42
43 44 19

14 18
15 17
16

INWARD OUTWARD
1-4 Word with inner or test 100-96 Rings
5-8 Young explorer on Nick Jr. 95-89 They’re hush-hush
9-14 Skulls 88-81 Home of El Capitan
15-19 Steakhouse order: Hyph. 80-74 Bones and slices, as fish
20-27 Sluice valve on a canal lock: Hyph 73-67 Forgetful fellow
28-34 Snare set to catch trespassers or poachers 66-59 Kind of table for a rec room
35-43 Worse than sad 58-54 Actor Buddy of The Beverly Hillbillies
44-50 Minded the kids 53-47 Sheer bliss
51-56 Divisions of a play 46-42 Site of a Biblical tower
57-63 Headboard–footboard connector 41-37 Exposes
64-71 Opera texts 36-31 Lend, as wisdom
72-77 The Producers actor Zero 30-24 Conventioneer’s ID
78-86 Actuarial amounts 23-18 Prison VIP
87-92 Pearl’s source 17-12 Get one’s hands on
93-100 Place of filth 11-6 Jockey Eddie
5-1 First showing

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 'ǚǓǜǘǝǠǣǙǘǙ BY RAYMOND SIMON

Below are four lists of related words and phrases that have been translated into simple cipher alphabets. The letter
substitutions remain constant within any one group of words (for instance, if V represents G in one word, it will
represent G in all the words in that list), but change from one list to the next. A tip to new solvers: Start by thinking of
answers that might fit one of the categories; then see if any enciphered words in the list have the same letter pattern.
The fourth list has been left untitled. Solve the code to determine what the items have in common. ANSWERS, PAGE 73

,36636,3787ɸ 2. ONE HIT WONDERS, ’70S EDITION

Ex. Zacherley Ex. Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)

E G V W V F O N E W B F E A C D J M C X U Z I I Z T X P S O W C

H U X J A R C U D Q Y J U R

O F T L G V F R X J R I Z R S Z C W X R B Z

T U V W X E A B N T F W J G R G H N J A A B Z O M B M S O W C S Z O

I U N K U K K V G W W E V E R W J U I Z J

N C O G V F B Z T X U Y I G X U J Z O X P

E G J G E A N V E N D T U X V R H S U S C S Z C W X R A E

W B U X C F V Q G S Z C W X R B V V X U C S V X

E O N J W U U C G N U I Y A I Z

Q V . E B U H P E I B P S O W C B H V E P S M X

3. CATALOG OF CATALOGS 4. MYSTERY LIST

Ex. Williams-Sonoma What do they all have in common?

O K I I K N O C U T N O X C I I C U M V D L K V N D K G ’ C G K W L

X . X . V C K L U Y D L L R J Y R L

C P P E C V K R C U C B T L C G K G LC , W B P Y G Y N K P P Z

W M F F C U J V K U L H L G L D K R C E K Z W B W W Z

E Q C K M K E J L B U N B V D K J L

X K L P T ’ C L P K V G V T R P L K H L C

S C U I M L F N M R L F U J T F M U C L T M K D D K C C L E W L D C B R

X E X X E K L S C U L M L D Y W L G B T K G B

F K X V M F T I Y E R L Z M L K R C

S E N F M U E K ’ T T C N U C F “ B U U Y N L C W K N L” C G K W P L D

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 0ǝǙǣǞǥ-ǘ BY FRED PISCOP

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18

19 20 21

22 23 24

25 26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33

34 35 36 37

38 39 40 41 42 43 44

45 46 47 48

49 50 51

52 53 54 55

56 57 58 59

60 61 62 63 64 65

66 67 68 69 70

71 72 73 74

ANSWER, PAGE 73
75 76 77

78 79 80

ACROSS 48 Wear at the edges DOWN 37 Gilda who played Baba

1 Upper-class Brit 49 Document in a safe, 1 Wing it: Hyph. Wawa
7 Twangy, vocally perhaps 2 Pee Wee in Cooperstown 40 Citizen Kane studio
12 35mm camera inits. 50 Give away, in a way: 3 Counting everything: 41 Natural hairstyles
15 Said no to 2 wds. 2 wds. 42 Cornfield invader
16 Sesame Street regular 51 It may be full of lemons 4 Thoroughbred’s father 43 Be laid up with
17 Sign of remorse 52 Lane of the Daily Planet 5 Campground support: 44 Gave the once-over
19 Hairdo done by a novice 53 In a holding account 2 wds. 46 Softly hit single
stylist?: 2 wds. 56 Overly affected: Hyph. 6 Homage in verse 47 “And sometimes Y”
21 Treater’s phrase : 2 wds. 59 Concert venues 7 Storied Highlands loch 51 Family elder
22 Key Biscayne, e.g. 60 Cheap magazines for 8 Perfume by Lanvin 52 Astronomical dist.: Hyph.
23 “Makes sense to me”: tough guys?: 2 wds. 9 Look of derision 54 Richter scale event
2 wds. 62 Place to overnight 10 Make public 55 Wolf Blitzer’s channel
24 Gooey campfire treat 63 Suffix with schnozz 11 Moon-roving vehicle, 56 Forum garments
25 __ Paese cheese 66 Reporting to for short 57 Buddy from way back:
26 Potbellied pet 67 Wall St. debuts 12 Noisy dances 2 wds.
28 Instructor with disgust- 69 Did a jackknife, say 13 “The Raven” maiden 58 Legendary Chicago cow
ing habits?: 2 wds. 71 Kelly of TV talk 14 Gunner’s tool owner
31 Given to jesting 72 Combo that has difficulty 18 Home to Pixar’s Nemo 59 Totally horrify
33 Ran under a faucet playing their guitars?: 20 Leniency’s opposite 60 Overdo in the kitchen
34 Warning of imminent 2 wds. 24 Form W-9 figs. 61 Feudal superior
attack: 2 wds. 75 Home of Duke U. 27 Hotel amenity 63 Some 400-meter paths
37 CT scan units 76 Postal Service symbol 29 Take the soapbox 64 Tempo slower than adagio
38 Chip away at 77 Start of an HTML 30 Half an LP: 2 wds. 65 Extra-cost item: Hyph.
39 All worked up “contact us” link: 31 World-weary 68 Valuable deposits
41 Reason to take Aleve 2 wds. 32 Periods on a job 70 “Ditto,” in a footnote
45 Yellow-striped billiard ball 78 Stallone’s nickname 34 Tear to pieces 72 Anthem contraction
46 Loan officer with a 79 Reacts to a punch 35 Commodore Perry’s lake 73 Dumfries denial
coming-out party?: 2 wds. 80 Heavily favored: Hyph. 36 Ready to serve 74 Angsty music genre

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 7ǛǗȳǚȨ6ǝǗǘȨǙ BY WILL SHORTZ

Square Routes is a word game within a puzzle. Each clue consists of three words that can precede or follow a fourth
word to complete a compound word or a familiar two-word phrase. For example, the clue words LIST, BOOT, and HOLE
would lead to the answer BLACK (to complete BLACKLIST, BOOTBLACK, and BLACK HOLE). To solve, first answer as
many clues as you can. Then enter each answer in the grid, beginning in the square corresponding to the clue number
and proceeding in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal direction. (The direction can be determined by logic and by the
crossing letters of other answers.) Work back and forth between grid and clues to finish. When you’re done, every square
in the grid will be filled, and at least half the letters of each word will be crossed by other answers. ANSWERS, PAGE 72

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8

10 11 12

13

14 15 16

17 18

19 20 21

22 23 24 25

CLUES
1 Booby Cross Back 17 Safety Cushion Rolling
2 Cracker Fail Guard 18 Chain Plank Busters
3 Sword Jelly Story 10 Brain Cloth White 19 Balls Eaten Gypsy
4 Worm Mother Quake 11 Person High Rocking 20 Screen Stack Holy
5 Boot Warmers Pulling 12 Hunger Zone Wildcat 21 Prescription Cabinet Man
6 Single Nail Server 13 Picture Main Work 22 Sport Eye Lens
7 Approval Electric Wet 14 Track Rat Drag 23 Late School Solstice
8 Stock Foreign Student 15 Gold Double Bearer 24 Beach Bound Pulled
9 Glow There Noon 16 Good Mare Crawler 25 Mind Room Lip

22 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

 BY CONCEPTIS LTD.
&ȳǘǘǠȨǙǤǣǜǙ WWW.CONCEPTISPUZZLES.COM

The six puzzles on this page are solitaire versions of the classic paper-and-pencil game of Battleships. Each grid represents
a section of ocean in which a fleet is hiding. This fleet consists of one battleship (four grid cells in length), two cruisers
(three cells each), three destroyers (two cells each), and four submarines (one cell each). The ships may be oriented either
horizontally or vertically, and no two ships can occupy adjacent grid cells, not even diagonally. The digits along the grid’s
perimeter indicate the number of cells in the corresponding rows and columns that are occupied by vessels.
You’ll notice that some “shots” have been taken to start you off. These may show water (indicated by wavy lines), a
complete sub (a circle), the bow or stern of a ship (a rounded-off square), or a midsection of a battleship or cruiser (a
square). The puzzles get harder as you go. Can you reach the rank of admiral by locating all six fleets? ANSWERS, PAGE 73

Water End of ship (will continue in the direction of the flat side)

Submarine Middle of a ship (will continue either left and right or up and down)

1–SEAMAN 2–PETTY OFFICER 3–ENSIGN

2 3 0
1 0 0
2 2 1
5 2 0
0 5 1
1 0 6
1 0 2
7 0 5
0 7 1
1 1 4
6 0 4 1 0 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 0 3 1 3 0 4 6 0 4 0 2 2 2 2 2 0

BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP

CRUISERS CRUISERS CRUISERS

DESTROYERS DESTROYERS DESTROYERS

SUBMARINES SUBMARINES SUBMARINES

4–CAPTAIN 5–COMMODORE 6–ADMIRAL

5 3 2
0 3 2
3 1 1
2 3 2
4 0 4
0 1 1
1 2 2
2 3 1
2 3 1
1 1 4
1 3 0 6 1 3 1 2 2 1 5 0 5 0 4 1 2 1 0 2 3 0 1 1 1 4 0 4 1 5

BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP

CRUISERS CRUISERS CRUISERS

DESTROYERS DESTROYERS DESTROYERS

SUBMARINES SUBMARINES SUBMARINES

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 %ǚǘǝǞǘǤȨ7ǛǗȳǚȨ BY BONNIE KOVES

This is the easiest way we know of to create art without the benefit of formal training. All you have to do is copy each
square in the proper place in the empty grid, following the coordinates. The square marked A3, for example, should
be drawn in the box where Row A intersects with Column 3. The more carefully you work, the better the result will
be—certainly as good as the finished product found on page 74.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

24 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

C3 I6 D4 I2 G6 I1 A4

F6 H1 G4 C6 I7 B2 G5

G3 H7 F2 A3 B7 E4 A1

E7 I3 D1 D3 H2 C4 E3

B6 F7 H4 F1 H5 D2 A6

I4 E6 G7 H3 C2 A5 B4

B3 D6 C1 F5 I5 E1 D5

G2 F3 G1 A7 E2 F4 C7

H6 E5 D7 B5 C5 A2 B1

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 •ǕǣǠȰȱȳǚȰǙ•
TRIVIA NUMBER PLAY
CONCERT AT THE SPECTRUM KNIGHT LIFE
If you can determine the common Can you fill in the boxes in the grid below with the other numbers from 1 to
d e n o m i n a to r t h a t l i n k s t h e 16 by making only the moves of the Knight in chess? The numbers follow
following lineup of classic rock each other in numerical order. Four boxes in the grid will not be used, and
songs, then by all means feel free the answer is unique.
to flick your Bic!

1. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” 14 9 4

2. “Sunshine of Your Love”
3. “Still the Same”
4. “Radar Love”
5. “Wake Me Up When September
Ends”
6. “War Pigs”
7. “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”
8. “Here I Go Again”
16
9. “Under the Bridge”
10. “Smoke on the Water”
1 6 11
Ƃ7ȱǝǘǘ)ǚȰǟȳǞ Ƃ6ȳǓǟǝǞȰ0ǝǖȨ

FOR THE RECORD

CREATURE FEATURE
Below are 10 movie titles, all of which can be completed by inserting the name of a scary Halloween creature in
the blank. The year of each film is given. The creatures that fill in the blanks are shown in random order at right.
Can you put them all in their places?

___ Rider (2007) BAT

Race to ___ Mountain (2009) DEMON
An American ___ in London (1981) GHOST
The Princess and the ___ (1991) GOBLIN
___-in-Law (2005) MONSTER
Buffy the ___ Slayer (1992) MUMMY
I Walked with a ___ (1943) VAMPIRE
The Devil ___ (1940) WEREWOLF
Sweeney Todd: The ___ Barber of Fleet Street (2007) WITCH
The ___ Returns (2001) ZOMBIE
Ƃ.ȳǙǝǞ)ǠǟȨǚ

LOGIC FOR THE RECORD

LOGIC FOR KIDS ON THE FLY
During your son’s birthday party, he tells you that four What do the following U.S. cities have in common?
guests belong to an after-school club called “Logic
Puzzles for Kids.” He’d like to join it. You ask the four
guests, “How old are the club members?” Dickinson, ND
Amy says, “The youngest is seven, the oldest is Grand Rapids, MI
twelve. I’m the same age as two others, and older than
seven others—including Carol here.” Carol says, “Right. Houston, TX
Three other kids in the club are my age.” Bobby says,
“I’m the same age as one other kid, and younger than Little Rock, AR
ten of the others.” Doug says, “One kid in the club is
New York City, NY
older than me and my twin brother (who couldn’t come
to the party). Everybody else is younger than we are.” Springfield, IL
“That’s fascinating,” you say. “How many members
does the club have?” Washington, D.C.
Amy giggles and says, “No offense, but I think we’ve
already answered that question—logically speaking.” Wichita, KS
How many kids are in the club? And how many of each age?

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 •ǕǣǠȰȱȳǚȰǙ•
FOR THE RECORD
“THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS…”
The great Russian stage actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski, famously
said that “There are no small parts, only small actors.” We tend to remember
the names of leading characters in plays, like Eliza Doolittle, Sky Masterson,
and Willy Loman. But what about the names of characters in supporting roles? PRINT-AT-HOME
Match the character names (1–13) with the plays in which they appear (a–m).
PUZZLES
1. Jigger Craigin a. Sweeney Todd
2. Cecily Pigeon b. Cats
3. Macavity c. 1776
4. Mr. Hasler d. Annie
5. Benny Southstreet e. Annie Get Your Gun
6. Rooster Hannigan f. Fiddler on the Roof
7. Perchik g. West Side Story
8. Judge Turpin h. The Pajama Game
9. Ali Hakim i. The King and I
10. John Hancock j. Guys and Dolls
11. Tuptim k. Oklahoma!
12. Chief Sitting Bull l. The Odd Couple
13. Officer Krupke m. Carousel

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WORDPLAY
WHAT’S THE CATCH?
The answers to all the clues below share a commonality. Spaces have
been provided because I’m such a chum.

1. Outmoded __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

2. Wendy sewed it back on Peter Pan __ __ __ __ __ __

NOW AVAILABLE!
3. Captain Hook’s nemesis __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ PRINT YOURS TODAY
4. Lucky __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

5. Coffee mate competitor __ __ __ __ __ __ __

6. Tea from West Bengal, India __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

7. He calls his movies “joints” __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

8. Shirley Temple’s job later in life __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

9. Garage alternative __ __ __ __ __ __ __

10. Stogie, e.g. __ __ __ __ __

11. Gershwin opera pair __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

12. Kindergartner’s colorful box __ __ __ __ __ __ __

13. CPO played by Don Rickles __ __ __ __ __ __ __

14. “To sleep, ___ to dream…” __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

15. Author of the quote in #14 __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

16. V-shaped twill pattern __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

17. Miserly person __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

18. Painter played by Ed Harris __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

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ANSWERS, PAGE 74

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 27

 'ǝȰȨ'ǚǝǙǙǕǝǚȰǙ BY JOEL NANNI

In the puzzles below, the numbers in the grid squares stand for letters of the alphabet; your task is to crack the code.
Once you’ve figured out the letter that matches a certain number, place that letter in every square containing the same
number and in the chart beside the grid. Every letter of the alphabet will appear at least once in the completed grids.

1 14 23 14 25 14 4 16 12 12 14 25 15 3 9 25
M A
16 3 17 16 16 7 22 16
2 15

3
M
16
20 3 22 16 24 22 10 16 15 14 25 4 14 21

A 4 22 14 20 6 17
4 17
14 12 9 11 11 14 21 25 24 25 4 3 14 18

5 18
6 3 4 19 7 12

6 19 17 22 3 1 24 16 6 14 20 3 2 2 16 25

7 20 12 12 25 18 6 24

8 21 8 24 15 22 25 24 14 4 10 3 20 11 17 4

16 14 26 6 14 20
9 22
20 3 4 4 20 3 22 3 15 18 16 25 14 3
10 23
25 16 16 5 16 23
11 24
16 15 17 4 14 17 18 11 16 25 25 20 24 16

ANSWERS, PAGE 74
12 25
9 3 6 21 13 24 23 11

13 26 25 9 20 14 18 6 16 17 15 16 11 16 4 25

10 23 17 13 7 12 23 1 4 15 26 13 17 3 1 14
e r R
13 15 21 12 4 6 12 15
2 15
17 23 12 13 4 1 17 18 13 12 22 15 21 21
3 16
4 8 1 21 15 16 18 21
4 17
24 13 16 16 2 15 21 21 2 17 18 15 11

5 18
12 13 25 17 8 21 15

17 11 15 17 3 23 17 8 4 19 13 23 1
6 19

15 4 13 10 18 23 8 9 7 20

12 13 12 23 16 2 8 15 1 10 13 15 8 8 21

15 13 23 20 1 22 3
9 22
1 4 4 26 14 6 10 4 25 4 13 8 23
10 23
8 6 7 13 5 15 21 13 e
11 24
3 6 17 16 21 23 1 2 23 21 21 13 12 7

12 25
13 21 6 9 17 23 16 3

8 1 2 18 16 17 15 11 23 16 3 2 17 16 13 26

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28 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

 *ǠǗǙǘȨǚȨȰ BY JOEL NANNI

In the familiar word game Fluster, players are given 16 letters (some of which may be duplicates) arranged in a four-by-
four grid. They try to form words by moving from letter to touching letter—horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. All letters
SJEKMZIR[SVHQYWXFIJSYRHMRHMJJIVIRXWUYEVIW;IϟZIXYVRIHXLMRKWEVSYRHEFMXLIVI-RIEGLTY^^PIFIPS[[IϟZI
provided a list of words from a game of Fluster, and you are to determine the correct location for each letter. One letter is
given in each case to get you started. ANSWERS, PAGE 72

1
E
WORD LIST: ANTHEM, BLIP, BUILD, CANTOR,
CLIP, HURT, PURE, THORN, THREW, TORPID,
TRUE, URBAN, WILD.

WORD LIST: CARTONS, CRANK, EARNS,

HANDS, HANSOM, MOLTS, PICA, PLOTS,
RECANTS, SHARK, SHRANK, TRICK, WICK.

c
R
3

WORD LIST: ADORN, CLAD, CORDS, DOTE,

FADS, FLAKED, FROSTED, GAWKED, GLADE,
HUED, WHACKED, WHETS.

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 29

 &ǝǝǟȨǚȳǞǥǙ BY ERICH FRIEDMAN

Divide each rectangle into symmetric L shapes that are one square wide so that each L contains exactly one dot. An
example of a solved puzzle is shown below. ANSWERS, PAGE 75

EXAMPLE ❶ ❷ ❸

❹ ❺ ❻ ❼

❽ ❾

30 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

 ,ȨǠǘȨǚ7ǡȨǠǘȨǚ BY E.R. GALLI

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solve, write the answer to each clue starting in its numbered square and proceed in a straight line toward—and
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EWERI\EQTPI ANSWERS, PAGE 75

HELTER-SKELTER #1 HELTER-SKELTER #2
7 8 5 4 11 7 24 16 23 17

18 17 25 18

9 10 19 1 8 2

12 3 13 6 15 5

22 1 2 20 10 9
M O C H A
6 16 21 22

25 20 19 3 4

23 24 21 11 15 14 14 13 12

1 Coffee/chocolate flavoring 1 Queen of mystery

2 Vague 2 The Jetsons’ maid, for one
3 Eldest of the Baldwin brothers 3 1954 movie about giant ants
4 Persuade with flattery 4 Is obliged to
5 )RPMZIRɸ[HW 5 Sites for tonsils
6 Small stone 6 Long, narrow cut
7 Daredevil Knievel 7 Provable statement in mathematics
8 Does a housekeeping chore 8 Large birds of prey
9 Snug 9 Mardi ___
10 Regatta entrants 10 Terrific bargain
11 Cancel, as a rocket launch 11 2SXEFPI(SKTEXGLVIWMHIRXɸ[HW
12 Large birds of prey 12 Twin of Romulus
13 Fencer’s weapon 13 Meditation
14 Holds up 14 Grotesquely carved rainspout
15 Lobster eater’s protection 15 Kind of history or exam
16 Herb used in pesto 16 Tardy
17 Bequest 17 Gives off, as radiation
18 CO2, for one 18 Material for Michelangelo
19 Slowly, in music 19 Handle of a pitcher
20 Partner of crafts 20 Take it easy
21 Identical 21 First name of “Fatha” Hines
22 Fencer’s weapon 22 Noah’s landing site
23 Greek vowels 23 Make a count of
24 Very soft mineral 24 Actress Remick
25 Play divisions 25 Blunders

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 31

 3ǞȨ8Ǖǝ8ǤǚȨȨ BY FRANK LONGO

Solve this puzzle as you would a regular crossword, except that each space may hold one, two, or three letters. The
number of letters in a space is for you to determine, using logic and the crossing of words. The answer to 1-Across,
S-PR-OUT has been filled in as an example. ANSWER, PAGE 75

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

S PR OUT
12 13 14

15 16 17

18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30 31

32 33 34

35 36 37

38 39 40 41

42 43 44 45 46 47

48 49 50 51

52 53 54

55 56 57

ACROSS 44 Like chest muscles 16 Brazil, for the 2016 Summer

48 All of it, idiomatically: 5 wds. Olympics: 2 wds.
1 Start growing, as a plant
52 Geographical measure not including 17 Trouble greatly
4 Sent a wire to
water coverage: 2 wds. 21 Times when films hit theaters, say:
8 Winners, informally 2 wds.
53 One making confetti, e.g.
12 Hullabaloo 23 Walks like a baby
54 Accumulated, with “up”
13 Moe, Larry, or Curly 24 Ocean’s main body: 2 wds.
55 Causes to go mad
14 Stateside: 2 wds. 25 Lure like a siren
56 Sunburned quality
15 All of it, idiomatically: 5 wds. 26 LiveJournal entry, e.g.: 2 wds.
57 ___ in the Rain
18 Golf swing near the hole: 2 wds. 27 Ukraine port
19 Like a famous chapel in the Vatican 28 Competes
20 Young rooster 30 Young volunteers at hospitals:
DOWN
22 Highway pull-offs: 2 wds 2 wds.
1 Field event with a heavy ball
26 Corpuscle concentration determined 34 “Enjoy your meal!”: 2 wds.
by testing: 2 wds 2 Divine visionary
3 Making illegal 36 Making a loud, resounding noise
29 Pie nuts 39 Something extremely memorable:
31 Third-largest city in Denmark 4 Fictional Maine town in which Cujo
is set: 2 wds. 4 wds.
32 People of high social position 41 Double-___ (two-level buses)
5 Workers concerned with profit
33 Alleviated and loss 43 Like dry toast or popcorn
34 Became inseparable 6 On the up and up 45 Brownish yellow colors
35 Sheriff’s band 7 Faculty heads 46 Pillaging for loot
36 When Thanksgivings are celebrated 8 Cupboards for fancy dishes: 2 wds. 47 Website facilitating job-hunting
37 Mushy Mott’s product 9 Arsenal stuff 48 Born earlier
38 Turns to an upright position: 3 wds 10 Sentence-ending dot 49 Roofed porch
40 Car shopper’s tryout drive: 2 wds. 11 Weight-displaying device 50 Material sold in skeins
42 Precede 51 Title for Macbeth or Macduff

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ANSWERS, PAGE 76
 Let’s Do the
By Julie Harris

G
ames with playing pieces—like check- for a new shoe polish. Guyer responded by creat-
ers, chess, and Pachisi—have been ing a promotional marketing plan where customers
played by people the world over for would get a “free gift” if they sent in a box top from
centuries. But a milestone in board the shoe polish package and a dollar to cover the
game history occurred when a game packaging and postage.
was developed that used the players Now all Guyer needed to do was come up with the
themselves as the playing pieces. free gift. Since his plan involved shoes, he tinkered
In 1965, ad designer Reyn Guyer, along with Chuck with designing a game where players used their feet.
Foley and Neil Rabens, devised the game that would In Guyer’s 2016 book titled Right Brain Red: 7 Ideas
eventually become known as Twister. Players inter- for Creative Success, he described his ideas about a
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the game on a trajectory to worldwide fame. Today, the squares in each of the four corners of the board.
more than half a century later, an estimated 65 mil- Two were red, two blue, two yellow, and two green.
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when the S.C. Johnson Wax Company became a pieces. But Guyer also recognized that more develop-
client of Reynolds Guyer. The company wanted ment was necessary so that the game would result in
the agency to set up a back-to-school campaign winners and losers.

34 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

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 about the game. The major appeal of Twister was THE SALES EXPLOSION
the way opponents moved over, under, and around The following day, toy stores were stampeded by
each other before the eventual winner was declared. consumers who wanted to buy Twister. One of the
Because a limited number of colored circles are few stores in New York that agreed to stock it was Ab-
available on the mat, players often find themselves ercrombie & Fitch. A line of 50 people stood outside
in precarious, silly-looking positions. Mackay deter- its Manhattan store that morning hoping to purchase
mined that before the game was given national ex- the game.
posure, it had to be seen to be appreciated. Because retailers initially had so many reservations
regarding Twister, only a limited supply had been man-
ufactured. Fortunately, the game was easy to mass-
MARKETING TWISTER: AN UPHILL STRUGGLE produce. Milton Bradley’s plant in East Longmeadow,
Meanwhile, Milton Bradley’s sales team revealed Massachusetts, immediately rushed production in or-
Twister to major retailers at the 1966 Toy Fair, the der to stock the game in stores nationwide. In 1967,
toy industry’s annual trade show and a genuinely ma- XLI ƼVWX ]IEV 8[MWXIV [EW EZEMPEFPI MR WXSVIW SZIV
three million copies were sold. The game remained a
jor event. Unfortunately, retailer after retailer balked,
refusing to carry the game due to the close proximity top seller for Milton Bradley until 1984, when the com-
it encouraged between players of the opposite sex. pany was acquired by Hasbro, which still produces
Sears Roebuck, one of the most powerful retail- Twister today.
ers at the time, refused to stock Twister or include
it in the company’s popular catalog because they
felt it was “too risqué.” After this setback, Milton PART OF OUR CULTURE
Bradley decided to halt production of the game. Over the years, Twister has become a part of our
Under ordinary circumstances, that would have country’s popular culture. Along with millions of peo-
been the end of Twister. ple playing the game, Twister has been used in vari-
ous promotions and featured on hit TV shows, includ-
ing The Big Bang Theory and Friends.
A LUCKY BREAK Twister has also been the theme of many record-
Unbeknownst to Milton Bradley executives, howev- breaking attempts. For example, the current Guinness
er, Taft had directed his public relations team to keep World Record for largest Twister board was set to
working. And, thanks to a clever, aggressive market- mark the release of country star Thomas Rhett’s al-
ing campaign, Mackay’s team scored a real coup: se- bum, Tangled Up, in September 2015. This feat was
curing a spot on The Tonight Show, a late-night talk achieved by covering the turf at AT&T Stadium in Ar-
show hosted by Johnny Carson and boasting a view- lington, Texas, with 1,200 Twister mats. The end result
ership of 10 million people. measured about 171×158.5 feet.
While Milton Bradley’s executives were showing Many variations on the classic Twister game have
Twister to major retailers, Mackay and her team took been released over the years. Notably, in 2006, Has-
the game to the NBC studio for a demonstration. When bro ventured into the music scene with a new version
The Tonight Show writers saw Twister in action, they of its game, Twister Dance. The mat was replaced by
enjoyed the game so much that they booked it for that movable colored spots, and a digital setup enabled
very same evening. Mackay immediately contacted dancers to match their dance steps to the colors and
Milton Bradley, whose staff members frantically called spots of Twister. To promote the updated Twister
retail toy buyers and wholesale dealers, telling them to Dance Rave in 2012, Hasbro hired Britney Spears to
watch that evening’s episode of The Tonight Show. perform the “Twister Remix” of her hit song “Till the
On May 3, 1966, Taft and the PR crew sat in the audi- World Ends.”
ence in New York City wondering what Johnny Carson
would do. As it turned out, the quirky host decided to
play a game of Twister himself, with one of his invited TWISTER’S LEGACY
guests as his opponent. The chosen guest was the Over the last 50-plus years, Twister has evolved into a
glamorous actress, Eva Gabor. Watching Carson play pop culture phenomenon that has captured the public’s
in his suit and tie alongside the elegantly dressed attention and brought players of all ages together. This
Gabor was hilarious. After just a few moves, the unique rule-breaking game that uses people as playing
pair’s contortions and Carson’s comical expressions pieces and “ties you up in knots” has proven to have a
prompted the audience to burst into hysterical laugh- timeless appeal. In fact, Twister has become one of the
ter. At the same time, the game caught the attention most beloved games around. Not bad for a game that
of millions of viewers watching from home. started out as a shoe polish promotion. Q

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 Game R ules

NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2-4

EQUIPMENT: Mat and spinner

Game Pieces: Players

SETTING UP PLAYING THE GAME

Spread out the mat with the col- The referee spins the wheel and calls out hand or foot and the color
SVIHGMVGPIWJEGIYTSREƽEXWYV- such as “Right hand, Blue.” Players try to place that body part on a
face (indoors or outdoors). vacant circle. If there are no open spaces, the referee spins again.
Players remove their shoes and All players move at the same time.
set them aside. If someone’s hand or foot is already on the color called out, play-
Select an extra person who is ers must move to a different circle of the same color. No circle can
not a player to be the referee. have more than one hand or foot on it unless players are members
The referee controls the spinner, of the same team.
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on the mat based on the num- Players cannot remove their hand or foot from a circle without the
ber of players. direction of the referee. A hand or foot may be temporarily lifted to
For a 2-player game, players let another hand or foot pass through. This should be announced to
face each other on opposite ends the referee before doing so. Then place the hand or foot back on the
of the mat. Place one foot on the circle immediately afterward.
yellow circle and one foot on the
blue circle.
For a 3-player game, two
WINNING THE GAME
players are opposite each oth- The last player left standing is the winner. In order to increase the
er with one foot on the yellow chances of winning, a player can warm up their muscles before-
circle and one foot on the blue hand by stretching, try to stay balanced by keeping the feet close
circle. The third player faces XSKIXLIVERHƼVQP]SRXLIQEXSVWXE]MRKGPSWIXSERSTTSRIRXWS
the center with each foot on the they have less chance of moving.
two middle red circles.
For a 4-player game, players are
split into two teams. Players are
LOSING THE GAME
side by side facing the other team When a player falls, touches the mat with an elbow or knee, or re-
with all four circles containing feet moves a body part from a circle without permission, that player loses.
from players on both sides. If a player cannot move on the next play, they must leave the game.

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 37

 •YOUR WORD AGAINST MINE• BY SCOTT APPEL

3Ǘǘ
As awareness about racial inequality grows, various with Chew himself. Some threatened to quit playing if
organizations are being forced to make decisions they any words were removed, citing reasons of censorship
likely hadn’t been expecting to make. A perfect example and the slippery slope argument. (If we remove these
is the NFL’s Washington Redskins, who recently suc- words, which words will be next?) Others threatened to
cumbed to pressure from activists and definitively stated quit if words were not removed, questioning why fellow
that they would retire the name “Redskins,” although they NASPA members were so attached to these potentially
had not yet decided on a new name, at least not at the offensive words when there are approximately 190,000
time of this writing. other non-offensive words that could still be played on
The North American Scrabble Players’ Association be- a Scrabble board.
gan its own challenging debate in mid-June of 2020. It It seemed like Chew was going to proceed with his
started when longtime expert player (and creator of the preferred plan of removing the slurs when Hasbro,
wonderful website Aerolith.org) Cesar Del Solar asked Scrabble’s owner in North America, intervened, de-
what NASPA, as an organization, could be doing to assist manding an urgent meeting on Monday, July 6. During
the Black Lives Matter movement. This discussion then that meeting, Chew was told that NASPA essentially
turned to the word list used in official North American had no choice in the matter: If NASPA wanted to con-
Scrabble tournament play. That list, called NWL (stand- tinue to license Scrabble, they had to remove the slurs
ing cleverly for “NASPA Word List”), has always con- from NWL. I believe this was a fortunate outcome, as
tained hundreds of words that are considered slurs and it was clear that half of the organization was going to
vulgarities, though some are words most people wouldn’t resent Chew’s handling of the situation no matter what
immediately recognize. Examples include BOCHE (a Ger- was decided. As it ended up, the final decision was
man soldier) and HAOLE (a non-native Hawaiian, usually simply out of his control.
used when referring to a white person). Hasbro’s decree ended the central debate, but it didn’t
For casual players and others who may be unaware, end the work to be done. As of now, there are 239 po-
the Scrabble rules have always allowed for slang tential words for deletion, but this list is not finalized.
words, including slurs and vulgarities. For many years, NASPA’s Dictionary Committee, an eight-person volun-
the published Official Scrabble Players’ Dictionary con- teer subgroup consisting of those with a keen interest
tained these offensive words. It wasn’t until the 1990s in which words should be included and excluded in each
that Judith Grad, an art gallery owner from Virginia, dictionary update, will lead the way as the organization
decided she’d had enough of these offensive words. desperately tries to get this right.
After failing to convince Hasbro that they should be My personal belief is that this step is absolutely the right
removed, she presented her argument to the Anti-Def- move. Slang in Scrabble makes perfect sense; words like
amation League, who applied enough pressure that GONNA, CIG, ADORBS, and GOTCHA make the game
Hasbro ultimately removed the words from its official more interesting, with no downside. But with slur words
dictionary. Unfortunately, despite being purged from in particular, I always found them to feel out of place,
the dictionary, these words remained acceptable for and not worth the guilt I felt playing them (regardless of
tournament play. whether or not my opponent found them troubling). Many
John Chew, who lives in Toronto, Ontario, is NASPA’s Scrabble club regulars have reported instances of new
current CEO. Chew, who earned a PhD in mathemat- players leaving (and never returning) upon learning that
ics, is an accomplished programmer, and is also, with- slur words were permitted.
out question, one of the smartest individuals I’ve ever Consider this: Does the absence of slurs leave cross-
met. Chew, the son of an English father and a Japanese word solvers feeling that they’re missing out on more
mother, took this opportunity to survey NASPA mem- interesting puzzles? And is it not telling that when an
bers about removing offensive words from the diction- article summarizing an important tournament game is
ary. The results proved close to 50/50 in terms of peo- written here or in any other periodical, any offensive
ple who wanted to leave NWL as is, versus those who words played in that game must be edited out? All
wanted some change made. “Some change” ranged of this suggests that even though Scrabble is just a
from removing all slurs/vulgarities to removing just one game, the words that appear on the board never really
word—a word that happens to start with the letter N. lose their meaning. You can argue that those words
Chew himself was strongly in favor of removing all the are just tools used to score points, but they’re still of-
slurs, and his Facebook posts to the community did not fensive once anyone considers them to be so. True, re-
attempt to hide his preference. As the days turned to moving a few hundred words from the NASPA word list
weeks, with the debate spiraling but going nowhere, the does nothing to actually further the BLM movement,
angry responses from NASPA members grew in num- but why not err on the side of minimal offensiveness?
ber and intensity. People were frustrated with the situa- The 190,000 words remaining will be more than happy
tion, with those on the other side of the argument, and to fill the void. Q

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 8ǣǠȨ1ȳǘǤ
In these puzzles, you are to place the given Scrabble tiles into the grid so that each row and column spells out a common
word, and that the supplied mathematical symbols hold true. An equal sign suggests the tiles on each side of the sign have
equal point values, while a greater than (or less than) sign suggests the point value of one tile is greater (or less than) the
other. A number indicates the difference in point values between the two tiles, but does not tell you which tile is greater.
One tile is placed in each grid to get you started. ANSWERS, PAGE 77

EXAMPLE

❶ 7

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3
5

s 3

❸
d
2

Thanks to the incomparable Stefan Fatsis for his help with parts of this article.You can find all of his recent writings as well
as his weekly podcast, Hang Up and Listen, at Slate.com.

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JOIN THE DISCUSSION AT OUR FACEBOOK GROUP: GAMES MAGAZINE ENTHUSIASTS!

BY ANDREW PARR

I
n this, merely the second installment of Flashback newspaper along with notes about your solving experi-
40, things get messy. If you recall, the goal of this ence. This is a fake product I would totally order.
column is to revisit issues published exactly 40, 30, • Results of the “Calculatrivia VII” contest were posted,
20 and 10 years ago this month. However, the mag- requiring nearly a full page for answers and explanations.
azine’s current publishing frequency (9 issues annu- Half of the Letters page was also dedicated to clearing
ally) doesn’t align with the publishing frequency in up ambiguities in some of the contest’s questions.
previous years (from 6 to 12 issues annually). Since • A Gamebits article accurately represented the year
the current GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES doesn’t publish 2000 with its review of USAlive.com’s online show, The
in November, I’ll be reviewing October and November is- Board Room. Noting that “Internet TV may be in its in-
sues in this month’s column. fancy,” the graphic accompanying the article showed
available episodes of this show, which provided board
20 YEARS AGO: OCTOBER 2000 game reviews and demonstrations, in a screen capture
You could always count on of a Netscape browser window.
+ȳǟȨǙ to acknowledge the
changing seasons, and October 20 YEARS AGO: NOVEMBER 2000
MWWYIW [IVI VSYXMRIP] ƽEZSVIH I believe this issue is likely go-
with a Halloween or autumn ing to rank in my top 10 list of
theme. In this issue, a Halloween favorite issues. I realize that it is
quiz by Pam Wylder tested read- very early in the existence of this
ers’ knowledge of monsters, and column to proclaim this, but se-
Emily Winslow’s family mystery, riously, if you have this issue in
“Ghost Hunter,” occupied seven ]SYVGSPPIGXMSRƼRHMXERHVIVIEH
of the color pages. it. It is everything you’d want from
Pencilwise delivered some top-notch puzzles; I was par- +ȳǟȨǙ, plus a few goodies that
ticularly struck by the impressive graphics. “Harry’s Hard- are still delicious 20 years later.
ware” [EWEJYRTMGXYVITY^^PI[LIVIWSPZIVWLEHXSƼRH When this issue hit the news-
MXIQWMRERIPEFSVEXIP]HIXEMPIHHVE[MRKERHGSVVIGXP]ƼPP stands, 50 million Americans had just spent the sum-
in the blanks around the frame of the drawing with the mer of 2000 watching a brand-new reality show, Survivor:
item names. Andrew DiFiore Jr. contributed “Ante Up!,” a Borneo. +ȳǟȨǙ acknowledged this pop culture sensation
maze that led solvers through a pile of scattered playing with the cover puzzle, “Who Will Survive?” in which 16
cards with straight poker rules. contestants were marooned on an island. This cover is
In the article “The Play’s The Thing,” we learned about a great example of +ȳǟȨǙ’ ability to keep up with current
the inaugural presentation of The Gamers Choice trends in a fun and timely way.
Awards, devised by the Strategy Gaming Society. Awards Adam Fromm contributed a brilliantly brain-bending
went to Paths of Glory, Lost Cities, and Tikal. Since the three-star maze called “Lost in the Paragraph.” Readers
article was published, the awards became independent [IVIGLEPPIRKIHXSQEOIXLIMV[E]JVSQXLIƼVWXWIRXIRGI
under the name “International Gamers Awards” and con- to the last sentence of a maze-like paragraph by making
tinue to be awarded annually. some choices while carefully following the instructions.
Also noteworthy: In the article “The Big Book of Little Wonders,” authors Mar-
• The Fake Ad was for My Crossword Diary, a means di and Stan Timm explored the history of the Johnson Smith
of preserving daily crossword puzzles from your local & Company catalog. Our younger readers may not feel nos-

40 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

talgic when reading about X-Ray Vision Glasses, Joy Buzz- somewhat of a boycott.” Since his appearance in +ȳǟȨǙ,
ers, Whoopee Cushions, and ventriloquism courses, but this Dellis has established himself as an author and a sought-
took me back to my childhood comic book days. after memory consultant. He also won the USA Memory
Pencilwise delivered a satisfying variety of crosswords Championship four times and memorized a deck of cards
with clever themes, and a devilish quiz by Lloyd King MRYRHIVWIGSRHW,MWPEXIWXFSSOMemory Superpow-
gave readers 14 opportunities to slap their foreheads and ers!: An Adventurous Guide to Remembering What You Don’t
shout out the puzzle’s title, “Why Didn’t I Think of That?” Want to Forget was released in August 2020.
A small puzzle that could have easily been missed when Noteworthy in Pencilwise was PuzzleCraft #64, which
ƽMTTMRKXLVSYKLXLMWMWWYIƅWTEKIWTVIWIRXIHEKVIEXHIEP taught us how to create a Shikaku puzzle. And a puzzle
of intrigue. The puzzle was titled “Squared Away,” but is GEPPIH ƈ'VSWW[SVH 7YHSOYƉ F] /IRMGLM *YXEQYVE VI-
recognizable today as a Sudoku puzzle. Seeing the world’s vealed that Sudoku was well-established in +ȳǟȨǙ by the
most recognizable logic puzzle published under a different year 2010.
name in 2000 made me wonder about the puzzle’s evolu- Regular readers of +ȳǟȨǙ will recognize Thomas L.
tion and prompted me to research its history. As it turns McDonald as a long-time game reviewer. In this issue, he
out, the name Sudoku is of Japanese origin. (“Su” means EFWSPYXIP]VSEWXIHXLI*EGIFSSOKEQMRKJEH *EVQ:MPPI
“number” and “doku” means “single”), but the puzzle itself Also in this issue, the landmark video game Red Dead
traces its origins to Switzerland. (Check out 18th-century Redemption was reviewed. Considering this came from
mathematician Leonhard Euler’s 4×4 Latin Squares.) After Rockstar Games, the same people that brought us the
FIMRKJYVXLIVVIƼRIH[MXLE‚KVMHMR*VERGIEXXLIXYVR ethically questionable and violent Grand Theft Auto fran-
of the 20th century, the puzzle was eventually published chise, RDR got a surprisingly forgiving review.
by Dell Puzzle MagazineMR2I[=SVOMR[MXLXLIXMXPI Also noteworthy:
“Number Place.” Only then did it travel to Japan to receive ƍ%PEWXLI*EOI%HMWKSRI&YX[LIRHMHMXHMWETTIEV#
its current name and updated rules for symmetrical cluing. 0IXƅWƼRHSYXXSKIXLIVMREJYXYVIGSPYQR
&YX[LIRHMH7YHSOYƼVWXETTIEVMR+ȳǟȨǙ under its cur-
VIRXREQI#/IITVIEHMRKXLMWGSPYQRXSƼRHSYX 10 YEARS AGO: NOVEMBER 2010
Also noteworthy: Tom Cutrofello, Mechanical
ƍ 7YVTVMWMRKP] XLI *EOI %H [EW RSX JSV XLI 4I^ 'EVH Puzzle Correspondent, is one
Game, which was advertised inside the back cover. In- of my favorite contributors. He
stead it was for Jagged Jigsaws Ltd., a puzzle maker introduced me to the world of
who guaranteed that none of the 1000 jigsaw pieces mechanical puzzles, and now
[SYPHƼXXSKIXLIVMREPSKMGEP[E] my shelves have a healthy col-
lection of Revomazes, puzzle
10 YEARS AGO: OCTOBER 2010 boxes, trick locks, and other
Noted on the Letters page was gizmos from skilled artisans
the passing of the brilliant Martin worldwide. Cutrofello’s articles
Gardner, who had died earlier, typically have a negative effect
in May of 2010. That issue also on my bank balance. In this is-
included a game by Gardner, in- sue, he wrote about recursive puzzles, from the classic
WTMVIH F] EVXMƼGMEP MRXIPPMKIRGI Tower of Hanoi to binary puzzles, and included a fea-
experiments, presented a robot ture on the German designer and manufacturer Jean
who could beat the reader de- Claude Constantin.
spite the reader getting to make Curtis Slepian treated readers to a recurring favorite, a
all the choices in the game. Sledge Hammer mystery.
-RXLIEVXMGPIƈ4VSHMKMSYW*IEXW Gunnar and Sherry Johnson provided a visually appeal-
of Memory,” readers were introduced to Nelson Dellis, a ing spread of horror movie posters and asked us to iden-
26-year-old graduate student who was preparing to rep- tify the celebrity that started their career in each movie. In
VIWIRXXLI97%MRXLIXL;SVPH1IQSV]'LEQTMSRWLMT Pencilwise, we learned how to make Skyscraper puzzles
in China. Dellis set a new record at the American cham- MR1MOI7IPMROIVERH8LSQEW7R]HIVƅW4Y^^PI'VEJX
pionship in Manhattan earlier that year by memorizing The Sudoku craze continued with another variant, by Ray-
XLI ƼVWX  HMKMXW SJ E VERHSQP] KIRIVEXIH HMKMX mond Young: “Twin Crystal Sudoku.”
RYQFIVMRƼZIQMRYXIW Thomas L. McDonald wrote about the development of
I reached out to Dellis via email to ask about the results of motion-sensitive controllers, including the Microsoft Ki-
the World Championship, but surprisingly, he didn’t go. “Nei- nect and the PlayStation Move, which he compared to “a
ther did a lot of memory competitors,” he told me. “That was large, lighted Dum-Dum Pop.” As always, he nailed it. Q
the year that the WMSC changed the venue city from Bei-
jing to Guangzhou just a few weeks before and $100,000 of ŶĚƌĞǁWĂƌƌŝƐƐƟůůŽƵƌƵŶĐŽŶƚĞƐƚĞĚ'D^ŚŝƐƚŽƌŝĂŶ͘/ŶƚŚŝƐ
prize money just vanished. (According to some, it went in ĞĚŝƟŽŶŽĨŚŝƐĐŽůƵŵŶ͕ŚĞŚŝŐŚůŝŐŚƚƐƚŚĞŵĞŵŽƌĂďůĞŵŽŵĞŶƚƐ
the pockets of the organizers.) Needless to say, there was ĨƌŽŵŝƐƐƵĞƐƉƵďůŝƐŚĞĚĞdžĂĐƚůLJϮϬĂŶĚϭϬLJĞĂƌƐĂŐŽƚŚŝƐŵŽŶƚŚ͘

october 2020 | G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES 41

 BY DON KERR

ANSWERS, PAGE 74

I
t’s another presidential election year in the U.S.,
so why not a presidential quiz? Each answer
begins with the letter of the question—for ex-
ample, the answer to question A will start with
an A. (If the answer is a name, the surname will
start with the given letter, unless otherwise stat-
ed.) Can you show the range of your presidential As the underdog to Franklin Roosevelt in the 1944 elec-
knowledge by guessing all the answers? tion, he lost. Favored to win the 1948 election, he also
lost—this time to Harry Truman.

0EXIVIPIGXIHTVIWMHIRXLI[EWSYVƼVWXZMGITVIWMHIRXE
position he described in a letter to his wife as “the most This amendment was passed by Congress, overriding
MRWMKRMƼGERX SƾGI XLEX IZIV XLI MRZIRXMSR SJ QER GSR- President Woodrow Wilson’s veto.
trived or his imagination conceived.”

He became president after the death of Zachary Taylor.

He told Abraham Lincoln on Inauguration Day: “If you are But his party did not nominate him to run again, so he be-
as happy, my dear Sir, on entering this house as I am on came the nominee of the American Party—better known
leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man as the Know-Nothings—and picked up eight electoral
in this country.” votes, not enough to win in 1856.

The only president born on the Fourth of July, he frustrat- During his second inaugural address, he noted that
ed the press with his silence, telling them: “I have never he had been faithfully serving the country since the
been hurt by what I have not said.” start of the Civil War. “Notwithstanding this,” he said,

42 G AMES W ORLD OF P UZZLES | october 2020

“throughout the war, and from my candidacy for my
present office in 1868 to the close of the last Presi-
dential campaign, I have been the subject of abuse He ran as an underdog against the popular senator, Henry
and slander scarcely ever equaled in political history, 'PE]%WTVIWMHIRXLIEGUYMVIHXLI3VIKSR8IVVMXSV]ERH
which today I feel that I can afford to disregard in fought the Mexican War.
view of your verdict [his reelection— Eds.], which I can
gratefully accept as my vindication.” He’s also on the
$50 bill.
Middle name of the sixth president, who was the son
of the second president. After failing in a bid to win a
WIGSRHXIVQLIFIGEQIE'SRKVIWWQEROIITMRKXLEX
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struction began during his administration. When it was
completed during the next president’s administration, it
was renamed. President Harry Truman later restored the
dam’s original name. Perhaps his role starring opposite a chimpanzee in the
GSQIH]ƼPQBedtime for Bonzo was good preparation for
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To date, 16 of these have become president.

Here’s what this president had to say about the press

in his second inaugural address many years ago: “Dur- 8LIƼVWXZMGITVIWMHIRXXSEWWYQIXLITVIWMHIRG]EJXIVXLI
ing this course of administration, and in order to disturb HIEXLSJXLITVIWMHIRX,I[EWEPWSXLIƼVWXTVIWMHIRXXS
it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, KIXQEVVMIH[LMPIMRSƾGIJSPPS[MRKXLIHIEXLSJLMWƼVWX
charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could de- [MJI,ILEHIMKLXGLMPHVIRF]LMWƼVWX[MJIERHWIZIR[MXL
vise or dare. These abuses of an institution so impor- his second for a total of 15—the most of any president.
tant to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted,
inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to
sap its safety.”
The name of this intergovernmental organization, which
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sassinated. He was the author of the Emancipation Proc-
lamation, and he appears on the $5 bill.

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U.S. president.

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20 million Americans access to health insurance. Mexican War hero, he never voted before being elected. Q

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 FIRST PRIZE 5 RUNNER-UP PRIZES:
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100
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TO GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES

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evi Reginald Drake III, famed playboy, prankster, and wordplay enthusiast, has passed away. There was initially
much confusion at the reading of the will, but after some time, those who knew him best were able to decipher
the departed’s intentions. A number of clues are peppered throughout the document, which is shown below.
Can you determine the name of the person who is to be the recipient of Drake’s fortune? This person’s name, which
consists of three letters, is the solution to the contest.
To enter, send the contest solution, along with your name and address, to: Ill Will Contest, GAMES WORLD OF
PUZZLES, P.O. Box 184, Fort Washington, PA 19034. You may send as many entries as you wish, but each entry
must be mailed separately. Entries must be received by November 2, 2020. Winners will be chosen by random draw
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I, Levi Reginald III, being of relatively

sound mind and body, do hereby declare
that I leave 100% of my money and assets to
someone I deem deserving. All of you have
had to put up with my peculiarities—have had to
laugh off arcane jokes or pay no heed to
odd lines delivered at dinner parties. I’ve put you
to the test over the years, and now I am putting
you to the testament.
Notwithstanding my affinity for frolicsome
shenanigans and my predilection for mischief,
I do sincerely apologize to every one of you
for all the back and forth as regards this will.
Had I stuck to the essence of the original draft
rather than reverse everything, I would have
unexpectedly divvied up the bulk of my
fortune more or less equally to all my beloved.
Rather, I found myself wavering every other e-
vening about how many and to whom I should
vouchsafe the entire contents of my estate.
In the end, of course, because I must make
everything a game, I could proceed in no u-
sual way.
Encapsulated within this official document there
are clear instructions outlining which of my
very dear acquaintances is to be bequeathed a
large sum of money. I do genuinely hope that
everyone has paid attention, because I refuse
to repeat myself at the end of it all.

— Levi

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 •ELECTRONIC GAME REVIEWS• EDITED BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD

TURN-BASED TACTICS its graphically violent

GEARS TACTICS ƼRMWLMRKQSZIW
XBOX GAME STUDIOS A key tactical element
PC/XBOX: $60 is using special finish-
AGE RANGE: MATURE ing moves to increase
PLAY TIME: 20 HRS. the basic allotment of
PLAYERS: 1 actions available to a
team. Each turn, you

T
he long-running Gears of War have a certain number of
series converts fairly naturally into actions that allow you to
a turn-based tactical game. After move units from cover to
all, the original was a tactical third-person GSZIVWIXERSZIV[EXGLQSHIXSƼVISR are what make the game, since they
cover shooter in which teams of heavily anything that moves, and attack using eventually turn soldiers into multi-pow-
armed soldiers move between obstacles guns, grenades, and melee weapons. ered, specially armed killing machines
to take out alien foes. All Gears Tactics If you perform certain types of kills, capable of cutting a swath through a
does is move the third-person camera everyone can get an extra action. level. The game manages to keep its
back further for a bird’s-eye view of the Gears Tactics is an obvious progres- balance, but it’s certainly not the same
FEXXPIƼIPHGVIEXMRKEQSVIEGXMSRKSVI sion for the series, as you command level of tactical challenge found in
oriented X-COM-lite experience. up to four soldiers clearing a map of X-COM. Whereas X-COM leaves you
The Gear series has been through six alien critters while scooping up mis- teetering on the razor’s edge making
main games and a few spin-offs, as well sion objectives. Slick cut-scenes tell a every decision matter, Gears Tactics,
as novels, comics, and a board game, WXSV]WIXFIJSVIXLIEGXMSRSJXLIƼVWX in keeping with its shooter roots, is
making it one of the most successful game, making this a prequel about the more about pure force. It has all of the
titles on Xbox. The basic premise is emergence of the Locust Horde. Over bells and whistles of a good tactical
pure space-marine bug-hunting action time, you build up a squad of more than shooter, allowing you build up units
from an over-the shoulder perspective, 20 soldiers, but with missions often with unique qualities. It just lacks a
mingling elements of Resident Evil and requiring central characters you only PMXXPISJXLIƼRIWWISJMXWMRWTMVEXMSRQ
Namco’s Kill Switch. Its distinguishing wind up really using a handful of them —Thomas McDonald
IPIQIRXW EVI XLI YWI SJ GSZIV ƼVI XS with skills and enhancements.
create a scoot-and-shoot pacing, and Those upgrades, however,
GOOD CHOICE FOR FANS OF: X-COM RATING B
TACTICAL STEALTH long range, and a lethal, fast-
DESPERADOS III acting poison syringe. Hector,
THQ NORDIC the group’s muscle, wields
PC/XBOX/PS3: $50 a heavy axe, oversized bear
AGE RANGE: MATURE trap, and thunderous sawed-
PLAY TIME: 10 HOURS off shotgun. McCoy may be
PLAYERS: 1 able to swiftly and silently
------------------------------------------------------------------------ pick off otherwise unreach-

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his prologue to the original Des- able guards, but only Hector
perados is a faithful evolution of tives that range from infiltration and is able to deal with the heftier, better
the gameplay found in earlier theft to assassination and wholesale equipped thugs.
installments of the series. Set during slaughter, but the need to carefully plan The entire game is steeped in the
the height of American frontier times, ahead is always present. Much like the atmosphere, tropes, and themes of
Desperados III blends the elements Westerns that the game draws from, the classic Westerns, with Ennio Morricone-
of classic Spaghetti Westerns with odds are heavily stacked against our he- style music and locations ranging from
those of heist movies. What results roes. Shootouts will almost always end in frontier towns to Louisiana swamplands.
is an extremely clever tactical stealth one’s untimely demise, forcing the player Enemies even pose dramatically when
game that encourages both creativity to quietly pick off their enemies one by they’re shot, in a tribute to the classic
and experimentation. Its high quality one or avoid them entirely. style of Spaghetti Western shootouts.
is no surprise coming from Mimimi Using the top-down view and controls Desperados III is a well-made game in
Games, the people behind Shadow of a traditional real-time strategy, Desper- two genres that don’t get a lot of games:
Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, a game ados III encourages the player to manage Western and tactical stealth. There’s
with similar elements. all of their operators together—coordinat- plenty of room for both strategy and
The main plot line follows a ragged ing simultaneous actions, timing their wild gunplay, as the game straddles the
KVSYTSJƼZIYRPMOIP]LIVSIWMRXLIMVUYIWX movements, and combining their unique line between action and stealth, offering
for revenge against the DeVitt Company, abilities to complement each other. For a rewarding, and delightfully cinematic,
a callous corporation employing outlaws example, the shady Doc McCoy carries experience for fans of either. Q
XSIRWYVIMXWGSRXMRYIHTVSƼX)EGLRI[ a near-silent revolver with extremely —Brendan McDonald
mission has unique goals, with objec-
GOOD CHOICE FOR FANS OF: SHADOW TACTICS: BLADES OF THE SHOGUN RATING A
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BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD • TA B L E T O P G A M E R E V I E W S •

STRATEGY spaces in a certain direction.

KING ME! This allows players to move
RAVENSBURGER: $25 quickly across the board, as
AGE RANGE: 8+ well as shift from light to dark
PLAY TIME: 45 MIN. squares that couldn’t be ac-
PLAYERS: 2 cessed by moving only on the
----------------------------------------------------------------------- diagonal. The territory cards

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avensburger’s King Me! is a represent different regions on
larger, more complicated, fanta- the board. The person with the
sy-themed variant of checkers, most checkers in a region when
changing a game of simple capture into a card activates scores all of
one of capture, point-harvesting, and its points. When the last card
board control. The board itself is the is triggered, the game ends
ƼVWX QENSV GLERKI [MXL  WUYEVIW and players add up points from
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Divided into regions by color and design, checkers (5 points), and the
the board offers a crazy quilt of desert, value of various territory cards,
swamp, mountain, forest, river, and other GVS[RXLIGLIGOIVMWƽMTTIHERHXLI with high score winning.
landscapes. Scattered throughout these crown snapped to the checker to cre- The result of all this is more than
regions are stone checkers; these are im- ate a king. Kings can move twice in one merely complications layered over a
movable spaces that must be jumped. turn, count as two checkers in certain simple classic. The changes add inter-
)EGL TPE]IV LEW  WQEPP GLIGOIVW territories, and break all ties. esting new elements of strategy, since
grouped together on opposite sides )EGL XYVR TPE]IVW ƽMT E GEVH JVSQ you need to look ahead to what areas
of the board. Movement is forward a draw deck and place it faceup. As are going to score next and mass your
or backward one space on the di- RI[GEVHWEVIƽMTTIHTVIZMSYWGEVHW forces in time to control them, while
agonal, or more spaces if jumps are are shifted one space. After six cards also capturing and avoiding capture.
possible. As with standard checkers, are in place, one card begins to trigger The board is a little too large, giving
enemy pieces are captured by jump- each turn. These triggers are either the game a somewhat slack pace, but
ing. Four crowns in different colors river cards or territory cards. The river it’s still a fun two-hander. Q
are arranged along the centerline of cards move all checkers
the board. When a piece lands on a on river tiles one or two GOOD CHOICE FOR FANS OF: STRATEGO RATING B
TILE-LAYING and a police cruiser
GETAWAY DRIVER is placed nearby on
FOWERS GAMES: $30 the table.
AGE RANGE: 12+ The board is con-
PLAY TIME: 30–45 MIN. structed during game-
PLAYERS: 2 (1- AND 4-PLAYER play by drawing city
VARIANTS INCLUDED) block tiles from a bag
----------------------------------------------------------------------- and placing them

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he gameplay in Getaway Driver around the tile with
may not be fast and furious, but the Driver, expanding
it certainly captures the suspense the city map a little
and decision-making of a thrilling car each turn. The tiles go in front, and to The Police, meanwhile, are in pursuit, and
chase through crowded urban streets. In the left and right, of the Driver. They’re have a variety of methods to thwart the
this two-player asymmetrical game, one placed facedown and then turned over getaway car. As tiles are overturned, the
WMHIMWXLI(VMZIVXV]MRKXSƽIIXLIGMX] when the Driver chooses to go straight, Police earn enforcement tokens, which
while the other is the Police, equipped left, or right. A tile may have a green can be used to buy anything ranging from
with a variety of ways to stop him. light, which represents no obstacle for a motorcycle to a helicopter or various
The setup is quick and easy. A start- the Driver; a yellow light, which can be obstacles to slow down the driver. For
MRKXMPIMWTPEGIHSRXLIXEFPI[MXLƼZI used by the Driver to create mayhem for every turn the Police occupy the same
“stash” tokens scattered nearby. The the pursuing cars; or a red light, which block as the Driver, a token moves along
(VMZIV GLSSWIW ƼZI GEVHW IEGL [MXL represents some obstruction. If a tile a pursuit meter. When the meter hits red,
the ability to avoid a hazard or perform displays an obstacle, the Driver has to the Police win. If the car makes it to the last
a special action. Meanwhile, the Police either expend one of his action cards or tile placed (the exit tile), the Driver wins.
player takes the Escape City tile and a return to the previous tile. For example, if Getaway Driver sets up and plays
stack of police vehicles and upgrade a red light tile shows a truck blocking the quickly and is never the same game
cards, as well as barricades, tire road, the Driver must either play a card twice. The mechanics are unique,
spikes, and upgrade tokens. The Driver with a ramp to jump over it, or return to making this a genuinely novel game,
is placed on the starting tile, pointing the previous space. and the art and design are great, too. Q
in one of the four cardinal directions,
GOOD CHOICE FOR FANS OF: MILLE BORNES RATING A
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 BY JONATHAN SCHMALZBACH •THIS OLD GAME•

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: WHY

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ack in June, GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES contribu- eyes. In some wincing drollery, rivals can choose to be Charlie
tor and reader Charlie Sambuchino kindly emailed Clam, Shylock Bones, Dick Crazy, or Sergeant Monday (as if
the editorial staff with the following suggestion: namesake Joe Friday would ever smirk or smoke!).
“Many, many years ago I had the game Alfred Hitchcock The goal of each player is to collect a ghost, a weapon,
Presents: Why. I remember really enjoying it. This might and a motive. The first player to do this wins. An alternate
be an interesting game for This Old Game.” route to victory is to collect six Alfred cards and an “It’s
Interesting game, yes, and you had me at Hitchcock. a Mystery to Me” card.
Milton Bradley released Why in 1958 in an attempt to Each player is dealt seven WHY cards. Dice are rolled
piggyback on the popularity of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock to move around the hallways of the home to get to the
Presents, which debuted in 1955 and ran for 10 seasons. rooms (Living room, Dining room, Den, two Bedrooms,
Memorably, at the start of Presents, the screen shows Attic, and Tower). Once in a room, a player searches for
a line caricature of Hitchcock (drawn by the maestro evidence by picking a WHY card. As a player can have
himself). Gounod’s “Funeral March of a Marionette” plays no more than seven cards, one card must be discarded
spookily. Then, Alfred Hitchcock Presents appears on the onto the lawn after being shown to the other players. Be
screen, fades, and a silhouette of the director walks in vigilant—that card may be of use to you.
from the right of the screen and merges into the caricature. Anytime players enter the Living Room, they can attempt
After a beat, the director, now appearing in black and white, to gather evidence from the lawn. They reveal a card from
intones, “Good evening.” He is then seen on an empty stage their hand and then point to a card on the lawn. If the card
and introduces the episode that follows. they point to is the same as the card they revealed, they gain
On the inside of the game cover Alfred Hitchcock that card. The player may continue this process for as long as
presents the game of Why thusly: they continue to guess correctly. The game rewards memory.
“IT’S A MYSTERY TO ME why all the GHOSTS in this Landing on the same space as another player in the
old house don’t just leave and stop HAUNTING me and the hallway, a rival can be asked if the opponent is holding
neighbors. Take a look at them…they are all in PIECES! Along a particular card. (Smells like Go Fish.) The player must
with those deadly WEAPONS they’ve got me SCARED TO surrender the card if held.
PIECES, TOO! ... One stormy night, long ago, six people, dressed Once a player has collected four cards that construct a
in masquerade costumes were coming home from a party. They weapon, the cards are laid facedown without overlapping
took shelter in my old house and haven’t been heard from since. each other but are shown to the other players as they’re
Unfortunately, their Ghosts are HAUNTING the place! This is laid down. Players replenish their hand with one card each
'Why' I asked all of you PRIVATE EYES to come here today—and new turn until they get back to seven cards.
the person who can Solve the Mystery will be greatly rewarded!” The Motive cards are comprised of this central casting
The unfortunate masqueraders were dressed as Napoleon, sextet: Jealousy, Lover’s Quarrel, Self Defense, Robbery,
Cleopatra, Pocahontas, Daniel Boone, Henry VIII, and Nero. Bribery, and Blackmail. A player need only collect one of
The game is designed for between 2 and these cards.
4 players, who take on the It’s no mystery why reader Charlie would have been drawn
role of private to the game, particularly if he were a young’un during in the
late ’50s or early ’60s when the game first came out and
Hitchcock ruled the big screen with movies such as Psycho
(1960) and The Birds (1963) as well as the TV screen with
Presents. Hitchcock, the “Master of Suspense,” created
works that were simultaneously believable and terrifying.
Scary and spooky—catnip for impressionable minds.
Why is an easy roll-and-move board game without
too much strategy. In fact, younger players may
have an edge over older players whose memory
might not be as sharp as it once was.
The final advice, which applies to the game
of Why, comes from the macabre mind of the
master: “There is nothing to winning, re-
ally. That is, if you happen to be blessed
with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no
scruples whatsoever.” Q

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 6ǗǟǟǓ BY MATT JONES

Can you score 500 or more points in Word A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K

Rummy hands from the card layout at right?
C O N I T W P R E T I N A
s How to Play F Z F E C S A T E R A E R
Find as many common seven-letter words E L O B E T U T S A M U S
as you can whose cards form Word Rummy R E L E F A L O C K L E N
hands. A Word Rummy hand is a seven-
letter word whose letters appear on cards A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K
that make up one set (three or four cards of
a kind, like 7 7 7 or K K K K) and one CARDS & WORDS POINTS CARDS & WORDS POINTS

sequence (three or four cards of the same

suit in numerical order, like sA 2 3 or c 9 10 C O N I F E R
J Q). Either the set or the sequence may A 2 3 4 A A A 13
come first, but one of each must be used in
each hand, and the two parts must not be
mixed together. The letters of a set may be
used in any order; the letters of a sequence
must be used in the left-to-right order given
in the grid. The same card cannot be used
twice in the same hand. Sets and sequences,
however, may be repeated in other words.
Proper names and foreign words are not
allowed, but plurals are fine.

y Scoring
Each card in a Word Rummy hand scores
its face value. A 6 scores 6 points, for
example. Aces are low and count 1 point
each. Jacks, queens, and kings count 10
points each.

x Example
In the puzzle above, the word CONIFER
forms a Word Rummy hand. The s A 2 3 4
are a sequence with the letters C-O-N-I;
the 1A 2A cA are a set with the letters
F-E-R. The cards used have values of 1 2 3
4 1 1 1 , for a total of 13 points.
COLUMN 2 TOTAL

c Ratings
Knock: 350 points (good game) COLUMN 1 TOTAL

Gin: 500 points (winning game)

Gin-off: 906 points (our best score)
COLUMN 1 TOTAL TOTAL SCORE
ANSWERS, PAGE 77

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 ®
7ǜǠǣǘ(ȨȱǣǙǣǝǞǙ BY FRED PISCOP

The only clues in this crossword are the letter pairs provided in the grid. Each answer across and down consists of two
words that share the letters you’ll enter in the empty squares. In the example below, S, E, and W fill the empty squares to
make SINEW and STREW. No proper names are used; you may find a few cases with more than one possible combination
of letters, but only one solution will fit with the crossing answers. ANSWER, PAGE 76

S E W

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 (ǝǗȲǠȨ'ǚǝǙǙ BY MICHAEL ASHLEY

Answer the clues on the numbered dashes, one letter per dash. Then transfer the letters on the dashes to the correspondingly
numbered squares in the puzzle grid to reveal a quotation reading from left to right. (Black squares separate words.) When
you’re done, read down the list of answers; their initial letters will spell the author’s name and the source of the quotation.

ѓL ѓF ѓB ѓK ѓE ѓV ѓD ѓT ѓE ѓH ѓQ ѓL ѓB ѓY ѓP ѓG ѓR ѓU ѓN ѓS ѓD

ѓM ѓL ѓY ѓU ѓP ѓH ѓV ѓN ѓC ѓU ѓX ѓL ѓE ѓW ѓY ѓL ѓJ ѓX ѓU ѓR

ѓL ѓC ѓQ ѓS ѓA ѓI ѓM ѓX ѓT ѓL ѓN ѓI ѓY ѓK ѓV ѓU ѓC ѓE ѓJ ѓA ѓH

ѓN ѓR ѓY ѓV ѓN ѓB ѓQ ѓT ѓV ѓX ѓR ѓQ ѓU ѓF ѓY ѓX ѓJ ѓO ѓB

ѓS ѓF ѓE ѓJ ѓP ѓH ѓL ѓW ѓS ѓW ѓL ѓB ѓA ѓH ѓG ѓX ѓJ ѓL ѓV ѓM ѓO

ѓX ѓP ѓW ѓL ѓH ѓV ѓN ѓN ѓE ѓH ѓF ѓD ѓR ѓP ѓH ѓN ѓD ѓP ѓS ѓP

ѓJ ѓL ѓQ ѓP ѓK ѓR ѓI ѓU ѓS ѓO ѓI ѓY ѓM ѓR ѓL ѓX G ѓG ѓN ѓA

ANSWERS, PAGE 77
ѓF ѓW ѓY ѓG ѓX ѓO ѓH ѓK ѓQ ѓB ѓC ѓX ѓP ѓK ѓI ѓP ѓB ѓX ѓY ѓD

ѓS ѓP ѓA ѓX ѓC ѓQ ѓX ѓA ѓJ ѓY ѓS ѓB ѓT ѓA ѓJ ѓK ѓA ѓM ѓI ѓQ

ѓV ѓH ѓW ѓI ѓF ѓO ѓG ѓB ѓR ѓB ѓM ѓN ѓH ѓH ѓL ѓT ѓM ѓI ѓB

A. Annapurna III, N. Post-Trojan War epic:

for one 94 178 61 46 141 169 164 175 2 wds. 110 67 63 140 118 19 109 29

193 52
B. Opera featuring the
“Anvil Chorus”: 2 wds. 158 81 173 200 151 3 191 13
O. Winner of six
189 93 68 Grammys in 2012 147 187 132 80 102

C. Something to fight for

166 43 152 30 58 P. Jumpy rodent of the
U.S. West: 2 wds 126 122 15 104 86 154 26 120

D. Doglike carnivore 163 116 157

21 119 7 114 161

Q. Keen observer: 2 wds.

E. Author Jeffrey, the 69 125 11 44 167 181 150 74
original source of this 111 9 59 34 84 5
quote
R. Overwhelm
64 128 190 73 17 136 115 41
F. Make really mad
2 186 83 142 76 113
S. Low-value British coin
20 121 82 162 45 172 131 90
G. Comic Bruce
96 16 139 145 188
T. Wildlife
8 174 197 70 50
H. Chemistry and Peace
Nobelist: 2 wds. 107 10 117 27 62 195 194 95
U. Tough and elastic
112 87 148 183 75 31 57 18 130 40 25

I. Waiting for Godot V. Unyielding

principal 199 156 47 133 185 129 53 180 56 6 71 108 182 28 66 100

J. Waiting for Godot W. Short-lived

principal 85 170 60 176 98 38 79 123 winged insect 89 35 184 91 143 105

K. “Most definitely” X. “Dover Beach” poet:

127 177 55 155 4 149 32 97 168 146 49 72 78 153

103 165 39 159 138

L. Author of Snow Crash
and Anathem: 2 wds. 51 37 196 88 99 42 33 106
Y. Creator and star of
12 124 1 23 92 137 Schitt’s Creek: 2 wds. 144 54 134 14 65 171 160 24

36 77
M. Second law of thermo-
dynamics concept 179 101 48 192 22 198 135

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 6ǝǠǠ)ǟ BY HARVEY ESTES

ACROSS
1 Pfizer competitor
6 Hopi dwelling
12 He played Heathcliff
19 Acorn base
20 Encroachment
21 Jesus Christ Superstar
song
22 “Do ___, not...”
23 React to a gaffe
24 With pomp
25 Children’s game
27 Turf
28 Salerno sayonara
29 Post-op place
30 Took notice
31 Retirement spot
32 Manifest
33 Pitches
35 Bells the cat
37 FDR, in ’44
38 Whiffenpoof
39 Unalaska native
41 Proclivity
42 Park, e.g.: Abbr.
43 Joseph, former president
of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo
47 Altiplano ruminants
49 Swell place

ANSWER, PAGE 77
50 Writer Marilyn ___
Savant
51 Practice pieces
52 Ant.’s ant.
53 Key letter
55 Cubbins’s creator
58 Leisure suit fabric 98 Radius locale 3 Hawk in LBJ’s cabinet 31 GIs’ sleep-out 77 Brit on the briny
59 Too long to imagine 99 Ferber and Unger 4 Jeremy’s role in 32 Beetle’s egghead 79 Scruff
61 The Lily Maid of 101 Lissome Reversal of Fortune friend 80 Comics page source
Astolat 102 Soap brand 5 ATM feature 34 Reckon, with “up” 82 Draw parallels
63 Hawaii’s state bird 105 Quietly hostile 6 Snaps 36 Magen David 83 Listened in
64 B&O et al. 106 Some wallcoverings 7 Not fit to pick 37 WWI martyr Edith 84 Pasqueflowers
67 Teacher of 108 Ear: Prefix 8 Claire’s Knee 38 Just get by, with “out” 86 Gumshoe
underhanded ways? 109 Gulf off Somalia director Rohmer 40 Finish lines 89 Electoral College
71 Spanish 101 infinitive 110 Pump 9 Hit on the head, 44 Runs without moving dropout
72 Put the kibosh on 111 “Hello” dolly? slangily 45 King of the 91 “The Body Snatcher”
74 “Duh” fact 115 Dido and Aeneas 10 Runs behind spaghetti westerns monogram
75 Memphis’s river composer Henry 11 Pindar piece 46 Former SAG prez Ed 95 Disable
76 Just the ticket 117 Maw 12 1977 John Denver 48 Fire 100 Vacillate
78 Tajikistanis’ neighbors 118 “On Language” flick 54 Prefix for red 102 Toreros wave them
81 Back muscle, for short columnist 13 Lady’s man 56 One of Marge’s 103 Not minor
82 Sawbones’ org. 119 Leader unseated by 14 Book before sisters 104 C&W star Haggard
85 Play in which hell is Pinochet Jeremiah: Abbr. 57 Periwinkle, e.g. 105 Vacation spots
a hotel 120 Outlying 15 Pianist with an 60 Hiker’s bag 107 Honorific Hindu
87 Pro 121 Floors eponymous interna- 62 Showy display title
88 Objectivist Rand 122 Blasting gear? tional competition 64 Compilation disc 110 Moro of Italy
90 Leary’s advice 123 More diluted 16 Mountbatten’s label 111 Waterslide cry
92 Prompt 124 Tech magazine jurisdiction, once 65 Cellar element 112 Ms. Bombeck
93 Stalled, as a front: 17 China’s Chou ___ 66 Come down hard 113 “Check this out!”
Abbr. 18 Ersatz silk 68 Bunker mentality 114 From a distance
94 ___ Penh: Var. DOWN 19 Washington and 69 Guru’s digs 116 Vane dir.
96 Homophone of 1 How most kids Lincoln, e.g. 70 Ticked off, in 117 Major American
32-Across learn the alphabet 26 Wild guess Hicksville automotive
97 Saturnalia mo. 2 Fancy-food fancier 27 Prelude to war, often 73 Hired hoofer supplier: Abbr.

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 7ǣȳǟȨǙȨ8ǕǣǞǙ BY FRANK LONGO

This puzzle gives you two grids for the price of one. And two sets of clues to go with them, so you can work both crosswords
at the same time. What’s the catch? Each clue number is followed by two different clues to two different answers. The
puzzle is to figure out which answer goes with which grid. 1-Across has been filled in for you. ANSWERS, PAGE 78

ACROSS 32 Admit guilt, with “up”

M U F F I N M A N
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1 Nursery rhyme baker...: Trent of Mississippi

2 wds. 33 Bank offering 13 14

...and the street he lives Sitcom actress Anderson

15 16
on: 2 wds. 34 Life on other planets
10 Photo ___ (PR events) Flowering 17 18 19

Deep anger 37 Feels blindly

13 Anxious: 3 wds. Sleep in a tent 20 21 22 23 24

Exterminator’s toxin: 41 Wrinkly-skinned dog:

2 wds. Hyph. 25 26 27

14 Nada Bringing bad luck to

28 29 30 31
Big shot 43 Gin joint
15 Motorcycle built for doing NYC’s Park, e.g. 32 33

tricks: 2 wds. 44 Here, in Paris

“Just a sec”: 2 wds. Ben-___ 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

16 Secret agent 45 Frigid: 3 wds.

Brian of rock Dish often served in an 41 42 43

17 Neither’s partner edible bowl: 2 wds. 44 45 46 47 48

Half of hexa- 49 Lang. of London
18 Eppie better known as Color of khakis 49 50

Ann Landers 50 Rust, essentially: 2 wds.

Infuses with gas Phone number parts: 51 52

20 Time of lament: 2 wds. 2 wds.

Sufficient 51 Canonized Mlle.
24 Member of a ruling Suffix with prop- 3 In ___ (before birth) 26 Steelers’ org.
family 52 Kitchen cutter: 2 wds. Liquid NBC debut of ’75
Old film actor Power Stupidity 4 Aficionado 28 Search for employment:
25 Mined metals Car ad abbr. Hyph.
Gas in glass 5 The Addams Family Big-billed bird
27 Surfeit with excess cousin 29 Really foolish
DOWN With 23-Down, attention- Like fugitives: 2 wds.
Canadian tribe 1 Pilotless aircraft
28 Nursery rhyme couple...: getting cry 30 Misery
Nasal sprays, say 6 Maximum or minimum: Pug or poodle
3 wds. 2 Prefix with violet
...and what they went to Abbr. 31 Pantry container
Was overlong: 2 wds. Neighbor of Kan. Sothern of Maisie
fetch: 3 wds.
7 Totally lost 32 Mascara is applied to
Postal delivery them
D R U R Y L A N E
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
8 Trio tripled Tex-Mex menu item
13 14 Requested 35 Rechargeable battery,
9 Destitute for short
15 16
Contest form Sight-related
17 18 19
10 As a whole 36 Stiller’s partner
About to occur: 2 wds. in comedy
20 21 22 23 24 11 Tree-scented cleaning Doze audibly
brand: Hyph. 38 Dwell
25 26 27
Aging-aiding agent Politico Sarah
12 French president’s 39 Give the slip to
28 29 30 31
palace Spiked clubs
32 33 Casual yet stylish 40 Part of UPI or AP
19 Frigid Passover feast
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Los Angeles district 42 Hidden valley
21 For both men and Clicked-on graphic
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women 46 The, to Fritz
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Medical practitioner 1969 Beatle bride
22 Hair hardener 47 Golf rarity
49 50 Big Biblical boat Drench
23 Pro vote 48 Simba, to Mufasa
51 52 See 5-Down Wood splitter

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The goal of SETKA is to complete a For example:
grid with a set of “Puzzle Letters” that B C D 3. Only Puzzle Letters can be entered in the grid.
do not repeat in a row or column. D B C Discard all vowels, excluding Y (the “U” from SURFS)
C D B and duplicate letters (keep the first “S” and delete
Here’s how it works: the second “S”) from the answers before adding
1. Grid boxes are numbered to match the clues. them to the grid.
2. Clue answers are based (broadly!) on the puzzle 4. Puzzle Letters must be entered in order but can be
theme and must consist only of Puzzle Letters added in any direction. Puzzle Letters S, R, and F
and vowels. could be entered horizontally, vertically, or in an
For example: L-shaped box as SRF or FRS. This means that the
Theme: SUMMER FUN middle letter must be R, and the first and last letters
Puzzle Letters: S, M, R, F, N can only be S or F.
Clue 1: An athlete skis in the winter 5. Use logic to help complete the grid! You don’t
and ______ in the summer. need to answer every clue to solve the puzzle!
Possible answers: SWIMS (wrong because of the Send rave reviews, comments, and criticisms to
“W”) and SURFS (may be correct). setkagame@gmail.com. ANSWERS, PAGE 78

1 1 1 2 3 3

4 5 5 5 6 6

4 7 8 8 8 6

4 7 9 9 9 9

10 7 11 11 12 12
PUZZLE 1
Theme: Charmed, I’m Sure!
Puzzle Letters: C, H, R, M, D, S 10 13 14 14 15 15
CLUES
1. Courageous, as a knight’s adventures
2. Prue, to Piper and Phoebe, on Charmed
3. Like Wonderland’s Hatter
4. Noble Italian family name
5. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all,” for example
6. Like organza or chiffon
7. “Unbelievable!” in texts
8. French philosopher who said, “Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘yes’ without asking a clear question.”
9. Tiniest bit, as of charm
10. Bit of trickery, perhaps involving charm
11. Charming dancer-turned-spy of WWI (initials only)
12. Guy who’s no Prince Charming
13. “___ You Believe in Magic” (Lovin’ Spoonful song)
14. “Lucky Charms or Froot Loops?” is one
15. ___ Right (Prince Charming)

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1 2 2 3

1 4 4 4

5 6 7 8
PUZZLE 2
Theme: Lawyer
Puzzle Letters: L, W, Y, R 6 6 9 9

CLUES
1. Document of concern to an estate lawyer
2. Winnie-the-Pooh character who would make an excellent
lawyer due to his proclivity for anticipating problems
3. First word of the Preamble to the Constitution
4. Skeptical, as of a client’s narrative
5. First initial of a “Notorious” female Supreme Court justice
6. Color of a legal pad
7. One ___ (Scott Turow book about Harvard Law School)
8. Toy that might cause personal injury if used recklessly
9. Litigation can be comparable to one of these

1 1 2 2 3

4 1 5 5 3

4 4 6 7 3

8 6 6 7 7
PUZZLE 3
Theme: Weddings
Puzzle Letters: W, D, N, G, S 9 9 9 10 10

CLUES
1. A Vegas wedding may feature a performer ___ as
Elvis Presley
2. Title for Vito Corleone, who is introduced at his daughter Constanzia’s wedding
3. Long-___ (like some wedding toasts)
4. What’s going on—for example, a royal wedding
5. Bridesmaids star Kristen
6. ___ bag (favors for wedding guests)
7. Wedding planning hitch
8. One who walks the bride down the aisle, in some weddings
9. Relax, as on a honeymoon
10. Like marriage advice from a wise elder

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2 2 2 2
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
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 'ǚǓǜǘǣȱ'ǚǝǙǙǕǝǚȰ BY EMILY COX & HENRY RATHVON

Each clue in a cryptic crossword has two parts: a definition of the answer and an indication of the answer’s literal makeup
via wordplay. Either half may come first; finding the dividing point between the two parts is the key to solving. On page
61, eight common methods by which hints are given via wordplay are described; any combination of these gimmicks
may be used.
Expect to see references to abbreviations (doctor for DR, Hawaii for HI, or university for U), chemical symbols (iron
for Fe), Roman numerals (five for V), and parts of words (end of year for R, head of cabbage for C, or heart of stone
for O). A clue with an exclamation point may be what’s called an & lit. clue, in which the two halves overlap, so the
whole clue is both a definition and a cryptic indication of the answer, as in Terribly angered! for ENRAGED (see
“anagrams” on page 61). Give these puzzles a try! ANSWERS, PAGE 79

1 2 3 4 5 6 23 Committee is not
interested in speech
7 (5)
24 Red pips swimming
8 9 10
in ladles (7)
25 Foolishly tried an
exchanged item (5-2)
26 Friar ogles, grabbing
part of leg for pranks
11 12 (12)

DOWN
1 Agriculture in remote
13 14 15 Chinese dynasty (7)
2 Put back in control,
say (9)
3 Hurried around rim,
16 17 18 19 20 and stumbled (7)
4 Sterne’s random
dislikes (7)
5 Stretch of funny, long
stocking (5)
21 22 23
6 Gourmet crushed pure
ice (7)
7 Poor rascal atop one
shed (12)
24 25 10 Hearing about fad is
sad (12)
15 Numskull wrecked
marine lab (9)
17 Phony, bad, incomplete
26
hair cleaner (7)
18 Well-known
Communist runs
ACROSS 11 Tom is scattering leaves 16 Scrutinize bent pins, Kentucky (7)
1 What golfers shout to alone (5) etc. (7) 19 Cat in heat chased
alien woodsman (6,6) 12 Lines up an unusual strip 19 Arrive outside of pet after Guevara (7)
8 Mr. Gardner gets one of land (9) race (7) 20 Paints ten camels
cocktail (7) 13 Country glen and falls (7) 21 The man notices sound without heads (7)
9 Greedy hawk not finished 14 Prominent part of coming from grave 22 Shiny boat bottoms
with seafood (7) proposal I entertain (7) marker (9) turned up (5)

For tips on solving cryptic crosswords, send a stamped return envelope to “Cryptic Solving Guide,” GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES, P.O. Box 184, Fort Washington, PA 19034.

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Anagrams: The answer appears in anagrammed TIE inside PANTS, so it might be clued as Hospital
form, preceded or followed by a word or phrase residents make knots in trousers.
that suggests the mixing, as in Changing times for Hidden answers: The answer may appear intact,
ITEMS. albeit camouflaged, in the clue. Example: Myopic
Deletions: Deletions come in three varieties: colonel clutches flute for PICCOLO (myopic colonel).
beheadments, curtailments, and internal deletions. Homophones: A word that sounds like the answer
The clue always contains a word or phrase indicated by use of a giveaway phrase such as “We
indicating the deletion. Examples: Uncovered bent hear” or “as they say.” Example: Counted frozen
charm for ENCHANT, a beheadment of PENCHANT; chicken out loud for NUMBERED (“numb bird”).
Fiery bird without a tail for FLAMING, a curtailment Reversals: A synonym for “backward” or “overturn”
of FLAMINGO; and Heartless miserly bloke for CHAP, in a clue may indicate a reversal, as in Returned
an internal deletion of CHEAP. beer fit for a king (LAGER reversed) for REGAL.
Charades: The answer is broken into smaller Double definitions: This type of clue has no
words that are clued individually, as in Auto animal wordplay half; instead, it has two definition halves.
for CARPET. Example: Scooter was blue for MOPED.
Containers: A word such as PATIENTS “contains” ANSWERS, PAGE 79

ACROSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 Card game occupying
Barack Obama (4-1)
4 Spooner’s angry duel with
Prudence (9)
9 Tibetan monk is absorbed 9 10
by musical Toy Town in
Michigan (9)
10 Stopwatch runs backward
and forward (5)
11 Horsing around, Gene hid 11 12
and made a barnyard
sound (7)
12 Principal feature of an
ornamental column (7)
13 14 15 16 17
13 Pack steak sauce container
for a Kingston native (8)
16 Offered opinions, Putin 18
reconsidered (5)
19 Miserly cousin’s left a pile (5) 19 20
20 Second-rate QB Manning,
always a confident one (8)
22 Senator snarled like a 21
brigadier general (3-4)
24 Cited passage about the 22 23 24 25
heart of Trixie, a Cervantes
hero (7)
26 Buddy left Arizona for big
city in Bolivia (2,3)
27 Classic soup base made 26 27
from a shot of Vermouth,
reconstituted Coke, salt
(4,5)
28 Forsake turncoat British
soldier battling Rommel 28 29
(6,3)
29 Caught in a difficult spot,
antlered animals start to
thrash about (5) 4 Confounded speaker’s 8 A whole regiment finally dis- 21 Reached the summit in a
adjusted so as to be mounted, interrupting play (8) state of excitement, we
synchronized (5) 14 Prize paté, perhaps?! (9) hear (6)
5 A colorant repurposed for a 15 Hack and carve bird 23 Complex possibly hosting
DOWN
dental procedure (4,5) clumsily (9) World’s Fairs (5)
1 Barbara Kingsolver takes
6 Developing spirit, men 17 Call about extra-elevated 24 A couple of questions bug
care of yard work (6)
worked coal seam (5,4) behavior-changing stock-trading algorithm
2 Group of devotees—four—
7 Range of animals that chemical secretion (9) developer (5)
enjoyed dinner train (9)
are hunted curtailed by 18 Foremost of students 25 Stein repositioned a small
3 Power train’s slowest
Utah (5) shoe designer Jimmy map within a larger one (5)
possible speed? (5)
guided and taught (8)

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In this variety cryptic, 15 students (clue answers) received grades of A, B, C, D or F in a certain class. Each grade
was received by three of the students. Add the grade somewhere inside the clue answer (never at the beginning
or end) to form a new word or phrase to be entered in the grid. One such entry is hyphenated and another is
capitalized. Warning: Students receiving an F are held back. ANSWERS, PAGE 79

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12

13 14 15

16 17

18 19 20

21 22 23 24

25 26 27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35

36 37 38

39 40

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ACROSS 38 Cream for a certain hairstyle 10 Flip over Anne Heche’s #4 hair dye
1 Regrets adopting long regulations 39 Four members of Patriots forming a 12 One pound plug of tobacco
5 100 drone flies preserved in brine musical group 15 Auditor’s reasons to be prudent
11 Elite military unit lunched before noon 40 Alimony covers fancy car 19 Proclaimed what’s right
(2 wds.) 41 Spooky Eastern Pennsylvania city with elderly
12 Mexican cheese of somewhat 42 Certain succulents with olfactant 21 Cat-Woman’s the author of
unique sort originally added to beers My Antonia
13 D.D.S. actions 43 Modern source of clean energy 23 Stickier doughnuts I found
14 Right away, an overwhelming defeat included in apartment cost in Germany
16 Condensation we had reversed 44 In general, unqualified bowlers 24 Shower-room accessory that MBA
17 Can Jack be under the weather? despise this place reimagined (2 wds.)
18 Industry wrongly cited and charged 26 Raise a small point involving head of
with a crime DOWN ancient amphibian
20 Long-sounding Greek letter 1 Awesome! Two halves of 27 Wild cacti containing
21 Pontificated about Ms. Blanchett a diameter excellent type of acid suitable
22 In favor of shortened annual high 2 Bertha’s stupid suggestion for vinegar
school event 3 Determine the sum invested in a 29 Spray keeps Central Shore damp
23 Bored silly, like a judge? Whopper, boy 30 Club reproduced retro narrow-
25 Hat Dan reconditioned is ready for 4 Official ridiculed for purchasing brimmed hat
use (2 wds.) Alaska’s Southeast administrative 32 A whiff of dead rodent
28 College provides a stage district that’s disgusting
29 Produced housekeeper at hearing 5 Night and day on Noah’s boat 33 A horse runs into Ms. West
31 For the most part, carry a small child 6 Returning e-book, behave theatrically 34 Boost unsophisticated brand of
33 Media group backing facilitates 7 Sorry, but Jon’s a crazy person spring water
dispute resolution 8 Fantastic pear harvest 35 Rub hard to clean unpleasant-
36 Three grades finally have a place to 9 “Dog Face” of course! (What Laurel smelling outside of cup
buy refreshments called Hardy) 37 Usain, who’s faster than any arrow

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In a spoonerism, two consonant sounds in a word or phrase are transposed, creating new words. For example, CLOCKWORK
would “spoonerize” to WOK CLERK, NEW DELHI would become DO NELLIE, and BIRD IN THE HAND would turn into HEARD
IN THE BAND. Note that the spellings change appropriately in the newly formed words. In this puzzle, one third of the clues
(12) must have their answers spoonerized before being placed in the grid; another third of the clues are written with
spoonerisms occurring in the definitions of the answers; the remaining third are normal cryptic clues. ANSWERS, PAGE 79

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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12 13

14 15

16 17

18 19 20

21 22 23

24 25 26

27 28

29 30

31

32 33

ACROSS 27 Raise key—a hip transposal (3,4) 7 Pairing in a scoreless tennis

1 Cryptic grid’s new birds (8) 29 Artist finally peruses Saturns on a contest? (4,5)
7 Reconstruct Hal’s kind with pole (6) 8 At song’s beginning, Kate’s flubbed
boards (4) 30 With tide out, some hesitation in B-tones (6)
10 Court to study tilt of beak, perhaps storing bait (6) 9 Heavy tool of Marge‘s held ‘em
(6) 31 One hundred wild dingoes made apart (12)
12 Superlative about English dog (5) marks together (8) 11 Ship nickel and sodium (4)
13 Went ahead around nuts I’ve 32 Burns Tad in heartless Haley 14 Fluid, say, spewed in
collected (6) opus (4) racetracks (9)
15 ID for guard sent back (7) 33 Dreiser’s novel is better suited? (8) 19 Matador’s foe packs small trunk (5)
16 Sets gear for buggy rides (5) 20 Stupidly, I hound one tragic mix
17 Roue has me back in form again (6) DOWN master (7)
18 Consents to chop kernels, we 1 Wandering herds wait for liquid (9) 21 Queen upset at our sage pies (6)
hear (7) 2 Hear of evergreen’s shady leap (4) 22 Ailing dove I’d wiped out (6)
23 Turning, see fossil fuel in the 3 Refusal to sleep with diamonds 25 Nymphet extremely negative to
ground (7) (2,4) Soviets (4)
24 Deity vocalized first note 4 Date in March maintaining one’s 26 Guys to train snakes eating a
backwards (3,3) views (5) mouse! (5)
26 Diver’s need in southern Caribbean 5 Lee’s TNT wrecked plants (7) 28 In Parisian street, 500 having mad
site (5) 6 Appeared to look Democrat up (6) banners (4)

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In these puzzles, each Arrowhead represents a gamma gun that, when fitted with a tail , sends out a gamma
beam which travels straight in the indicated direction through any hollow dots in its path, until a) it slams into
another Arrowhead, or b) it hits one or more Winslow Particles, and then slams into an Arrowhead.
A Winslow Particle is a hollow dot that has become solid . When a beam hits a Winslow Particle, it splits into
two beams—one veering off 45 degrees left, the other veering off 45 degrees right. In the example below, a beam
collided with a Particle and split, after which the lower beam hit another Particle and split.
The number in each circle connected to an Arrowhead indicates the number of beams that has hit that Arrowhead.
If a circle shows no number, then no beam hit that Arrowhead.
Your mission is to deduce which hollow dots must be Winslow Particles in order to make all the circled numbers
(number of hits) correct. Fortunately for you, we’ve already revealed one Winslow Particle in each puzzle, and
indicated the total number of particles in the field, including the one shown. No Ph.D. in quantum mechanics
needed—just a pencil with which to fill in the dots, once you’ve located your Particles. ANSWERS, PAGE 80

1 LAB TECHIE (2 PARTICLES)

1 1 1

1 1

2 LAB TECHIE (2 PARTICLES) 3 LAB DIRECTOR (3 PARTICLES)

2 1 2 1 1
1 1 1 2

2
1

1 2 2

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 BY JIM WINSLOW

4 LAB DIRECTOR (3 PARTICLES)

2 2 1 2

2 1 1 2

5 LAB DIRECTOR (3 PARTICLES) 6 LAB DIRECTOR (3 PARTICLES)

1 1 2 1 1 2 1

1 1

2 1 2

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

7 VISITING SCIENTIST (4 PARTICLES) 8 VISITING SCIENTIST (4 PARTICLES)

2 2 1 2
1 1 1

2
3

2 1

1 1
1 1

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 *ȳǟǣǠǓ6ȨǗǞǣǝǞǙ BY REGIS MODESTA

Change each group of 10 words below into a “family” of different words (words or proper names that have something
in common) by dropping one letter from each word and then rearranging the remaining letters. For example, given
the entries HAUNT, HAIRDO, and ADVANCE, you could drop the N from HAUNT to get UTAH, drop the R from HAIRDO
for IDAHO, and drop the C from ADVANCE to get NEVADA, all in the category “U.S. states.” Can you reunite each family
by determining the category for each and unscrambling the 10 entries? Answers include one two-word phrase. As a
hint, a list of the four categories appears on page 70. ANSWERS, PAGE 80

FAMILY ONE FAMILY TWO

Category: ______________________ Category: ______________________
1. HAGS ______________________ 1. VACS ______________________

2. KAYO ______________________ 2. ALIKE ______________________

3. INEPT ______________________ 3. VALID ______________________
4. SKATE ______________________ 4. CHASMY ______________________
5. BYGONE ______________________ 5. SLOWER ______________________
6. CHEBEC ______________________ 6. REGATTA ______________________
7. SAMPLE ______________________ 7. SCOOTCH ______________________

8. ARCHERY ______________________ 8. STUBBLEY ______________________

9. LAWNCUT ______________________ 9. TRAMWALK ______________________
10. HOGMANAYS ______________________ 10. WISENLARGE ______________________
FAMILY THREE FAMILY FOUR
Category: ______________________ Category: ______________________
1. MOWER ______________________ 1. CRAVE ______________________
2. SEPIA ______________________ 2. DAKOIT ______________________
3. MENIAL ______________________ 3. FIANCE ______________________
4. NUTRIA ______________________ 4. PECTEN ______________________
5. ORANGE ______________________ 5. RHYMES ______________________
6. EVINCED ______________________ 6. SNOOTY ______________________
7. OVERRAN ______________________ 7. ADJOURN ______________________
8. SPANGLE ______________________ 8. HOPPLES ______________________
9. LONGBOAT ______________________ 9. NORLAND ______________________
10. FLUORCENE ______________________ 10. JOCKMANS ______________________

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 )ǣǘǤȨǚ3ǚ4ǗǒǒǠȨǙ FOLD THIS PAGE
8ǤȨ;ǝǚǠȰƅǙ1ǝǙǘ3ǚǞȨǚǓ'ǚǝǙǙǕǝǚȰ
&Ǔ&ǝȲ7ǘǣǥǥȨǚ BY HARVEY ESTES
ANSWERS, PAGE 80

PUZZLE 1 -ǘƅǙȳ7ǘȳǚǘ
In this puzzle, you must alter each clue either by The crossword on this and the next two pages has two
deleting the name of a Greek letter from a word or independent sets of clues: “Hard” and “Easy.” First, fold this page
back on the dashed line so the clues below face the solving grid
by substituting a homophone for one word. For on page 69. If you use only the Hard Clues (appearing below and
example, if the clue “Mules” appeared in the puzzle, continuing under the grid), you’ll find the puzzle uncommonly
the true clue might be either “Les” or “Mewls.” challenging. If you want help, or prefer a less severe challenge,
open to the Easy Clues (tucked in beneath your fold on page 68).
1 2 3 4
T
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 %'6377  Went a round Descendant of
5 Start of a quote  Petty on the 86-Across
T 
 Beam splitter screen They’re baseless
 Ravine  Expensive bars Division, for
 Boar’s Head  Frat letter example
Inn patron  Profligate Waldorf salad
6
G  Mark replacer  Noted Titanic ingredient
Carrying cargo
 Major artery victim
 Love Story  Mar. honoree Mower make
costar  They’re not too Attacked,
7
I  Operatic standard sharp
 Peter’s A Shot in
perhaps
August
 Ides words
 Garden variety the Dark costar Craters of the
 %'6377 DOWN  Guitarist Moon locale
1 Monuments 1 Profit from the Bible  Former Amer-
ican Idol judge Montgomery Fen denizen
5 Graphite 2 Foolish guise Sound quality Plaster base
 Vituperating
6 Carhop 3 Minotaur Name in Missing people
 Of the
7 Mocking Hertz 4 Slays Ethiopian history Green Party
breastbone
 Fencing piece Spring purchase figure
PUZZLE 2 French Refuse
 Fake baubles
In this puzzle, you must alter each clue either by department Buck chaser
 Rectifies
adding the word “blue” or by deleting one word. Segar character Tuned in
 Split in the cold
For example, if the clue “Reddish hues” appeared Lint collecter Vexes, with “at”
 Calder work
in the puzzle, the true clue would be “Reddish blue Where to find a Hearing, say
 USN officer
snow bunny
hues,” “Reddish,” or “Hues.”  It goes with Denpasar’s
the flow
1 2 3 4 island  (3;2
O  What pumps
lack
1950’s-’60s  Duffer’s doodads
Illinois senator  Bloblike Star
 A dancing PLO VIP Wars alien
Castle  Illustrator of
5 Pudding
B 

Skinny
Eagerly
ingredients the 1920s
Sicilian smoker  Fruit that aids
anticipate digestion
Central
 And the like American export  Transfers of
6  They’re shaped funds
B by current events
Pedal digits
Falafel holder  401(k)
 Doctors socks alternative
Wet blanket
 ___ man  Hoosegow
(early human) Krypton, for one
7  Put in irons
Y  Reserved Zip
Pretty  Be successful
 Observance  ___ tear
 Cognac bottle Rug-cutting site
 %'6377 DOWN They can be  Start another
letters hitch
1 Artist associated 1 Star of the movie major in music
 Bodine portrayer
with a period Hawaii Sole mate  Bashes
 Stamp on a  It gives
5 Uniform buttons 2 Rocky III pugilist cast listing Major finale
6 Politically speaking Killer Lang  Enter into “Tabula rasa”  Ancestor
7 Football jersey 3 Where nudists might philosopher  Enzyme suffix
conflict
measurement quickly turn? Met highlights  Romantic
 1988 role for souvenirs
4 Ground cover Sigourney Camp Swampy
dog  Ooze
 More flushed
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  %'6377 98 Scream director Craven 3 Art Deco designer 88 Standoffish

1 Start of a quote 100 Inflection 4 More of the quote 89 “Never mind!”: 2 wds.
5 Rainbow maker 101 Selassie of Ethiopia 5 Tropical fruit 91 “Keep your ___ on!”
10 Stuff oneself 102 Watermelon throwaways 6 Investment transfers 92 Got gas: 2 wds.
15 Henry IV rogue 103 France’s longest river 7 Lyricist Gershwin 93 Business suit pattern
23 Continental coin 105 Popeye kid 8 Mix the batter 94 Estranges
24 Main line from the heart 107 Bellybutton type 9 In chains 95 Adolescents
25 Cager Shaquille 108 Isn’t on the level 10 Be successful in life: 99 Pirate’s loot
26 Classic Italian song: 3 wds. 109 Java’s neighbor 2 wds. 104 Ruhr valley city
27 Caesar’s reproach to 110 Former Illinois senator 11 “Hold ___ second…”: 2 wds. 106 Harvard student’s rival
Brutus: 2 wds. Everett 12 Enlist again 108 Worrisome economic
28 Unadorned 112 Palestinian leader Yasir 13 Grand parties condition
29 Singer Abdul 117 Pear-shaped fruits 14 Waistband material 111 The Beatles’ “___ Loser”:
30 Bad-mouthing 118 More of the quote 15 Ancestor 2 wds.
31 Of the breastbone 121 Volcano in E. Sicily: 2 wds. 16 Wall St. group: Abbr. 112 Tolerate
33 Subway track 122 Monkey treats 17 Notes from sweethearts: 113 Rushed toward: 2 wds.
35 Sticky stuff 124 “Little piggies” 2 wds. 114 In regard to
37 Corrects, as text 126 Pocket bread 18 Snail trail 115 Absurd comedy
38 More of the quote 128 Bummer 19 Prefix with prompter 116 Kick off a poker hand
40 British fellow 129 Helium or neon: 2 wds. 20 Ugandan despot Idi 119 Clichéd dog name
42 Modern art sculpture 131 Nothing at all: 3 wds. 21 Discovery 120 More of the quote
44 Fleet leader, for short 136 To a degree 22 Heavy mists 123 Where they do hair
47 Volcano flow 137 Site of the action at a 32 Carter and Gwyn 125 Slugger Sammy
48 Shoestrings nightclub: 2 wds. 34 10 Things ___ About You: 127 Like some jokes
50 Cara of Fame 140 Certain chords 2 wds. 130 Termed as such: Hyph.
51 Inside scoop 141 Shoe part 36 Poi source 132 Six years, for a U.S.
55 Slobber 142 Bachelor follower 39 More of the quote senator
57 And so forth: 2 wds. 143 Sondra of Bronco Billy 41 Prefix with scope 133 People in cockpits
59 Where the water meets 144 Operatic solos 43 Map within a map 134 “Far out!”
the land 145 Preminger or Klemperer 44 Speaks to 135 Tattered and torn: 2 wds.
61 Mends socks 147 Letter before tee 45 Downspout 136 Sales rep's goal
62 Zimbabwe dweller, once 148 False rumors 46 Homeowner, usually 138 Gumbo veggie
64 Not outspoken 150 Arithmetic 49 Car from Sweden 139 Otis of blues
65 ___ of passage 151 More of the quote 51 Chopped into small pieces 146 African fly
66 Brandy bottle abbr. 153 Brownie bit, perhaps 52 Upturned, as a box: 148 Call evil upon
67 Max of The Beverly 157 Weighed down 2 wds. 149 Family vehicle
Hillbillies 159 Mower brand 53 Brit’s pocket change 152 With 179 Across, end of
70 Billy Budd star Stamp 161 Accepted eagerly: 2 wds. 54 Fragrant compound the quote and the author’s
71 Mesh, as gears 165 Like old Rome 56 Like a Las Vegas bandit: name
73 More of the quote 167 State known for potatoes Hyph. 153 Columnist George
78 Gorilla expert Fossey 169 “Snowy” bird 58 They catch robbers 154 Mine, in Montréal:
80 More sunburned 171 Wooden strip 60 Milan money of old 2 wds.
81 Practiced boxing 172 Eager for company 63 Gymnast Comaneci 155 Some hosp. workers,
83 Petty of A League of 173 Consumer advocate Ralph 66 Neckline shape briefly
Their Own 174 Metal refuse 68 Genius Albert 156 Former depilatory brand
84 Gold bars 175 Ending for buck or stink 69 Convertible, slangily 158 Nothing in Nogales
86 Greek S 176 Paid attention 72 Hula skirt material 160 Fairy tale bad guy
87 Spendthrift 177 Bites like a beaver 74 Evil twin, e.g.: 2 wds. 162 Sour
90 Fur trader John Jacob 178 Good judgment 75 “…___ a lender be” 163 From ___ (fully): 3 wds.
91 March 17 parade honoree, 179 See 152-Down 76 Barrymore of 50 First Dates 164 Biblical pronoun
informally: 2 wds. 77 More of the quote 166 ___ Zion church
96 Tools for duels (3;2 79 Peter of Herman’s Hermits 168 Chop down
97 The Prisoner of Zenda 1 Golf pegs 82 Reside 170 Harry Potter's
actress Sommer 2 Jabba the ___ 85 Tire pattern pal Weasley

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35 36 37

38 39 40 41 42 43

44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54

55 56 57 58 59 60

61 62 63 64

65 66 67 68 69 70

71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80

81 82 83 84 85

86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95

96 97 98 99 100 101

102 103 104 105 106 107

108 109 110 111

112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121

122 123 124 125 126 127 128

129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136

137 138 139 140 141

142 143 144 145 146 147

148 149 150 151 152

153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164

ANSWER, PAGE 80
1165 166 167 168 169 170 171

172 173 174 175

176 177 178 179

19 Tubby intro 63 Memorable gymnastics 99 Kidd stuff 134 Swell

20 Raid on Entebbe role name 104 Where the Krupps worked 135 Torn to pieces
21 Come across 66 Sign of triumph 106 Pharmaceutical chemist 136 Import restriction
22 Steams up 68 Brain Lilly 138 Cajun dish ingredient
32 Carter and others 69 Convertible 108 Economic woe of the 139 “King of Soul”
34 The ___ to Cook Book 72 Timothy, e.g. 1970s 146 Dangerous carrier
36 Starchy root 74 Hyde, to Jekyll 111 Philanthropist Hogg 148 Mummy’s tomb protection
41 Roz’s portrayer on Frasier 75 Easter’s beginning? 112 Stomach 149 Body type
43 Atlas enlargement 76 Pulled out a piece 113 Charged 153 Determination
44 Talks to 79 Peter of ‘60s pop 114 About 154 Mine in France
45 Discharge conduit 82 Linger 115 Wilde work 155 Hosp. staffers
46 Bank client 85 Word on a Revolutionary 116 Get the pot going 156 Onetime Nair rival
49 Swedish aircraft firm flag 119 Cleaner target 158 Zilch
51 Cut into cubes 88 Reserved 123 Clip joint? 160 Fabled fiend
52 Seemingly eternally 89 “Forget about that” 125 1998 National League 162 Fruity pastry
53 Pound parts 91 Gambler’s loss, figuratively MVP Sammy 163 The gamut
54 Volatile compound 92 Plastered 127 Bland 164 Grand
56 Like some casino machines 93 Clothes line 130 Designated thus 166 French soul
58 The heat 94 Turns off 132 Quarter, e.g. 168 Fell
60 Old Italian bread 95 Some youth 133 United workers 170 Wood of the Stones

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 ANSWERS
3 I MIXED DOUBLES 4 I 52-SKIDDOO
Q U W
S Q U A S H E S M A R I J U A N A
L I E D S
B U Z Z E D N U T S W I L D E B E E S T
G S
T H
E
E L O S T
A C
B O Y S
O V E R E X P O S E
K O O D L C S V P I C K A X
V I E W B R A V E L I C K E D
M C B Y E R N J U R I S T
M I
X
L K Y W
S I
A Y
S
B A D T A S
U T
T E
S
S C U L P T O R
R E S I G N R A T E S P A C K F R A T R I C I D E
R N D O R T L H
R U B Y T U E S D A Y W H E R E V E R
P A N
P L U G
T E
S A F E T Y
P A T C H W O R K
S O E O A A R B I T R A T O R
C U L T U R E S
T S M D E F L E C T I N G
Clue pairs S Q U E A L E D
Across: 1/19, 2/13, 3/25, 4/30, 5/12, 6/31, 7/24, 8/17,
9/15, 10/29, 11/22, 12/5, 13/2, 14/21, 15/9, 16/28, O N L O O K E R
17/8, 18/27, 19/1, 20/26, 21/14, 22/11, 23/32, 24/7, O C C L U D E D
25/3, 26/20, 27/18, 28/16, 29/10, 30/4, 31/6, 32/23
C O X C O M B
Down: 1/21, 2/17, 3/22, 4/11, 5/24, 6/35, 7/16, 8/34, A B D O M E N
9/36, 10/25, 11/4, 12/15, 13/27, 14/33, 15/12, 16/7, P L O T T I N G
17/2, 18/30, 19/32, 20/23, 21/1, 22/3, 23/20, 24/5,
25/10, 26/29, 27/13, 28/31, 29/26, 30/18, 31/28,
S T E V E D O R E
32/19, 33/14, 34/8, 35/6, 36/9 L E G I B L Y
5 I PENCIL POINTERS 1
S T R E N U O U S
M Y S T I Q U E
F V F U V O C I F E R A T E
I R I S H W O L F H O U N D S
Z Y D E C O
N O S O H S O A N G E R E D
A S I M A L T R E L E A R N C I T Y W I D E
N E T E L O I S E I D I N A K L U T Z I E R
C C I T E A L E T N A
I O N H C L U E R O A M S
W O R K F A R E
A L G A E C A P S G E E
L O T T A O S C A R I E S T 66 I FAMILY REUNIONS CATEGORIES
T R E A T E R W A R E S Family One: Hardwoods
R E A R E N D E P E E I S T Family Two: Chain retailers
A D M I R E S P E N N Z O I L Family Three: Italian cities
N R T E A T A B L E Family Four: Famous people named Michael/Mike
E S O P H A G I F E A S T S
A L B A N Y N E W Y O R K E 10 I MOUSE PARTY
C A J U N N E O O R D S
8. “The Fall of the House of
1. House hunting Usher” (or movie house)
T L E R U P T I V E T 2. House dressing 9. Drinks (are) on the house
K I S S E D R N A B S M A R 3. House arrest 10. Bringing down the
O N A D A T E D U A L R O L E 4. Full house house (or firehouse)
N A M I B I A N S L E E V E S 5. Toll House cookies 11. House rules
6. Speaker of the House 12. The House of Seven
S P E N S E R B E L T L E S S
7. A house divided Gables

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 ANSWERS
7 I HEY, BIG SPENDER! 6 I MATCHBOXES
Puzzle 1, top to bottom: sphere, prism, pyramid, trapezoid,
M E R I T P A N T S N A P pentagon, triangle, circle, cylinder, rectangle, cone.
A C U R A O N E S W A K E Puzzle 2, top to bottom: poker, pinochle, casino, solitaire,
T H E S K Y S T H E L I M I T hearts, skat, canasta, baccarat, cribbage, bridge.
S O D E A T E R O V E N S
8 I KID STUFF: COMPUTER TALK
P A L S U A V E
R E N E W E D R E L I V E S A V E O F F I C E S
E V I T A E A R L R O N P I I R N C
M O N E Y I S N O O B J E C T A R M I C R O S O F T C T R L
M O U S E O U E O E
U K E B I T S L U N A R S M O N I T O R R D E
S E R E N E S T A T E L Y P O E I N T E R N E T
L O T S A I C E E R R O R U R L A S Y
A T L A S C R A N K A S A I Y L A P P
N B L V E
W H A T E V E R I T C O S T S
T R C U R S O R F I L E
E R I E A N O N A W E E K E I O C O N R
D U D S N E W T T E A M S P R O G R A M A W K
H M N S K C
G T A U N D E R L I N E O
9 I KID STUFF: JOKE BOXES T O U C H N I E Y N
1. What did the big flower say to the little flower? O L D O W N L O A D O P E N
“Hi there, bud.” G I G D A E
2. Why can Mount Everest hear everything you say? L C D O C
Because it’s covered with mountaineers. D E S K T O P T
3. Who writes nursery rhymes and squeezes oranges?
Mother Juice. 12 I QUOTE BOXES
7 I REIGNING CATS AND DOGS 1. Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be
useful, or believe to be beautiful.
1. Dog days 8. Catskills —William Morris
2. The Cat in the Hat 9. Doggy bag 2. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability
3. “Cat’s in the Cradle” 10. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
4. Wag the Dog 11. Cat Cora —Audre Lorde
5. Let the cat out of the bag 12. Cat Stevens 3. Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand,
6. “Black Dog” 13 Slumdog Millionaire as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply
necessary to love.
7. Underdog 14. Dogface
—Claude Monet

13 I SLITHERLINK
❶ ❷ ❸ ❹
3 3 2 3 3 3 1 1 3 0 1 0 3 2 2 3 0 1 3 2 2 3 2 2 3 2
2 0 3 3 0 3 2 3 3 3
1 1 1 2 1 2 3 3 1 3 2 2 2
0 2 3 3 2 2 0 2 2 1 2 1 3 2 3 2 3 3 1 2
0 1 3 0 3 0 3 3 3 1
2 3 0 3 3 3 3 1 2 0 3 0 2
3 2 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 0 0 2 3 2 2 2
3 2 0 2 3 3 0 3 2 2 0 0 1 3 1
2 0 0 3 2 2 2 1 1 3 3 0
3 1 3 3 3 2 3 2 1 1 3 1 2 2 2 3 2 0 2
2 3 3 3 0 1 2 2 2
2 2 2 0 3 3
3 1 3 3 1 3 1 3 2 2 2 3
3 3 1 2 3 3
14 I A-PLUS STARTING HINT 2 1 2 1 3 1
1 3 2 2 3 2 1 3 3 3 1 2 1 3 3
The first word across is ASTRIDE.

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 ANSWERS
14 I A-PLUS 22 I SQUARE ROUTES

A A A A A A A A A A A

A
R
M V
G
E T
A S
Y
T R
K
I D
A
E
A
R
T E
L
U P
A C
O
I D
A
R A
N
I N
G
H S I F E E L I F
B
A
I
N
A L
U
A R
O
U M
A P P
D
E A
L
L A
R
N A
P
T U
D
R A
E
L
S A B L A N K E T
A N
D
A G R A
D
M Y
A L
N
T A L
C
O M A
S
T
R
A A W
U
N E
A
D
A F T E R I X H G
A O R T A L C S A M P E D T S
W E C C T C G S N
A R O M A R C H A I C I A A H E A P
A R T C R I M E T O B A B R A H A M R E F A A H H I N T I
C L T R E R C P E O S M A
A T L A W A I R C A D E T A A A R R A C K R S T A N D A R D
I M A G R V A N I M E I
A C A P U L C O O A A N B A B A C A B A O N I P E G I A
W N C A W K W A R D A P R I L R T
A T N I G H T E H U R O B T P M G O R S M O K E
R U E A S C I I A N U B I S A Q U I L A
D A M O R I O I N R A E L C S U M M E R
A L L E Y O O P A L L S T A R A N Y B O D Y

18 I PENCIL POINTERS 2 19 I THE SPIRAL

U T
H P H
S T A R T R E K D I S C O V E R Y
B N A
R T
O B E R O N E N T E R I N T O
E M
T U L I P S B E A R R I V E R
A S E N
A S I D E U G E O Y K D B E E
L I V E R P A T E S R O F
O P E E T S C T
L T S O S A
E V E N S U P S C A R E
C E S T B O S S B A T T L E S MD E
R L R M
L T A O R A I T T
I R L Y T G
R I C H A R D M A R X U G G R
A I C O I
P R I C E R A N G E C O N G A O
S A O A W
S U R E H A N D E D K N E E D
C F E T
F E D E R A T I O N S D N A
E I S P S S A
O E B B A U T E U R T
R E S E T
I F S I E C T O T H E R M I C
R L T I M E Y R
T A L C O N E I L L A
H B O P E T E R H O T T E A A L I B R B D
E R A D I C A T E O S N B A E
I L E B
S I D P O L T E R G E I S T S
A T N
U N I P L E A S E A D V I S E
B O
N A N N I E S E M B O S S E D

29 I FLUSTERED

1 O H E M 2 D S O M 3 N R O S
T R U W H N T L F C D T
N B P I A R K P L A K E
A C L D E C I W G W H U

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 ANSWERS
20 I CRYPTOLISTS 15 I HEY JA! 23 I BATTLESHIPS

1. HORROR HOSTS ǙȨȳǟȳǞ

Sir Graves Ghastly
B H R A
Count Floyd
S E L G N O B T
Vampira
R L T W P U K I R R E
Morgus the Magnificent
H A R A H A M O L S S
Joe Bob Briggs
E P U I S T V E U L
Elvira
U N P N A N S M N I C O
Sinister Seymour
L I C P R H D A P A R C P
Ghoulardi ǜȨǘǘǓǝǦǦǣȱȨǚ
E C K E O M T V V E E Y
Svengoolie
L I S R F N I N G E R D L
Dr. Shock
L D S I A I G I A K Y O

A E M W L T C C K C G
2. ONE HIT WONDERS,
H M Z A A K O X A
’70S EDITION
U I Z C D S P A C E M
Afternoon Delight
S C I O K S K P T S
Cars
A M O A T T C Y C E R
Seasons in the Sun
D P B A O T C
Kung Fu Fighting ȨǞǙǣǥǞ
P I E H I
My Sharona
Undercover Angel
Spirit in the Sky
In the Summertime 16 I SOLITAIRE HANGMAN
Rock On I. HONEYCOMB VII. HYPNOTIZE
You Light Up My Life
II. NEWCOMER VIII. QUIBBLE
3. CATALOG OF III. NEIGHBORLY IX. GAZPACHO
ȱȳǜǘȳǣǞ
CATALOGS IV. OBJECTIVE X. ACROPHOBIA
Hammacher Schlemmer V. METABOLIC XI. TYPEFACE
L.L.Bean VI. SWITCHBACK XII. BOXWOOD
Eddie Bauer
Pottery Barn
IKEA 21 I LOSING IT
Lands’ End
Vermont Country Store A R I S T O N A S A L S L R

Lillian Vernon D E N I E D E R N I E T E A R ȱǝǟǟǝȰǝǚȨ

Talbots L E A R N E R S P E R M O N M E

 :MGXSVMEƅW7IGVIXɸ I S L E T I S E E S M O R E

B E L P I G G R O S S P R O F

4. MYSTERY LIST J O C O S E R I N S E D

(Things that are red) R E D A L E R T R A D S

Bureaucrat’s tape E R O D E I R A T E A C H E

Fire engine N I N E B A N K D E B F R A Y

Some states, politically D E E D L E T O N G R O V E ȳȰǟǣǚȳǠ

Veterans Day Poppy L O I S E S C R O W E D

Badge of Courage T O O T O O A R E N A S

Autumn leaves B U L L Y P U L P I N N O L A
Embarrassed person U N D E R I P O S D I V E D
Ripe tomato R I P A O N E A R M E D B A N D
Kidney beans N C A R E A G L E M A I L T O
“Office Space” stapler S L Y R E E L S O D D S O N

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WILD CARDS

26 CONCERT AT THE SPECTRUM 26 KNIGHT LIFE 27 WHAT'S THE CATCH?

1. Blue Öyster Cult The answers all contain
2. Cream 14 9 4 names of fish.
3. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band 1. Ob(sole)te
4. Golden Earring 2. (Shad)ow
5. Green Day 2 7 12 15 10 3. Cro(cod)ile
6. Black Sabbath 4. For(tuna)te
7. Pink Floyd 13 16 3 8 5 5. C(remora)
8. Whitesnake 6. Darj(eel)ing
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers 1 6 11 7. S(pike) Lee
10. Deep Purple 8. Am(bass)ador
26 ON THE FLY 9. (Carp)ort
26 CREATURE FEATURE A major airport in each city is named after 10. Ci(gar)
Ghost Rider a former president: 11. (Porgy) and Bess
Race to Witch Mountain Dickinson, ND: Theodore Roosevelt 12. C(ray)ons
An American Werewolf in London Grand Rapids, MI: Gerald Ford
Houston, TX: George H.W. Bush 13. (Shark)ey
The Princess and the Goblin
Little Rock, AR: Bill (and Hillary) Clinton 14. (Perch)ance
Monster-in-Law
New York City, NY: John F. Kennedy 15. S(hake)speare
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln
I Walked with a Zombie 16. (Herring)bone
Washington, D.C.: Ronald Reagan
The Devil Bat Wichita, KS: Dwight Eisenhower 17. Cheap(skate)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 18. Jackson (Pollock)
The Mummy Returns 27 “THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS…”
1-m (Carousel) 8-a (Sweeney Todd) 42 I PRESIDENTS
2-l (The Odd Couple) 9-k (Oklahoma!)
26 LOGIC FOR KIDS
3-b (Cats) 10-c (1776)
FROM A TO Z
There are 13 kids in the club: one age 12, two
age 11 (Doug and his twin), three age 10 4-h (The Pajama Game) 11-i (The King and I)
5-j (Guys and Dolls) 12-e (Annie Get Your Gun) A. John Adams
(including Amy), four age 9 (including Carol),
6-d (Annie) 13-g (West Side Story) B. James Buchanan
two age 8 (including Bobby), and one age 7.
7-f (Fiddler on the Roof) C. Calvin Coolidge
D. Thomas Dewey
E. Eighteenth
24 I ART ON THE SQUARE 28 I CODE CROSSWORDS Amendment
(Prohibition)
V I S I T E D D I S M A Y S F. Millard Fillmore
E A O E E W P E
R A P E U P H E M I S T I C
G. Ulysses S. Grant
T P I R G O H. Herbert Hoover
I D Y L L I C S U S T A I N I. Inauguration
G A T K W D J. Thomas
O P A Q U E G I R A F F E S Jefferson
D D S N G U
J U M P S U I T H A R L O T
K. John F. Kennedy
E I X G I R L. Abraham Lincoln
R A T T R A P A M N E S I A M. James Monroe
S E E Z E V (Monrovia,
E M O T I O N L E S S R U E capital
Y A G C B U V L
of Liberia)
S Y R I N G E O M E L E T S
N. Richard Nixon
O. Barack Obama
D E S I G N E R O A F I S H P. James Polk
I A L N O U N A Q. Quincy (John
S E N I O R S P I N B A L L Quincy Adams)
O C R L A T P L
W I T T Y A L L Y S P A M
R. Ronald Reagan
N I V S C L A S. Senators
S M A S H E S C O Z I E R T. John Tyler
A O I D P E C K U. United Nations
N I N E T Y C A R D I A C V. Martin Van Buren
A I E Q R B H
R O O F J U D O V O I C E
W. Washington, D.C.
C U G I X A L I X. X
H U S T L E R Y E L L I N G Y. Brigham Young
I L U K S E T H Z. Zachary Taylor
C R Y P T S A M E T H Y S T

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30 I BOOMERANGS

❶ ❷ ❸

❹ ❺ ❻ ❼

❽ ❾

31 I HELTER-SKELTER 32 I ONE, TWO, THREE

S PR OUT CA B LE D CH AM P S
HO OP LA ST OO G E INA M ERI CA
T HE W HO LE K IT AN D CAB O OD LE
PUT T ING ST RO KE S IST INE
CO CK E REL RES TS T OP S
BLO OD CO UNT P E CAN S OD ENS E
G E NT RY E ASE D BON D E D
PO SS E THU RS DA YS APP LES A UCE
ST A NDS ONE ND TES TRI D E
FOR ER UN P EC T O RA L
E VER Y TH ING BUT TH E K IT CHE NS INK
L AND AR EA TE A R ER R ACK ED
DER A N GES RED NE S S S ING IN

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33 I CHANGE OF ART

50 I SPLIT DECISIONS®

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 ANSWERS
39 I TILE MATH
d
7 =
3 2
5

< > 3

s 3

51 I DOUBLE CROSS 49 I 500 RUMMY

A. MOUNTAIN N. THE ODYSSEY
B E E F A L O
B. IL TROVATORE O. ADELE 4 4 4 5 6 7 8 38
C. CAUSE P. KANGAROO RAT
D. HYENA Q. EAGLE EYE C O N I F E R
A 2 3 4 A A A 13
E. ARCHER R. INUNDATE
F. ENRAGE S. TUPPENNY C O N T O R T
G. LENNY T. FAUNA A 2 3 8 8 8 8 38
H. LINUS PAULING U. RUBBERY F E T L O C K
I. ESTRAGON V. OBDURATE 5 5 5 7 8 9 10 49
J. VLADIMIR W. MAYFLY F O N T I N A
K. INDEED X. MATTHEW ARNOLD 3 3 3 10 J Q K 49
L. NEAL STEPHENSON Y. EUGENE LEVY F L O A T E R
M. ENTROPY 3 3 3 7 8 9 10 43
Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you F L O T S A M
do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus 3 3 3 8 9 10 J 46
talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; F R E C K L E
talent and no energy and you are a pauper.—Michael Levine, (quoting A A A 9 10 J Q 42
Jeffrey Archer in) Take It From Me
L I M A C O N
J J J J A 2 3 46
52 I ROLL 'EM
L O B E L I A
2 3 4 5 J J J 44
M E R C K P U E B L O O L I V I E R
M U S K R A T
C U P U L E I N R O A D H O S A N N A J Q K 10 10 10 10 70
A S I S A Y C R I N G E G R A N D L Y
P R E F E C T
P I C K U P S T I C K S S O D C I A O 7 8 9 5 5 5 5 44
I C U S A T U P B E D P L A I N P R E T E E N
T A R S D A R E S C I C E L I 7 8 9 10 Q Q Q 64
A L E U T B E N T A V E K A B I L A P R E T Z E L
L L A M A S S E A V O S E T U D E S 7 8 9 10 2 2 2 40
S Y N P H I D R S E U S S O R L O N P U L S A T E
E O N S E L A I N E N E N E 7 7 7 6 7 8 9 51
R R S S O F T B A L L C O A C H S E R R E L E A R N
H A L T T R U I S M N I L E A 2 3 4 K K K 40
I D E A L A F G H A N S L A T A M A R E T I N U E
8 9 10 J Q Q Q 67
N O E X I T F O R A Y N T U R N O N
O N T I M E S T A P N O M P L A N E S W A T T E R
6 6 6 6 8 9 10 51
D E C A R M E D N A S S L I M
T O R T O N I
C A M A Y I C Y I V I E S O T O 8 8 8 8 2 3 4 41
A D E N A S K W E L C O M E W A G O N
W A S T R E L
P U R C E L L T H R O A T S A F I R E 6 6 6 6 A 2 3 30
A L L E N D E R E M O T E A M A Z E S
S T E R E O S W E A K E R W I R E D Total Score 906

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54 I SETKA

H R C S M D
G S N D W
M C R D S H L R Y W
S D G W N
D H S M C R W Y R L
W N S G D
C M D R H S R W L Y
D G W N S
R S M H D C Y L W R
N W D S G
S D H C R M

CLUE ANSWERS: CLUE ANSWERS: CLUE ANSWERS:

1. Heroic (HRC) 1. Will (WL) 1. Disguised (DSG)
2. Sis (S) 2. Eeyore (YR) 2. Don (DN)
3. Mad (MD) 3. We (W) 3. Winded (WND)
4. Medici (MDC) 4. Leery (LRY) 4. News (NWS)
5. Credo (CRD) 5. R[BG](R) 5. Wiig (WG)
6. Sheer (SHR) 6. Yellow (YLW) 6. Swag (SWG)
7. SMH [Shaking My Head] (SMH) 7. L (L) 7. Snag (SNG)
8. Camus (CMS) 8. Yo-yo (Y) 8. Dad (D)
9. Shred (SHRD) 9. War (WR) 9. Unwind (NWD)
10. Ruse (RS) 10. Sage (SG)
11. MH [Mata Hari] (MH)
12. Cad (CD) 13. Do (D)
14. Choice (CH) 56 I PAINT BY NUMBERS
15. Mr. (MR)

1. TOURIST 2. DUCK
53 I SIAMESE TWINS

M U F F I N M A N O P S 5. HOUSE
I L L A T E A S E V I P
S T U N T B I K E E N O
T R I L E D E R E R
S A D D A Y D Y N A S T
O R E S C L O Y
J A C K A N D J I L L
L O T T L O A N
A B L O O M G R O P E S
3. HOURGLASS 4. SKULL
S H A R P E I A V E
H U R T A C O S A L A D
E N G I R O N O X I D E
S T E C A N O P E N E R 8. WITCH

D R U R Y L A N E I R E
R A T P O I S O N N I L
O N E M O M E N T S P Y
N O R A E R A T E S
E N O U G H T Y R O N E
N E O N C R E E
P A I L O F W A T E R 6. PEGASUS 7. GUITARIST
F E S S L O N I
A L I E N S E N C A M P
J I N X I N G B A R
I C I C O L D A S I C E
T A N A R E A C O D E S
A N E D E N S E N E S S

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60 I CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1
ACROSS: 1. Forest ranger (fore + stranger); 8. Martini (Martin + I); 9. 7IPƼWLWIPPƁPƼWL 11. Omits (Tom is); 12. Peninsula (lines up an);
13. England (glen and); 14. Salient (propoSAL I ENTertain); 16. Inspect (pins, etc.); 19. Compete (come + pet); 21. ,IEHWXSRILIEHWXSRI 
23. Board (bored); 24. Dippers (red pips); 25. Trade-in (tried an); 26.1SROI]WLMRIWQSROI]IWWLMR

DOWN: 1. Farming (far + Ming); 2. Reinstate (rein + state); 3. Slipped (sped + lip); 4. Resents (Sterne’s); 5. Nylon (funNY LONg); 6. Epicure (pure
ice); 7. -QTSZIVMWLIHMQTSZIV-WLIH  10.,IEVXVIRHMRKLIEVMRKXVIRH 15. Lamebrain (marine lab); 17.7LEQTSSWLEQTSSVƁV 18.
Trotsky (trots + KY); 19.'LIIXELLIEX'LI 20.)REQIPWXIRƁXGEQIPWƁG 22. Sleek (keels)

61 I CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2 62 I REPORT CARD

ACROSS: 1. Rack-O (baRACK Obama); 4.*SVIWMKLXWSVIƼKLX 9. Kalamazoo
(lama + kazoo); 10. Remit (timer); 11. 2IMKLIH+IRILMH 12. Capital (two
R U B L E S D E F N R O C
meanings); 13. Jamaican (jam + A-1 + can); 16. Input (Putin); 19.'LIETG A H R A T E A M Q U E S O
LIET 20. Believer (B + Eli + ever); 22. One-star (Senator); 24. Quixote (quote
+ i,x); 26. La Paz (pal + AZ); 27. Veal stock (V + Coke salt); 28. Desert rat D E E D S A R O U T C W L
(desert + rat) ; 29. Treed (deer + t) I N A D E W K T I J A I L
DOWN: 1.6EOMRKFEVFE6%/-2+WSPZIV 2. Cultivate (cult + IV + ate); 3. I N D I C A T E D O P S I
3SQTLQTL 4.*E^IHTLEWIH 5. Root canal (A colorant); 6. Strip
mine (spirit men); 7.+EQYXKEQIƁI98 8. Totality (t + alit + toy); 14. C A T E P R O R O B B E D
Appetizer (prize paté, & lit.); 15. Cabdriver (carve bird); 17.4LIVSQSRITLSRI A T H A N D L E G M A D E
+ more); 18.7GLSSPIHW'LSSPIH 21. Peaked (piqued); 23. Expos
(complEX POSsibly); 24. Quant (q,u + ant); 25. Inset (Stein) T O T C M E D I C A T E S
C A F E A V B F R O H R C
63 I SPOONERISMS H D A T R I O O L I M B O
W E D R I N G S L A S H E E R I E A L O E S A Y U
I W O O D E N E O N T E R E D C E N T G U T T E R
S E E B E T L E V I E D ACROSS DOWN
H S N W A T A M E N A G 1 Rules (rues + L) ­ 1 Radii (rad + II)
D R I E S L R E M A K E Rubles 2 &VIEXL&IVXLE ­
5 Corned (C + drone) &VIEHXL
A C C E D E S D A H S S ­ Corn-fed 3 Laddie (add + lie)
U Q E D V S O P T O I L 11 A team (ate + a.m.) 4 Seward (SE + ward)
G U N S O D R S C U B A 12 5YIWSYRM59)73VX ­ Seaward
H A Y P I K E E H D R M 13 Deeds (dee + D + S) 5 Dark (D + ark)
14 Rout (R + out) 6 Emote (e + tome)
T R E A D S T E D I U M
16 Dew (we’d) 7 Nutjob (but Jon)
E T T Y E S O K I N D E 17 Jail (J + ail) 8 Reap (pear) ­ Recap
R O T S D R E S S I E R 18 Indicted (ind. + cited) 9 Collie (c + Ollie) ­
­ Indicated Collide
ACROSS DOWN 20 4WMWMKL 10 ,IRRE%RRIL
1 Redwings (grid’s new) 1 (MWL[EXIVLIVHW[EMX 21 Cate (pontifiCATEd) 12 Quid (two meanings)
7 0EWL,EPƅWFMRH[MXLGSVHW 2 )[IW]I[ƅWPEH]WLIIT 22 4VSTVSQƁQ 15 ;MWI[L]W
10 Wooden (woo + den; built 3 No dice (nod + ice) 23 Robed (Bored) ­ 19 Told (t + old)
of teak) 4 Ideas (Ides + a) Robbed 21 'EXLIV'EXLIV ­
12 Beset (best + E) 5 Nettles (Lee’s + TNT) 25 %XLERH,EX(ER 'EXGLIV
13 Levied (led + I’ve) 6 Seemed (see + Dem.) 28 0IKGSP0)+I 23 +SSMIV33-+IV 
15 Nametag (gateman) 7 0SZIQEXGLX[SQIERMRKW 29 Made (maid) ­+SSJMIV
16 Dries (rides; gets sere) 8 7XIEOWW/EXIƅW8ƁFSRIW 31 8SXXSXIƁI 24 &EXLQEXXLEX1&%
17 Remake (rake + me) 9 7PIHKILEQQIV1EVKIƄW 33 Mediates (Media + set) 26 Toad (dot + a)
18 Accedes (axe seeds) LIPHƄIQ ­ Medicates 27 Acetic (Cacti + E)
23 Topsoil (spot + oil) 11 Nina (Ni + Na) 36 Cafe (C + A + F + e) 29 Moist (mist + o) ­
24 Sun god (sung + do) 14 Speedways (say + spewed) 38 Fro (for) Maoist
26 Scuba (S + Cuba) 19 Torso (toro + s) 39 Trio (paTRIOts) 30 Derby (Y + bred)
27 4E]LMOIOI]ELMT 20 ,SYHMRM-LSYRH-QEKMG 40 Limo (aLIMOny) ­ 32 Drat (d + rat) ­ Draft
29 Treads (t + reads; patterns on tricks) Limbo 33 Mare (R + Mae)
a sole) 21 Quarto (Q + at our; page size) 41 Eerie (E + Erie) 34 Evian (naive)
30 Tedium (tide + um; boring state) 22 Voided (dove I’d) 42 Aloes (o + ales) 35 Scour (sour + C)
31 Cosigned (C + dingoes) 25 2]IX2=QTL)8 43 Recent (c + e + rent) 37 Bolt (two meanings)
32 6SXW6SSXWƁSXYVRWFEH 26 Seeks (S’s + eek; tries to gain) ­ Red cent
33 Dressier (Dreiser’s) 28 Rude (rue + D; bad manners) 44 +YXXIV+YXXIV

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64 I GAMMA RAYS 67 I EITHER/OR PUZZLES

❶ ❷
M I N U T E S
A I R L
L A T T I C E
❹
A W V D
❸
C E I L I N G
H T A E
I N S U L T S
❺ ❻
P I C A S S O
R L I V
E Q U A B L E
S B E R
❼ ❽
L I B E R A L
E E I I
Y A R D A G E

66 I FAMILY REUNIONS 67 I IT'S A START

FAMILY ONE: Hardwoods T H E J P R I S M G O R G E F A L S T A F F
1. Ash 6. Beech E U R O A O R T A O N E A L O S O L E M I O
2. Oak 7. Maple E T T U P L A I N P A U L A R E V I L I N G
3. Pine 8. Cherry S T E R N A L R A I L P A S T E E M E N D S
4. Teak 9. Walnut N E Y O F C H A P S T A B I L E
5. Ebony 10. Mahogany
A D M L A V A L A C E S I R E N E D O P E
FAMILY TWO: Chain retailers D R O O L E T C E T E R A C O A S T L I N E S
1. CVS 6. Target D A R N S R H O D E S I A N R E T I C E N T
2. IKEA 7. Costco R I T E V S O P B A E R T E R E N C E
3. Aldi 8. Best Buy E N G A G E U S A N D M D I A N R E D D E R
4. Macy’s 9. Walmart S P A R R E D L O R I I N G O T S
5. Lowe’s 10. Walgreens
S I G M A W A S T R E L A S T O R S T P A T
FAMILY THREE: Italian cities E P E E S E L K E W E S T O N E H A I L E
1. Rome 6. Venice S E E D S L O I R E S W E E P E A I N N I E
2. Pisa 7. Verona S L O P E S B A L I D I R K S E N
3. Milan 8. Naples A R A F A T F I G S E G I N S W M T E T N A
4. Turin 9. Bologna B A N A N A S T O E S P I T A D R A G
5. Genoa 10. Florence
I N E R T G A S N O T A N I O T A Q U I T E
FAMILY FOUR: Famous people D A N C E F L O O R S E V E N T H S U P P E R
named Michael/Mike E T T E L O C K E A R I A S O T T O E S S
1. Cera 6. Tyson C A N A R D S M A T H N E S T E
2. Ditka 7. Jordan W A L N U T L A D E N T O R O L E A P T A T
3. Caine 8. Phelps I M P E R I A L I D A H O E G R E T L A T H
4. Pence 9. Landon L O N E S O M E N A D E R D R O S S A R O O
5. Myers 10. Jackson
L I S T E N E D G N A W S S E N S E O T Z U

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