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•CONTENTS•
PENCILWISE
IN THIS ISSUE 500 Rummy 50

Battleships 23
Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2016 16
Magnus Carlsen defends his Masters title Buried Gold 52
Camoulage 7
Family Game Night Across the Globe 34
Chip Off the Old Block 6
An informal survey of the games
enjoyed by families worldwide Cryptic Crossword 1 54
Cryptic Crossword 2 55
World Puzzle Championships 56
How do you stack up against Crypto-Funnies 3
the world's top puzzlers? Double Cross 51
Dszquphsbnt! 20
PLUS...
Family Reunions 66
What's Happening 33 Get in Gear 6
Previews of upcoming events
Hashi 13
Your Word Against Mine: Scrabble Helter-Skelter 30
Happenings, Puzzles, and Tips 38 Kid Stuff 8
Tools to improve your game
Lettur Perfekt 31
This Old Game 40 Life of Ease 21
Vintage board games
Mixed Doubles 4
from the collector’s closet
Mixed Doubles: Shades of Meaning 22
MinMoves Puzzles 41 One, Two, Three 32
A logical game of musical chairs
Paint by Pairs 64
Wild Cards: A potpourri of amusing 42 Pencil Pointers 1 5
little puzzles for your solving pleasure Pencil Pointers 2 18
Contest: New Role-Playing Connections 44 Pentominoes: A Variety Cryptic 63
Playing the Odds 10
Contest Results: 45
Coded Crisscross III (from October) Playing the Half-Dozens 62
Quint-Essential 29
Electronic Game Reviews 46
Quote Boxes 12
The Room Three, Fallout 4
Siamese Twins 53
Traditional Game Reviews 47 The Plus 49
Hengist, Flip City
The Spiral 19
Game On! 48 Tough as Diamonds 28
Oﬀbeat news, trivia, and more from
today s world of games and puzzles What Loose Lips Do 15
Word Squares Crisscross 14
Easy Medium Wordspair 67
DIFFICULTY RATING
Hard Mixed
World’s Most Ornery Crossword 67
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CRYPTO-FUNNIES FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY
In this comic strip, all the dialogue has been converted into a cryptogram. That is, each letter of the alphabet has been
consistently replaced by another letter throughout the cartoon. For example, if G represents V in one word, it will represent V
in every word. Look for distinctive letter patterns and punctuation to help you get started. ANSWER, PAGE 70
PUZZLE AND ILLUSTRATION BY PHIL SCHEUER

MIXED DOUBLES 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 where 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 the box labeled
18 (1 + 17). Note: Tags such as “Hyph.“ and “2 wds.“ have been omitted. ANSWER, PAGE 70
20 21
15 29
13 16 14 34
24 12 28
19 17
30 25 22
18 31 26
27
ACROSS 15 Subsequently 8 Shrink

1 British coin with the Royal Shield on 16 Sixteen ounces 9 Component of a set of directions
the reverse 17 “Short stuff” 10 Mad Men actress Elisabeth
2 Fur trader’s stock 18 Pride in one’s school 11 Fall on one’s belly
3 On the trail of 19 Full-service, as a shuttle 12 Bend
4 Hoped-for guest at a seance 20 Talk 13 Dance move
5 Like traveling salespeople 14 Made vulnerable, as to danger
6 Eyewitnesses’ stories DOWN 15 Device used to increase or
7 “All Star” sneaker brand 1 “More Than Meets the Eye” decrease voltage
8 Gets up from a chair action figure 16 Like a severely lopsided competition
9 Checking and savings, e.g. 2 “Right this second,” in the ER 17 Adjust the grades on an exam
10 Hits repeatedly, as with snowballs 3 Agenda additions 18 Alternative plea to “guilty” or
11 Bleachers 4 Plant often used on the bottom “not guilty”
12 Hidden DVD content of terrariums 19 Piece of data, for short
13 Volume measurement equivalent 5 Legally binding document 20 Do very poorly at the box office
to a cup 6 Met someone halfway, maybe 21 Intermediate platforms in staircases
14 They’re dyed in the spring 7 Takeoffs’ counterparts 22 Celebrity couples

PENCIL POINTERS 1 BY FRANK LONGO
In this crossword puzzle, the clues appear in the grid itself. Enter the answers in the direction of the pointers.
ANSWER, PAGE 70
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for the Fonda Eliot Ness d'oeuvre City on (food holiday African wind of changing growth emcees, Nevada favorites
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CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK BY PAUL GUTTORMSSON
ACROSS 53 Sport played on a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1 Fore’s opposite walled court:
4 Serpent’s sound 2 wds. 13 14 15 16
7 Pen brand 54 Harebrained

17 18
10 Pub potable 56 Syracuse, vis-à-vis
13 Neighbor of Serbia Manhattan 19 20
15 Golf club used for 57 Sushi wrapping
driving: 2 wds. 58 Mao ___-tung 21 22 23 24
17 Pupil’s place 59 Part of mph
25 26 27 28 29
18 Seasoned 60 Sarcastic laugh
veterans: 2 wds. 61 Reading and Short 30 31 32
19 Kid-oriented pizza Line, for short
chain: 3 wds. 33 34
21 Loosy-___ DOWN
35 36 37 38 39 40 41
22 Sizzling 1 Top gun
23 Solidify 2 SpongeBob’s job: 42 43 44
25 Auditioner’s goal 2 wds.
26 Charles in Charge 3 Slight yet 45 46 47
star Scott significant
28 Courageous advantage 48 49 50 51 52
30 Approved, briefly 4 Mike Hammer
ANSWER, PAGE 70
53 54 55
31 Round, for short portrayer Keach
32 Pops, as a balloon 5 Smooth as ___ 56 57
33 Jam-packed: Hyph. 6 Mall lure
35 Hidden stores 7 Sob sound 58 59 60 61
38 Truant GI 8 Fjord, e.g.

39 “The Racer’s 9 Give up 24 Cobb and 34 DVD player 44 Along for the ride:
Edge” 10 Collars a criminal Pennington button 2 wds.
42 Standoffish 11 Most roomy 26 Book jacket 35 Popular pet 46 Glide on ice
43 Mary Baker ___ 12 USNA grad, bits, often 36 LIKE THIS CLUE: 47 NBA great
44 Swedish briefly 27 Joan of ___ 2 wds. Thomas
furniture seller 14 Mistreat 28 Shorebird 37 19th-century 49 Grab a bite
45 Cake Boss network 16 Computer 29 WWW address Apache chief 50 Applaud
46 Observe networking 31 Gordon Ramsay, 39 Biting bug, 51 Actress Annabeth
47 Inactive methods: Abbr. for one informally 52 Notion
48 Place to log 20 State bird 32 Floating marker 40 Yorkie, e.g. 53 Stick out
account of Maine 33 Comedian 41 Mrs. Nixon 55 Music lover’s
transactions: 2 wds 21 Miracle-___ Margaret 43 Weirder collection, briefly
GET IN GEAR BY M.A. SHEEN
Are you geared up for some fun? If so, give this pair of puzzles a whirl. In each one, position the 12 words in the list clockwise
around the red hexagons so that the letters mesh in gearlike fashion. Some letters have already been filled in to get you started.
ANSWERS, PAGE 70
Puzzle 1 Puzzle 2
FELLOW BALLOT
FRIEND COTTON
HEARTY ENERGY
LAYOUT FOREST
NERVES GROWTH
NOODLE KNIGHT
PERSON MONKEY
REPAIR ORIGIN
REPEAT OUTWIT
TRAVEL PILLAR
VOYAGE PRONTO
WORTHY SLIGHT

CAMOUFLAGE FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY
Place each of the 26 letters of the alphabet once in the grid below to form a common word of five or more letters reading
across in each line. Not all the letters in each line will be used; it’s up to you to determine which ones are needed. Some letters
may fit in more than one of the empty squares to form familiar words; however, only one arrangement of all the letters of the
alphabet will complete a word in each row. Hyphenated words, proper nouns, and plurals are not used. ANSWER, PAGE 71
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
L O U M A R L E I F F Y
P O L U D E I C E B L E
W H I S K E I D O U N T
C H A V E R I C T E L L
B L A S H O R A Y O N T
A I S H I E D O O R E F
M E A R R E O R T A S S
K I N G A L U G H E W T
W H A P O C E T U N T Y
Q U A N G A E B O P O R
C H O U M I A G E P O N
F R E D R A E R E N N S
L I N D P I C E N C H Y
S H A L L E U A R R E L
B I N D R E O V E P E N
F A L M E D U M A E L L
B I N D O I O N E Y O T
H U N E R A L A N M E S
G R I F T M S C L E P E
S H A N N E I G L E N T
C R E E M S U D Y I L T
D O S H E L O U N N O T
C H A P A I T H U D E L
W I N D E L N A T C H E
H E I R L O M A P E R E
K I N D O L A G U A R N
KID STUFF: FISH STORY
The names of 19 fish are hidden in this word search. Look across, down, and diagonally (both forward and backward), and
circle each fish you find. The word CARP has been circled as an example.
After you’ve found all the fish, write the uncircled letters from the grid on the blanks at the foot of the page. Keep the letters
in order, from left to right and top to bottom. If you do everything correctly, you’ll discover the answer to this riddle: WHERE
DO FISH SAVE THEIR MONEY? ANSWER, PAGE 71
C O D P E R C H I S
S A L M O N A N N A
T H T R S P R A T R
U N T F G U P P Y D
R A U I I P V E W I
G R R R E S B A O N
E H A N E
I B R N K
O P O M P A
N O N L
N S T F L U K E I O
T R O U T T L E M S
SALMON
SARDINE
CATFISH
SMELT
COD
SNAPPER
FLUKE
SOLE
GUPPY
SPRAT
MINNOW
STURGEON
PERCH
TROUT
PIRANHA
TUNA
POMPANO
TURBOT
RIDDLE ANSWER:

FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY
A LOGICAL TREASURE HUNT

The treasure map below was drawn many years ago by Captain Hood Winker, a pirate who loved puzzles as much as he loved
plunder. He buried a fortune in gold doubloons within one of the square areas (A through J) marked with an X.
ANSWER, PAGE 70
PUZZLE BY R. WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER
He also wrote these clues on the back of the map:
1. An even number of squares marked X lie farther east than the treasure.
2. The treasure is not located at the X that is closest to the abandoned mine.
3. If there are an even number of X’s farther north than the treasure, the treasure is located on
one of the four small islands.
4. If the treasure is on one of the four small islands, then the distance from the treasure to the
nearest other X is greater than the distance from the pirate hut to the sunken ship.
5. If the treasure is on the biggest island, then one of the buildings is farther west than the
treasure and the other building is farther north than the treasure.
Now, the local islanders want to find the treasure. Can you save them a lot of digging by figuring
out which X marks the treasure’s location?

PLAYING THE ODDS FROM THE GAMES LIBRARY
This puzzle might seem a bit odd—not strange, mind you, just odd. Each illustration below represents a two-word phrase in
which the irst word has seven letters and the second is composed of the four odd-numbered letters of the irst word, in order.
For example, given a picture of a ship sailing high in the water, the answer would be BUOYANT BOAT. We think these are pretty
hard, but odds are you’ll get at least half. ANSWERS, PAGE 71
ILLUSTRATIONS BY STEVE MELLOR
❶ ❷

❼

QUOTE BOXES 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. Vincent van Gogh

H I B U R Y I T H R S N I H E E O R A A H T
F O T A M W T P A K E S G M K N O F E T O E
Y S N G T S M A A I Y T D W N M T
R H E T C R T I N
2. Meryl Streep
L H A C E O R A A E E S I T R R O F O O S O
T E T Y T R O T R U D R I R P I A C C F M P
E S T E O U G B N T O S O A I N G S S O A
N E E H P Y R A P O M T N O E R T L
G L R K S T S T
3. Khalil Gibran
T R R S T E S E H E O D O H H B I H B E A E
E O U T I L D S I R R S M T R U S H U D T
H E F L E A D N O S O Y O O O T M O I D T
H O E H O S C W D Y E W T N O T I I S D
Y H E H I A E T F U U E T R N
E D W O E N

BY CONCEPTIS LTD.
HASHI www.conceptispuzzles.com
In these puzzles, you are given an arrangement of numbered islands. Your goal is to add EXAMPLE:
bridges (lines) between islands so that the islands form a single connected group. 3 5 3
When adding bridges, you must follow these rules: 2
1. The number on each island tells you how many bridges are to be connected to that island.
2. There are at most two bridges between any pair of islands. 3 4 1
3. All bridges are placed horizontally or vertically. 2 4
4. A bridge never passes through an island. 5 7 1
5. Bridges do not intersect. 2 1 2
An example of a solved puzzle is shown at right.
The puzzles start out easy and get harder as you go. ANSWERS, PAGE 71
1 4 2
❶ ❷
3 3 6 2 2 5 4 3
3 2 2 3 2 3
4 1 3 1 3 2 1 1
3 2 2 2
4 3 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 4
2 3 1
4 2 3 1 2 2 4 2 1
2 6 3 3 3 2 3 3 3
2 1 1 3 3 1 2 1
2 4 2 1 3 4 3 2
❸ ❹
1 2 2 3 4 2 2 2 3 2 1
1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 2
3 8 4 3 5 2 4 2 1 2 3
1 3 3 1 2
1 2 2 4 5 1 3 3 2 3
3 5 5 3 2 1 3
5 2 2 2 3 4 2 4 3 3 4
1 4 5 3 2 5 3 2 3 3
2 3 3 1 3
4 1 1 3 2 1 4 2 1 2
2 4 2 1 2 3 2 1 2
3 3 2 2 4 2 2 3 3 3 3
WORD SQUARES CRISSCROSS BY RAYMOND YOUNG
Fit all of the words and phrases listed below into the big grid so that they interlock in standard crossword style. Then fit the
six letter words into the four word squares on the left. If the big grid seems daunting, you may not have noticed a few helps
to get you started. STARTING HINT, PAGE 71 ANSWER, PAGE 72
ADDLES B SIDES ET ALIA LIENEE QUIZ

SQUATS
ALAMOS DAISES EXILES LINGER QUOTED
START
ANSARA DJINNI FLAMES MAP OUT RECENT
STRATA
BAD JOB ECARTE FRONTS NO MORE REINED
TIE-INS
BANGLE EDESSA HOLDER ON A PAR RELACE
TROUTS
BESETS EDGING INJURE OR ELSE SCRODS
UNLACE
BEZELS EL NINO JERK OSAGES SEREST
USING
BIBBED ERNEST JUDGES OXIDIC SESTET
ZINNIA
BOLERO ESAI LENORE PUNDIT SPHERE

WHAT LOOSE LIPS DO BY RAYMOND YOUNG
Yes, they sink ships. Circle all of the words and phrases listed below, reading horizontally, vertically, and diagonally,
always in a straight line. Each star in the grid stands for a series of letters. In the part of the picture showing the sky, a
star represents A-I-R. In the Titanic, it stands for S-H-I-P. In the iceberg, it stands for I-C-E. Finally, in the ocean, it
represents S-E-A. For example, VOLTAIRE would be found in the grid as VOLT*E, with the star in the sky portion. Some
words and phrases will pass through more than one region. When you’ve circled all of the entries, read the leftover
letters from left to right to discover a fact about what happened to one of the stars of the 1997 blockbuster Titanic after
shooting the water scenes. ANSWER, PAGE 72
D Y E D H ✮ R K ✮ H C Y F M O C ✮
Y A ✮ F F A E V O L D C ✮ O T D E
L B T S N ✮ J O B C A ✮ B P U ✮ P
E M L R A C O E S ✮ L ✮ E C A P S
T L O I N D ✮ V ✮ A S O T ✮ T E G
A O V M N J ✮ R R N W H N W B N N
L P D E E D U I O E O I A E ✮ N O
✮ U R ✮ R T M S W N N D R P M E L
L T A A ✮ D H ✮ T A E N N C E P ✮
E T W ✮ A D A Y O ✮ ✮ L I A W N A
H O ✮ ✮ X O B ✮ O V ✮ D R I B ✮ E
C ✮ V R E T S M ✮ T A T S O L A D
ABANDON SHIP FAIR BET SEABIRD
AIR DUCT GETS HIP TO SEA MEW
ALL’S FAIR INNER VOICE SEAMSTER
ANNE RICE JUSTICE SEAT SEAN PENN
BERNICE LOST AT SEA SEAWARD
BLIND MICE LOVE AFFAIR SHIPSHAPE
CHELSEA LATELY NICE JOB SPACESHIP
CICERONE OLD CAIRO TWICE A DAY
COMFY CHAIR PAIR UP VICE-ADMIRALSHIP
COWARDICE PUT TO SEA VOICE BOX
DYED HAIR REJOICE VOLTAIRE
EASE ALONG RIME ICE WORSHIPS

•CHESS•
MAGNUS CARLSEN DEFENDS

TATA STEEL MASTERS TITLE
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or the second year in a row and the fifth time in 10. Bc2 was a bit unusual, 10. Nbd2 being the most com-
his career, world chess champion Magnus Carlsen mon move in that position. The turning point of the game
of Norway won the elite 14-player Tata Steel Mas- may have been when Wei used more than 40 minutes to
ters chess tournament that was held in the Netherlands, decide how to answer 11. h3. By move 20, he only had
mostly at Wijk aan Zee, in January. It was the 78th edi- eight minutes left on his clock, plus the 30 seconds of ad-
tion of this annual tournament, previously known under ditional time that is added to a player’s time after each
the names Corus and Hoogovens. Fourteen highly rated move is made, to make his next 20 moves.
grandmasters took part, including the players ranked 1, 3, Wei probably erred with 17. …c6, when he could have
5, and 10 through 13 in the world going into the event, as played Nxc3 to keep the center closed. After 18. Bxe4,
well as the highest-rated woman in the world, Hou Yifan. Black could hardly recapture with the f pawn, which
Live commentary and interviews with players after would allow White to play a cramping f5 and e6. But after
some of their games were provided by four-time United 18. …dxe4 19. d5, White seemed to have an initiative.
States champion Yasser Seirawan at tatasteelchess.com. Computer engines preferred 19. …cxd5 and 20. …Qxc6
Ongoing computer analysis by three of the best engines to the moves Wei played, but Caruana let some of his
(Houdini, Komodo, and Stockfish) was available at chess- advantage slip when he played 23. Bc5 instead of Re1.
dom.com. Wei’s bishop retreat 26. …Be8 hastened the end; better
As was the case last year, Carlsen started the tourna- was 26. …Bxf5, though White would still have stood
ment “carefully,” as he explained to Seirawan, drawing significantly better.
his first four games. He then won three games in a row to From the position in Diagram 1, the game continued 29.
take the tournament lead—which he never relinquished, Bxb4 Bxb4 30. Rxc6 Re8 (Of course Rxc6?? would allow e8Q+)
although he was only half a point ahead of Fabiano 31. f6 Rd4 32. Re6, and Black resigned. White can improve
Caruana of the United States going into the final round. the position of his other rook at his leisure, such as by mov-
Carlsen drew his last game to end up with 5 wins, 8 draws, ing it to the g file, while Black’s rook on e8 cannot afford
and no losses, while Caruana lost his final game but still to move at all. Q —R. Wayne Schmittberger
finished second on tiebreak over Ding Liren of China.
Wesley So of the United States finished fourth.
FABIANO CARUANA VS. WEI YI
The youngest player,16-year-old Wei Yi of China, ended
TATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 10
up with a very respectable 50 percent score. A true chess
prodigy, Wei is notable for being the youngest player ever 8
to achieve a rating of 2600, as well as being the young-
est ever to reach 2700. He had qualified for the event
by virtue of winning last year’s Tata Steel Challengers
7 ♟♟
tournament.
This year’s Tata Steel Challengers event was won by
6 ♟
Baskaran Adhiban of India, who thereby qualifies for next
year’s Tata Steel Masters group. Adhiban, Alexey Dreev of
5
Russia, and Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan each finished with a
score of 9–4, but Adhiban had defeated both Dreev and 4 ♟
Safarli during the tournament and so won on tiebreak.
Top players are attracted to this event year in and year 3
out because of its prestigious nature, but there are also
modest cash prizes. For the Masters group, prizes ranged 2
from €10,000 for first place down to €500 for seventh,
while the top seven Challengers group players earned
from €2,000 to €200.
1
Wei’s only loss came at the hands of Caruana in the
10th round. Wei met Caruana’s Ruy Lopez with the Open
a b c d e f g h
Defense, characterized by the move 5. …Nxe5. Caruana’s Diagram 1: Position after 28. …Bxc6

•CHESS•
FINAL STANDINGS
Finish Score Title Player Country Rating World Rank Age
1 9.0 GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2844 1 25
2 8.0 GM Fabiano Caruana USA 2787 5 23
3 8.0 GM Ding Liren CHN 2766 12 23
4 7.0 GM Wesley So USA 2773 10 22
5 7.0 GM Anish Giri NED 2798 3 21
6 7.0 GM Pavel Eljanov UKR 2760 13 32
7 6.5 GM Wei Yi CHN 2706 37 16
8 6.5 GM Shakhryar Mamedyarov AZE 2747 19 30
9 6.0 GM Sergey Karjakin RUS 2769 11 26
10 5.5 GM David Navara CZE 2730 25 30
11 5.5 GM Evgeny Tomashevsky RUS 2728 26 28
12 5.0 GM Hou Yifan CHN 2673 68 21
13 5.0 GM Michael Adams ENG 2744 20 44
14 5.0 GM Loek Van Wely NED 2640 126 43
Note: Players with the same score DING LIREN VS. MICHAEL ADAMS
are ranked according to a tiebreak TATA STEEL MASTERS, ROUND 1
formula. Ratings and world rank are
based on FIDE ratings of January 2016.
8
White: Fabiano Caruana
Black: Wei Yi 7 ♟
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4
Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5
6 ♟
8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Be7 10. Bc2 Bg4 11.
h3 Bh5 12. g4 Bg6 13. Nd4 Qd7 14. f4
Nxd4 15. cxd4 f5 16. Be3 O-O 17. Nc3 c6
5 ♟
18. Bxe4 dxe4 19. d5 b4 20. dxc6 Qxd1
21. Nxd1 Rfd8 22. Rc1 Rd3 23. Bc5 Bd8 4
24. e6 Rc8 25. e7 Ba5 26. gxf5 Be8 27.
Nf2 Rd5 28. Nxe4 Bxc6 (Diagram 1)
29. Bxb4 Bxb4 30. Rxc6 Re8 31. f6 Rd4
3
32. Re6 1-0
2
1
a b c d e f g h
Diagram 2: This position arose in the game between Ding Liren
(White) and Michael Adams (Black). Black has just played 60. … Re4
and is threatening to play Rg4 mate. If White takes the rook with
the knight, the result will be a draw by stalemate, since Black will
then have no legal move. How did White win the game?
ANSWER, PAGE 74

PENCIL POINTERS 2 BY COREY KOSAK
In this crossword puzzle, the clues appear in the grid itself. Enter the answers in the direction of the pointers.
ANSWER, PAGE 71
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joyful of King home sub- secret the deed boxes little rain investing lustfully or sister as a driving
screech Louis XVI Weird compact to chuckle site Smile picture ranges
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THE SPIRAL BY FRANK LONGO
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.
Fill in the answers, one letter per space, according to the numbers beside the clues. Keep track of which way you’re
going, and have many happy returns. ANSWER, PAGE 72
1
2
3
31 30
4 29
32
28
5 33 56 55
54
57 27
34 53
75
6 76
58 74
77 26
52
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
1-9 Second-place winner’s token: 2 wds. 100-97 HP competitor
10-16 Part of the Czech Republic 96-93 Novelist Sarah ___ Jewett
17-22 La Mafia’s kind of music 92-86 Motorcycle attachment
23-28 Artistically ornate 85-76 Rapid, whirling Italian folk dance
29-35 Trade votes, in the legislature 75-69 Really flushed: Hyph.
36-41 Tarzan, for one: Hyph. 68-58 Teen idol of the 1970s: 2 wds.
42-45 Not e’en a single time 57-54 Iams competitor
46-50 Congressional hearing airer: Hyph. 53-48 Catch a few Z’s
51-61 Mexican restaurant meal: 2 wds. 47-38 Online forum handle: 2 wds.
62-64 Dusting cloth 37-32 White-as-a-ghost look
65-71 Fly catcher, often 31-26 Flip out: 2 wds.
72-78 Batting game for junior: 2 wds. 25-20 Ring around the sun
79-82 Active Sicilian volcano 19-13 “I love you,” in Le Havre: 2 wds.
83-89 Wearisome working life: 2 wds. 12-7 Rub elbows
90-100 Released from a training program, e.g. 6-1 Ornithology buff with binoculars

DSZQUPHSBNT! BY SHAWN KENNEDY
Below are seven messages—pithy sayings, fascinating facts, and a cartoon gag—that have been translated into simple cipher
alphabets. Letter substitutions remain constant throughout any one cipher, but change from one cipher to the next; the level
of difficulty increases as you progress. An asterisk (*) indicates a proper noun or title. Clues are given at the bottom of the
page to provide assistance if you need it. ANSWERS, PAGE 72
1. CRYPTOON
4. FRONT-PAGE NEWS
W MQR V YAW T B VE YGSQA KOMNUY AMDLOB KTYHYSTUO

IHYCG DTD HG YUPGFHFUO
QT OYBGTV XGRRQBG ORWTB
OUFMOBUO QUSHLGU MK ZTG
RXEHG RWBTQSR. WV MQR, LY S H Y YA H Q T I T B A B M H I P H A G
“FGSN! XA VGTV WR ET C U I T W U O B Z U G S M M F.
LWYG!”
5. FLEXIBLE PLANS
AWFJXN ZVE AXODXL AOH
LSQKKA PK JXSKFX
S K U P K N P W K U W L P. B O N X U P L
QODX TWYYWSVAPE HNOBBWUZ
PQXWN QXOTL ONKVUT PQX
TXSWLWKU.
2. CAREFREE “HI” WAY
“VTI IDIOAGXA SZEGEIUU ML 6. CENTS AND SENSIBILITY
VTI KXPS OMXGU HMOI VTXE DHOJFH ZUH QJZZJG “H
HXSIU JR LMO VTI XPVU ML RXVFTDVG VYVQ” BYN “TY *KJN
WOIIG ZE VTI TIXGQZEIU.” IH ZFVGZ,” ZUH RHYYP DJFH
— * P T X O Q I U * S J O X Q V. ZUH GXJKBY “QTYN PJVF
DVGTYHGG.”
3. PULLING THE PLUG
HDZIWQSX QCB TXDQ GSHCGSI 7. IN THE ZONES
CBD HDZPCNZI XSONSL DT VZGQNF *VTZTHVT VTYZ VZTTO
ZSLJU NZOSZPSG HDXGJSII VTYVW VGUR VZKXREGHD VZGO.
EADZS, HCJJNZB PAS VZKHWCTZUW VZRN
NZZDOCPNDZ “PDPCJJU DTT PAS VZKHWXRZWGHD VRZZGVTZGRW
ADDR.” VT VZRHBF VTYZGWV VZKO.
TIPS AND CLUES

letter, so it’s likely to represent Y.
Cipher 4: In LYSHYYA, the letter A ends a longish word after a doubled in some order.
Cipher 3: Compare DT and DTT. Both are common prepositions. Cipher 7: Vowels A, E, I, O, and U are represented by G, K, R, T, and Y,
be AND or THE. Since it starts a sentence, try THE. puzzle’s title should serve as an additional hint.
Cipher 2: Three-letter word VTI appears four times, making it likely to Cipher 6: The letter H doesn’t stand for A or I in this instance. This
does represent T. likely to be -ING. Can you find it here?
Cipher 1: VGTV doesn’t stand for THAT in this instance, although V Cipher 5: A three-letter suffix after a doubled letter in a long word is

LIFE OF EASE BY BILLIE TRUITT
ACROSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
1 Tea holder
4 Microwave, slangily 15 16 17 18
7 Pinnacle
11 “___ miracle!”: 19 20 21 22
2 wds.
15 Reuters rival, briefly 23 24 25 26
16 Supermarket
chain initials 27 28 29
17 Weighty book
30 31 32 33 34 35
18 Rock guitarist Lofgren
19 State of bewilderment
36 37 38 39
20 Three times, to
a pharmacist 40 41 42 43 44
21 Fail to enunciate
22 ___ B’rith 45 46 47 48
23 Sunshine State
archipelago: 49 50 51
2 wds.
26 Jelly fruit 52 53 54 55
27 That femme
28 Cinch 56 57 58 59 60 61
29 Cotton pod
30 “See ya!”: Hyph. 62 63 64 65
33 Gym session
66 67 68 69 70
36 Welcome arrival on a
hot day: 2 wds.
71 72 73 74
39 French article
ANSWER, PAGE 72
40 Traveled astride: 75 76 77 78
2 wds.
43 Trade show 79 80 81 82
44 Capitol Hill worker
45 Defeatist’s motto:
2 wds. 77 Entirely 12 Bob Denver’s ‘60s 47 Poet’s peeper
46 R2-D2, for one 78 Abbr. on some costar: 2 wds. 48 Best-selling cookie of
48 Mary-Kate or Ashley invoices 13 Czech or Serb the 20th century
49 Part of GAO: Abbr. 79 Häagen-___ 14 Polo’s destination 50 Unbridled rage
50 Cause for alarm? 80 Ukrainian capital 24 Something of little 51 Cub Scout group
51 Laundromat appliances 81 It breaks every value: 2 wds. 53 Suspenders
52 Record label letters morning 25 Door opener alternative
53 Pollen transporters 82 Sugar suffix 26 An Inconvenient 54 Schooling, for short
56 Bookkeeper’s books Truth author 55 Egotist’s problem:
58 Relic of the past DOWN 29 Clown of renown 2 wds.
62 Just 1 Smorgasbord 31 Stolen goods 57 Stratified
63 Spent bullet 2 Historic Harlem theater 32 Long, long time metamorphic rock
65 ___ Reader 3 American ___ (Richard 33 Shed tears 59 Back to speed, in
(alternative Gere movie) 34 Reporting to music: 2 wds.
magazine) 4 Pasta tubes 35 Most new drivers 60 Opens, as a jacket
66 Beatnik’s cap 5 Ripened 37 Insurgent 61 Dwell
68 Take a nap: 3 wds. 6 Sun screen, of a kind 38 Prefix for skeleton 63 Soy or duck
71 When Hamlet sees his 7 Between ports: 2 wds. 40 Orion’s left foot 64 No. 2 at the
father’s ghost: 2 wds. 8 Sea anemone, 41 “___ All Ye Faithful”: statehouse:
72 Hoodlum for one 2 wds. 2 wds.
73 Musical gift 9 They’ll never get off 42 Red Sox slugger 66 Like Ziggy
74 Early 11th-century date the ground nicknamed 67 Quito’s country: Abbr.
75 Baseball Hall-of-Famer 10 Gen-___ “Big Papi”: 2 wds. 68 Coffeehouse tea
Aparicio (Boomer’s kid) 44 Flowering 69 Room in a casa
76 Maine/New 11 Economical way to ground cover 70 Paris airport
Hampshire river buy: 2 wds. 46 Edges 72 Sound of rebuke

MIXED DOUBLES: BY MIKE NOTHNAGEL
SHADES OF MEANING
This puzzle is solved like a standard Mixed Doubles in that each answer word 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 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). Tags such
as “Hyph.” and “2 wds.” have been omitted.
In this puzzle, there is an added twist: The Across and Down clue lists each contain one extra clue. If you rearrange the letters
in the shaded spaces of the grid, you will discover a word that is suggested by both of the extra clues. ANSWER, PAGE 73
15 18
31
34 17 38
19 22 35
12 20
13
16 24 26
39
27 23 33 32
37 29
25
ACROSS 18 Set on the ground 8 Sailor’s measure of depth

1 It’s mixed and then poured 19 Ensure, as a victory 9 Sends a 140-character message
2 Political pamphlets 20 Popular ballpark snack 10 Muscle ailments
3 Thing with a routing number 21 Member of a herd on a ranch 11 Biblical pronoun
4 Take the wheel 22 On a top shelf, say 12 Ignored the doorbell
5 Unrelenting 23 It can be hard to break 13 State nicknamed “Old Dominion”
6 Spice found in a shaker or grinder 24 Large parcels of land 14 Takes advantage of, as a right
7 Showy stuntman 25 Without much fat 15 Creator of Professor Van Helsing
8 Nun’s duds 16 A single time
9 Inspect DOWN 17 Sounds from small birds
10 Anaheim or poblano, e.g. 1 Irish musical film that became 18 Major undertakings
11 Insult a Broadway hit 19 “Take Me Home,
12 Tilt 2 Increasing in activity Country Roads” singer
13 Like an overestimate 3 Virus variations 20 Taking hold of and lifting
14 Without a layover 4 Home to Coors Field 21 10 Benjamins
15 Lifts weights, perhaps 5 Mrs. Dalloway author Woolf 22 Ended a game of gin rummy
16 Crowd scene actor 6 Juts out 23 Device that fuel’s a
17 Additional 7 Understand after much thinking locomotive’s steambox

BATTLESHIPS BY CONCEPTIS LTD.
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 lat side)
Submarine Middle of a ship (will continue either left and right or up and down)
1–SEAMAN 2–PETTY OFFICER 3–ENSIGN

0 2 5
3 1 2
4 6 4
4 1 2
2 3 1
3 1 2
0 5 1
1 0 1
2 0 1
1 1 1
3 0 1 0 4 2 0 6 0 4 2 4 0 2 2 1 1 2 1 5 4 2 2 2 2 1 2 0 3 2
Battleship Battleship Battleship
Cruisers Cruisers Cruisers
Destroyers Destroyers Destroyers
Submarines Submarines Submarines
4–CAPTAIN 5–COMMODORE 6–ADMIRAL

6 2 2
0 2 2
1 3 0
4 1 1
1 0 2
1 1 2
1 4 1
2 2 2
1 3 6
3 2 2
2 4 2 2 0 2 1 1 6 0 1 4 2 3 1 2 2 3 0 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 4 1 0 5
Battleship Battleship Battleship
Cruisers Cruisers Cruisers
Destroyers Destroyers Destroyers
Submarines Submarines Submarines

YOU’RE ON A ROLE! BY CHRISTOPHER MAGAN
A WHITE HOUSE MOVIE MINI-CAPER
As the main writer for Hollywood Insider magazine, you’ve heard that a big casting decision will be announced soon for a
highly anticipated historical drama. The 2012 film Lincoln was quite an achievement, having been nominated for Best Picture
and winning Daniel Day-Lewis his third Academy Award. A major studio wants to replicate the success of that film with a
biopic about George Washington. The studio is confident in this picture’s potential—if they can cast the right actor to play the
first president. Casting the lead has been unusually difficult; many prominent actors like Kevin Spacey and Michael Fassbender
auditioned but didn’t get the high-profile role. Luckily, you heard from a confidant over at the studio that the producers and
director have finally agreed on which actor will play Washington. Can you figure out who it is and earn yourself an exclusive?
DIRECTIONS: When solved correctly, the puzzles on the next three pages will reveal four “TRUE CLUE” letters. These letters
correspond to the four clues in the TRUE CLUE GRID (page 25) that are indeed true. The remaining clues are false and should
be ignored. After you’ve identified all four TRUE CLUES, follow their instructions. Upon doing so, you should be able to
determine the actor who will be playing the lead in this highly anticipated movie. ANSWERS, PAGES 73 & 74
PRESIDENTIAL GRID
NO. LAST NAME FIRST NAME PARTY NO. LAST NAME FIRST NAME PARTY
1 WASHINGTON George Federalist 23 HARRISON Benjamin Republican
2 ADAMS John Federalist 24 CLEVELAND Grover Democrat
3 JEFFERSON Thomas Democrat-Republican 25 MCKINLEY William Republican
4 MADISON James Democrat-Republican 26 ROOSEVELT Theodore Republican
5 MONROE James Democrat-Republican 27 TAFT William Republican
6 ADAMS John Quincy Democrat-Republican 28 WILSON Woodrow Democrat
7 JACKSON Andrew Democrat 29 HARDING Warren G. Republican
8 VAN BUREN Martin Democrat 30 COOLIDGE Calvin Republican
9 HARRISON William Henry Whig 31 HOOVER Herbert Republican
10 TYLER John Whig 32 ROOSEVELT Franklin D. Democrat
11 POLK James K. Democrat 33 TRUMAN Harry S. Democrat
12 TAYLOR Zachary Whig 34 EISENHOWER Dwight D. Republican
13 FILLMORE Millard Whig 35 KENNEDY John F. Democrat
14 PIERCE Franklin Democrat 36 JOHNSON Lyndon B. Democrat
15 BUCHANAN James Democrat 37 NIXON Richard Republican
16 LINCOLN Abraham Republican 38 FORD Gerald Republican
17 JOHNSON Andrew Union 39 CARTER Jimmy Democrat
18 GRANT Ulysses S. Republican 40 REAGAN Ronald Republican
19 HAYES Rutherford B. Republican 41 BUSH George H. W. Republican
20 GARFIELD James A. Republican 42 CLINTON Bill Democrat
21 ARTHUR Chester Republican 43 BUSH George W. Republican
22 CLEVELAND Grover Democrat 44 OBAMA Barack Democrat
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

TRUE CLUE GRID
For each of the four identified TRUE CLUES, do the following in (or near) the Presidential Grid (page 24):
A Completely shade in the LAST NAME cell of any president whose last name contains a double letter
C Cross out any president whose party is not Republican
E Cross out any president whose last name has exactly two syllables
H Write the first letter of the names of presidents 1–22 in the lines beneath the Presidential Grid
M Cross out any even-numbered president
R Cross out any president whose “First Name” field in the Presidential Grid contains a W
S Completely shade in the row (four cells) of any president whose party ends in T
T Cross out any president whose last name has an odd number of letters
PUZZLE 1: THE TRY-FECTA

Each of the 12 clues below has at least three correct answers that each have the same number of letters (indicated in brackets).
For example, three answers to the clue “First word of a two-word U.S. state [5]” would be NORTH, SOUTH, and RHODE. Your
mission is to identify the three intended correct answers for each clue and enter them into the appropriate grid in such a way
that the three highlighted columns in the grids spell out three correct responses to the Common Theme clue. An E in each
grid has been filled in for you. Omit any spaces and punctuation.
TRUE CLUE letter #1 is the most commonly used letter in all three highlighted Common Theme columns.
1 Planet in our solar system [7] 1

2 Four-letter U.S. state [4] 2
3 One of Santa’s reindeer [5] 3
4 Color of the rainbow [6]
4
5 First name of one of the six TV Friends [6]
5
6 California major league baseball team [6]
7 Number less than 15 [3]
6 E
8 Base hit in baseball [6] 7
9 Season of the year [6] 8
10 One of the top 10 most populous cities in the U.S. [7] 9
11 Sign of the Zodiac [5] 10
12 One of the first four letters of the Greek alphabet [5] 11
12
COMMON THEME: “Hanks” for the memories
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4 E
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9
10 10
11 E 11
12 12

PUZZLE 2: ATTACK OF THE TLAs (OMG!)
Each of the red boxes in the puzzle grid contains a three-letter acronym. All but one of these acronyms has two clue answers
associated with it. For example, the acronym TLC could represent “Tender Loving Care” and “Tastes Like Chicken.” Note that
only one of the acronyms has just one clue answer associated with it.
TRUE CLUE letter #2 is the first letter of the acronym that has only one clue answer associated with it.
BBB CIA CPK ERA
FDR GWB GWS HRC
MLP MPH MSG SLC
SMB SNF TMI TOC
CLUES
1 Tuber toy 17 “Fly Like an Eagle” and “The Joker” music group
2 U.S. state capital 18 Retail chain whose name includes an ampersand
3 Radar gun reading 19 New Mexico town named after a radio quiz show
4 Salty flavor enhancer 20 American college for aspiring chefs
5 Baseball pitcher’s statistic 21 Its disco soundtrack sold 15 million U.S. copies
6 2016 presidential contender 22 Site of a major nuclear accident in 1979
7 U.S. espionage organization 23 2013 Emma Thompson film about Mary Poppins
8 One way to cross the Hudson 24 Consumer complaint intermediary organization
9 “Here’s to a speedy recovery!” 25 Fad dolls “born” at Babyland General Hospital
10 One of two airliner “black boxes” 26 Proposed gender-parity Constitutional add-on
11 Award-winning Weeds actress 27 Site that provides long-term health care
12 Music-themed restaurant chain 28 Major League team with a bird logo
13 “Your oversharing is awkward” 29 Its only natural predator is the orca
14 Longest-serving U.S. president 30 41: A Portrait of My Father author
15 Hasbro’s colorful equestrian franchise 31 Famous arena atop Penn Station
16 Chapter list in the front of a book

PUZZLE 3: WHITEOUT! PUZZLE 4: REEL FUN
All of the answers to the clues below fit a common Below are three shaded “reels” that represent the titles of
theme. Answer each clue and write its first letter in the three 8-letter films. Using the randomly ordered clues
correspondingly numbered box in the grid. Then proceed provided, enter each film’s title in the correct reel
in a straight line in any one direction: up, down, left, right, (clockwise or counterclockwise, omitting any spaces).
or diagonally. When the puzzle is finished, every square When this is done correctly, the name of a nine-letter
should be used. Note: Each answer shares at least one 1970s comedy—starring two relatives—will be revealed in
letter with another answer. Punctuation, spaces, and tags the highlighted red row. A vowel in each of the three reel
(such as “Hyph.” or “2 wds.”) have been omitted. titles has been filled in for you.
TRUE CLUE letter #3 can be found in the center square TRUE CLUE letter #4 is the letter in the highlighted red
(highlighted in red) when the grid is completed correctly. row that comes last alphabetically.
1 2 3
O I
4 5
6 7
U
8 9
CLUES
10
1952 Western for which Gary Cooper won his
second Best Actor Academy Award
11
1973 “great escape” movie starring Steve McQueen
12 13
1978 sequel-spawning blockbuster based on
a DC Comics character
1 Four-legged comic strip character named after
the cartoonist’s grandfather
1 Bestow FINAL ANSWER
2 Kerrigan rival
2 Competitor of Dyson and Oreck OK—so you’ve hopefully solved the four puzzles to reveal
3 Name repeated in the makers of Band-Aids the four correct TRUE CLUE letters. You’ve also followed
each TRUE CLUE’s directions. You’ll find your EXCLUSIVE!
3 Southern U.S. capital that sits atop an extinct volcano in one of the Presidential Grid’s columns.
4 1981 Dudley Moore comedy
5 Burton’s two-time divorcée
6 Boxer Attell or actor Vigoda HOLLYWOOD
7 Surname of “The First Lady of the American Theatre” INSIDER
8 Mr. Perry who created and portrays Madea in the movies
9 Tina’s “Proud Mary” collaborator
EXCLUSIVE!
10 ___ baby (galago)
11 “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” Actor _________ _________
singer Rita
chosen to play first president
11 Largest city along Lake Erie
12 ___ apple (neck feature)
in big-budget
13 First word in the name of a shrimp-themed ”WASHINGTON: The Movie”
restaurant chain

TOUGH AS DIAMONDS BY STEVE COUGHLAN
Arrange the digits 1 through 9 in each diamond-shaped set of diamonds below, based on the clues provided. Some diamonds
already contain the correct numbers. Numbers at the end of a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line represent the sum of the
numbers in the diamonds in that line. “Greater than” signs indicate the relationship between the two numbers adjacent to
the symbol. In the double-diamond puzzles (#5 and #6), the same number cannot appear twice in the same line, and the
number in the intersection point between
diamonds counts as part of both sets of nine. 8
When solving, start with lines having high or
low totals. Intersections are helpful, but so are 5 9 5
non-intersecting totals—there are fewer ways to
produce two totals if the same number cannot 6 3 2 1 6
appear in both lines. Keep in mind that the 20 20
numbers 1 through 9 add up to 45. You will 4 7
discover other solving techniques as you work 18 18
through the puzzles. ANSWERS, PAGE 74 6
❶ ❷ ❸
5
20 18
4 1
18 11 11
13
6 19
10
❹ ❺ ❻
26
9
12
10
24
9
19 19
12 15
8 9 22 34
9 16
20 7 9
8
12
22

QUINT-ESSENTIAL BY DON HENDERSON
Quit what you’re doing for a quick fix of quiet time with this quite delightful word search. Though they’re not listed for you,
there are 50 words (of five or more letters) to be found in the grid below, each of which appears as a horizontal, vertical, or
diagonal line of letters. Once located, they can be segregated into 10 groups of five related words each. To get you started,
we’ve circled a sixth word from one group. The remaining five words are all members of the same category. There is also a hint
about one of the other categories in the third row of letters from the bottom.
After you’ve circled all 50 words and filled in the blanks, the unused letters (read from left to right and top to bottom) will
spell out an eleventh bonus group of five related words. Note: The words DAIRY, LUNAR and RENEGE appear incidentally and
are not part of the solution. There are no plurals in this puzzle. If you need a little help getting started, check out the hint listing
the 10 categories on page 77. ANSWERS, PAGE 74
E H A L C
A B Y A R P S R I A H
M H R M J O G U A O R T R O D
G R A N U L E O B C C N I A R G T
W L V Z L R A S E R A S C V R M U N U
C O L E E C E D E N N S B E L R G L I
G S E L L E C K V E O C E S O T E R I C B
N E L A F B S I L I Z A R D L A G L B N A
M A C B A E L R R M L N R E G N E R E B E
H V I K E S A E R G O O H O W T N R R T S
N E E C O U B B R O S D S Y A E E S A W E
R D A I R Y M E W N D I W L L R L L K
E U L A T L U I L I P N C T O O B A T
L B E S U F O R P Y A U U C U N S
A U B T A N E P M B T O M S A
A N O E L E M A H C Z
F B T E C
G RA I N
BONUS GROUP

HELTER-SKELTER BY FRANK LONGO
Helter-Skelter is a crossword variation in which the answers interlock in any of eight different directions. To solve, write the
answer to each clue starting in its numbered square and proceed in a straight line toward—and if necessary, beyond—the
next consecutive number. The first answer, ALTAR, has been entered in Helter-Skelter #1 as an example. ANSWERS, PAGE 74
HELTER-SKELTER #1 HELTER-SKELTER #2
17 6 18 6 7 5
4 11 20 19
13 11 15 12
22 16 3 2 8 4 21 22
10 7 8 1 16 17
21 5 12 14
15 14 3 2 23 18
9 20 23 19 10 13 1 9
1 Rite site 1 World’s highest capital city: 2 wds.

2 It makes your kisses slippery: 2 wds. 2 Volkswagen’s luxury brand
3 Ran, as dye 3 Of standard quality: 3 wds.
4 Jostled in jest 4 Feast fit for a filly
5 Drops a line 5 Deprive (of)
6 Great scholar 6 Betrays, in a way: 2 wds.
7 ”___ Mr. Nice Guy!”: 2 wds. 7 Conical quarters
8 Jeopardy! creator Griffin 8 Piano-practice piece
9 It’s often added to milk: 2 wds. 9 Cass of The Mamas & the Papas
10 Kate’s sitcom friend 10 ”Clock-wise” global section: 2 wds.
11 Not nearly as cordial 11 Conditionally free: 2 wds.
12 Carmaker Olds’s first name 12 Once-a-year
13 Caught in a trap 13 Time cofounder Henry
14 More ghostly 14 Capital of Lower Normandy
15 Hang around 15 Like all-skim yogurt
16 Plenty: 2 wds. 16 Samurai’s relative
17 Lock of hair 17 Dilettantish
18 Where the beach crowd is at: 2 wds. 18 Car-lot transaction: Hyph.
19 Olin who played Irina on Alias 19 As an alternative
20 Leontyne Price solo 20 “Thing” word
21 Instead (of): 2 wds. 21 On its second owner
22 Anderson or Armstrong 22 Throw out
23 Make into law 23 Doubloon, e.g.

LETTUR PERFEKT BY STEPHEN SNIDERMAN
In these puzzles, each set of letters is a familiar uncapitalized word with exactly one letter changed. In Puzzle A, #1, for
example, if you change the M in DIMORCE to a V, you get DIVORCE. Can you figure out the unique solution in each
puzzle? As a solving aid, each of the 26 letters of the alphabet is replaced exactly once, so you can cross off letters as
you use them. ANSWERS, PAGE 75
PUZZLE A PUZZLE B
1. DIMORCE 14. COORUS 1. SARITZ 14. JURIOT
2. ANTIVUE 15. SARCALM 2. TORENDOR 15. IMAMINE
3. SPECKAL 16. ASERUAL 3. DESTRE 16. SOTTENER
4. STANYARD 17. COLDNEL 4. MILIRU 17. SUSINESS
5. RENEFIT 18. SADMON 5. TONARD 18. ONEMONIC
6. GENDINE 19. VETCRAN 6. BROGLE 19. THEPRY
7. MARTILL 20. PENOIL 7. SUBOLE 20. TORTUE
8. AROPHY 21. ASKWARD 8. BALMET 21. ASTOMA
9. TRUSPET 22. PRENNANT 9. GALAPY 22. STANEA
10. CRIEND 23. NICAEL 10. SOLEMP 23. LOGUAM
11. BIGAMP 24. HASPOON 11. BOBEAT 24. DOSSIEL
12. TRAPEWE 25. AGLOSTIC 12. GARGOBLE 25. CHEERON
13. WALOPY 26. DIOLOMA 13. WISHOM 26. JACEAL
A B C D E F G H I J K L M A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
PUZZLE C PUZZLE D
1. HAINDO 14. SCUMEN 1. SHOSHORN 14. ANCHOLY
2. INSTINET 15. FAMBLIAR 2. BAGUIPE 15. PLASPEN
3. THOUTH 16. FROGEN 3. AISHOP 16. SORFERY
4. TRANSIER 17. COLUIN 4. TAWDOY 17. TOMBRY
5. BULKARK 18. OPARUE 5. BAMAAR 18. CRODUET
6. PHRAMID 19. ADIANCE 6. WOMEW 19. BANHOIST
7. FELINI 20. ABOOMEN 7. SCENTRIO 20. GIMMICE
8. ANDIETY 21. OILIGED 8. SOOTOE 21. UNURUAL
9. ALBINK 22. PERAURY 9. ENSERBLE 22. STIOMA
10. ROSTINE 23. ALIALI 10. CHOAR 23. PREVIEN
11. WATERAL 24. ACHOOL 11. PURSPIT 24. ACRUAL
12. HEIGOT 25. DEBOOR 12. ENAMED 25. INDERNO
13. SUPOLY 26. TORIADO 13. ANECROTE 26. ASIOM
A B C D E F G H I J K L M A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

ONE, TWO, THREE 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, B-RA-VER, has
been filled in as an example. ANSWER, PAGE 75
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
B RA VER
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
ACROSS 50 Dionne Warwick hit with a city in 21 Knight who sang with the Pips
1 Less cowardly its title: 8 wds. 23 At the location itself, as
4 Freeloading sort 54 Earnest requests training: Hyph.
8 Dominant themes 55 Creators of detailed directories 24 Library patron
12 Delta of Venus author Nin 56 Raised, as livestock 25 At the very same time that: 2 wds.
13 Gas brand with a star logo 57 Small bag for scenting clothes 26 Most limber
14 1982 Pryor/Gleason 58 Picks in a classroom: 2 wds. 27 Move quickly and
comedy: 2 wds. 59 Dormant seemingly randomly
15 Tony Bennett hit with a city in 28 Part of a book’s front matter: 2 wds.
its title: 7 wds. DOWN 30 Factory-cut home
18 Put on a detour 1 One dumping water overboard 31 Establish a mutual
19 Twist into a knot 2 Pursued speedily: 2 wds. connection between
20 Giant ape of film, for short 3 Artistic realism, as in late 34 Stays in hiding: 2 wds.
22 Gloomy donkey of kid-lit 19th-century Italian opera 35 State trees of Florida and
26 Elevating 4 Uselessly old-fashioned: Hyph. South Carolina
29 CD album’s ancestor: 2 wds. 5 Earthy pigment 40 Deceitful
32 Campbell of the Scream films 6 Making rigorous demands 42 American Pie actress Hannigan
33 Jan & Dean hit with a city in its 7 Desperately Seeking Susan 44 Concerning right and wrong
title: 6 wds. costar Arquette 45 Genetics pioneer Gregor
36 Part of a procedure 8 Nurturing, protective, and kind 47 TV’s teenage witch
37 The Jeffersons actress Sanford 9 Giant of Greek myth 48 Deliver with a hypodermic needle
38 Soda bottle sizes 10 Points of convergence 49 Sharp decline
39 Hamlet and King Lear, for two 11 Big name in food service products 50 Groups’ senior members
41 First-string athletic group: Hyph. 16 Yellow-fleshed potato 51 Community service program
43 Yiddish writer Aleichem or Asch variety: 2 wds. 52 Newswoman Couric
46 Grants entry to: 2 wds. 17 What a prisoner longs for 53 People shining floors

BY JASON ELMER • W H AT ' S H A P P E N I N G •
What’s Happening: Details: Join fellow anime lovers at this What’s Happening:
ANIMINNEAPOLIS con dedicated to Japanese culture, STUNFEST 2016
anime, manga, music, cosplay, and
more. Special activities and guests
round out the events.
When: May 6–8, 2016 For more info: www.norfolkanime.com
Where: Hyatt Regency Minneapolis;
Minneapolis, MN What’s Happening:
Details: This con provides a safe and MOBICON XIX When: May 20–22, 2016
fun place to make friends with people Where: Le Liberté; Rennes, France
who share similar interests. Anime fans Details: Stunfest, which takes place in
will gather together for “three days the historic city of Rennes in Brittany,
of anime, video games, and music in bills itself as a “video games festival like
Minneapolis.” You can cosplay (optional); When: May 27–29, 2016 you’ve never seen.” Drawing gamers from
attend concerts, dances, and contests; play Where: Renaissance Mobile Riverview around the world, it offers arcade games,
video games; and shop for anime items. Plaza Hotel; Mobile, AL retrogaming, indie games, concerts, and
Autograph sessions and entertaining Details: This con is for fans of fantasy, conferences, among other things. The
panels will also be featured. science fiction, horror, comic books, goal of Stunfest is to show video games
For more info: www.animinneapolis.com anime, and gaming. For gamers as not only a form of entertainment, but
there are board games, CCGs, RPGs, as a whole culture.
miniatures, and more. Other activities For more info:
What’s Happening: include cosplay, panels, and live www.stunfest.fr/english-informations
XCON entertainment. Special events include
a Zombie Walk through downtown What’s Happening:
Mobile, with awards for Best Zombie EVERGREEN TABLETOP EXPO
and Best Hunter. When: May 27–29, 2016
For more info: www.mobicon.org Where: Greater Tacoma
Convention Center;
What’s Happening: Tacoma, WA
BGG.CON SPRING Details: Evergreen Tabletop
When: May Expo, or ETX, is the Pacific
When: May 20–22, 2016 27–30, 2016 Northwest’s home for
Where: Myrtle Beach Convention Center; Where: Hyatt tabletop gaming; hence its
Myrtle Beach, SC Regency DFW; slogan “A game for every
Details: This annual comic convention and DFW Airport, player and a table for every
show offers attendees the chance to enjoy TX game.” Attendees will enjoy guest
special exhibits, immerse themselves in Details: Come appearances and organized gaming
RPGs, and much more. As always the 2016 and enjoy BGG. events. Game publishers will also be on
edition will feature an excellent lineup of CON’s vast hand to answer questions.
celebrity guests, authors, and artists. game library, where attendees can For more info: etxwa.com
For more info: www.xconworld.info borrow games and try them out in
the open gaming area. There are also What’s Happening:
What’s Happening: special rooms where new games will be GEEKWAY TO
GAME-O-RAMA taught, as well as special events such as THE WEST
When: tournaments and puzzle hunts. When: May
May 26–30, 2016 For more info: www.boardgamegeek.com/ 19–22, 2016
Where: Atlanta wiki/page/BGGCON_Spring Where:
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Center; Atlanta, GA What’s Happening: Sheraton
Details: Get KUBLACON Chalet; St.
together with other enthusiasts to enjoy Louis, MO
board and card games, miniatures, and Details: Geekway boasts “Four Days
RPGs. There will be tournaments, as well of Peace, Love, and Board Games!”
as opportunities to play certain games When: May 27–30, 2016 Attendees can visit the game library and
with their designers. Special events Where: Hyatt Regency SFO; participate in open gaming the whole
include a room devoted to the Artemis Burlingame, CA time, or they may sample the scheduled
Spaceship Bridge Simulator, and a flea Details: This “Khan of Cons” is the West and informal events. “Official” Geekway
market where attendees can sell, buy, and Coast’s largest gaming convention, events include a Game Prototype Lab,
trade games. with a huge selection of board games, Game Design Competition, daily door
For more info: www.game-o-rama.com RPGs, CCGs, and more. Special programs prizes, and a Game Market. One of the
for teens and younger players will many perks that makes this con special
What’s Happening: be offered. Other events include is that every registered guest will take
NORFOLK ANIME EXPLOSION miniatures painting, a flea market, home a free game.
When: May 26–29, 2016 and a dealers’ room. For more info:
Where: Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel For more info: www.kublacon.com www.geekwaytothewest.com

FAMILY GAME NIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE
By Jonathan Schmalzbach
Family game night, my favorite night of the month. Just me, tactical, or knowledge-based. Today, bloggers write nostalgically
my family, and my ‘jama pants.—Cory Matthews about family time spent competing in such popular games as
On the Disney Channel show Girl Meets World, family game Monopoly, Scrabble, Connect Four, and Trivial Pursuit.
night is a sacred monthly tradition. Dad Cory Matthews giddily This gives rise to some interesting questions: Is family game
looks forward to playing board games; his favorite, aptly, is night a global phenomenon, embraced by the rest of the world?
called the Family Game. What board games are popular in other parts of the world?
Many of today’s adults grew up with a similar tradition in In search of answers, I conducted a spot survey of friends and
which board and card games would bring families together— family living around the globe and also did some research of my
when taunting and fighting weren’t tearing them apart. own. While not being able to stop in all countries, I did learn
Baby Boomers and Gen Xers alike fondly remember playing that many nations have an equivalent of game night. Plenty
games like Chutes and Ladders, Candy Land, Parcheesi, and of American board games enjoy international popularity and,
Trouble, which are long on luck but short on strategy. As they conversely, quite a few board games popular in the States have
grew from kids to teens, their games became more sophisticated, their roots abroad.
The Netherlands India

According to my stepsister, Beth, who lives in Amsterdam Speaking of Parcheesi, it is the national game of India,
with her Dutch husband, Marcel, family game night in the where it is known as Pachisi. According to 19th-century game
Netherlands includes many of the same board games played in historian Edward Falkener, the game dates back as early as
the United States. Marcel grew up playing American games such 500 A.D. Pachisi is also called the Royal Game of India because
as Rummikub, Scrabble, and Monopoly with his family. A more royalty used servants of the royal household adorned in
recent favorite, according to Beth, is Settlers of Catan, created by colored costumes as game pieces on large outdoor boards.
German game designer Klaus Teuber. A traditional board is shaped like a symmetrical cross and
players move pieces around the board based on a throw of
cowrie shells. The name Pachisi derives from the Hindi word
meaning “twenty-five,” which is the highest number that can
be thrown with cowrie shells.
Other popular games originated in India, where they have
been played for centuries. Chess, for instance, is believed
to have originated in India in the sixth century. The game
of Chutes and Ladders can be traced back to a game called
Moksha Patam that originated in 13th-century India.
Moksha Patam was associated with traditional Hindu
philosophy that contrasts karma and kama, or destiny and
desire. Blogger Ruma Chakravarti writes that the original
game squares were associated with virtues and vices. As
she notes, “the 12th square was faith, the 51st square was
reliability, [and] the 57th square was
The website dutchcommunity.com confirms the popularity generosity.” These were the
of the American classics but adds that “old-fashioned squares where the
board games are still passionately played in Dutch living ladders
rooms up and down the country.” One popular game
they point out is Mens Erger Je Niet,
t which translates
roughly as “Don’t get worked up, guys!” The game is
Parcheesi-esque and is known for infuriating the players, as the
cover of the game shown above suggests.
And just like in the States, munchies figure prominently in
family game night here, where players indulge in such typical
Dutch noshes as borrelnootjess (cocktail nuts), Hollandse
kaasblokjess (Dutch cheese cubes), and bitterballen
(deep-fried meatballs).
CLOTH PACHISI BOARD

and Ladders, and the board was adapted to reflect Victorian
values. Victorian virtues included Penitence (8) and pity
(54), whereas vices included depravity (64), pride (95), and
unpunctuality (48).
Milton Bradley created a U.S. version called Chutes and
Ladders in 1943. A playground setting replaced the snakes,
which elicited negative reactions from children of that
period, according to an article in The New York Times. In a
particularly American twist, virtues and vices were nowhere
to be seen.
MODERN PARCHEESI BOARD
were found and one could move ahead faster.

Vices—including disobedience, arrogance, vulgarity,
drunkenness, anger, greed, pride, and lust—were
associated with other squares. “These were the squares
where the snake waited with its mouth open,” Chakravarti
writes. Note that the vices outnumber the virtues. Likely
this was meant as a reminder that a path of good is much
more difficult to tread than a path of sins.
Fortunately, the final square represented Nirvana or
Moksha. The moral lesson of the game is that a person can
attain salvation, or Moksha, through being virtuous. But if
one does evil he will slide down the snakes and be reborn as
a lower form of life.
In the 1890s, the British rechristened the game as Snakes
MOKSHA PATAM BOARD, 19th-CENTURY INDIA CHUTES AND LADDERS
Japan
An ex-pat buddy of mine, Dave, moved to
Japan to teach after graduating from college
and never came back. His Japanese wife
Sayuri remembers playing board games with
her family such as Go and Othello. Likewise,
many bloggers from Japan report playing Go,
the ancient territory-acquisition game, with
their families.
Sayuri also mentioned a traditional
card game that people often play at New
Year’s called Hanafuda. Literally translated,
Hanafuda means “flower cards” in Japanese.
Its development was influenced by the
arrival of Portuguese traders in Japan in
the 16th century. Incredibly, Nintendo, one
of the world’s most successful video game
companies, was originally founded with
the sole purpose of creating and printing
Hanafuda cards. The company still produces
TRADITIONAL HANAFUDA CARDS

DELIVER RAW MATERIALS TO FACTORIES, A SOVIET-ERA BOARD GAME
these cards today, mainly to honor its The website BoardGameGeek describes Jinsei as Life with
history. “an additional game board, the ‘Junior Stage’ board, which
Another friend, Kathie, who lived in lays over top of the standard board and roulette spinner
Japan as a young adult, fondly recalls wheel.” The Junior Stage variant, which was made for children
Uta-garuta, a card game based on the but can be played by anyone, has large, easy-to-read print and
Hyakunin Isshu (100 waka poems by 100 follows players from birth until they begin to look for their
poets). These 100 waka are very famous first job.
and widely studied in Japanese schools.
All waka poems have five lines. The Russia
last two lines appear on the cards facing When asked about games in Russia, my cousin Ella, who was
players. When the reader starts reading born there, mentions Preferans, the country’s national card
the first three lines of the poem, players game. This trick-taking card game has been popular since the
race to grab the card with the two lines 1830s and is enjoyed by serious and casual players alike.
that complete the poem. But Yelena, who posts for the Russian language blog
According to Kathie, brainy kids “Transparent Language,” offers an interesting perspective
in Japan play Uta-garuta, which she on the differences between board games in the U.S. and her
described as “kind of a nerdy, literary native country.
Name That Tune.” “Do you like playing board games?” she asks. “Let me tell
Several Japanese bloggers mention you, board game fans in the U.S. are absolutely spoiled. Unlike
playing Jinsei, which translates literally as Russia, in the U.S. there’s such a variety of board games there
“life game.” This is apt as it’s modeled on for all ages and for every taste.”
The Game of Life, an American favorite. Growing up in Russia, Yelena remembers playing just a few
classic board games such as chess, checkers, and dominoes. She
UTA-GARUTA CARDS recalls a more fun strategy game called Battle Ships, although
Africa
The next stop on our tour of games from around the globe
is Africa, the likely birthplace of mancala, one of the oldest
games in the world, dating back thousands of years. Mancala
boards have been found carved into the roofs of ancient
Egyptian tombs in Luxor and Thebes.
A mancala board has holes arranged in either two or four
rows. Small stones or seeds were used in earlier mancala sets;
today, marbles are common. The name mancala literally means
“to transfer” in Arabic, so the aim is to move your stones around
so that you can capture more than your opponent. The game is
played by both children and adults; many families report playing
the game together in a family setting.
Anouk Zijlma, who writes for the website About Travel,
grew up playing mancala, which is known as bao in Malawi.
She writes “some of you may know the game as mancala,
oware, ayo, omweso, enkeshui, or aweet. There are in fact
more than 200 versions of this ‘count and capture’ game,
played throughout Africa, all with slightly different rules.”
CHEMICAL WARFARE, ANOTHER GAME FROM THE FORMER U.S.S.R. My friend Kathie, whom I mentioned earlier, also spent
most of the time she made do with hand-drawn “boards” in several years in Uganda, where mancala is called omweso.
the backs of grid notebooks. “We played it with rocks or beans in the dirt because we
It does not appear that family game night was a popular usually didn’t have the wooden board,” she said. “We would
tradition in Russia. Yelena writes that adults generally scorned dig 14 holes and play that way.”
game playing as a frivolous way of spending one’s leisure time. So what did I learn from my informal survey of games
This was not always the case. As Ross Wolfe writes in around the world? At first glance, family game night appears
his blog “The Charnel-House,” comrades in the 1920s and to be a primarily American phenomenon, but families in
1930s could keep sharp fighting the forces of capitalism other areas of the world often come together to enjoy
by playing revolutionary board games. A company called their favorite board games, too. Of course, the Golden Age
A.V. Kuklin issued “a whole batch of revolutionary board- of board games predates the current video game era. Yet,
games, featuring such riveting class-conscious titles as board games continue to endure. Classics such as Monopoly,
Electrification, Revolution, Reds vs. Whites, and Maneuvers: Sorry, and Clue are still big sellers, while newer games such
A Game for Young Pioneers.” As he notes, drily, these were as Taboo and Pie Face are making the top-10 lists. When I
“games for the whole family, even though the family form of can pull my 10-year-old daughter Rose away from her video
property-relations must eventually be abolished.” screens, she’ll play Rummikub or Uno—she even taught her
To these Yelena adds board games from the same era folks mancala!
that can be roughly translated as: Deliver Raw Materials to Mens Erger Je Niet, anyone? Q
Factories, Lenin Is Walking to Smolny, and Chemical Warfare.
“I have to mention,” she adds, “that all these games were
games for children.”
19th-CENTURY MANCALA BOARD, BROOKLYN MUSEUM

• YOUR WORD AGAINST MINE: SCRABBLE HAPPENINGS, PUZZLES, AND TIPS•
1. FAQ ABOUT NORTH AMERICAN SCRABBLE CLUBS

Can anyone come to Scrabble clubs new players, and sometimes even allow you don’t know. It may also be helpful to
or do you first have to be a member them to use a cheat sheet. Expect to be familiar with some word basics, like
of NASPA (North American Scrabble encounter a mix of players, ranging from the 2-letter words and high-scoring short
Players Association)? novice to expert. Clubs vary in many words you can make using the high-point
Anyone at all can come. Check out www. ways, but what is consistent are that tiles (J,Q,X,Z). But it’s also fine to learn as
cross-tables.com for a list of clubs across games are one-on-one, and they are you play. A typical club offers 3 to 5
the U.S. Before attending, contact the timed (25 minutes per person per game games per session, though players are
club organizer to make sure the club will using a chess clock, 10-point penalty for encouraged to come for whatever portion
be meeting as listed, what word list the each minute one goes beyond their they’d like.
club uses, and if the club charges a fee allotted 25 minutes).
(most don’t, but some do—usually just to If I already can beat my family and
What else should a new player know
cover the cost of the meeting space). You friends regularly, should I skip club
would need to join NASPA before before attending? and go right to tournament play?
It’s helpful to know the basics, like the
potentially playing a tournament, though. You certainly could, but I’d recommend
rules of the game and rules of challenging at least one or two club sessions just to
What is it like at a Scrabble club? opponents’ words. But again, club get the feel of organized play and playing
In general, clubs are very welcoming to veterans will be happy to teach you what on a clock. ANSWERS, PAGE 75
2. IT HAD TO BE U (OR V OR W, ETC.):

Each of the following groups of letters includes a blank, denoted by a question mark. In each case, there is exactly one
(common) word that can be made—it’s up to you to figure out what letter the blank needs to be. In each list the puzzles get
progressively harder.

6-LETTER WORDS 7-LETTER WORDS 8-LETTER WORDS
Scott Appel has been playing tournament Scrabble for nearly 20 years. He’ll be at several tournaments this year, including
the North American Scrabble Championship (in Fort Wayne, Indiana, starting on August 6). See www.cross-tables.com
for more info regarding all upcoming tournaments.

BY SCOTT APPEL
3. HOOKS AND EXTENSIONS AND PARALLELS, OH MY!

In Scrabble, there are four types of plays you can make on any given turn. Here is a description and example of each:
Board 1: WIG is on the board, Board 3: WIG is on the board,

play MIGHT through the G. play KENO under WIG, form-
This is called playing perpen- ing WE/IN/GO as well. This is
dicular to a word. This is the called playing parallel to a
style of play newer players word.
generally find easiest to see.
Board 2: WIG is on the board, Board 4: WIG is on the board,

play ZIT/TWIG. This is called a play WIGGLE. This is called an
hook. extension.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
Using the board at left, make the highest scoring play that is either a
TRIPLE DOUBLE TRIPLE DOUBLE TRIPLE
1 WORD LETTER WORD LETTER WORD
perpendicular, a hook, a parallel, or an extension, as indicated. All four plays

DOUBLE TRIPLE TRIPLE DOUBLE
2 WORD LETTER LETTER WORD
use the same board. Once you make a play using a given rack, remove those
DOUBLE DOUBLE DOUBLE DOUBLE
letters from the board before starting the next rack.

DOUBLE DOUBLE DOUBLE DOUBLE DOUBLE
4 LETTER WORD LETTER WORD LETTER

DOUBLE DOUBLE
5 WORD WORD
TRIPLE TRIPLE TRIPLE TRIPLE

6 LETTER LETTER LETTER LETTER

Rack 1: EEIIRVZ, perpendicular
8
TRIPLE
WORD
DOUBLE
LETTER
JUg
DOUBLE
LETTER
TRIPLE
WORD Rack 2: CEGLPRS, extension
9
DOUBLE
LETTER
eON DOUBLE
LETTER
Rack 3: EEPRTTX, parallel
11
DOUBLE
WORD
DOUBLE
WORD
Rack 4: EEEINQU, hook



A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
Using the board at left, find the highest scoring play for each of the four
racks. The type of play (perpendicular, hook, parallel or extension) has not
been identified, but each of the four types will be used exactly once. Again,
once you make a play using a given rack, remove those letters before starting
DOUBLE DOUBLE
5 WORD WORD
the next rack. As a hint to solving, the total number of points that can be
scored across all four plays is 246.
PELF
DOUBLE DOUBLE DOUBLE
7 LETTER LETTER LETTER

WIMPED ABOM A
TRIPLE
8 WORD
Rack 1: CILOOUZ
9
DOUBLE
LETTER
ODOR DOUBLE
LETTER
DOUBLE
LETTER
10
TRIPLE
LETTER
C TRIPLE
LETTER
TRIPLE
LETTER
TRIPLE
LETTER Rack 2: EEIQSTU
11 H
DOUBLE
WORD
DOUBLE
WORD
Rack 3: DEILMNV
13
DOUBLE
WORD
DOUBLE
LETTER
DOUBLE
LETTER
DOUBLE
WORD
Rack 4: AADEEFT
14
DOUBLE
WORD
TRIPLE
LETTER
TRIPLE
LETTER
DOUBLE
WORD

15
TRIPLE
WORD
DOUBLE
LETTER
TRIPLE
WORD
DOUBLE
LETTER
TRIPLE
WORD


•THIS OLD GAME• BY JONATHAN SCHMALZBACH
SHENANIGANS
“C
ome one, come all. Step right up to play
Shenanigans, the ‘Carnival of Fun Game.’
Would you like your palm read? Visit the snake
charmer—if you dare. Step right up!”
The 1964 board game Shenanigans looks like a colorful car-
nival and features several midway-type games. The board has
a third dimension—a cardboard wall— that shows the games,
several of which have definitive ’60s-sounding names such as
Bowlaganza and Balloono.
The object of the game is to collect the most Shenaniganzas
(Shenanigans money) while traveling through the “carnival”—
that is, moving along the board the number of squares indicated
by the roll of a die.
Milton Bradley produced the board game, which was based Hosted by Broadway mainstay Stubby Kaye, the TV game
on an ABC TV show called Shenanigans. On the show, children show had a boardwalk-meets-carnival vibe. There was a haunted
played a life-size version of the game. house, Skee-Ball, and Pie in the Eye, where contestants threw a
pie into a big plastic eye that would open and close. It had to be
timed just right to get it into the hole, which was the eye’s pupil.
It also featured the prototype for the classic board game Op-
eration, where a kid had to pull a bone out of a life-size model.
Pie in the Eye and Bowlaganza are two games that made it
into the board game. Pie in the Eye is a tiddlywinks variant where
the challenge is to flip a tiddlywink through a hole in the wall.
Players are awarded $50 Shenaniganzas for each successful shot.
Bowlaganza also requires some skill. Here, a player bowls
marbles into a cutout and, depending on where they land, is
awarded Shenaniganzas.
The rest of the games are solely luck-oriented. In Dog House,
for instance, a player has to guess whether the drawn card is a
cat, dog, or cow, by imitating its voice with a meow, bowwow,
or moo. Get it right, and add to your Shenaniganzas. In Balloono
and Hold Everything, players draw a card with an amount of
Shenaniganzas on it. Players can continue drawing—but if they
draw a losing card, they suffer a penalty. You can really rack up
the Shenaniganzas in these games!
However, in Guess the Weight, a player essentially has a one-
in-six chance of guessing correctly. With only a $50 Shenanigan-
zas reward for guessing right, the payoff seems a little paltry.
The player who finishes first gets a bonus of $50 Shenanigan-
zas, and whoever has the most money wins.
Sadly, Shenanigans looks a lot more fun than it actually is.
It’s recommended for ages 5 to 12, but most kids today would
likely find the game a little slow and silly. My 10-year-old
wanted nothing to do with it. Nostalgic adults on the other
hand—particularly those who watched the TV show— may get
a kick out of playing.
As Stubby Kaye sang in the TV show theme, “Shenanigans—
have some fun and play Shenanigans…” Q
This Old Game is a new feature by GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES

contributor and board game collector Jonathan Schmalz-
bach. Each column will profile a game from his collection.

BY DENNIS SHASHA •LOGIC•
MINMOVES PUZZLES WARMUP

Below is the starting arrangement. Use at
most two moves to get to a sorted order.
I
n MinMoves puzzles you are given a set of chairs around
a table with a person whose name begins with the letter 1
shown. You want to rearrange the people in the chairs to
be sorted in alphabetical order in a clockwise fashion, with one A
2
empty chair just to the left of the person whose name begins
with A.
B
For this month’s puzzle, in each move, you are allowed to move
a person from one chair to an empty chair three away in either
direction. The goal is to minimize the number of moves. Q
ANSWER, PAGE 75
3
HERE’S THE SOLUTION TO THE WARMUP PUZZLE:
F
6
1
A E D
2
4
7
5
B
1
A
3
2
F
6
B
E D
4
5
3
C
F
NOW HERE IS THE PROBLEM FOR THIS ISSUE:

6
1 D
E
E
4
2
5
Note that in this case A starts and ends at seat 1,
7
but that need not have been the case.
Dennis Shasha is a professor

of computer science at New
York University’s Courant Insti-
3
C
tute. In addition to his scholarly

research, Dr. Shasha has written
6
six books of puzzles featuring a

mathematical detective, Dr. Ecco.
B
4 He writes the puzzle column
for CACM (Communications of
5
The Association for Computing
Find a way to achieve a sorted outcome using at most Machinery), and has also writ-
8 moves, where the only allowed move is to move ten puzzle columns for Scientific
three seats away to an empty chair.
American and Dr. Dobb’s Journal.

• W I L D CA R D S •
WORDPLAY LOGIC
COVER-UP SPORTING COMPANIONS
Imagine the four 3×3 grids Fred had invited three friends
shown as separate slips of paper to his home for an afternoon
below. How can they be placed of games. At one point in the
in the larger square (with some afternoon the following lively
overlapping) to form a word conversation took place:
square, with five five-letter words
reading across and five different Mr. Beacham: In golf, the chef
five-letter words reading beats me but I beat Jim.
down? Letters covered by an The engineer: Yes—and you,
overlapping grid will not be part Mr. Beacham, beat me in tennis,
of the finished square. where I beat Karl.
Karl: True, I can beat the
engineer only in golf, not in
O V A S T E tennis. However, Mr. Harkness
beats me in golf.
D E L P A N Jim: Mr. Harkness beats me in
E R E A P T tennis, where I beat the lawyer.
Irv: In tennis I beat Mr. Dodge,
but I lose to the accountant.
A R T E R A WORDPLAY Mr. Grant: Well, I beat the
MIDDLE GROUND accountant at golf, where I lose
P E R R I S All of the words below share to you, Irv.
an unusual quality. Can you
P L Y O C T determine what it is? From the information imparted
above, can you identify all
LOP ARE RIM the men by full name and
ROD ACE ABLE occupation, and tell their relative
ODE APE AIDE skills in both games?
—JOSEPH APPEL —PAUL R. MCCLENON
TEASERS MAPPIT
TRADING PLACES LATITUDINAL THINKING
—MIKE SHENK Four pieces from a certain Each group of three world cities
chesslike board game have below lies within a different
been placed on a 3×2 grid as 10-degree band of latitudes,
shown. Each piece—Copper, ranging from 70° N. to 50° S. Can
WORDPLAY Silver, Platinum, and Gold, as you put the groups in order from
PREFIX AFFIXATION indicated by their symbols—can north to south?
The blanks in each row below can move onto an adjacent empty
be filled in with the same nine square in any of the directions 1. Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong,
letters in the same order to make indicated by the arrows. Can Honolulu
10 common words. Can you you make a series of just seven 2. Bangkok, Manila, Mumbai
determine what are the missing moves after which the positions 3. Bogota, Kuala Lumpur,
nine letters? of the Silver and Gold have
Monrovia
been switched but the Copper
and Platinum are on their 4. Brisbane, Johannesburg,
A Rio de Janeiro
original squares?
D E 5. Cape Town, Santiago, Sydney
I N 6. Casablanca, Tehran, Tokyo
C O N 7. Darwin, Harare, Lima
P R E C
8. Dublin, Edmonton, Moscow
P R O 9. Fairbanks, Helsinki, Reykjavik
S U B 10. Hobart, Puerto Montt (Chile),
T R A N Wellington
S P G
S U P ER 11. Jakarta, Nairobi, Recife
C I R CUM 12. Montreal, Paris, Rome
—RAYMOND LOVE —R.H. WEI —PADDY SMITH

ANSWERS, PAGE 76

• W I L D CA R D S •
ODDS & ENDS

MATCH GAME
Each item in the first list below (1–12) can be paired with one of the items
in the second list (a–l) according to a particular criterion that is the same
for all 12 pairs. Can you determine the criterion and match up the items?
1. 61st minute of a football game

2. Climate control device in a house or car
3. Common college degree
4. First-year MLB player
5. Gibraltar or Hormuz, e.g.
6. Jessica Jones’s occupation
7. One-eighth of a gallon
8. One of the eight main compass directions
9. Speed of light
10. Strikeout
11. What a general is to a colonel
12. What Cheerios or Wheaties is to General Mills
a. Chemical element number 19, used in many fertilizers

b. Chess piece often resembling a castle
c. Cornhusker State
d. Easy or Wall, e.g.
e. Football lineman between the guards
f. Form of electric power delivered to residences
g. Group that includes Luzon and Mindanao
h. Longer portion of the King James Bible
i. Practice based on ancient Hindu texts and involving mantras
j. Ted Williams’s was .406 in 1941
k. Type of employee who works only two days a week
l. What Orange or Alameda is in California
—R. WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER
WORDPLAY
AUNT HILDEGARDE
Last time I visited Aunt Hildegarde, she was partial to tea but not coffee,
planes but not trains, pears but not apples—all because her fancy had
been caught by words having homophones (tea/tee, planes/plains, pears/
pairs, etc.). This month she’s been spending a lot of time with Uncle Frank,
and she’s developed a whole new set of likes and dislikes. Can you figure
out what principle is guiding her current tastes?
This month Aunt Hildegarde likes to dress in STRIPES, not in POLKA DOTS.
She’s wearing SHOES, but not SOCKS.
She enjoys WHIST, but not BRIDGE.
She goes to the RACES, but she doesn’t like HORSES.
She’s taken up POTTERY, and she’s given up KNITTING.
She’s fond of her new pet HYENA, but she’s lost interest in her PARROT.
She likes TRUTH but not LIES.
She likes an ORANGE but not an APPLE.
She’ll get DRUNK but not SMASHED.
She plans to vacation in ATHENS, even though she hates GREECE.
—DAVID DIEFENDORF
•CONTEST•
NEW ROLE-PLAYING CONNECTIONS

By R. Wayne Schmittberger
T
his edition of our Role Playing
First Prize $100
contest, found most recently in the 5 Runner-Up Prizes:
February 2016 issue, comes with A ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION
two new twists. As usual, each orange TO GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES
square in the diagram represents a film

and each yellow circle represents an ac-
tor, who may be male or female. None
of the films are shorts or documentaries,
but some may have been shown only at
film festivals. None of them were released
7,6 4,5 5,4 1,3,4,2,6,4 8,8
prior to 1990.
As in previous Role Playing contests,
a line may connect an actor to a film,
indicating that the actor had a role in
7 7,10 3,4 1,3,5,5 5,7 3,6,5,8,4
that film. But—here are the twists—a line
may also connect two films, indicating
that they had the same director, or two
actors, indicating that the actors are either 4, 11 7,8 9,9 3,7 6,7
siblings or are parent and child.
The numbers in each circle indicate
how many letters are in the first and last
names of the actor, while the numbers
in each square tell you the number of
3,6 ? ? ? 7,7
letters in each word of the film’s title,

in order. Punctuation in titles has been
omitted, and hyphenated words are 8,5 4,5,4,6 ? ? ? 8,5 13
treated as separate words (i.e., the
hyphen is replaced by a space). For
example, “6,5” in a circle indicates an
actor with a six-letter first name and a 5 7,7 ? ? ? 5,9
five-letter last name, while “3,8” in a
square indicates a two-word title with
three letters in the first word and eight
letters in the second word. 4,10 6,10 4,4 5 4,4 3,7 4,5
The nine circles and squares near the
center of the diagram have question
marks instead of enumerations. The ob-
ject of the contest is to determine what 6,5 3,7,4,2,8,6 4,9 4,8 13 3,8 3,8
four films and five actors or actresses are
represented by these question marks.
To enter, send your nine answers (in any
order) to: New Role-Playing Connections 5,8
Contest, GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES,
P.O. Box 184, Fort Washington, PA 19034.
Entries must be received by May 31, 2016.
3,4,2,4,6 4
You may enter as many times as you like,
but each entry must be mailed separately.
The winner will be chosen by random
draw from among the correct entries—or,
if necessary, from among the entries with
the most correct answers. Q

• C O N T E S T R E S U LT S •
CODED CRISSCROSS III

FROM OCTOBER
I
n this contest, you were presented
with a grid that, when correctly F
decoded, contained a set of seven F O O
items reading across and down in the
white squares. The two shaded columns
I N R
named the category to which all the L E O B
other items belong. We replaced each
M F N T E
letter of the alphabet with a number.
Each number stood for the same letter S L G H S
throughout the grid. The decoded
I T H A P P E N E D O N E N I G H T
category description that appeared in
the yellow squares was the solution to H S W L S A
the contest. A G O D I C
T O V E L T
W O E N E O
O D R P N R
N A T O C A
A S H N E N
C I E D O D
A T C F B
D G U T E
E E C O M I N G H O M E S
Correction!
Oops! Our judges regret to report
M T K E E T
that we made an error regarding a Y S O T L A
runner-up entry in August’s Initial
A O W A C
Definitions contest, the results of
which appeared in the February W S O M T
2016 issue. A N R B R
The entry in question didn’t quite
follow the contest rules: Instead of R E K S E
using the four chosen letters (A, E, D S S
G, S) to begin each of the four words
to be defined, the entry used the G
S T S
three times and the S once, thereby
violating the rules. The decoded grid appears above. As you can see, the white
What can we say? We momen- squares contain film titles and the yellow squares contain the
tarily lost our heads—all of the category description, and solution to the contest: FILMS THAT
judges were amused by this entry WON ACADEMY AWARDS FOR BEST ACTOR AND BEST ACTRESS.
and missed the fact that it fudged We received a respectable total of 234 entries. Congratulations
the rules a bit. to the winner of the $100 first prize, Martin Puller of
The results of the contest will Benbrook, TX. Runner-up prizes of a year’s subscription to
stand, but our editorial staff will GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES (or an additional year if you are
renew its efforts to review contest already a subscriber) go to: Cory Brownson of West St. Paul,
entries more scrupulously in the Manitoba; Greg Cebelak of Selwyn, Ontario; Corliss Hubert of
future. Q Margaretville, NY; Sandra Prupas of Canton de Hatley, Quebec;
and Hedy Weiss of Toronto, Ontario. Q

•ELECTRONIC GAMEVIEWS• EDITED BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD
PUZZLE nected to a hub and accessed

THE ROOM THREE through teleportation. This
FIREPROOF GAMES castle/lighthouse location
IOS: $5 provides plenty of atmo-
AGE RANGE: 9+ sphere, while an optional
PLAY TIME: 3 HOURS narrative element unfolds
------------------------------------------------------------------------ through notes and diaries.
A
s The Room series has The puzzles themselves
developed, it’s also are visually and mechanically
become oddly con- interesting, involving hidden
ventional. That’s not a bad levers, invisible writing, and
thing, because what’s there is other fairly intuitive ele-
still very good. But the tight ments. The difficulty level is
focus of the original has been pretty mild until late in the
diffused over two iterations were masterpieces of me- solve similar mechanical puz- game, and even that is made
until the game is now merely chanical puzzling. As each zles, but that bit of freshness navigable by an efficient in-
a skilled variation of other face was unlocked, the box was lost. With The Room game hint system.
puzzle adventures, albeit opened like a flower, reveal- Three, Fireproof Games has The Room Three is certain-
with some of the more ap- ing layer upon layer of mys- gone even further, offering ly longer and more elaborate
pealing core mechanics of tery without ever directing a longer game spread across than the original, and it’s
the first game. the gamer beyond the box multiple locations. It feels like quite good. But when I was
That first game was daz- itself. The puzzles were fresh a clever riff on Myst. done I went back and played
zling, but it’s easy to see and interesting, and the en- And that’s okay. Satisfying the first, marveling at its
how its structure could be tire experience was unique. puzzle adventures aren’t so skill. I doubt I’ll return to The
limiting for a game designer. The Room Two abandoned plentiful that we can bypass Room Three. And that’s the
The original Room gave the that format and opened such a good one. The Room difference between a good
player nothing but a box on things up. The player moved Three opens the action up game and a classic. Q
a table. This particular box around different rooms to across even more rooms, con- —THOMAS L. MCDONALD
could be explored from dif-
OVERALL RATING
ferent angles, and its faces
Good choice for fans of: Myst B
ROLE-PLAYING GAME Boston, Massachusetts, now
FALLOUT 4 simply referred to as The
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS Commonwealth. It remains
XBOX ONE/PS4/PC: $60 faithful to its predecessors,
AGE RANGE: M (MATURE) combining narrative role-
PLAY TIME: 50+ HOURS playing with first-person
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ combat and plenty of cus-
B
e t h e s d a ’s F a l l o u t tomization options. Various
games always deliv- gameplay mechanics have
er a unique gaming been added, the most no-
experience, from the top- table being a settlement
down role-playing of the creation system. Players can
early years to the first-person scavenge materials during countless dangers as well as Fallout 4 improves upon its
gameplay of later titles. Fall- their travels, then later use plenty of chatty non-player predecessors, providing more
out places the player in the those materials to create characters eager to hand out variety in both play style
radioactive wasteland of settlements among the ruins. side quests. and narrative than either
post-nuclear America. Com- These outposts slowly evolve The game takes you of the prior Fallout games.
bining a first-person shooter into small towns completely through monster-riddled The open world allows for
combat system with an open under the player’s control. subways, irradiated deserts, nearly limitless exploration,
world and classic RPG nar- You play as a character and ruined city streets, each while the branching narra-
rative, the series allows the placed in cryogenic stor- offering its own deadly tive allows gamers to replay
player to choose their own age shortly before a nuclear hazard. Along the way, its main story several times
path and watch their story war, waking 200 years later players develop a person- for new experiences. One of
unfold as they shoot, stab, and immediately plunged alized store of weapons. the most eagerly anticipated
and disintegrate their way into a quest to save your Some equipment is found games of 2015, it lives up to
through hordes of savage kidnapped son. The vast naturally, while other items the hype and is an excellent
raiders and mutants. ruined landscape of The require the completion of addition to the franchise. Q
Fallout 4, the long-awaited Commonwealth is filled with side quests. —BRENDAN R. MCDONALD
next chapter in the series,
takes place in the ruins of OVERALL RATING
Good choice for fans of: Skyrim A
BY THOMAS L. MCDONALD •TRADITIONAL GAMEVIEWS•
CATEGORY: edge; the game board then

SET COLLECTION needs to be reconfigured
HENGIST to expand the map. When
PUBLISHER: this is done three times the
MAYFAIR/LOOKOUT game is over and the loot
PRICE: $28 markers totaled, with high
AGES: 7+ total winning.
PLAYERS: 2 There is a flaw in the rules
PLAY TIME: 20 MIN. that allows you to take “1
------------------------------------------------------------------------ island so much they decided lines lead from the hinter- action with each of your
U
we Rosenberg has to stick around and create land to villages worth vari- Raiding groups.” This means
designed some of the the Anglo-Saxons. ous amount of treasure. The that on the first turn, the first
best games on the The game is based on the actual paths to the villages, player can move all three
market, including Agricola, themes of sailing and raid- however, are concealed be- pawns out of the boat and
Le Havre, and Bohnanza. ing. A nifty little cardboard neath the crossroad tiles, so effectively block the landing
Not long ago, he teamed ship carries pawns (three red you either have to spend an zone so that his opponent
with Mayfair to produce an and three blue) representing explorer card to peek at the can do nothing. This is a seri-
excellent two-player game the raiding parties for each tile, or take a chance of pos- ous flaw that points to poor
called Patchwork. With side. The board is composed sibly getting a lower-value design and play-testing, but
Hengist, their attempt to of three double-sided tiles village. In order to travel it can be partially rectified by
recapture that two-player that form a continuous map these roads, you have to alternating turns and then
magic seems to have gone leading from the beach land- collect and spend cards with drawing cards after all six
somewhat awry. ing, to the hinterland, to particular symbols. pawns have moved. Once
Hengist and Horsa were the villages. Just above each When an explorer card the rules are adapted, it
Saxon brothers hired by King village are crossroad tiles is played, the boat moves. plays fairly well, but gamers
Vortigern in the 5th century placed facedown. Dotted Each six moves it sails off the should beware. Q
to defend Britain from ma-
rauding Picts. They liked the OVERALL RATING
Good choice for fans of: Patchwork C
CATEGORY: DECK-BUILDING filling a deck with more
FLIP CITY valuable cards.
PUBLISHER: Money can be spent to
TASTY MINSTREL GAMES buy cards or flip them. Flip
PRICE: $20 sides offer different build-
AGES: 8+ ings, values, and abilities.
PLAYERS: 1–4 For example, flip a conve-
PLAY TIME: 30–50 MIN. nience store (which gives
------------------------------------------------------------------------ you 1 coin) to turn it into a
T
ake the mechanics of shopping mall (which gives
Dominion, a dash of you 2 coins and a victory
SimCity, compress it point).
into a tight little package, Victory is achieved by
and you get Flip City, a card- playing 8 victory points or
flipping, deck-building, 18 cards plus one conve-
city-making game designed nience store in a single turn.
by Chen Zhifan and trans- deck of these cards faceup for that round. As decks grow and cards are
lated into English by Tasty in front of them. One by The goal is to play enough flipped, these both become
Minstrel Games. TMG bills one, you play a card and buildings with enough coin valid victory conditions.
it as a “deceptively simple reap its rewards or punish- values to buy better cards Flip City is a tight, en-
microdeckbuilder,” which ments. These are measured from the general supply. tertaining, well-designed
is an apt description. out in coins (good), sad Every player begins with game that plays best with
In Flip City you collect faces (bad), and victory one each of convenience two people or using a
cards representing build- points. There’s a push-your- store, central park, factory, single-player variant. Al-
ings to build a deck. Each luck element here, as play- hospital, and apartment though its simplicity is part
card has a starting side with ers can opt to play as many cards, plus four residential of its appeal, it would ben-
one building and a flip side cards as they like, but risk area cards. The residential efit from greater card vari-
with another; different losing all if they get three cards each bear a sad face, ety, so let’s hope it becomes
buildings have benefits, sad faces, thus ending the so you want to lessen the successful enough for TMG
disadvantages, and some- turn and negating any gains odds of drawing one by to put out add-on sets. Q
times both.
OVERALL RATING
Players begin with a small
Good choice for fans of: Dominion A
•GAME ON!• BY RAYMOND SIMON
Off the Bookshelf: Game Play

Paul Booth can thank his parents. board games overlap and interconnect.
Their subscription to GAMES magazine It’s also quite sophisticated. For ex-
instilled in him an early love of games. ample, when Battlestar Galactica fans
He still regularly plays board games; gather to play the board game based
Dead of Winter and Eldritch Horror are on it, they bring their prior knowledge
two current faves. of the original series, its reboot, and
Booth is also a professor at DePaul the prequel, as well as an emotional
University, where he studies fandom, attachment to its characters. And com-
technology, and—yes!—games. Game plex game mechanics enable them, in a
Play, his latest book, is a sustained analy- sense, to “author” their own scripts and
sis of licensed board games. In the past, “perform” meaning in their gameplay.
these were slapdash affairs designed to This is pretty highfalutin stuff. Al-
make a quick buck off of popular TV though Game Play is an academic book,
shows or movies. Booth hopes that fellow board game
Booth bypasses earlier games in this fans will learn something from it, too.
genre, focusing instead on more recent So don’t be put off by the footnotes,
examples adapted from “texts” beloved and use the helpful glossary to look up
by geeks like The Walking Dead and unfamiliar terms. Above all, have fun
The Hunger Games. This is, he notes, a with it.
complicated media environment where To learn more, visit www.mcsdepaul.
comic books, TV shows, movies, and com/paul-booth.html. Q
Three Moves Ahead

Game lovers who don’t like leaving since. New episodes are posted each a recent discussion of Blood Bowl 2, a
anything to chance will appreciate Wednesday and last roughly 60 minutes, gory take on “fantasy” football, “When
”Three Moves Ahead,” a weekly podcast although they are occasionally longer. an ogre smashes into an elf, it’s fun to
focusing on strategy and war games. Topics run the gamut from old favorites watch even if you’ve seen it happen a
Each week, host Rob Zacny, a frequent like Sid Meier’s Civilization IV to more dozen times.”
contributor to the monthly magazine PC recent titles like Endless Legend, Am- Listeners can tune in to the podcast
Gamer, and a panel of well-informed plitude Studios’ turn-based, 4X game. for free. ”Three Moves Ahead” is part
guests engage in a thoughtful, lively dis- Regular contributors include Fraser of the Idle Thumbs network. Its other
cussion of video games that emphasize Brown and Rowan Kaiser. In a typical shows, like ”Idle Weekend,” a pop cul-
long-term planning, allocating resources, podcast, they make detailed observa- ture program with Zacny and cohost
and outmaneuvering one’s opponent. tions, defend passionate opinions, and Danielle Riendeau, are also well worth
Troy Goodfellow, a game developer, offer tangential asides. a listen.
started the podcast about six years These strategy game mavens are also To join the conversation, visit www.
ago, and it's been going strong ever frequently funny. As Brown noted in threemovesahead.net. Q
Jolly Rancher
Slime Rancher, icky title notwithstanding, is totally
adorbs! Seriously.
The video game, the first from Monomi Park, is set in
the distant future on a planet known simply as the Far,
Far Range. The landscape, filled with buttes and mesas,
is reminiscent of the Road Runner’s, except that it’s more
colorful and less hazardous.
That is where our heroine, Beatrix LeBeau, goes to make
her fortune. Out yonder, slime are more akin to valuable
agricultural animals than to, well, mucus. But before you
reach for your hand sanitizer, let us assure you these vaguely
anthropomorphic globs of goo are absurdly cute, especially her vacpack to harvest victuals—carrots, beets, and chick-
the li’l pink ones, which smile and coo. ens—so she can collect the slimes’ Plort, which is the real
In this single-player game, you see everything from commodity in these here places. (We suggest you think of
Beatrix’s perspective. After staking her claim, she heads Plort as organic fertilizer.)
out into the wide open spaces with her vacpack, which she It’s not all fun and games, though. Bea also has to protect
uses to wrangle some free-range slime; then, back at the her livestock from the Tarr, basically slime gone loco.
ponderosa, she shoots them into her corral. Wanna play a spell, pardner? Just mosey on over to www.
Feeding these critters is a full-time job. Beatrix also uses slimerancher.com. Q

THE PLUS BY RAYMOND YOUNG
Add some variety to your puzzle repertoire! This puzzle has answers going in two different directions: The Path answers (1–25)
start at square 1 and travel clockwise around the grid twice (with no spaces between them), following the heavy outline, then
proceed down the center. The Down answers (A–S) go vertically down their respective paths, through the pink area. Note that
paths H-L each have three answers. When you’ve solved the puzzle correctly, a punny piece of advice related to the title of this
puzzle will appear in the pink squares. ANSWER, PAGE 77
H I J K L
1
A B C D E F G M N O P Q R S
PATH 18 Rappel Skipper

1 Permissive 19 Run from the cops I Went astray
2 Try, try again 20 Mexican muralist Diego Mosquito-eating bugs
3 “___ bite a chip” 21 Danke or Gesundheit, e.g. Unfavorable
(old cookie slogan) 22 Common vipers J Front of a plane
4 Leaf aperture 23 Actor Morales Completed in every way: 3 wds.
5 Small purple fruit harvested 24 Fantasy role-playing game, Congregant’s response
in June for short: 3 wds. K Yucky quality
6 Ulm article 25 An hour past midnight: 2 wds. Timetable abbr.
7 Racing legend Mario Big name in bananas
8 Tasty tidbit DOWN L Menu section
9 Celtic tongue A Church topper One giving the cold shoulder
10 It cuts with the grain B Lab gels U-Haul competitor
11 Brings (a sailboat) to a standstill C Oberon composer M Like the smell of burning plastic
12 Final track on Simon & Garfunkel’s D Alla ___ (cut time, in music) N Rodeo shout: Hyph.
Sounds of Silence: 4 wds. E ISP offering: Hyph. O ___ Gardens (theme park in
13 Basically: 2 wds. F Group of trained leaders answer Q)
14 Home of the Jazz G Chilean chain P Quilters’ cases
15 Jellied dish H Buddhist doctrine of Tibet and Q St. Petersburg neighbor
16 Japanese grill Mongolia R Yawning gap
17 Considerably Paté ingredient S Must: 2 wds.

500 RUMMY BY PAM WYLDER
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?
s S P I N S U B L E D A L P s
1 T U M P A G E M E N P L A 1
s How to Play
Find as many common seven-letter words as
2 A R E E C M O R T A C D P 2
you can whose cards form Word Rummy c H I L Y N W C A N T V E R c
hands. A Word Rummy hand is a seven- A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J Q K
letter word whose letters appear on cards
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 s A 2 3 or c 9
H A S T I L Y
10 J Q). Either the set or the sequence may
13
come first, but one of each must be used in A A A A 2 3 4
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.
yScoring
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.
xExample
In the puzzle at right the word HASTILY
forms a Word Rummy hand. The cA 2A sA
1A are a sequence with the letters H-A-S-T;
the c2 3 4 are a set with the letters I-L-Y;
The cards used have values of 1 1 1 1 2 3 4,
for a total of 13 points.
COLUMN 2 TOTAL
c Ratings COLUMN 1 TOTAL

Knock: 500 points (good game)
Gin: 750 points (winning game)
Gin-off: 1,189 points (our best score) COLUMN 1 TOTAL TOTAL SCORE
ANSWERS, PAGE 76

DOUBLE CROSS 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.
1I 2W 3R 4Q 5Q 6W 7O 8Q 9D 10 N 11 I 12 J 13 A 14 C 15 M 16 F 17 G 18 G
19 M 20 C 21 U 22 F 23 W 24 G 25 V 26 L 27 G 28 W 29 E 30 J 31 C 32 M 33 E 34 N 35 W 36 K 37 G 38 G 39 V
40 C 41 I 42 N 43 E 44 T 45 P 46 E 47 K 48 F 49 A 50 M 51 A 52 K 53 G 54 J 55 F 56 N 57 O 58 P 59 H 60 K 61 G
62 G 63 B 64 R 65 L 66 T 67 W 68 I 69 J 70 K 71 N 72 U 73 D 74 N 75 S 76 W 77 E 78 C 79 J 80 M
81 T 82 H 83 E 84 R 85 G 86 R 87 N 88 L 89 C 90 K 91 P 92 N 93 G 94 U 95T 96 B 97 J 98 M 99 I
100 A 101 I 102 M 103 C 104 U 105 K 106 O 107 R 108 I 109 H 110 W 111 Q 112 M 113 H 114 C 115 K 116 R 117 D 118 H 119 G
120 K 121 U 122 B 123 S 124 E 125 H 126 E 127 B 128 F 129 N 130 N 131 L 132 P 133 T 134 H 135 R 136 A 137 M 138 A
ANSWERS, PAGE 77
139 E 140 K 141 L 142 G 143 A 144 Q 145 B 146 L 147 F 148 S 149 C 150 F 151 N 152 Q 153 F 154 R 155 P 156 N 157 B
158 P 159 I 160 W 161 P 162 Q 163 B 164 T 165 G 166 C 167 W 168 G 169 M 170 D 171 O 172 H 173 Q 174 I 175 N 176 H
177 K 178 V 179 O 180 L 181 Q 182 V 183 M 184 R 185 Q 186 S 187 D 188 C 189 O 190 R 191 C 192 I 193 F 194 S
A. Capital of Wales L. Noisy and unruly

49 13 138 136 143 51 100 146 131 65 180 141 88 26
B. Transformer foe M. NBA court

of a Decepticon 157 145 63 127 96 163 122 move: 2 wds. 112 169 80 98 137 50 102 32 15
C. Significant
advantage: 183 19
2 wds. 20 149 114 89 31 188 78 191 166 N. Historic Los
Angeles
amphitheater: 10 92 42 71 129 151 74 56 175
103 14 40 2 wds.
D. Correct
170 187 73 117 9 87 34 156 130
O. Taking
E. Highly valued responsibility for,
personal quality 46 77 29 43 33 124 83 126 139 in the vernacular 7 106 179 171 57 189
F. Something P. Light, sheer fabric

sought at 45 91 155 58 132 161 158
a séance 147 128 193 48 153 150 55 16 22 Q. Honor accorded
Elton John
G. Golden Globe, in 1998 173 4 5 144 152 8 111 185 181
Emmy, and
Obie-winning 142 24 38 27 53 62 168 37 85
actress: 2 wds. 162
165 93 17 61 18 119 R. Frequent email

H. Man Booker inclusion 190 116 84 86 184 64 107 3 135
Prize winner for
Amsterdam:
2 wds. 59 134 109 176 172 118 82 113 125 S. Bookstore 154
section 75 123 186 148 194
I. 2012 novel by
Answer H: T. Lacking
2 wds. 99 1 11 174 192 159 101 108 41 intelligence 95 164 81 66 44 133
U. One with a long,

J. Traditional 68 long sentence 72 21 104 121 94
Chinese
simmered meal 30 97 54 12 79 69 V. Sacred
Egyptian bird 178 182 39 25
K. Brought the
crowd to its W. Bangladesh’s
feet, say 47 60 177 90 140 120 70 36 52 largest port city 23 2 167 160 110 76 6 35 28
105 115 67

BURIED GOLD BY WILL NEDIGER
ACROSS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
1 Mideast greeting
7 Stuck 20 21 22
13 Ceased
20 Masters venue 23 24 25
21 Small lump
26 27 28 29
22 Deductive
23 Insomniac in action 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
24 Tried to get a better view
25 Spine-space sharer 38 39 40 41 42
26 Folies Bergère designer
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
27 Can
29 Onetime Edison colleague 51 52 53 54 55
30 “Oh yeah?”
32 Oboe 56 57 58 59
34 Cain’s eldest son
60 61 62 63
38 New Hampshire’s
second largest city 64 65 66 67
41 Angled annex
42 Kind of paper 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75
43 Prepare to operate
76 77 78 79 80
47 Mind
48 The fourth Bond 81 82 83 84
50 Swimwear top
51 Iowa’s ___ Colonies 85 86 87 88 89
52 Officer-in-training
54 The last human city, in 90 91 92 93 94
The Matrix
95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102
55 News
56 Managed to irritate 103 104 105 106 107 108
57 Ford’s business
ANSWER, PAGE 77
59 Meursault’s love, in 109 110 111 112 113 114
The Stranger
115 116 117
60 Under control
62 Road sign abbr. 118 119 120
63 Like some expressions
64 Weigh down
113 Likenesses 17 “Ooh ___!” 70 French automaker
65 Article
115 Singer ___ Bailey Rae 18 To’s mate 71 Keeping tabs on
67 Flue residue
116 Climatologist’s ratio 19 Douglas, e.g. 72 Do a double take, say
68 Theatrical backdrops
117 Praktica product 28 Unwinnable campaign 73 Like some excuses
71 Goldfinger’s first name
118 High-frequency speaker 29 Knelling 74 Blanca’s maid, in “The
72 Gomez Addams portrayer
119 Pond skippers 31 Sky and Storm, e.g. Adventures of Tintin”
76 Some James Bay natives
120 Wields 33 Very intense 75 Just slightly
77 “Not so”
35 Peter Parker's pal Harry 77 Electees
80 Detached
DOWN 36 Suburb of Edinburgh 78 Intermediary
81 Posterior
1 Cooks mushrooms, maybe 37 Presided over 79 Singer Cabrera
82 Rumple
2 Ancient bazaar 39 Shrubby wasteland 82 ___ Gardens
83 Title in feudal Russia
3 Robust 40 Wreck 86 Genesis tempter
84 Pause indicator
4 Dummkopfs 42 907 kilograms 87 Overly
85 Biblical hunter
5 Eroded 43 Palm starch 91 Honey pie
86 Sonnet ender
6 Hunt of The 44 “It’ll be fun!” 94 Play the siren
88 Posterior
Human Comedy 45 Pro ___ 96 Surmise
89 Bread recipe verb
7 Cuzco denizen 46 Solo 97 ___ loading
90 Tilex target
8 Standard 49 Dress (up) 99 What veni means
92 Personals abbr.
9 “Lines on the Antiquity 53 Hack 100 Anxious
93 Means of access
of Microbes,” in full 55 Expect 101 Turn inside out
95 Late bloomer
10 Capital once called 58 Reunion attendees 102 Big buttes
96 Relatively unscathed
Harrisburg 59 Garment of 1960s China 104 Actress Skye
98 Movie role for
11 Put on guard 61 Spots on TV 106 Relinquish
Clara Blandick
12 ___ school 63 November runner, briefly 107 NASA chimp
103 Copycat’s forte
13 Tyne Daly role 65 Least fresh 109 Show piece?
105 The Burning Bed star
14 The Kalevala, e.g. 66 Part of HMS 110 Floor
108 Lascaux attraction
15 Stuttgart señorita 67 Reuben ingredient 111 100 square meters
109 Onto
16 The Olympians 68 Diagram 112 Barker and Bell
112 Ringo’s first wife
overthrew them 69 Turning point 114 Upper limit

SIAMESE TWINS 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 77
ACROSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 One of two wives on Flintstone...: 2 wds. W I L M A
The Flintstones... ...and Barney Rubble: 13 14
...and the other 2 wds.

15 16
6 Aristotle from Greece 31 Alley hisser
1971 title track by the Gin joint 17 18 19
Doors: 2 wds. 32 Baby food brand
13 Love Story Oscar nominee Cause of aberrant 20 21 22 23 24
Yale who endowed Yale weather: 2 wds.

25 26 27
14 Aggressive little stinger: 33 Clause connector
2 wds. Wichita-to-Akron dir. 28 29 30
Before a marathon, say 34 Baby blues, e.g.
15 Ivan of the court Realty statistic 31 32
Lou Grant star 35 Briefly hot things

33 34 35 36 37 38
16 One of the Leewards, Arlo Guthrie’s genre
informally: 2 wds. 39 Really regretting 39 40 41 42
Starts liking: 2 wds. Use elbow grease on
17 ___ acid (fuming liquid) 41 He played Batman 43 44 45 46
Workweek ender and Birdman 47 48

19 Very pale Very motivated
Enlarged map detail 43 The Martian actor Jeff 49 50
20 Sicilian erupter Longtime doo-wop group:

Rural assent to a lady 3 wds.
DOWN
21 Puts away 46 Moscow money
1 Tom who wrote The 23 “What a shame”: 2 wds.
Astronaut Shepard Lime, silica, or rust
Bonfire of the Vanities In jeopardy: 2 wds.
24 Ending for orange 47 Eulogy, e.g.
Cecil’s cartoon pal 26 Classic carnival
Ending for opal Irritated
2 Cow of ads game: Hyph.
25 Archipelago bits 48 Go on a spree
Like neon or xenon Be occupied with:
Jet boat brand: Hyph. French ice cream
3 Bolshevik leader 2 wds.
27 HMO figures 49 Pupil surrounders
Colors lightly 28 Year opener
Mauna ___ Advil alternative
4 Relating to heat Many a Stetson
28 In the film The Flintstones, 50 Sword stuff
Frantic scramble: 2 wds. hat sporter
actor who plays Fred Aquatic frolicker
5 Cosmonaut Gagarin 29 Say over and over
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 In the style of, on Number like “10th”
B E T T Y Italian menus 30 Hand guy: 2 wds.
13 14
6 Many times o’er Regardless of liability, as
15 16
Hi-fi buys insurance: Hyph.
7 Actress Vardalos 31 Private plane
17 18 19 Matisse’s mastery producer
8 Online TV show Brigitte of film
20 21 22 23 24
installment 36 Like ewes
25 26 27 Little Rock resident Turn to hit: Hyph.
9 Realizes 37 Edifice projection
28 29 30 Algerian port Sweetly, in music
10 Sicilian wine 38 Pose to propose
31 32
Japanese raw fish Villainous look
33 34 35 36 37 38 11 Heeded, as advice: 40 Evening, informally
2 wds. “Woe ___ you!”
39 40 41 42
Means (to) 42 Hence
43 44 45 46
12 AriZona rival Rips off
Slingshot ammo 44 British lav
47 48 18 Without panicking Three R’s gp.
Test pilot Chuck 45 Mag revenue sources
49 50
22 Sierra ___ Show that inspired 30
Be very fond of Rock, briefly

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 BY ADAM FROMM
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 55, 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 55). Give
these puzzles a try! ANSWERS, PAGE 78
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 28 Regarding hole in
Sen. Thurmond’s
facilities (9)
9 10 DOWN
1 Piece of birch lumber
tossed by clumsy
guy (7)
2 Run commercial on
11 12 two lines (5)
3 Raise levee at rocks (7)
4 Unfinished essay on
deadline? Come around
13 14 15 for cup of espresso (9)
5 Bumpkin accepts large
coin from Russia (5)
6 The heartless, kept in
step, picked up the
16 17 18 19 tab (7)
7 District attorney supports
20 city below and galaxy
above (9)
21 22 23 24 8 A cold speed run
makes you more
sore (6)
14 He swore, “It changes,
or else!” (9)
25 26 15 Mean smart bombs! (9)
17 For example, Michael
and Kelly's fees include
25% of holidays (7)
27 28 18 Recreation done—get
back to normal (7)
19 Creatures collide
ACROSS 12 Tenor bears left at 23 Island helps to make during first of alpine
1 Tavern keeper’s drinking club for card music a priority (5) climbs (7)
binge takes creativity (9) game (6-3) 25 Consumed by terrible 20 Charges around
6 Rita sports a crown (5) 13 Chicken order is scorn, I’m red (7) North Carolina’s
9 Bring back Mr. French handled badly (5,6,3) 26 Book of mad love barriers (6)
and turn down test (7) 16 Elegant Mr. Burns ruins penned by National 22 Person who has
10 Size of bit of dust in a Louisiana poultry League player from Valium, maybe,
puff of air (7) dish (7,7) Oakland (7) loses face (5)
11 Sounded similar to a 21 Slimy creature chewing 27 Gets rid of storage 24 FDR had this oil
camera (5) the marrow (9) areas (5) operation set 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.

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2 BY PAM WYLDER
Anagrams: The answer appears in anagrammed inside PANTS, so it might be clued as Hospital residents
form, preceded or followed by a word or phrase that make knots in trousers.
suggests the mixing, as in Changing times for ITEMS. Hidden answers: The answer may appear intact,
Deletions: Deletions come in three varieties: albeit camouflaged, in the clue. Example: Myopic
beheadments, curtailments, and internal deletions. colonel clutches flute for PICCOLO (myopic colonel).
The clue always contains a word or phrase indicating Homophones: A word that sounds like the answer
the deletion. Examples: Uncovered bent charm for indicated by use of a giveaway phrase such as “We
ENCHANT, a beheadment of PENCHANT; Fiery bird hear” or “as they say.” Example: Counted frozen
without a tail for FLAMING, a curtailment of FLAMINGO; chicken out loud for NUMBERED (“numb bird”).
and Heartless miserly bloke for CHAP, an internal Reversals: A synonym for “backward” or “overturn”
deletion of CHEAP. in a clue may indicate a reversal, as in Returned beer
Charades: The answer is broken into smaller words fit for a king (LAGER reversed) for REGAL.
that are clued individually, as in Auto animal for Double definitions: This type of clue has no
CARPET. wordplay half; instead, it has two definition halves.
Containers: A word such as PATIENTS “contains” TIE Example: Scooter was blue for MOPED. ANSWERS, PAGE 78
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 26 Buggy got ruined taking

the back roads (9)
27 Monica to Joey, “Chandler
ultimately is possessed by
Satan” (6)
8 9 10 28 Bit of lanolin in Tegrin
straightened curly
hair (7)
11 12 DOWN
1 Complaints of rambling
sermon leading to
stupors (13)
2 Ill-tempered character
13 14 15 heading to Vegas in
westbound Fury (7)
3 Hospital located in
pleasing, suitable place (5)
4 Error by lawmen switching
16 17 18 19 20 21
last two reports (7)
5 Dad holds a search for a
fighter who’s easily
beatable (7)
22 23 24 6 He delivers telegrams,
military rations, and
green bananas (9)
7 Italian wine in China?
It bombed (7)
25 26 10 Try age-old path: when
smitten, act indifferent
(4,4,2,3)
14 Cities plan a development
27 28 having open space for
walking (9)
17 Written account upset
ACROSS 11 Chunks of egg left 16 Pointed out parts as two engaging university theater
1 European Union never among almonds and contrary things (9) company member (7)
sent back income pecans (7) 20 Part of a flight heading 18 Fearfully expected poor
from taxes (7) 12 Sailing canoe by myself to Rome is evacuated grade and studied the Iliad,
5 Melting ice originally across part of the earlier (5) finally (7)
covered by brownish- Pacific (7) 22 Speech or a lecture about 19 Short, light tapping sounds
purple volcanic rock (6) 13 Some decadent or musical composition (7) strike, as raindrops do (7)
8 Oddly, I clam up temptingly rich 23 Very old article, one 21 Some houses are built on
in public (9) dessert (5) taken by Penny (7) this island, almost all for a
9 Be overly frugal and fail 15 Adam Sandler movie is 25 Dark brown endless particular purpose (7)
to report income disrupted, hassling about abyss in large body of 24 Fervidly shake church
partner’s capital (5) start of production (9) water (5) vessel (5)

WORLD PUZZLE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Each year the USA sends teams to the World Puzzle Championship and World Sudoku Championship, both sanctioned by the
World Puzzle Federation. In October of last year, we traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, to join 230 competitors from 32 countries for
a week of camaraderie and competitive puzzle solving.
The week started out with the two-day World Sudoku Championship. The team from Japan edged out China to win for
the second year in a row. Team USA, with members Will Blatt, Jason Zuffraneiri, Chris Narrikkattu, and Wei-Hwa Huang,
finished in 7th place.
Between championships, participants from both events had a day off to tour Sofia. Some members of the U.S. team took
the opportunity to insert a puzzling component to the sightseeing, and visited four of the many escape rooms that were within
walking distance of the city center.
Next up was the grueling three-day World Puzzle Championship, where language- and culture-neutral puzzles of all types
are fair game. The team results were a carbon copy of the year before, with Germany winning ahead of Japan, and Team USA
in 3rd place. Palmer Mebane led the USA, finishing in 3rd place individually; other team members were Will Blatt, Wei-Hwa
Huang, and Roger Barkan.
The competition included numerous new and innovative variations of classic puzzles, such 6-color Akari and Tapa, and a
round that raised the bar for team cooperation—a set of eight familiar puzzles intertwined with a single set of 26 encrypted
clues. Sadly we cannot share these due to space constraints; but what follows are some of the team’s other favorites that we
know you’ll enjoy.
Soon, the U.S. team will be running its annual online qualifying tests to select members for the 2016 teams, to travel to
Slovakia in October for the 11th World Sudoku Championship and 25th World Puzzle Championship. Please visit our website,
wpc.puzzles.com, for more information on timing and registration for these events. Even casual solvers will enjoy taking the
tests and seeing how they stack up against some of the world’s top solvers! —Nick Baxter, Captain, U.S. Puzzle Team
ANSWERS, PAGE 79
CONTESTANTS AWAIT THE START OF THE TEAM DOMINO ROUND

MISSING LABYRINTH
Create a labyrinth in the grid. The clues outside the grid identify how many consecutive segments of grid lines are to be marked
as borders in the corresponding row or column. Multiple clues represent multiple borders, given in the order encountered, and
with a gap of at least one segment between adjacent borders on a line. When the labyrinth is complete there should be a
route between the Start and Finish cells which passes through each cell exactly once. The route is one-cell wide at all points,
and moves between cell centers in a horizontal or vertical direction only.
EXAMPLE
1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 2
3 1 1 2 2 4 3 1 1 2 2 4
2 1
S F 2 1
S F
2 3 2 3
2 1 2 1
4 1 4 1
1 1
5 5
2 1 2 1
2 1 2 1
3
2 1 2 2
4 3 2 1 3 1 5
1 4 2 2 4 1 2
S F
2
2
2
2
2 2
3 1
4
2 2
2 2
2
2

SNAKE
Draw a snake in the grid, one cell wide and 45 cells long. Its head and tail are given by the black dots and its center is given
by the white dot. The numbers outside the grid indicate the total number of the squares occupied by the snake in the
corresponding row or column. The body of the snake cannot touch itself, not even diagonally. Each shaded area must have a
different combination of cells used by the snake.
EXAMPLE
4 4
3 3
3 3
4 4
4 4
3 2 2 4 4 3 2 2 4 4
3
7
2
1
6
5 5 7 2 5 5

CARDS
Place the 12 given cards into the grid. A card is a 2×3 rectangle having a suit in one of the corners and a value in the opposite
corner. Cards can be rotated and/or reflected, but cannot overlap. All suite and rank markings included in each row and
column are showed outside the grid.
EXAMPLE
♠ ♣ ♦ ♥ ♥ K K ♥ ♥ K
♠ A ♠ A ♠ A
A A A A Q Q K Q Q K Q Q K
♦ ♦ Q ♦ Q ♦ ♦ ♦ Q
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GAPPED KAKURO
Place the digits from 1 to 9 into some white cells. Digits cannot repeat in continuous vertical or horizontal blocks of white cells.
The sum of the digits in these blocks are given to the left or above the block. Empty cells cannot share an edge.
EXAMPLE
13 8 6 6 7 8 13 8 6 6 7 8
36 36
7 8 9 4 2 6
2 3 2 3
12 2 12 1 2
11 11
14 14 8 2 1
6 4 6 4
13 1 5 13 3 1
20 20
16 8 3 9 16
4 14 4 14
3 1 9 5
12 12
1 4 7
23 43 8 6 27 23 9 11 16 22 27
45
9 17
9 7
2 10 11 16
17 10
5 3 4 3 5
3
17 21 13
18
1 5 8 20
17
3 19 8
12 13 10 7
20
7 5 4
2 13 3 3 5 6 2 9
45
28

DOMINO YIN-YANG
Two standard domino sets from 0:0 to 6:6 are used (28 tiles); one set is red and one set is black. Place all domino tiles except
for one into the grid, so that:
1. Domino tiles of the same color form an orthogonally connected area following domino rules (tiles touch only with
the same number)
2. There are no 2×2 areas of the same color
3. Half dominoes with the same value but different color cannot touch, not even diagonally
4. The shaded cells show the position of the doubles (tiles with two of the same number): every double must
cover exactly one shaded square.
EXAMPLE: 5:5 set, two missing dominoes
3 1 3 3 3 5 2 3 3 3 5
1 5 4 1 1 0 4 1 5 4 4 1 2 5
4 4 0 0 0 5 0 2 1 2 0
4 4 2 5 5 3 2 5 2 0
1 2 4 1 2 0 3 3 1 5 3 4
3 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 5 3 4
1 4 4 0 0 1 1 4 4 4 1 0 0 5
2 2 2 5 5 1 2 2 2 2 5

PLAYING THE HALF-DOZENS BY BOB STIGGER
Every answer in this variety cryptic is six letters long. Every clue is actually two clues presented side by side (without overlapping
or using “connector” words), yielding two six-letter answers. Answers to lettered clues are to be entered in normal Across-clue
fashion, one six-letter answer followed by the other. In the case of numbered clues, one answer runs to the northeast and the
other to the southeast, always starting in the correspondingly numbered square. For all clues, either six-letter answer may be
clued first.
The grid’s unclued central Across row contains an alternate title for this puzzle. Nine answers are capitalized, several others
consist of two words, and one answer is a two-word proper name. ANSWERS, PAGE 78
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
A. Precipitates of iron compounds set back Farmer Wood, we hear

B. Talent of a sort, bagging one buck outside the French POW camp
C. A bright teaching assistant rejected barbarian war and changed country
D. A corrupt person with a pipe circling second-rate gym outside of older Iowa city
E. Sir Brad’s called revenue enhancement critic, the leader of Democrats,
“in nouveau riche’s thrall”
F. Getting hot, Woods triples score—Cobb’s getting passed
1. Taunts Oakland players wearing shirts perfectly describing politically correct

Hanna-Barbera feline
2. “Babe Ruth’s right before slugger Mel? That is a big laugh, eh? Ha!” we exploded
3. Household-hint lady loses head for resident of Plaza Hotel property occupying prettiest atelier
4. Judge, annoyed with incarcerated basketball great Rivers, grabs rod
5. Recently damaged tire is stored in empty office; tire on convertible is set right
6. Lindy’s behind first annual test pilot assembly, extremely enthusiastic
7. Sawbones’s ignoring operating hazards associated with electricity: a group of small
entangled tubes
8. Novelist George Gold carefully edited Huron’s Flood
9. Weird, if rare and better-looking, groom-to-be worked in cafe
10. Geriatric oracle’s last dramatic words recalled understated text appearing in foreign
film Losing It
11. Lodge avoided pronounced draft running through office, a genuinely glacial period
12. Persian king photocopies, tosses out adults-only collection, keeping sixth of Hustlers for
gift-giving occasions

PENTOMINOES: A VARIETY CRYPTIC BY MIKE SHENK
A pentomino is an arrangement of five squares, and there are exactly 12 possible pentomino shapes, as illustrated in the grid
on the left. These 12 pentominoes can be used to cover the 6×10 grid in more than 3,000 ways. The right-hand (answer) grid
will be divided in a completely different way into the 12 pentominoes, which may be rotated or otherwise shifted from their
position in the left-hand grid. Three sets of clues are provided: Across, given in the usual order, each yielding a 6-letter word;
Down, yielding two words (each of 4, 5, or 6 letters) per column; and Pentominoes, each yielding a 5-letter word whose letters
are entered in mixed order into a particular pentomino shape. The shape of each pentomino is indicated by a letter from A–L,
corresponding to the pentominoes in the left-hand diagram. Each Down answer is clued by a letter from A–L, matching it with
one pentonimo it crosses; in other words, you know that Down word A crosses at least one word of pentomino shape A, and
so forth. Your ultimate challenge is to discover the placement of all 12 pentominoes. ANSWERS, PAGE 78
A B C 1
D 2
E 3
F 4
G H 5
I J 7
K 8
L 9
10
ACROSS DOWN PENTOMINOES

1 Group of squares ultimately A Resting place for bottom of A Initially cultists rush to sect
reveals answer ball bearing B Time gets unsound tips
2 Rent out rather wide dish B Lake rises in European land C Music for nine or ten running around
3 Look into “horses around” as phrase C Lion circling colonist’s shack D Wildly declaims, “The General’s
4 Porter is taken in by explosive gift D Chopped cedar and stepped on it? beheaded”
5 Mailed about 100 introductory E The last undivided district E Heated one degree
sample colognes F Wriggling eel can weave in and out F Drive cattle
6 Reston mistaken for wise old man G Lounges about alleys G Capone hiding in Junior’s Boutique
7 Flower shows among Gaza leafage H Wraps bottom of one’s feet around H 100 tens changed into coins
8 Coma is strange hodgepodge tightrope’s surface I Saw wood, tin, and copper, perhaps
9 Central Avenue drain is undamaged I Sat around with a dog in the movies J Electrify a network
10 Blushing bears are bred J Upset about male caller K Ending of love story turned to delight
K After 10:00, holy man spun big tops L Dog’s final rule, when
L College fellow has right to be critical ordered, “Mush”

PAINT BY PAIRS
In this Paint by Numbers variant, a picture has been hidden in each grid by scattering pairs of matching numbers
throughout. To solve a puzzle, you must first determine which pairs of numbers go together and then connect them
in such a way that the number of squares in the connecting path is equal to the value of each of the connected
numbers. (Include the numbered end-squares when counting the number of squares in a path.)
Paths may be made in any combination of horizontal and vertical directions, but may not cross other paths. Once
a path’s location is known, all of its squares may be filled in.
Squares containing a 1 are special; they are not part of a pair, but simply represent “paths” that are one square
long. They can be filled in immediately, as shown in Figure 2 in the example. Next, it’s advisable to pair up the 2’s and
3’s before tackling the higher numbers (Figure 3).
Compared to Paint by Numbers, Paint by Pairs puzzles are easier to begin, since the lowest numbers can be filled
in without much thought. Also, Paint by Pairs puzzles can be worked on one area at a time, since numbers only relate
to their local areas. However, Paint by Pairs puzzles that contain clusters of identical higher numbers can be extremely
challenging.
Each puzzle has a unique solution. Knowing this fact allows you to make certain useful deductions; for example, if
a pair of numbers seems to be able to be connected by more than one route, you can be sure that other paths will
eventually block all but one of those routes. Get the picture? ANSWERS, PAGE 80
7 7 2 2 7 7 2 2 7 7 2 2
6 1 6 1 6 1
6 5 6 5 6 5
3 1 3 2 2 3 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 3 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 3 2 2
1 3 1 1 3 1 1 3 1
5 3 1 3 2 2 5 3 1 3 2 2 5 3 1 3 2 2
4 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 2
4 4 4
6 1 3 3 1 6 1 3 3 1 6 1 3 3 1
6 2 2 6 2 2 6 2 2
Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4
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4 4 1 3 1 7 7
1 1 4 13 12
14 16 3 1 2 2 6 7
1 2 2 2 2 4 14 7
2 3 12 1 2 2 6 12
14 2 10 13 5 3
4 3 3 10 2 2 1 2 2 3
3 2 2 1 3 5
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16 2 2 12 3
4 4 4 5 1 1
2 2 11 9 2 2 5 2 2 8 2
1 4 9 2 2 6 8 7 2 7 3 4 5 5 10 6
4 4 8 8 4 4 4 14 2 6 6 6 3 4 10 8 6
4 3 6 2 7 7 10 1 8
4 4 4 12 3 12 2 2 7 4 4 4 4 4 4 3
14 4 3 3 6 1 5 7 6 9 12 1
12 6 9 2 2 5 8 1 1 3 8
4 11 6 2 9 1 3 4 8 3
14 6 2 3 8 3 3 9 1 8
6 6 12 8 3 8 8 3 8 3 3 3 2
4 7 10 1 2 1
7 4 4 1 8
2 2 7 4 9 4 7
4 4 9 1
2 2 4 4 12 2 1 1
7 3 3 1 2 1
1 2 1 3 2 3 3
7 7 2 6 6 2
1 3 7
2 4 2 3 2 1 5 5 2 2
2 4 2 5 5 3 2 1

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7 7 4 4 4 6 6 7 3 3 2 3 6
2 2 18 4 2 2 1 7 17 2 10
4 4 3 3 19 18 6 6 19 7 2 2 6
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FAMILY REUNIONS 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 are all single words or names. If you need
help getting started, a list of the four categories appears on page 72.
ANSWERS, PAGE 80
FAMILY ONE FAMILY TWO

Category: _______________________ Category: _______________________
1. JOG _______________________ 1. DAME _______________________
2. SMIRK _______________________ 2. PROSE _______________________
3. UNCLE _______________________ 3. SCOURS _______________________
4. CHASES _______________________ 4. SEPTUM _______________________
5. ROSARY _______________________ 5. WAITER _______________________
6. BOLTHOLE _______________________ 6. CHIEFER _______________________
7. WARTIEST _______________________ 7. MUFFING _______________________
8. BARBICELS _______________________ 8. UNDERAGE _______________________
9. PRECHECKS _______________________ 9. DESINENCE _______________________
10. TETRAGONS _______________________ 10. INUNDATING _______________________
FAMILY THREE FAMILY FOUR
Category: _______________________ Category: _______________________
1. WEIRD _______________________ 1. OGRE _______________________
2. CRAFTY _______________________ 2. BALSA _______________________
3. FLOWER _______________________ 3. SHANK _______________________
4. PAUSED _______________________ 4. SLEDGE _______________________
5. BINDERY _______________________ 5. ROOSTED _______________________
6. PHLOEMS _______________________ 6. UNHOODS _______________________
7. PORTICO _______________________ 7. UNSMART _______________________
8. SAMPLER _______________________ 8. MARBLIER _______________________
9. CLUBROOM _______________________ 9. OPTICIAN _______________________
10. LEAFWORM _______________________ 10. TRACKPAD _______________________

FOLD THIS PAGE
WORDSPAIR
The World's Most
BY OLGA LEONTIEVA Ornery Crossword
Your tools are a pair of words and a 4×4 grid. Your mission BY JOEL NANNI
is to place letters into the grid so that both of the given
words can be spelled out in a chain of connected squares, CLUE STEW
traveling horizontally or vertically. Diagonal movement is The crossword on this and the next two pages has two
not allowed. These little head-scratchers are not as simple independent sets of clues: "Hard" and "Easy." First, fold
as they look! ANSWERS, PAGE 80 the page back on the dashed line so the clues below face
the solving grid on page 69. If you use only the Hard Clues
(appearing below and continuing under the grid), you'll
EXAMPLE
ind the puzzle uncommonly challenging. If you want
ALTERNATIVE
help, or prefer a less severe challenge, open to the Easy
VOLUNTEER
Clues (tucked in beneath your fold on page 68).
A L R N
Hard Clues
N T E A
ACROSS 81 Where a pupil sits
U R E T 1 Liverpudlian rockers 82 ___ Spee
8 Normandy town 83 Phnom ___
L O V I 12 Longtime Shatner role 87 Deadline for a Peruvian
16 Is faithful procrastinator
23 Mediterranean shipwreck 89 Belief that a system is
ind more than the sum of its
❶ ❷ 24 Nappy wearer's transport parts
25 ___ about 92 College GameDay
UNDERGRADUATE GLORIFICATION 26 Oft-baked cheese network
RECLUSE FOOTING 27 Galileo, to the Inquisition 96 Old Greek theater
28 Opera that opens in 97 Drives getaway, say
Memphis 98 Midwest state, briely
29 Composer Bartok 101 Roots character
30 Turned red, maybe 102 Sports org. for smaller
31 Yankees star, to fans schools
32 Hungry baby bird, e.g. 103 John Hancock
34 Book after Lamentations 105 Singer Laine and others
36 Inits. on a relief worker's 107 With sincere conviction
jacket 109 Control tower accessories
37 Compacter than compact 110 It means “spewing” in
38 Author of The Hawaiian
Phenomenology of Spirit 112 Trellises
39 King of The Jerk 113 Prizes for Titanic and
❸ ❹ 40 Overlook Spamalot
AMBIDEXTROUS AUTOBIOGRAPHIC 41 Addled 114 Heir to the throne,
43 Performer who's charged typically
BIRTHDAY GARLIC 46 Gushed 116 Vile Bodies novelist
48 Shipper's box Evelyn
49 Passive protests 117 Suggestion box contents,
51 Levitates mostly
52 One awaited by Vladimir 119 Plant with sword-shaped
and Estragon leaves
53 Erstwhile Brooklyn athlete 120 Sousaphone
54 Q trailers 122 Towels, sheets, etc.
56 It lies north of the 125 Fighter's opposite?
Aleutians 126 Blue Bonnet rival
58 Ecstatic movie critic 127 Eastern European
59 Drew out language
62 Sundae topping 129 Water balloon sound
63 In the future 130 Part of AARP: Abbr.
❺ ❻ 66
68
Ming and others
Hirschfeld hidings
131
132
Where hex signs hang
Diameter components
CONGRATULATION MISDEMEANOUR 69 Person from a 134 Not ___ snuff
TUNER DIPLOMA Republican stronghold 135 Tabula ___
70 Joule fractions 136 Recklessly foolish
71 Join in a contest 139 “__ Earth...”
73 ___ Jose 141 Bear's home
74 Similar: Preix 142 First
75 “Tell ___ the Marines” 144 Guitar gadget
76 It's under layers 145 Insurable item
77 Scandinavian loor 146 Last
covering 148 Chad's neighbor
79 Melting together 149 While lead-in
80 “I took the one ___ 150 Acht's successor
traveled by...” 151 Villain created by Craven

THE WORLD’S MOST ORNERY CROSSWORD (CONTINUED)
Easy Clues
DON’T PEEK
UNTIL YOU
READ
PAGE 67!
ACROSS 77 Scandinavian-style loor 153 Holy French women, 65 Greek god of love
1 “Yellow Submarine” group covering: 2 wds. briely 67 Like a saw blade
8 WWII battle site in 79 Atomic process 154 Salinger girl 69 1937 Nelson Eddy ilm
Normandy: 2 wds. 80 More or ___ 155 Female visionary 72 Places of archaeological
12 Actor Douglas of 81 Spring lower interest
Spartacus 82 Tennis great Stefi DOWN 74 Music impresario Sol
16 Clings (to) 83 Phnom ___, Cambodia 1 Vacation islands 78 Fed. property overseer:
23 Ancient Greek jar for 87 Tomorrow, in Tijuana 2 Retired professors Abbr.
wine or olive oil 89 Principle that systems 3 Mama's boy's ties: 2 wds. 79 Letters between E and I
24 British baby buggy are greater than the sum 4 “There's no turning
83 Elegant
25 ___ about of their parts back”: 4 wds.
5 Land parcel 84 Nurse Jackie star Falco
(approximately): 2 wds. 92 SportsCenter channel 85 It appears in front of very
26 Cheese used for fondues 96 Greek theaters 6 Legendary actor/director
von Stroheim cold temperatures: 2 wds.
27 Religious dissenter 97 Helps a crook
86 Like a machine with a
28 Verdi opera set in Egypt 98 Not Rep. or Dem. 7 Closet freshener
8 Barbecue serving crank: Hyph.
29 Dracula player Lugosi 101 Kunta ___ of Roots
30 Became ready to pick 102 Sports org. for smaller 9 Orange-lavored liqueur 87 Fellow crew members, to
31 Yankees star, to fans: colleges: Abbr. used in margaritas: a pirate
Hyph. 103 It goes on the dotted line 2 wds. 88 Adjoins
32 Noisy bird 105 Singer Laine et al. 10 Do dock work 90 Panama hat material
34 Hebrew prophet 107 In a sincere way 11 Actor Epps of House 91 Relating to the mind
36 Disaster-relief group, for 109 Telephone operator's 12 Lakers star Bryant 92 Jack Lemmon's Mister
short accessory 13 “Mama __” (Desi Arnaz Roberts role: 2 wds.
37 Start for skirt or van 110 Active Hawaiian volcano hit) 93 Pitching great of the
38 German idealist 112 Frameworks of crossed 14 Someone to look up to: Negro Leagues: 2 wds.
philosopher Georg strips 2 wds. 94 Bunch of raked leaves
Wilhelm Friedrich 113 Randall and Curtis 15 Indonesian island that 95 Vocal oppositions
exploded in 1883 98 “And how!”: 2 wds.
39 Old-time actress Normand 114 Eldest
40 Fail to mention 116 Brideshead Revisited
16 Came to terms
99 Organized
17 Dentist's tool
41 Bewildered: 2 wds. novelist Evelyn
18 Marcher's sound
100 Uncertainties
43 Matador 117 Complaints
19 Ability to notice minutia: 104 Lou Grant star
46 Hammed it up 119 State lower of New 3 wds. 105 About, to a historian
48 Slatted shipping container Mexico 20 Belgian surrealist who 106 South Korean capital
49 Peaceful protests: Hyph. 120 Marching band painted The Son of Man 108 Small decorative cases
51 Gets up instruments 21 Religious recluse 110 Get a project going via
52 Waiting for ___ (Beckett 122 Bed sheets 22 More serene crowdfunding
play) 125 Adorer 33 Frankenstein's helper 111 Botanical garden
53 Los Angeles ballplayer 126 Country Crock competitor 35 “Oh, sure!”: 2 wds. devoted to trees
54 Q trailers 127 Certain Eastern European 42 Opposers 114 Heating devices
56 Water between Russia 129 Sound of a thrown tomato 44 Showed again 115 The Guns of ___ (1961
and Alaska: 2 wds. 130 The “A” in U.S.A.: Abbr. 45 Isis's brother/husband war ilm)
58 Wild talker 131 Cattle sheds 46 “I Am the Walrus” 117 Looking angry
59 Drew forth, as an answer 132 Circle segments character 118 Bucharest's country
62 Stuff in a Milky Way 134 ___ no good: 2 wds. 47 Receiver of the Ten
63 One of these days 135 Tabula ___
119 Crocheter's need
Commandments 121 “Smooth Operator” singer
66 Teams that dominate for 136 Madman 48 Crave jealously
years 139 Upon which 123 Local inhabitants
50 John whose mill was an 124 Larder keepers
68 Singer Simone and 141 Dragon's abode early gold rush site
namesakes 142 Monogram component 53 Plum type
126 Abdul and Deen
69 Citizen of a Republican 144 Mob VIP 55 Variegated, as marble 128 Mini-shops at the mall
stronghold: 2 wds. 145 Garage occupant 57 What some call Grandma 131 Actress Selma
70 Units of work 146 Make it through 58 Cowboys' contest 133 Habituate
71 Go inside 148 West African nation 59 Genesis garden 137 ___ dixit
73 ___ Diego 149 Formerly, once 60 Ancient harp 138 No-frills beds
74 Start for stasis or pathy 150 Eins more than acht 61 Police, to some suspects 139 Grow faint
75 “Tell ___ the judge!”: 151 Scary Freddie of A 63 Competition stage 140 Tinges
2 wds. Nightmare on Elm Street 64 2000 Subway Series 143 Wrath
76 Oriole's home 152 Quick looks participants 147 Regret deeply

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ANSWER, PAGE 80
Hard Clues (continued)
152 Goslings' dads 20 The Treachery of 69 Andie MacDowell's irst 106 Site of Changdeok Palace
153 Jeanne et Joan: Abbr. Images painter name at birth 108 Notions holders
154 Squalor of the Lemony 21 Taker of a religious vow 72 Excavation site, perhaps 110 One way to get the
Snicket saga 22 Less rufled 74 Impresario Sol Harley going
155 Crystal ball reader 33 Marty, in Young 78 Govt. purchasing agcy. 111 Sylvan sanctuary
Frankenstein 79 Alphabetic trio
114 House heaters
DOWN 35 Skeptic's remark 83 Opulent
1 Islands for fun in the sun 42 Those against 84 Peter Gunn's girlfriend 115 The Guns of ___
2 Retired faculty 44 Aired an encore 85 Symbol for subzero 117 Giving the evil eye
3 Mama's boy's ties presentation temps 118 Nadia Comaneci's
4 Caesar's Rubicon- 45 Typhon's victim 86 Like non-automatic birthplace
crossing phrase 46 “I Am the Walrus” guy machinery 119 Afghan-to-be
5 Man with a salty wife 47 Centenarian artist 87 Popeye's pals 121 Marat/___
6 Psychoanalyst Fromm 48 Break the Tenth 88 Is adjacent to 123 Locals
7 Fragrant packet Commandment 90 Bedding for a beast 124 Pack rats
8 Barbecue bit 50 Mill owner of the 1800s 91 Intellectual 126 Prentiss and Abdul
9 Kamikaze ingredient 53 Sloe's tamer kin 92 Jack Lemmon role
128 Newsstands
10 Fill the hold 55 Like marble 93 Oldest baseball player to
11 Kismet character 57 Zola novel debut in the major leagues 131 Fringe actress Brown
12 Port of Japan 58 Place for barrel riders 94 Nuclear reactor 133 Desensitize
13 Don Juan's mother 59 English novelist Phillpotts 95 Negative votes 137 ___ dixit
14 Someone to emulate 60 Hermes' instrument 98 “Amen!” 138 Privates' beds
15 Volcanic island near Java 61 They hold you up 99 Undiluted 139 Grow dim
16 Consented 63 Kind of match 100 Skeptic's plethora 140 Shades
17 Try for a gusher 64 Stengel's second NY team 104 He played Santa Claus in 143 Fury
18 Cadence call opener 65 ___ and Psyche Elf 147 Bemoan
19 Decorator's gift 67 Notched 105 Word used in dating

ANSWERS
3 CRYPTO-FUNNIES 4 MIXED DOUBLES
Panel 1: Pharaoh: How is the work proceeding on C S
my pyramid, Royal Architect? A C C O U N T S
CM T N U M A
Panel 2: Architect: All the stone-carvers are working
their hardest every day, your highness. They’re the D O O R T O D O O R P E L T S
inest craftsmen in all of Egypt. N A S C V R A
S T A N D S O N E P O U N D
Pharaoh: Good. We need every man available to
R S N M D
complete my monument on time!
H A L F P I N T S P I R I T
Panel 3: Architect: But there is one worker who’s C O T E T S N
giving us some trouble. A F T E R E A S T E R E G G S
L M M T P D S
Pharaoh: Why is that?
C O N V E R S E
Panel 4: Architect: I’m afraid he sees himself as more P R
of an artist than a craftsman.
Clue pairs:
5 PENCIL POINTERS 1 Across: 1/16, 2/10, 3/15, 4/18, 5/19, 6/9, 7/20, 8/11, 9/6, 10/2, 11/8, 12/14,
13/17, 14/12, 15/3, 16/1, 17/13, 18/4, 19/5, 20/7
A A F
WU T H E R I N G H E I G H T
S Down: 1/15, 2/19, 3/22, 4/10, 5/8, 6/14, 7/21, 8/5, 9/13, 10/4, 11/20, 12/17,
A L M O S T D O N E C R O A
T 13/9, 14/6, 15/1, 16/18, 17/12, 18/16, 19/2, 20/11, 21/7, 22/3
T E A R S A G U A K A S H
A
6 CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK
C E N S E R A L S T O
N
O H S N AM E D R E S S E
D A F T S S S B I C A L E
E G G S S AM I AM B C R O A T I A O N E I R O N
D O R A T OM B Y T H E B Y E Y E B A L L O L D P R O S
P L A S MA Y O H O N E S C H U C K E C H E E S E S
B O D Y S U I T A U D I O C D G O O S Y H O T S E T
T D R I E S T S K A T E R O L E B A I O G U T S Y
N C O D E F Y B A S I L O K D C I R C B U R S T S
E R A Y F L EW E N E MY C H O C K F U L L
V I S E E T H D E C A C H E S A WO L S T P
E M I R A T E S AM P L E S T
A L O O F E D D Y I K E A
R E S I D E S T A R A N T O
T L C S E E I N E R T
A B S C OM P G R O T T O S
O P T S P E P S I V E E R S C H E C K R E G I S T E R
I R I S T R U T V E R N I E J A I A L A I I D I O T I C
L E N O E S T E E R A T E R U P S T A T E S E A W E E D
S E A N R E S T S B L E S S T S E P E R H A H R R S
6 GET IN GEAR 9 KID STUFF: A LOGICAL
TREASURE HUNT
D F R I
S N R R T O G H The X that marks the treasure is the one labeled H.
G E E I E A N T N I T F From clue 1, you can rule out points A and G.
A V R A P T O O C L S O From clue 2, you can
Y O E R R P E R eliminate C.
A U S P A I N G From clue 3, you can eliminate E and I, which have even
L T N O L L E Y numbers of X’s to their north but are on the big island.
E R T F E O A O U T K M From clue 4, you can eliminate D and J. The distance from I to
V A Y W L D B T T H N O J is the same as the distance from the pirate hut to the sunken
ship, and the distance from D to F is even less.
E H O L I W G I
You now know that the treasure must be buried at either B,
T R O R F, or H. Of these, only H has buildings both to its north and to
its west.

ANSWERS
7 CAMOUFLAGE 8 KID STUFF: FISH STORY 10 PLAYING THE ODDS
M A R B L E 1. Mountie mute
D E V I C E C O D P E R C H I S
2. Charred card
W H I S K E Y S A L M O N A N N A 3. Burning brig
V E R D I C T
C R A Y O N T H T R S P R A T R 4. Spaniel sail
S H I E L D
R E P O R T
U N T F G U P P Y D 5. Leopard load
L A U G H R A U I I P V E W I 6. Protest poet
P O C K E T
G A Z E B O G R R R E S B A O N 7. Beatnik bank
M I R A G E E I B R N K H A N E 8. Bargain bran
D R A W E R
P I E C E O P O M P A N O N L 9. Booklet bolt
Q U A R R E L 10. Cookout coot
R E M O V E
N S T F L U K E I O
M E D I U M T R O U T T L E M S 11. Galleon glen
H O N E Y 12. Heavier hair
Riddle answer: IN RIVER BANKS
R A G L A N
M U S C L E 12 QUOTE BOXES
A N N E X 1. For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the
S T U D Y stars makes me dream. (Vincent van Gogh)
S H E L F 2. The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an
P A I N T actor, but it's a completely random process. (Meryl Streep)
S N A T C H
3. The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house
H E I R L O O M of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold ofyour
J A G U A R mind. (Khalil Gibran)
13 HASHI 18 PENCIL POINTERS 2
PUZZLE 1 PUZZLE 2 J O S
3 3 6 2 2 5 4 3 S Q U E A L W I T H D E L I G H T
3 2 2 3 2 3 U N E V E N V E R T E B R A E
E G R E T S S H O R E L I N E
4 1 3 1 3 2 1 1
E L I O T P A R I N G S
3 2 2 2
K N E E H I F I D I N
4 3 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 4
M E D E N S E N I G N E
2 3 1 P A L S C O R G I S G D E N
4 2 3 1 2 2 4 2 1 R UM A DM A N H A R O L D
2 6 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 I C E D T E A G O T E L L O
2 1 1 3 3 1 2 1 E E L O C T A L A WA I F
2 4 2 1 3 4 3 2 A R T F U L R E C R U I T E D
A N N E T A C I T U S R E B A
PUZZLE 3 PUZZLE 4 T E R R O R E B E V E R L Y
1 2 2 3 4 2 2 2 3 2 1 O F E S T I S Y S
1 2 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 B I R D T S T A T I C
3 8 4 3 5 2 4 2 1 2 3 N E I G H W A R S T O R I E S
1 3 3 1 2
1 2 2 4 5 1 3 3 2 3
E MC E E I G R A N D E
3 5 5 3 2 1 3 T A I L B O N E S I N F U S E
5 2 2 2 3 4 2 4 3 3 4 T I N A D E L E R E T I E D
1 4 5 3 2 5 3 2 3 3 E N G A G E D I N L A S T L Y
2 3 3 1 3
4 1 1 3 2 1 4 2 1 2 14 WORD SQUARES CRISSCROSS
STARTING HINT
2 4 2 1 2 3 2 1 2
3 3 2 2 4 2 2 3 3 3 3 The irst entry across is QUOTED.

ANSWERS
14 WORD SQUARES CRISSCROSS 19 THE SPIRAL
S Q U A T S
P U N
H O L
D I T
D E R E R
D O L
R G
E T A L I A
R E C E N T
R O
E D E S S A Q U O T E D
O L P O
I C C
A X L
B E Z E L S N U B R I I
L A B E A O
O X I D I C S S E S T E T D L P U N D I T
L I N G E R A I I I D J I N N I G
B T L A E
I D E
E L N I N O R N D N C E E D
R E I N E D B A N G L E E S A I A N O M O R E A L T T C
O S A G E S E S D N D E S T I
B L S T
S J U D G E S A L A M O S
A E D C N O
B A D J
I N J U
O B
R E
E D
T
E S S A
T
B
I
U
R
L C G
E C A R T E
L
I
E
S
O E E E R
B S I D E S S P H E R E B E Z E L S O S T A R T
P R A
R
L E A
B A N G L E A B I E D
E R N E S T H B T E L N I N O S E N T N R
D A I S E S O N A P A R D N O O R E L S E
E R L P O
F L A M E S
L
D
D
J E R K
I R
F L A M E S
U
N
N
E S
D
G B N R O T D
R E L A C E E O E R A E X I L E S Q U I Z
M A A A L S N
O A G R
O N A P A R R B O L E R O P R A T U N
F I E C A
N O M O R E A N O E C A G
T R O U T S C T R O U T S R E C E N T
S E S T E T T I E I N S T T S H N R J
E N E E
15 WHAT LOOSE LIPS DO
M I A T E
D Y E D H ✮ R K ✮ H C Y F M O C ✮
Y A ✮ F F A E V O L D C ✮ O T D E
20 DSZQUPHSBNT!
L B T S N ✮ J O B C A ✮ B P U ✮ P
E M L R A C O E S ✮ L ✮ E C A P S 1. CRYPTOON. I was trying to relay an urgent message

T L O I N D ✮ V ✮ A S O T ✮ T E G
using smoke signals. It was, “Help! My tent is on ire!”
A O V M N J ✮ R R N W H N W B N N
2. CAREFREE “HI” WAY. “The everyday kindness of the
L P D E E D U I O E O I A E ✮ N O back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in
the headlines.” —Charles Kuralt
✮ U R ✮ R T M S W N N D R P M E L
L T A A ✮ D H ✮ T A E N N C E P ✮ 3. PULLING THE PLUG. Consumer mag from decades ago

E T W ✮ A D A Y O ✮ ✮ L I A W N A
contains review of newly invented cordless phone, calling
the innovation “totally off the hook.”
H O ✮ ✮ X O B ✮ O V ✮ D R I B ✮ E
C ✮ V R E T S M ✮ T A T S O L A D 4. FRONT-PAGE NEWS. Frozen yogurt inancier lands gig as

newspaper reporter because of his uncanny ability to
21 LIFE OF EASE always deliver the scoop.
B A G Z A P A P E X I T S A 5. FLEXIBLE PLANS. Limber guy leaves law school to become
U P I I G A T O M E N I L S contortionist. Parents have dificulty wrapping their heads
F O G T E R S L U R B N A I around the decision.
F L O R I D A K E Y S G U A V A 6. CENTS AND SENSIBILITY. Before the mottos “e pluribus
E L L E S N A P B O L L unum” and “in God we trust,” the penny bore the
T O O D L E O O W O R K O U T slogan “mind your business.”
C O O L B R E E Z E U N E 7. IN THE ZONES. Tricky Toronto tour troop touts time
R O D E O N E X P O A I D E traveling trip. Transforms trek transversing territories to
I C A N T R O B O T O L S E N trendy tourist trap.
G O V T F I R E D R Y E R S 66 FAMILY REUNIONS CATEGORIES
E M I B U M B L E B E E S
Family One: Classic board games
L E D G E R S D I N O S A U R
Family Two: “Angry” synonyms
O N L Y S L U G U T N E
Family Three: Fictional detectives
B E R E T C A T C H S O M E Z S
A C T I T H U G E A R M I I Family Four: Defunct autos
L U I S S A C O A L L P P D
D A Z S K I E V D A Y O S E

ANSWERS
22 MIXED DOUBLES: SHADES OF MEANING 23 BATTLESHIPS
❶ SEAMAN
F V
H A B I T
K O S T R
N O N S T O P H I G H
O C O I O I
C H E C K C E M E N T Clue pairs:
Across: 1/19, 2/24, 3/9, 4/21,
K E K I S 5/14, 6/10, 7/20, 8/23, 9/3,
❷ PETTY OFFICER
P E P P E R I T R A C T S 10/6, 11/18, 12/25, 13/22,

14/5, 8/23, 13/22, 16/17,
D R N W R 17/16, 18/11, 19/1, 20/7, 21/4,
22/13, 23/8, 24/2, 25/12
H O T D O G E X T R A
Down: 1/16, 2/20, 3/10, 4/19,
J E U E H I 5/13, 6/18, 7/8, 8/7, 9/17, 10/3,
L E A N P U T D O W N 11/21, 12/22, 13/5, 15/23,
16/1, 17/9, 18/6, 19/4, 20/2,
C V S U S 21/11, 22/12, 23/15
S T E E R ❸ ENSIGN
Extra clues: 15-Across,
14-Down Bonus word:
S R EXERCISES
24 YOU'RE ON A ROLE
PUZZLE 1: THE TRY-FECTA
J U P I T E R M E R C U R Y N E P T U N E
O H I O I O W A U T A H
V I X E N C U P I D C O M E T
Y E L L O W V I O L E T O R A N G E
M O N I C A P H O E B E R A C H E L
P A D R E S G I A N T S A N G E L S ❹ CAPTAIN
O N E T W O T E N
D O U B L E T R I P L E S I N G L E
S P R I N G A U T U M N S U M M E R
H O U S T O N C H I G A G O P H O E N I X
V I R G O A R I E S L I B R A
G A M M A A L P H A D E L T A
The names of three Tom Hanks films can be found in the shaded columns.
TRUE CLUE letter: E
PUZZLE 2: ATTACK OF THE TLAs (OMG!)

BBB CIA CPK ERA
18: Bed Bath & 7: Central 25: Cabbage 5: Earned Run ❺ COMMODORE
Beyond Intelligence Patch Kids Average
24: Better Business Agency 26: Equal Rights
Bureau 20: Culinary Institute GWS Amendment
of America 9: Get Well Soon
FDR 29: Great White HRC
10: Flight Data GWB Shark 6: Hillary
Recorder 8: George Rodham Clinton
14: Franklin Delano Washington MSG 12: Hard Rock Café
Roosevelt Bridge 4: Monosodium
30: George glutamate SLC
MLP Walker Bush 31: Madison 2: Salt Lake City ❻ ADMIRAL
11: Mary-Louise Square Garden 28: St. Louis Cardinals
Parker MPH
15: My Little 1: Mr. Potato Head TMI TOC
Pony 3: Miles Per Hour 13: Too Much 16: Table of Contents
Information 19: Truth or
SMB SNF 22: Three Mile Island Consequences
17: Steve 21: Saturday
Miller Band Night Fever TRUE CLUE letter = C
23: Saving 27: Skilled
Mr. Banks Nursing Facility

ANSWERS
PUZZLE 3: WHITEOUT!
1. Garield All answers are last names or nicknames of U.S. presidents.

1. Grant G N I D R A H J E
2. Harding TRUE CLUE letter = T
2. Hoover
A R T H U R O A G L L O H G I
3. Johnson R E A B E H O C D PUZZLE 4: REEL FUN I N N H
3. Jackson (From left to right)
4. Arthur F L Y N N A V K I PAPILLON P A P E R M O O N
5. Taylor SUPERMAN
6. Abe I Y L S T Y E S L HIGH NOON P A
7. Hayes Final answer = PAPER MOON
8. Tyler E T O I K E R O O TRUE CLUE letter = R U S N
9. Ike
10. Bush L N R B U S H N O MINI-CAPER FINAL ANSWER
11. Coolidge After following the directions for True Clues E + C + R + T, there
11. Cleveland D N A L E V E L C are only two names remaining in the Presidential Grid:
12. Adams HARRISON & FORD = Actor HARRISON FORD
13. Bubba S M A D A B B U B
28 TOUGH AS DIAMONDS 29 QUINT-ESSENTIAL
❶ 3 ❷ 5 ❸ 7 E H A L C
A B Y A R P S R I A H
5 9 7 4 6 1 M H R M J O G U A O R T R O D
6 2 8 6 3 9 9 4 5 G R A N U L E O B C C N I A R G T
W L V Z L R A S E R A S C V R M U N U
7 4 8 1 8 3 C O L E E C E D E N N S B E L R G L I
1 2 2 G S E L L E C K V E O C E S O T E R I C B
N E L A F B S I L I Z A R D L A G L B N A
❹ 1 M A C B A E L R R M L N R E G N E R E B E
❺ ❻ H V I K E S A E R G O O H O W T N R R T S
3 9 4 3
N E E C O U B B R O S D S Y A E E S A W E
6 2 4 2 3 2 8 R D A I R Y M E W N D I W L L R L L K
5 7 7 8 9 4 1 5 E U L A T L U I L I P N C T O O B A T
L B E S U F O R P Y A U U C U N S
8 1 5 9 6 A U B T A N E P M B T O M S A
6 7 A N O E L E M A H C Z
❼ 8 F B T E C
3 2 3 8
3 5 8 1 9 1 9 6 “ABUNDANT” SYNONYMS: ample, generous, liberal, myriad, profuse
9 4 1 4 5 5 4 “B” OCCUPATIONS: baker, barber, beautician, brewer, butler
6 2 7 2 EXCLAMATIONS: Bingo!, Bravo!, Hallelujah!, Yippee!, Zounds!
7 FAMOUS TOMS: Berenger, Seaver, Selleck, Swift, Wolfe
30 HELTER-SKELTER MOVIE MUSICALS: Can-Can, Evita, Grease, Hairspray, Oliver!

“PROHIBIT” SYNONYMS: banish, blackball, debar, outlaw, taboo
D U T R E S S M E V R A T S O N
N E O I A E E O N D A E T S N I “RECONDITE” SYNONYMS: abstruse, arcane, enigmatic,
esoteric, obscure
I I L V C T A S O N P A R O L E
REPTILES: chameleon, gecko, lizard, snake, turtle
M L A B P I L N Z E O N U S E D
SHADES OF BROWN: auburn, chocolate, hazel, tawny, umber
A N O M O R E A E A T N I N J A
TINY THINGS: crumb, grain, granule, modicum, sliver, snippet
T I E U E W V R M C P U F O E R
I R R E I R E E I D U A D A C T
BONUS GROUP (NEW MEXICO CITIES):
V T C A N E L D T O I L L E T Y Alamogordo, Las Cruces, Los Alamos, Roswell, Santa Fe
16 DING LIREN VS. MICHAEL ADAMS

White sacrificed his rook with 61. Rh8+. Black resigned at once, since after Kxh8 (forced), White plays Nxe4 and is
a full piece ahead.

ANSWERS
31 LETTUR PERFEKT 32 ONE, TWO, THREE
PUZZLE A PUZZLE B B RA VER MO OCH E R MO TI F S
1. DIVORCE (V) 1. SPRITZ (P) A NA IS T E XAC O THE T O Y
2. ANTIQUE (Q) 2. TOREADOR (A) ILE FT M Y HEA R TIN SAN F R AN CI SCO
3. SPECIAL (I) 3. DESIRE (I) R ER O U TE G NA R L
4. STANDARD (D) 4. MILIEU (E) KO N G EE Y O R E
5. BENEFIT (B) 5. TOWARD (W) LI F TI NGPRE COR D L N E VE
6. GENUINE (U) 6. BROGUE (U) THE LIT TLE OLD L ADY F R OM PA S ADE NA
7. MARTIAL (A) 7. SUBTLE (T) S TE P I S AB EL L ITE R S
8. TROPHY (T) 8. BALLET (L) T R AGE DI ES ATE A M
9. TRUMPET (M) 9. GALAXY (X) SHO L E M L ET S I N
10. FRIEND (F) 10. SOLEMN (N) DOY OU K N OW TH E WA Y TOS A NJ OSE
11. BIGAMY (Y) 11. BOBCAT (C) EN TRE ATI ES I NDE XER S BR E D
12. TRAPEZE (Z) 12. GARGOYLE (Y) S ACH E T CAL L S ON INA CT IVE
13. JALOPY (J) 13. WISDOM (D)
14. CHORUS (H) 14. JURIST (S) 41 MINMOVES PUZZLES 1
15. SARCASM (S) 15. IMAGINE (G) A moves from 7 to 4 A
2
16. ASEXUAL (X) 16. SOFTENER (F) D moves from 3 to 7
B
17. COLONEL (O) 17. BUSINESS (B) C moves from 6 to 3
18. SALMON (L) 18. MNEMONIC (M) F moves from 2 to 6
19. VETERAN (E) 19. THEORY (O)
3
B moves from 5 to 2
C
F
20. PENCIL (C) 20. TORQUE (Q)
E moves from 1 to 5
6
21. AWKWARD (W) 21. ASTHMA (H)
A moves from 4 to 1
22. PREGNANT (G) 22. STANZA (Z) E D
D moves from 7 to 4
4
23. NICKEL (K) 23. LOGJAM (J) 5
24. HARPOON (R) 24. DOSSIER (R)
25. AGNOSTIC (N) 25. CHEVRON (V) 38 YOUR WORD AGAINST MINE: SCRABBLE
HAPPENINGS, PUZZLES, AND TIPS
26. DIPLOMA (P) 26. JACKAL (K)
IT HAD TO BE U (OR V OR W, ETC.)
PUZZLE C PUZZLE D
6-LETTER WORDS 7-LETTER WORDS 8-LETTER WORDS
1. HAIRDO (R) 1. SHOEHORN (E)
2. INSTINCT (C) 2. BAGPIPE (P)
Length Preview Watching
3. THOUGH (G) 3. BISHOP (B)
4. TRANSFER (F) 4. TAWDRY (R)
Shrimp Baptize Flabbier
5. BULWARK (W) 5. BAZAAR (Z)
6. PYRAMID (Y) 6. WOMEN (N)
7. FELINE (E) 7. SCENARIO (A)
Aerate Complex Dolphins
8. ANXIETY (X) 8. SOOTHE (H)
9. ALBINO (O) 9. ENSEMBLE (M) Evolve Apology Handicap
10. ROUTINE (U) 10. CHOIR (I)
11. LATERAL (L) 11. PURSUIT (U) Joyful Sequoia Fulcrums
12. HEIGHT (H) 12. ENAMEL (L)
13. SUPPLY (P) 13. ANECDOTE (D) Hubcap Upchuck Adequacy
14. ACUMEN (A) 14. ANCHOVY (V)
15. FAMILIAR (I) 15. PLAYPEN (Y) HOOKS AND EXTENSIONS AND PARALLELS, OH MY!
16. FROZEN (Z) 16. SORCERY (C) First board:
17. COLUMN (M) 17. TOMBOY (O) Rack 1: ZIG, 33 pts.
18. OPAQUE (Q) 18. CROQUET (Q) Rack 2: JUGGLERS, 54 pts.
19. ADVANCE (V) 19. BANJOIST (J) Rack 3: PRETEXT, 93 pts. This also plays as a hook, forming PEON.
20. ABDOMEN (D) 20. GIMMICK (K) Rack 4: EQUINE, also forming NEON, 41 pts.
21. OBLIGED (B) 21. UNUSUAL (S)
22. PERJURY (J) 22. STIGMA (G) Second board:
23. ALKALI (K) 23. PREVIEW (W) Rack 1: ZOO 10J or 6F, hook, 37 pts.
24. SCHOOL (S) 24. ACTUAL (T) Rack 2: EQUITIES E5, perpendicular, 118 pts.
25. DEBTOR (T) 25. INFERNO (F) Rack 3: ARCHIVED O8, extension, 54 pts.
26. TORNADO (N) 26. AXIOM (X) Rack 4: DEFEAT 9C, parallel, 37 pts.

ANSWERS
WILD CARDS 50 500 RUMMY
42 COVER-UP 42 MIDDLE GROUND C A V E M E N
Each word can be both preceded and followed by the same J J J 7 8 9 10 64
S T A R T letter to form a new word: ELOPE, ERODE, MODEM, DARED, H A S T I L Y
A A A A 2 3 4 13
P A P E R RACER, LAPEL, PRIMP, TABLET, RAIDER.
I N S U L A R
A P P L Y 42 SPORTING COMPANIONS 3 4 5 6 8 8 8 42
D E L I S Tennis: Fred Beacham, accountant, 1st; Irv Harkness, chef, 2nd; M A R B L E D

Jim Dodge, engineer, 3rd; Karl Grant, lawyer, 4th 8 8 8 7 8 9 10 58
E R E C T Golf: Harkness, 1st; Grant, 2nd; Beacham, 3rd; Dodge, 4th M A R L I N S
8 8 8 8 3 4 5 44
42 PREFIX AFFIXATION
The missing nine letters are SCRIPTION (ASCRIPTION, DESCRIPTION, INSCRIPTION, M I L E A G E
3 3 3 3 5 6 7 30
CONSCRIPTION, PRESCRIPTION, PROSCRIPTION, SUBSCRIPTION, TRANSCRIPTION,
SUPERSCRIPTION, CIRCUMSCRIPTION). M O R D A N T
6 7 8 10 10 10 10 61
42 TRADING PLACES M U G W U M P
Move the Copper to the right, then move the Gold twice so that it is above the Silver, then 6 6 6 6 2 3 4 33
move the Silver twice diagonally to the lower right corner, then move the Gold to the lower left
P A G E A N T
corner and the Copper back to its starting square. The move order can vary slightly. Suggested 4 5 6 7 10 10 10 52
by a puzzle that appeared (without an answer) in Shogi magazine No. 35 (January 1982).
P L A C E B O
42 LATITUDINAL THINKING J Q K 7 7 7 7 58
From north to south: P L A Y P E N
9. (60°N. to 70°N.) Fairbanks, 3. (0° to 10°N.) Bogota, J Q K 4 4 4 4 46
Helsinki, Reykjavik Kuala Lumpur, Monrovia
8. (50°N. to 60°N.) Dublin, 11. (0°N. to 10°S.) Jakarta, R A M P A G E
8 8 8 4 5 6 7 46
Edmonton, Moscow Nairobi, Recife
12. (40°N. to 50°N.) Montreal, Paris, Rome 7. (10°N. to 20°S.) Darwin, Harare, Lima R A P P O R T
6. (30°N. to 40°N.) Casablanca, 4. (20°N. to 30°S.) Brisbane, K K K K 7 8 9 64
Tehran, Tokyo Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro
S A N C T U M
1. (20°N. to 30°N.) Abu Dhabi, 5. (30°N. to 40°S.) Cape Town, 5 5 5 5 A 2 3 26
Hong Kong, Honolulu Santiago, Sydney
2. (10°N. to 20°N.) Bangkok, 10. (40°N. to 50°S.) Hobart, Puerto Montt S C A N D A L
Manila, Mumbai (Chile), Wellington 5 5 5 5 10 J Q 50
S P I L L E D
43 MATCH GAME A 2 3 Q Q Q Q 46
One item from each list can be represented by the same abbreviation or symbol.
1–h, OT: the 61st minute of a football game (overtime); longer portion of the King S P I N D L E
James Bible (Old Testament) A 2 3 4 Q Q Q 40
2–f, AC: climate control device in a house or car (air conditioning); form of electric power S T A B L E D
delivered to residences (alternating current) A A A 7 8 9 10 37
3–j, BA: common college degree (Bachelor of Arts); Ted Williams’s was .406 in 1941
(batting average) S U B L I M E
4–b, R: irst-year MLB player (rookie); chess piece often resembling a castle (rook) 5 6 7 8 3 3 3 35
5–d, ST: Gibraltar or Hormuz, e.g. (strait); Easy or Wall, e.g. (street) S U B T E E N
6–g, PI: Jessica Jones’s occupation (private investigator); group that includes Luzon 5 6 7 9 9 9 9 54
and Mindanao (Philippine Islands)
7–k, PT: one-eighth of a gallon (pint); type of employee who works only two days T E E N A G E
9 9 9 9 5 6 7 54
a week (part-time)
8–c, NE: one of the eight main compass directions (northeast); the Cornhusker T E N P I N S
state (Nebraska) 9 9 9 2 3 4 5 41
9–e, C: speed of light (physics symbol); football lineman between the guards (center)
U M P T E E N
10–a, K: strikeout (baseball scoring symbol); chemical element number 19, used in 2 3 4 9 9 9 9 45
many fertilizers (potassium)
11–l, CO: what a general is to a colonel (commanding oficer); what Orange or Alameda is U P R I V E R
in California (county) 2 2 2 2 J Q K 38
12–i, TM: what Cheerios or Wheaties is to General Mills (trademark); practice based V E R D A N T
on ancient Hindu texts and involving mantras (transcendental meditation) J Q K 10 10 10 10 70
V E R M E I L
43 AUNT HILDEGARDE J Q K 3 3 3 3 42
Aunt Hildegarde likes words that shed their irst and last letters to become new words:
S-TRIPE-S, S-HOE-S, W-HIS-T, etc. TOTAL: 1,189

ANSWERS
49 THE PLUS 51 DOUBLE CROSS
L E N I E A. CARDIFF L. RIOTOUS
A R O C N B. AUTOBOT M. STUTTER STEP
M R S K T C. RUNNING START N. HOLLYWOOD BOWL
D. RIGHT O. OWNING
A E E I R E. INTEGRITY P. CHIFFON
I D S N E F. EMANATION Q. KNIGHTHOOD
S D A E E G. FELICITY R. ATTACHMENT
M A I S S HUFFMAN S. HUMOR
H. IAN MCEWAN T. OBTUSE
S A W B E C A L M D S S A Y B E T C H
I. SWEET TOOTH U. LIFER
P G E R M A N I S A E N C E U T A H A J. HOTPOT V. IBIS
I A B E A D D V E N T U R E S U M A S K. ELECTRIFIED W. CHITTAGONG
R R E V E R E E L D A B I H C I P S T
When I got the part of a princess in this goofy little science
E S R E L E S R F D C B D A H S A M O iction ilm, I thought,…I’ll go hang out with a bunch of
O L O H E robots for a few months and then return to my life and try to
M I N I R igure out what I want to do…But…it tricked me into
I E E Q R becoming a star. —Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic
T S A U Y 53 SIAMESE TWINS
T B M I D
W I L M A L A W O M A N
E A E T E
R D N A R O N E A L P R E R A C E
52 BURIED GOLD L E N D L S T B A R T S
S A L A A M I N A J A M L E
F T O F F F R I D A Y I N S E T
AU G U S T A N O D U L E A P
R I O R I
T O S S E R C R A N E D C AU
O T H O R
E T N A E A T S A
D E
E R T E S L A M M E R T E S
L A S E A D O O L O A
S A Y S W H O H AU T B O Y E N O C H
N A S H U A E L L T I S S U E
J O H N G O O D M A N
S C U R B T E N D D A L T O N B R A B A R G E R B E R
A M N A A C A D E T Z I O N W O R D
G O A T T AU T O M A K I N G M A R I E
A N D A R E A F O L K
O N L A E A S H X I N G P A I N E D R U I N G D R I V E N
L A D E T H I N G S O O T
S C R I M S AU R I C R AU L J U L I A
D A N I E L S O X I D E
C R E E S I D I S A G R E E A P A R T O R A T I O N B I N G E
H I N D K N I T B O Y A R C O M M A
E S AU S E S T E T B A C K K N E A D
T Y L E N O L S T E E L
M I L D E W I S O E N T R E E
A S T E R I N T A C T AU N T I E E M B E T T Y O N A S S I S
A P I N G F A W C E T T C A V E
A W A R E O F M AU R E E N I M A G E S
E L I H U F I R E A N T
C O R I N N E A L B E D O C A M E R A A S N E R T A K E S T O
T W E E T E R S T O N E S E X E R T S
N I T R I C A S H E N
29 QUINT-ESSENTIAL CATEGORIES
Y E S M A L A N I N E
“Abundant” synonyms
“B” occupations
I S L E T S M D S
Exclamations R I C K M O R A N I S
Famous Toms
C A T E L N I N O
Movie musicals
“Prohibit” synonyms E N E E Y E S F A D S
“Recondite” synonyms S C R U B K E A T O N
Reptiles
Shades of brown
S H A N A N A R U B L E
Tiny things N E T T L E D G L A C E
A R E O L A S O T T E R

ANSWERS
54 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1
ACROSS: 1. Bartender (bender + art); 6. Tiara (Rita + a); 9. Midterm (Mr. + et + dim); 10. Breadth (d + breath); 11. Leica (like
a); 12. Twenty-one (tone + went + Y); 13. Rhode Island Red (order is handled); 16. Chicken marsala (chic + Ken + mars + a +
LA); 21. Earthworm (the marrow); 23. Capri (musiC A PRIority); 25. Crimson (scorn + I’m); 26. Novella (love + NL + A);
27. Sheds (two meanings); 28. Restrooms (re + Strom’s + O)
DOWN: 1. Bumbler (b + lumber); 2. Radii (R + ad + II); 3. Elevate (levee at); 4. Demitasse (essay - y + timed); 5. Ruble (rube +
L); 6. Treated (the – h + tread); 7. Andromeda (DA + Rome + and); 8. Achier (a + C + hie + R); 14. Otherwise (he swore it);
15. Armaments (mean smart, & lit.); 17. Cohosts (costs + ho); 18. Recover (rec + over); 19. Animals (slam + in + a);
20. Fences (fees + NC); 22. Owner (downer – d); 24. Polio (oil op)
55 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2
ACROSS: 1. Revenue (EU + never); 5. Pumice (m + i + puce); 8. Municipal (I clam up in); 9. Skimp (skim + p); 11. Nuggets
(egg + nuts); 12. Oceania (canoe + I + A); 13. Torte (decadenT OR TEmptingly); 15. Spanglish (hassling + p); 16. Antipodes
(pointed + as); 20. Riser (R + is + e,r); 22. Chorale (speeCH OR A LEcture); 23. Ancient (an + I + cent); 25. Sepia (pit – t + sea);
26. Detouring (got ruined); 27. Friend (r + iend); 28. Ringlet (l + Tegrin)
DOWN: 1. Remonstrances (sermon + trances); 2. Vinegar (V + in + rage); 3. Niche (H + nice); 4. Exposes (E + X + posse);
5. Palooka (pa + a look); 6. Messenger (mess + green); 7. Chianti (China it); 10. Play hard to get (try age-old path);
14. Esplanade (citiES PLAN A DEvelopment); 17. Trouper (report + U); 18. Dreaded (D + read + e,d); 19. Spatter (S + patter);
21. Special (spec + I + all – l); 24. Churn (ch. + urn)
62 PLAYING THE HALF-DOZENS

A. Sleets (steels); seeder (cedar) B. Genius (genus + I);
S E E D E R S L E E T S stalag (stag + la) C. Attila (a + lit + T.A.); Rwanda (war
E I T E T E E L C L C E and) D. Briber (brier + B); Peoria (P.E. + o,r + IA) E.
S T A L A G G E N I U S Surtax (sir tack’s); chider (D + riche) F. Threes (H + trees);
twenty (Ty + went)
A T T I L A R W A N D A
1. Teases (A’s + tees); Top Cat (to a T + P.C.) 2. Hottie
E O S A F E U R I E N M (h + Ott + i.e.); heehaw (eh Ha we) 3. Eloise (Heloise
T H E J O Y S O F S I X – H); estate (prettiEST ATElier) 4. Jailed (J + ailed);
O E L O R E U N A U C E Jordan (Joan + rd.) 5. Of late (flat + o,e); orient (tire on)
6. Yearly (y + early); Yeager (y + eager) 7. Surges
P E O R I A B R I B E R (surgeon’s – on); subset (S + tubes) 8. Orwell (or +
C H I D E R S U R T A X well); onrush (Huron’s) 9. Fairer (if rare); iance (in café)
A A S A N L E S E L G E 10. Senile (e + lines); subtle (subtitle – it) 11. Induct (inn
ducked); ice age (offICE A GEnuinely) 12. Xerxes
T W E N T Y T H R E E S (Xeroxes – O); Xmases (X + mass + e)
63 PENTOMINOES: A VARIETY CRYPTIC

ACROSS DOWN PENTOMINOES
R E S U L T 1 Result (squaRES A Lair (l + air) A Creed (c + reed)
ULTimately) B Eire (Erie) B Tails (T + ails)
E N T R E E 2 Entrée (rent + EE) C Lean-to (Leo + ant) C Nonet (ten + on)
3 Slogan (lo + nags) D Raced (cedar) D Rants (Grant’s – G)
S L O G A N 54 Scents Talent (ale + TNT)
(sent + C + s)
E
F
Zone (Z + one)
Enlace (eel can)
E
F
Irate (I + rate)
Steer (two meanings)
T A L E N T 6 Nestor (Reston) G Rests (re + sts.) G Salon (Al + son)
7 Azalea (gAZA LEAfage) H Stoles (soles + t) H Cents (C + tens)
8 Mosaic (Coma is) I Asta (sat + a) I Snore (Sn + ore)
S C E N T S 9 Entire (en + tire) J Namer (re + man) J Amaze (a + maze)
10 Reared (red + are) K Tents (ten + st.) K Elate (e + tale)
N E S T O R L Urgent (U + gent + R) L Gruel (g + rule)
A Z A L E A COVER LETTER REBUSES
1 Grandparents (G, R, and P aren’t S) 7 Apple turnover (a PPLE turn over)
M O S A I C 2 Condone (C on D on E) 8 Concentric (C on cent, RIC)
3 Colonial period (colon IAL period) 9 Poverty-stricken (P over T, Y stricken)
E N T I R E 4 Candy cane (C and Y, C, an E) 10 Spring cleaning (SP ring, C leaning)
5 Right of way (Right of W a Y) 11 Undercover agents (under C, over a G, ENTS)
R E A R E D 6 Coupons (CO upon S) 12 Skedaddled (SKED addled)

ANSWERS
WORLD PUZZLE CHAMPIONSHIPS
57 MISSING LABYRINTH 58 SNAKE
Puzzle by Gabriele Simionato 3 Puzzle by Vladimir Portugalov
2 1 2 2
4 3 2 1 3 1 5
1 4 2 2 4 1 2
2
S F
2
2
2
2 2
3 1
4 60 GAPPED KAKURO
Puzzle by Andrey Bogdanov
2 2
23 43 8 6 27 23 9 11 16 22 27
2 2 45
4 3 5 1 8 9 6 7 2
9 17
2 3 6 9 7 3 2 6 5 1
2 10 11 16
2 6 4 2 9 17 10 9 7
2 5
5 3
3
4 2 1
4 3
3 5
5
17 21 13
8 9 18 1 8 3 9 6 2 5
1 5 8 20
1 5 8 8 9
17 1 2
61 DOMINO YIN-YANG 3 19 8
Puzzle by Vladimir Portugalov 3 9 2 8 8

12 13 10 7
4 8 4 9 3 1 9 20 7
3 3 6 6 6 1 1 1 1 1 5 7
45
7 2 13 3 53 5
5
6 2 9
4
3 1
5 2 7 3 1 8 6 9 4
4 0 0 5 4 4 4 3 0 4 5 28
1 6 3 5 7 2 4
1 0 3 5 4 3 2 2 0 1 0 59 CARDS
Puzzle by Olga Leontyeva
1 3 3 6 6 6 5 5 1 1 0 ♠ ♣ ♠♣♠ ♠
K A K A
2 2 6 6 1 2 2 2 2 1 4 K K ♥ K ♥ K K K
2 0 3 3 1 4 2 3 4 4 4 ♥ ♥ ♥♥
♦ Q ♦ Q
4 0 2 2 0 0 5 6 6 6 0 A ♣ ♦ ♦♣ A
4 0 2 6 0 5 5 4 1 2 0 ♦ Q ♦ Q
Q Q Q Q
5 0 6 6 3 5 1 4 6 6 5 A ♣ ♣ A
A ♠ ♠ A
5 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 5 5 5 ♦ ♥ K ♦ ♥ Q ♥ ♦ ♠
Black 1:4 is the missing domino. ♠ K K ♣♣ Q A Q ♠
A A ♣ A K
Q

ANSWERS
64 PAINT BY PAIRS
1 HORSE 2 WORKING 5 WEDDING CAKE
4 4 1 3 1 7 7 7 3 4 5 5 10 6 15 4 4 6 6 19 19 3 3 6 17 3 3 17 17 7
1 1 4 13 12 6 6 6 3 4 10 8 6 15 1 15 1 1 4 2 7
14 16 3 1 2 2 6 7 7 10 1 8 2 2 3 17 15 15 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2
1 2 2 2 2 4 14 7 7 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 5 2 2 1 17 1 6 4 4 6 4
2 3 12 1 2 2 6 12 7 6 9 12 1 18 5 3 5 3 5 17 1 17 2
14 2 10 13 5 3 8 1 1 3 8 5 3 3 3 6 3 4 2 2 2
4 3 3 10 2 2 1 2 2 3 4 8 3 6 17 3 2 6 4 3 4 15 3 4 1 4
3 2 2 1 3 5 9 1 8 6 18 5 15 3 2 2 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 6
16 2 2 12 3 8 3 3 3 2 16 6 16 1 3 3 2 3 16 2 2 2 1 17 3
4 4 4 5 1 1 4 7 10 1 2 1 15 3
15 1 5 5 2 17 3 3 6 2 2 2 9 3 1
2 2 11 9 2 2 5 2 2 8 2 7 4 4 1 8
15
4 9
6 5 3 18 5 3 5 2 6 3 4 6 3
1 2 2 6 8 7 2 2 2 7 4 9 4 7
4 4 8 8 4 4 4 14 2 4 4 9 1 1 3 3 2 3 4 3 3
4 3 6 2 7 2 2 4 4 12 2 1 1 3 3 17 2 3 3 4 16 10 19
4 4 4 12 3 12 2 2 7 3 3 1 2 1 4 1 5 5 3 3 2 2 6 16 4 8 3
14 4 3 3 6 1 5 1 2 1 3 2 3 3 4 2 1 2 2 3 3 5 4 9 8
12 6 9 2 2 5 7 7 2 6 6 2 4 2 4 2 2 3 8 3 5 4 9 3 3 16 10 18
4 11 6 2 9 1 3 1 3 7 4 18 15 4 4 4 3 1 2 2 1 6 3 9 5
14 6 2 3 8 3 3 2 4 2 3 2 1 5 5 2 2 18 17 8 4 4 15 15 2 3 6
6 6 12 8 3 8 8 3 2 4 2 5 5 3 2 1 5 3 18 8 3 1 3 2 2 1 5 2 1 5 18 19
5 3 5 5 1 5 2 3 3 18
3 SIX-SIDED DIE 4 CHICK 4 3 1 5 3 8 5 2 2 2 4 4 2 10 2 2 6
2 2 3 3 7 7 3 3 3 9 9 7 9 5 8 4 17 1 4 4 4 2 6
4 4 3 5 18 6 2 2 1 2 2 6 4 5 6
8 13 4 5 5 7 4 3 3 3 6 6 6 16
1 2 2 5 3 4 2 2 3 7 1 3 5 5 7 4 16 15 3 5 1 17 3 2 5 4
8 5 3 3 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 9 6 8 7 1 1 3 4 5 5 1 8 2 6 10 4
1 5 5 3 13 3 3 7 3 3 3 10 6 9 9 1 6 1 4 16 4 4 16 1 4 2 1 17 1
10 3 3 2 1 2 2 2 2 4 2 2 3 1 18
12 3 2 2 12 5 1 3 2 3 4 4 18 3 5 5 2 4 5 2 3 3 8 17 2 3 4 5
9 2 2 3 2 5 4 5 1 1 4 4 3 5
6 6 5 1 12 10 3 3 3 2 2 7 8 10 2 2 3 2 4 2 2 16 1 16 3 3 4 3
3 3 8 14 10 1 2 7 7 1 10 3 7 4 3 3 3 5 6 6 2 9
2 2 2 5 8 1 3 12 12 5 1 2
11 3 3 10 5 5 9 4 16 3 3 9 16
2 3 12 1 3 12 13 5 1 8 10 2 2 16 1 3 2 2 6 6 4 4 1 3
4 4 10 10 17 16 3 4 3
4 12 2 8 12 4 2 2 8 7 6 8 2 2 1 3 2 2 3 3 3 18 9 4 4 5 6 17 5 1 1 2 3
10 14 13 10 6 3 2 2 2 2 14 7 2 2 9 5 4 16 5 3 2 3 17
10 3 1 6 4 4 3 5 5 4 5 5 2 2 5 5 18 6 2 4 4 3 1 6
4 6 11 4 6 5 11 8 3 5 8 16 4 4 3 3 2 4 3
2 2 13 3 5 3 8 7 6 10 8 4 4 14 7 4 4 4 1 7 2 2 1 3 6
7 7 4 4 4 6 6 7 3 3 2 3 6
1 2 3 5 3 3 2 7 2 2 18 4 2 2 1 7 17 2 10
11 2 6 11 7 4 8 2 7 7 4 4 3 3 19 18 6 6 19 7 2 2 6
6 10 11 13 12 10 10 4 10 5 5 7 7 3 3 2 2 10
66 FAMILY REUNIONS
FAMILY ONE FAMILY TWO FAMILY THREE FAMILY FOUR
Classic board games “Angry” synonyms Fictional detectives Defunct autos
1. Go 6. Othello 1. Mad 6. Fierce 1. Drew 6. Holmes 1. Geo (or REO) 6. Hudson
2. Risk 7. Twister 2. Sore 7. Fuming 2. Tracy 7. Poirot 2. Saab 7. Saturn
3. Clue 8. Scrabble 3. Cross 8. Enraged 3. Wolfe 8. Marple 3. Nash 8. Rambler
4. Chess 9. Checkers 4. Upset 9. Incensed 4. Spade 9. Columbo 4. Edsel 9. Pontiac
5. Sorry 10. Stratego 5. Irate 10. Indignant 5. Drebin 10. Marlowe 5. DeSoto 10. Packard
67 WORDSPAIR 67 CLUE STEW
B E A T L E S S T L O K R I K A D H E R E S
AM P H O R A P R A M O O N R G R U Y E R E
H E R E T I C A I D A B L E A R I P E N E D
A R O D C H I R P E R E E Z K I E L F E M A
M I N I H E G E L M A B E L OM I T
A T S E A T O R E R O E MO T E D C R A T E
S I T I N S R I S E S G O D O T D O D G E R
R S T U V B E R I N G S E A R A V E R
E L I C I T E D C A R A M E L S OM E T I M E
D Y N A S T I E S N I N A S R E D S T A T E R
E R G S E N T E R S A N H O M E O I T T O
N E S T R Y A R U G F U S I O N L E S S
I R I S G R A F
P E N H M A N A N A H O L I S M E S P N
O D E A A B E T S I N D K I N T E N A I A
S I G N A T U R E C L E O S E A R N E S T L Y
H E A D S E T S K I L A U E A L A T T I C E S
T O N Y S F I R S T B O R N WA U G H
G R I P E Y S U C C A T U B A S L I N E N S
L O V E R P A R K A Y S L O V A K S P L A T
A M E R B A R N S R A D I I U P T O
R A S A L U N A T I C WH E R E O N L A I R
I N I T I A L C A P O A U T O S U R V I V E
N I G E R I A E R S T N E U N K R U E G E R
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IN THIS ISSUE 500 Rummy 50

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Senior Editor Jennifer Orehowsky

Editor Raymond Simon

Supporting Players Jocelyn Mathis,

Jennifer Orehowsky POSTMASTER:

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PUZZLE AND ILLUSTRATION BY PHIL SCHEUER

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ACROSS 15 Subsequently 8 Shrink

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Rips Water, Knish

Perfume Classic China's Award Former

Silver- “Hello!” Attired

Post Dr. Seuss Secret Trick Put in a Tales for

Explorer Actor “Incid-

Liquid Minor Thus far Fine-

It made Ron who

Cousin Bandit's Caravan Having NHL

Sgt. Rock's __ Not as “Can Herb in

Work- Hurry- One Sufix of Tarnish Pithy Alliance Salad

Dwell In and of Port on

Casino Sets Caverns

Chooses Coke's Turns off

Colored Hardcore Sesame

Former Lauder Film

Dr. No Relaxes Smile on

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ACROSS 53 Sport played on a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

7 Pen brand 54 Harebrained

30 Approved, briefly 4 Mike Hammer

38 Truant GI 8 Fjord, e.g.

GET IN GEAR BY M.A. SHEEN

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A LOGICAL TREASURE HUNT

PUZZLE BY R. WAYNE SCHMITTBERGER

He also wrote these clues on the back of the map:

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ILLUSTRATIONS BY STEVE MELLOR

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1. Vincent van Gogh

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ADDLES B SIDES ET ALIA LIENEE QUIZ

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ABANDON SHIP FAIR BET SEABIRD

AIR DUCT GETS HIP TO SEA MEW

ALL’S FAIR INNER VOICE SEAMSTER

ANNE RICE JUSTICE SEAT SEAN PENN

BERNICE LOST AT SEA SEAWARD

BLIND MICE LOVE AFFAIR SHIPSHAPE

CHELSEA LATELY NICE JOB SPACESHIP

CICERONE OLD CAIRO TWICE A DAY

COMFY CHAIR PAIR UP VICE-ADMIRALSHIP

COWARDICE PUT TO SEA VOICE BOX

DYED HAIR REJOICE VOLTAIRE

EASE ALONG RIME ICE WORSHIPS

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MAGNUS CARLSEN DEFENDS

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