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How many two or more letter words can you make in 2 minutes from the letters in: Get Your Goat (40 words)
KRISS KROSS
TRIVIA
Puerto Rico
1. ‘The ‘Ugliest Salad Bowl in the World’ is the
Has anyone gotten your goat by irritating you to anger? Did you even know you had a goat to get? Well, this saying had its beginnings in horse racing. Apparently, thoroughbred racehorses are an unstable bunch when stabled, and need a stabilizing friend to stabilize their instability. So, stablers established the stabilization practice of stabling a goat with the horse to reestablish calm. But if someone wanted to destabilize the horse in order for it to lose a race, the detestable method was to steal the stablemate goat. Got it? Well, give it back.
nickname of what trophy? (a) Ryder Cup (b) Football World Cup (c) Davis Cup 2. How many balls are used in a game of croquet? (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 8 3. What weighs 4 lbs 6 oz at the Olympics? (a) Discus (b) Javelin (c) Medals
Scoring: 31 - 40 = Aloft; 26 - 30 = Ahead; 21 - 25 = Aweigh; 16 - 20 = Amidships; 11 - 15 = Aboard; 05 - 10 = Adrift; 01 - 05 = Aground
4. How many players are on a polo team? (a) 6 (b) 10 (c) 4 5. What Summer Olympics were boycotted by
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most African countries? (a) Montreal ‘76 (b) Moscow ‘80 (c ) Munich ‘72
SUDOKU
Fill in the blank squares in the grid, making sure that every row, column and 3-by-3 box includes all digits 1 to 9. © Copyright 2021 PuzzleJunction.com • solution on page 22
CRYPTOQUIP
CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Dines 5 Lackluster 9 Quagmire 14 Jockey’s whip 15 “Touched by an Angel” star Downey 16 Chew the scenery 17 Slave girl of opera 18 Elevator man 19 Church recesses 20 Old printer parts 23 Printer’s widths 24 Humiliates 25 “The Crucible” setting 27 Roll call calls 30 Go-getter 33 Gloomy Gus 37 Hawk’s opposite 39 Kind of wire 40 Carbon compound 41 Coffee shops 42 Emerald Isle 43 Heidi’s home 44 Actor Epps 45 Liberated 46 Office employee 48 ___ Delano Roosevelt 50 “The Wild Swans at Coole” poet 52 Creamsicle color
4 Letter Words 6 Letter Words Sailing Bays Golf
5 Letter Words Caves Charm Falls Forts Mambo Parks Reefs Shops
10 Letter Words
San Juan Surfing
Diving Dorado Hotels Riding
The CryptoQuip below is a quote in substitution code, where A could equal R, H could equal P, etc. One way to break the code is to look for repeated letters. E, T, A, O, N and I are the most often used letters. A single letter is usually A or I; OF, IS and IT are common 2-letter words; and THE and AND are common 3-letter words. Good luck!
8 Letter Words
Snorkeling Sunbathing
Mayaguez
7 Letter Words Sunshine
Swimming Vacation
Beaches Casinos Condado Fiestas Fishing Islands Resorts
9 Letter Words Caribbean Kapok Tree Mountains
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Flower Power
29 Chesterfields, e.g. 31 Bog down 32 Newspaper page 33 Nitty-gritty 34 Kind of child 35 “Horsefeathers!” 36 Borden bovine 38 Designer Wang 41 Baked, in Bologna 45 Gambling game DOWN 47 Tom ___ 1 Oodles 2 Husband of Bathsheba 49 Kind of oats 51 Got some shuteye 3 Lecterns 4 Involuntary twitch 53 Accolade 5 Yawning 54 “When pigs fly!” 6 “Zuckerman Unbound” 55 Floating nest builder novelist 56 School assignment 7 Gallic girlfriend 8 Diamond corners 57 Skedaddled 9 Paltry 58 Robin Cook thriller 10 Hi-fi component 11 Dick Van Dyke Show 60 Fifty-seven, Roman 61 Manicurist’s tool member 12 British submachine 63 Class-conscious org.? gun 13 Pianist Myra 21 Calendar span © Copyright 2021 22 Puts on cargo PuzzleJunction.com 26 Computer key 28 Cheese in a ball solution on page 22 57 TV monitor? 59 Shrinking violets 62 Not all there 64 Fiendish 65 Ancient greetings 66 Roast host 67 Stack 68 Country’s McEntire 69 Senegal’s capital 70 Headed for overtime 71 Squirrel’s nest
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