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Games

“ONLY VOWELS”


© PUZPUZ PUZZLES CROSSWORD BY GREG BRUCE

ACROSS
1. Math, English or science
7. Designer’s concern
12. Dogie catcher
17. Not false
18. Leatherworker’s tool
20. A Japanese emperor
21. In motion
22. Shrek, e.g.
23. Bleacher bum’s jeer
24. Exaggerate
25. Knight’s need
26. A correspondence friend
28. Cousin of a bassoon
30. Aged
31. Cast
32. Flirt with
34. Count (on)
36. In the past
37. How low can you go?
41. School break
42. Winter bug
43. Disgrace
44. Comics’ shriek
45. Trams or trolleys
52. Hair colorer
53. Groupie
54. Plunder
55. Chills and fever
56. Mollify
58. Curtilage
61. Military academy freshman
62. Milk-Bone biscuit, e.g.
63. Celeb
64. Podded plant
65. Birch relative
66. Small pouch
68. Hogwash
70. Big galoot
72. Comics sound
76. Roswell sighting
78. See stars, maybe
80. Happen again
84. Often-missed humor
85. Brochure
87. Blackboard cleaner
89. Booty
90. A narrow channel
91. Victorian, for one
93. Scale down
94. All-knowing
96. Victoria’s Secret purchase
97. Counterfeit
98. Pool tool
99. Leaf shape, sometimes
101. Concerning
102. Arabic form of salutation
106. Harmonize 108. Kind of beam
110. Avoid 111. “Welcome” site
112. ___ tale
114. Ambrosia
119. A prejudiced person
120. Offer a higher amount than others
122. Topper
124. Up to snuff
125. Poker ploy
126. Big name in swimsuits
127. “___ rang?”
128. Dressing ingredient
129. “Come in!”
130. Conductor Koussevitzky
131. On the fence

DOWN
1. “Cut it out!”
2. Advocate
3. Make, as a CD
4. Rough terrain vehicle
5. Monthly bill
6. Low card often
7. Frogmen
8. Just manage, with “out”
9. Christmas ___
10. Strangely
11. Crucifix
12. Attack in speech or writing
13. Frost flower
14. Fulton’s power
15. It doesn’t hold water
16. Command
19. Unfinished business
20. Farm cry
27. Bit
29. Call’s companion
33. Length x width, for a rectangle
35. English exam finale, often
36. Took off
37. Gobs
38. Bonehead
39. Bush-league
40. Montana city
42. Like life in the Middle Ages
46. Circus swing
47. Pink, as a steak
48. Summon
49. Like fine wine
50. Bumpkin
51. Crystal ball user
53. Greek cheese
54. Single girls search
57. Hurried
59. Place to put the feet up
60. Crew need
61. Beeper
67. Eliminating game between teams
69. Amigo
71. Carbamide
72. Farm storage building
73. School ball
74. Nutcase
75. Dead against
77. Taxi meter reading
79. Forever
81. Type of chicken
82. Grammar topic
83. Any Seinfeld, now
86. Mountaineer’s spike
88. Catch one’s breath
90. Lowlife
92. Old clothing
95. Break up or dispel
96. Cotton seed-bearing capsule
97. Uncovered 100. Become of; happen to
102. Buffalo hockey player
103. Birdy
104. On the up and up
105. Emerged
106. Grayish-brown
107. Give voice to
109. Provide, as with a quality
111. Forest growth
113. Much ___ About Nothing
115. Actors
116. Alpine transport
117. Pond dweller
118. Casting need
121. Plead
123. Charged item

SUDOKU

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND // BY MITCH ROSE

ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS

ACTUALLY, YES, IT IS WHAT YOU KNOW // BY NOAH TARNOW

1. SAT ANALOGY FLASHBACK

Complete the standardized-test-style analogies

A. Four guys crossing a street is to The Beatles as a baby in a swimming pool and a dollar bill on a fishhook is to…
B. George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole are to Bill Clinton as Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern are to…
C. Being forced to swallow hemlock is to Socrates as poisoning, shooting and being thrown into a river are to…
D. A box with a rat is to Skinner as a dog and a bell are to…

2. CANDY IS DANDY
Name the popular candy bar based on its ingredients and the clue.

A. Chocolate + nougat + caramel: Galactically delicious
B. Chocolate + nougat + peanuts + caramel: It might make you laugh
C. Chocolate + crispy peanut butter stuff: Don’t drop it!
D. Chocolate + coconut: Baseball pitchers eat it?
E. Peanuts + caramel: Hit the bank

3. RETRANSLATED TV THEMES
Name the famous TV theme according to its lyrics. Warning: We’ve run the quotes through an internet translation program to transfer it to another language, then translated it back into English. We’re dealing with forces we cannot fully explain.

A. Love won’t hurt anymore It’s an open sneer on affable shore. Yes —suffrage love!
B. Ahoy, ahoy we’re the Monkery, and people tell mi jocko towards. But we’re he is too busy melody, yield work everyman whip.
C. Youngster, way Glenn Miller presented. Warbler this made hit Paraguay. Celibate like the us, we had it made. Those were Daniel.
D. Goodwill bye gray cloud hello blouses. There’s nothing to hold me when in hold you. Feels so right it can’t pray wrong. Coat duck role all weekend long.
E. Functioning down to south subordinate, gonna leave my suffering behind it. Big park day or night people shouting howdy neighbor.

ANSWERS

1. A. NIRVANA B. RICHARD NIXON C. RASPUTIN D. PAVLOV 2. A. MILKY WAY B. SNICKERS C. BUTTERFINGER D. MOUNDS E. PAYDAY 3. A. THE LOVE BOAT (“LOVE WON’T HURT ANYMORE.
IT’S AN OPEN SMILE ON A FRIENDLY SHORE. IT’S LOVE!”) B. THE MONKEES (“HEY, HEY WE’RE
THE MONKEES, AND PEOPLE SAY WE MONKEY AROUND. BUT WE’RE TOO BUSY SINGING, TO
PUT ANYBODY DOWN.”) C. ALL IN THE FAMILY (“BOY, THE WAY GLENN MILLER PLAYED. SONGS
THAT MADE THE HIT PARADE. GUYS LIKE US, WE HAD IT MADE. THOSE WERE THE DAYS.”) D. HAPPY DAYS (“GOOD-BYE GRAY SKY, HELLO BLUE. THERE’S NOTHING TO HOLD ME WHEN I
HOLD YOU. FEELS SO RIGHT, IT CAN’T BE WRONG. ROCKING AND ROLLING ALL WEEK LONG.”)
E. SOUTH PARK (“GOIN’ DOWN TO SOUTH PARK, GONNA LEAVE MY WOES BEHIND. AMPLE
PARKING DAY OR NIGHT. PEOPLE SHOUTING, ‘HOWDY, NEIGHBOR.’”)

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