Gamebook 12-2018 by Specialty Publications

S U N DAY, D EC E M B E R 23, 2018

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Premier Crossword

Sunday, December 23, 2018

By Frank A. Longo

The Record

Word Sleuth Find the listed words in the diagram. They run in all directions - forward, backward, up, down and diagonally. Every puzzle has one unlisted clue.

CLUE LIST Army Flight Foster Head Male Navy Neonatal Practical Registered School Sick Student Surgical Trained Visiting

Austria China France Germany Greece Italy Malaysia Mexico Russia Spain Thailand Turkey U.S.A. Ukraine United Kingdom

CLUE LIST Digital Exposure f-stop Film Filters Flash Focus Image Lens Optics Rangefinder Reflex Shutter SLR Viewfinder

CLUE LIST

CLUE LIST Aspen Barcelona Crested Butte Los Angeles Mount Snow Munich Newport Philly Phuket San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Shanghai Tignes Whistler

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

CROSSWORD

THOMAS JOSEPH

ACROSS 1 Lingerie items 5 Madrid museum 10 Give the boot 11 Dodged 12 Israel’s Golda 13 Patched up 14 Cranium 16 Squash variety 20 Dropped in 23 Flamenco cry 24 Wrong 25 Findable fellow in kid’s books 27 Grenade part 28 Pago Pago person 29 Leader of the Lost Boys 32 Cookware item 36 Army affir-mative 39 Confident 40 Set right 41 Miseries 42 Baseball’s Trillo 43 Loads DOWN 1 Big flop 2 One with regrets

Sunday, December 23, 2018

THOMAS JOSEPH

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 28 30 31 33 34 35 36 37 38

China setting Zebra feature Skirt feature Watery Throw in Scottish river Bizarre Vacant Collars Game with mallets Emmy winner Alan Very bright Abner’s creator Friend to Françoise Toothpaste choice Mil. group founded in 1942 Memory loss Unexpected growth German steel city Like monsoon season Tug Singer Guthrie Comfy spot — Kippur Important time Naughty act

ACROSS 1 Informal greeting 6 Cries like a baby 11 Earthy color 12 Pasty 13 Rough guesses 14 Colander’s kin 15 Skin art, for short 16 Symbol of sturdiness 18 Break off 19 Compass dir. 20 Mess up 21 Writer Uris 23 Fancy buttons 25 Still 27 — -cone 28 Connery’s successor 30 Software holder 33 Letter after sigma 34 Suffering 36 That lady 37 Annoying 39 Casual top 40 Longed 41 Even a little 43 Self-contained 44 Start a set

The Record

45 Small amphibians 46 Door sign DOWN 1 Low-cost stopover 2 Pump rating 3 Surprised utterance 4 Cotillion girl 5 Welles of “Citizen Kane” 6 Jazz scores 7 “Be that — may ...” 8 “That’s a complicated question” 9 Pries 10 Insolent look 17 Solution: Abbr. 22 Fresh: Prefix 24 German conjunction 26 Vacuum tubes 28 Leatherneck 29 Shade tree 31 Put away 32 Ruby of Broadway 33 Easy two-pointer 35 Flat form 38 Dispatched 42 Toe count

Word Sleuth Find the listed words in the diagram. They run in all directions - forward, backward, up, down and diagonally. Every puzzle has one unlisted clue.

CLUE LIST Dunwoody Franks Grant Ham Mark Clark Marshall Patton Pershing Petraeus Powell Sharp Sherman Ward Washington Wesley Clark

CLUE LIST Appointment Bank Bathtub Booth Clinic Cooler Donor Front My shoes Shower Step The clouds The park The rain Your sleep

CLUE LIST Bowl Charger Cooled Heavyweight Hero Highway Human Natural Nova Power Sized Sonic Star Tuesday Woman

CLUE LIST Catnap Doze Dream Drop off Drowse Forty winks Insomnia Nod off Sandman Saw wood Shut-eye Slumber Snooze Snore ZZZZ

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

CROSSWORD

THOMAS JOSEPH

ACROSS 1 Gooey sandwich 5 Roof supports 10 Turn away 12 Of the kidneys 13 Gauge 14 Without help 15 Print measures 16 Heart chart 18 Sturgeon yield 19 Abolitionist Harriet 21 Grade 22 Doves 24 Flash of light 25 Watch 29 Casserole staple 30 Passionate 32 Longoria of TV 33 Hoopla 34 In the past 35 Significant 37 Washroom sight 39 Floor piece 40 Outwitter of Sherlock 41 Hefty wrestlers 42 Midmonth day

Sunday, December 23, 2018

THOMAS JOSEPH

DOWN 1 “American Buffalo” playwright 2 Equalize 3 Doesn’t bother 4 Uno plus due 5 Toot one’s own horn 6 Sushi choice 7 Hooded jacket 8 Fancy homes 9 Glossy 11 Cloying sentiment 17 Patella protector 20 Molten rock 21 Acted out 23 African capital 25 Pacific nation 26 Stuck 27 Halted 28 Diesel invention 29 Office helpers 31 Musical sounds 33 Sacred chests 36 Lennon’s love 38 “Entourage” agent

ACROSS 1 Do the crawl, say 5 Mutilate 9 “Keen!” 10 Heart or liver 12 Ocean arm 13 “Beauty and the Beast” beauty 14 Watson’s friend 16 Bullring cheer 17 Angers 18 Floored, in a bout 21 Back muscle, for short 22 Absorb 23 Steak choice 24 Expensive beads on a necklace 26 Drill part 29 Patrick of TV’s “The Avengers” 30 Built 31 Everything 32 “The Hobbit” baddies 34 Murdered 37 Small body of land 38 Spyri heroine 39 Saloon orders 40 Easy gait

The Record

41 Swift jets DOWN 1 Lady of Spain 2 Billfold 3 Checkout line count 4 Dust speck 5 Unruly crowd 6 “— we there yet?” 7 Dome-shaped homes 8 Croquet need 9 Nothing, to Nero 11 Must have 15 Cook’s pan 19 A long time 20 So far 22 Dreadful 23 Team supporter 24 Warehouse platform 25 Bakery treat 26 Pavlova’s field 27 Lazy sorts 28 Lab work 29 Prepare potatoes 30 Exodus figure 33 Umbrella parts 35 Marrying words 36 Tiny complaint

Word Sleuth Find the listed words in the diagram. They run in all directions - forward, backward, up, down and diagonally. Every puzzle has one unlisted clue.

CLUE LIST Azinger Crenshaw Davis Love III Hagen Hogan Kite Lehman Marr Nicklaus Pavin Snead Strange Sutton Wadkins Watson

CLUE LIST Basham Bell Brooks Flynn Hazen Knight Magaw Maloney Moran Rowley Sullivan Washburn Wilkie Wilson Wood

CLUE LIST Cuba Cyprus Fiji Haiti Iceland Indonesia Ireland Jamaica Malta Nauru Samoa Sri Lanka Taiwan Tonga United Kingdom

CLUE LIST Apache Chinook Extender Hercules Hornet Jayhawk Lancer Orion Osprey Predator Raptor Sentry Spectre Spirit Viper

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

CROSSWORD

THOMAS JOSEPH

ACROSS 1 Croc’s cousin 6 Gave out hands 11 Mindful 12 Nome home 13 Rep from Hollywood 15 Pupil’s place 16 Faucet 17 Behold 18 Was bold 20 Peace Prize benefactor 23 Boca — 27 Saudi native 28 Tarzan transport 29 Air rifle 31 Muscle-bone connector 32 Spoil 34 Simile center 37 Friend 38 Methane, for one 41 Spy 44 Gold purity unit 45 Singer Summer 46 Dance moves 47 Ranch animal DOWN 1 Airport area 2 Not at home

Sunday, December 23, 2018

THOMAS JOSEPH

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 26 30 31 33 34 35 36 38 39 40 42 43

Story Mine yield Tourist’s car Nanny’s nappy Easter find Pub choices Single Carryall Road goo Fix code Michelangelo work Arrest Sphere Groceries holder Light metal Wallet bill Original Apartment rule Leafy lunches Slugger’s need Invites Pants part Land measure Heredity unit Writer Rice Celeb Jay-Z’s music Obtained

ACROSS 1 Out of bed 7 Petty argument 11 Criminal’s reason 12 Matador’s foe 13 Slanted type 14 Regarding 15 Acid opposer 17 Gloss targets 20 Mythical giant 23 First número 24 Like the king of beasts 26 Ozone, for one 27 Sleeve filler 28 “Not — dare!” 29 Puzzles 31 Bonbon center 32 Arrangement 33 Ibsen’s home 34 Vacation spot 37 Writer Oz 39 Serve a sentence 43 Gum flavor 44 Murders 45 Go by 46 Maroon

The Record

DOWN 1 Parisian pal 2 Nonsense 3 “Give — rest!” 4 Miserly Marner 5 Demonic 6 Bottle part 7 Russian tyrant 8 Job openings 9 Gallery fill 10 Not to mention 16 Molecule makeup 17 Olympics sleds 18 Laughable 19 Antimatter bits 21 Cancel 22 “Swell!” 24 Reading aids 25 Hurler’s stat 30 Party group 33 Mink’s cousin 35 Casino concern 36 Tree part 37 Band blaster 38 Farrow of films 40 “Rose — rose ...” 41 Hr. part 42 Last part

Sudoku Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, column and 3x3 box contains the same number only once

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Point & Solve In this crossword puzzle variety, the clues appear in the diagram itself. Simply enter the answers in the directions indicated by the arrows.

Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Multi-Sudoku Each puzzle consists of two or more Sudoku grids overlapping each other in various configurations. The grids may be Classic Sudoku or a mix of different Sudoku variants. The object is to solve all grids according to their variant rules. Note that overlapping areas comply with the rules of more than one grid.

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Wuzzles Each Wuzzles is a word riddle which creates a disguised word, phrase, name, place, saying, etc. For Example, NOON GOOD = GOOD AFTERNOON

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Cryptoquip The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error.

U G G H U O F D J

U F D A O G U Z

Z E Q D H O Y C

X K E

H E Q D Y

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P E Q L B

C B F N A

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W H Y J N

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N J T

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: N equals B

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FA Y A T

Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: V equals P

Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: P equals W

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: E equals T

Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: H equals L

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: C equals T

The Record

Wuzzles Each Wuzzles is a word riddle which creates a disguised word, phrase, name, place, saying, etc. For Example, NOON GOOD = GOOD AFTERNOON

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: R equals T

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: P equals O

Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: M equals I

RNU

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: U equals S

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: O equals A

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: B equals W

The Record

Wuzzles Each Wuzzles is a word riddle which creates a disguised word, phrase, name, place, saying, etc. For Example, NOON GOOD = GOOD AFTERNOON

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

B K H P JT O

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: V equals T

BXN

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: Y equals A

Sunday, December 23, 2018

AGJKX

Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: L equals Y

QYW B F T O , CY P O

C N H H S K K E DW

Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: Z equals D

CGHS

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: I equals F

KQFMA

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S A T Y X A BY S U C

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Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: T equals I

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Hocus Focus

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Super Quiz

Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Hocus Focus

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Super Quiz

Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Hocus Focus

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Super Quiz

Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Cryptoquote

AXYDLBAAXR is L O N G F E L L O W

One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for three L’s, X for the two O’s, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, and length and formation of words are all hints. The code letters are different for each puzzle.

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GAMEBOOK

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Sunday, December 23, 2018

CROSSWORD

EUGENE SHEFFER

ACROSS 1 Woodsy home 6 Buddy 9 Lawyers’ org. 12 Russian pancakes 13 “— -la-la!” 14 CSA soldier 15 Big name in porcelain 16 Expression of regret 18 Find 20 Flightless flock 21 E.T.’s transport 23 Previous night 24 Wherewithal 25 Tatters 27 Robin Hood’s missile 29 Tiers 31 Big river 35 Helicopter part 37 Bygone times 38 Go around the world? 41 Wager

Sunday, December 23, 2018

EUGENE SHEFFER

43 Table scrap 44 Gaucho’s weapon 45 Antenna 47 Green field? 49 Amorphous masses 52 Reggae-like music 53 Tiny 54 Dutch city, with “The” 55 NYC hrs. 56 “Acid” 57 Secret rendezvous DOWN 1 “NCIS” airer 2 Jungfrau, for one 3 High school science course 4 — -European 5 Family girl 6 Straw hat 7 Lasso 8 Discoverer’s cry

9 10 11 17 19 21 22 24 26 28 30 32 33 34 36 38 39 40 42 45 46 48 50 51

Scent Started Big canyon Maneuvering room Sailor’s “Halt!” Cyber-address Air safety org. Mid-May honoree Soap opera, e.g. Harder to find Deteriorate Fauna study Bobby of hockey Trawler need Followed orders Not just chubby Ice cubes, slangily Swell Snug Census data Winged Fly-by-night? Clear the tables Collection

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ACROSS 1 Yard activities 6 Measuring device 11 Wig 12 Show up 14 Hang around 15 Vocalist 16 Big bother 17 Formal pronouncements 19 Yoko of music 20 Spill the beans 22 Bear hair 23 Coaster 24 Black-andwhite movie, e.g. 26 90210, for one 28 Always, in verse 30 Mongrel 31 Sways from side to side 35 “Gone With the Wind” star 39 Look lasciviously 40 Three-man vessel?

42 43 44 46 47 49

Intend Grazing area Filleted Suitable Identify Sarcastic remark Stag’s lack With malice Butcher’s wares Keglers’ venue

13 Wear away 18 Since, slangily 21 Belgian city 23 “Get lost!” 25 Conger or moray 51 27 Boxer 52 29 Cutting 53 responses 31 “Look 54 Homeward, Angel” DOWN author 1 Large beer 32 Anti-elderly glass bias 2 Golfer Palmer 33 Quick look 3 Schlep 34 Baltimore 4 — out (supplenewspaper mented) 36 Snoopy, e.g. 5 Helvetica lack 37 Boutonnieres’ 6 Stomachsites related 38 Access 7 Met melody 41 Watch-crystal 8 Grecian holder container 44 Ernie’s pal 9 51-Across of a 45 Prima donna sort 48 — long way 10 Tied (last) 11 “The 50 Diarist Republic” man Anais

Cryptoquote

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GAMEBOOK

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Sunday, December 23, 2018

CROSSWORD

EUGENE SHEFFER

ACROSS 1 Leno’s network 4 Plant bristle 7 Outdoor garment 11 Cupid’s alias 13 Luau dish 14 “Do — others ...” 15 Hindu wrap 16 Type measures 17 Adolescent 18 Gear parts 20 Tempo 22 Gratuity 24 In the same place (Lat.) 28 Swiss Guards’ site 32 Japanese cartoon art 33 Verve 34 Fix the soundtrack 36 Smile 37 Harsh 39 Pavlova performances 41 Improved

Sunday, December 23, 2018

EUGENE SHEFFER

43 44 46 50 53 55 56 57 58 59 60 61

Sticky stuff Aware of 16 ounces Overly proper person Witty one — gin fizz Apiece Ostrich’s cousin Tackles’ teammates Sharpen Actress Susan Request

DOWN 1 Bird’s home 2 Scottish hillside 3 Heart of an apple 4 Gorilla 5 Sonogram area 6 Some JapaneseAmericans 7 Acting without restraint 8 Individual 9 Devoured

10 Heavy weight 12 Not budging 19 Toper’s interruption 21 “The — Daba Honeymoon” 23 Cushion 25 Tragic 26 Send out 27 Clothing store section 28 Part of speech 29 Lotion additive 30 Without slack 31 Gist 35 Satchel 38 Coop dweller 40 Prune 42 Plied the oars 45 Appellation 47 Arm bone 48 Agrees silently 49 Dilbert’s furniture 50 Church seat 51 Cheery remark? 52 “Rocks” 54 Fellow

ACROSS 1 Trumpet 5 Recipe meas. 8 Arduous journey 12 Reed instrument 13 Pussy-Cat’s partner 14 Present 15 Freebie 17 Wedding symbol 18 “Golly!” 19 Illuminated 20 Actor Tommy Lee 21 Automaton, for short 22 Not many 23 Strictly — nous 26 Excise 30 Old Italian money 31 Godfather’s address 32 Greet silently 33 Abandon the nest 35 Gold measure 36 Child

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37 Whatever number 38 Caesar, for one 41 Saturnian saucer? 42 Locate 45 Cabbage salad 46 Hidden passenger 48 Passport endorsement 49 Rowing need 50 Foundation 51 Annoyingly slow 52 Definite article 53 Picnic invaders DOWN 1 “Dukes of Hazzard” boss 2 Theater award 3 Wander 4 Born 5 Namely 6 Bat a gnat 7 Thickness 8 Disposable 9 Check 10 Sea eagle

11 16 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 34 35 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 46 47

Small barrels Burn aid Lustrous black Made to come apart easily Merriment Sprite Zero Have a go at Coquettish Series of skirmishes Actress Gardner Still Pop Victory Recognize Earlier, in verse Answer an invite Hodgepodge Halloween purchase Hexagonal state Former ugly duckling Bridge position Spud’s buds Drunkard Lawyers’ org.

Cryptoquote

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Sunday, December 23, 2018

CROSSWORD

EUGENE SHEFFER

ACROSS 1 Lather 5 Diner order, for short 8 Unwanted email 12 On 13 Always, in verse 14 Patriot Nathan 15 Irrational suspiciousness 17 Artillery 18 Follow relentlessly 19 1984 Tom Hanks movie 21 Flightless bird 22 Knoll 23 Energy 26 North Pole staffer 28 Surveys 31 Leading man? 33 A mere handful 35 Cry 36 Sweat outlets 38 Sweet potato 40 Meadow

Sunday, December 23, 2018

EUGENE SHEFFER

ACROSS 1 Gumbo ingredient 5 MasterCard alternative 9 Night flier 12 Conks out 13 State with conviction 14 Formerly called 15 Healing 17 1933 dam org. 18 Porter 19 Different 21 What @ means 22 A crowd? 24 Soon, in verse 27 Exist 28 Cain’s pop 31 Chaps 32 Workout venue 33 Eggs 34 Cookware 36 Cleopatra’s slayer 37 Dance lesson 38 Core 40 “I think, therefore I —”

41 Commotions 43 Actor Diesel 45 Walk like a duck 47 Bursts forth 51 Satanic 52 Pet bird, often 54 Got up 55 — -de-France 56 Sea flier 57 Basin accessory 58 Help 59 White-glove detection

10 Charitable donations 11 Netting 16 City in Alaska 20 4-Down, e.g. 23 Tase 24 Altar affirmative 25 Eden 27 “30 Rock” cast member 29 Shelter 30 Hot tub 32 Busybody 34 Fluctuated 37 Scale DOWN member 1 Enervates 39 Actress 2 Western state Sorvino 3 Nickelodeon’s 42 Old photo tint “Explorer” 44 Microwaved, 4 Card symbol slangily 5 Grendel’s 45 Existed slayer 6 Island souvenir 46 Acknowledge 48 Lima’s land 7 Garbage 49 Sawbucks 8 Not deep 50 Undo a dele 9 Like some 53 — Baba lines

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41 43 47 48 51 52 53 54 55 56

Massage Meager Fresh Traveling, maybe George’s brother Boyfriend Frat party garb Plaything Black, poetically Stalk

DOWN 1 Smell 2 Cattle, old style 3 On pension (Abbr.) 4 Depth charge 5 Temptress 6 “— Got a Secret” 7 D.C. VIP 8 Passion 9 Promptly 10 “— Only Just Begun”

11 Shakespearean king 16 Dine 20 Afternoon affair 22 Rendezvous 23 Rope fiber 24 Pump up the volume 25 Ultramodern (Pref.) 26 Getting there 27 Culture medium 29 “Hail!” 30 Chart 35 Vast expanse 37 Intelligence 39 Pueblo building 40 Mimic 41 Make bootees 42 Infamous fiddler 43 Stay away from 44 Source 45 Wise one 46 Cheese choice 49 Kan. neighbor 50 Confucian concept

Premier Crossword

By Frank A. Longo

GAMEBOOK

Sunday, December 23, 2018

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Sunday, December 23, 2018

By Frank A. Longo

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Premier Crossword

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GAMEBOOK

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Premier Crossword

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By Frank A. Longo

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ACCLAIMED AMERICAN NOVELIST WHO LOVES TO WRITE ALL ABOUT SOUP COOKED IN STOCK: PHILIP BROTH.

BEING SUPER-PICKY, SOME YOUNG FEMALE COWS WOULD ONLY DRINK BEVERAGES THAT WERE HEIFER-VESCENT.

RECENTLY UNEARTHED BEATLES TUNE WHOSE SUBJECT DEALT WITH A MARTIAL-ARTS SYSTEM: “HEY JUDO.”

SOMEBODY SWAYING SLOWLY SMACK-DAB NEXT TO A MARX BROTHER MIGHT BE DANCING CHEEK-TO-CHICO.

BECAUSE THOSE SONGS ARE ABOUT SOFT DRINKS, MIGHT YOU PUT THEM UNDER THE CATEGORY OF POP MUSIC?

THAT PECULIAR THIEF LOVES TO SWIPE VARIOUS SCARVES. IN FACT, TODAY HE WENT AND STOLE A STOLE.

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THAT LONDON JOCKEY’S HORSE IS JUST BEING TREMENDOUSLY BAD. IT KEEPS CHOMPING AT THE BRIT.

COUNTRY WELL-KNOWN FOR MAINTAINING AN AMAZINGLY LARGE STASH OF SUBMACHINE GUNS: UZI-BEKISTAN.

OLDER PEOPLE SHOULDN’T EAT HEALTH FOOD, THEY NEED ALL THE PRESERVATIVES THEY CAN GET. — ROBERT ORBEN

BEHAVING WITH NO MANNERS, I SUPPOSE THAT EUROPEAN LOWBROW FROM SOFIA IS A BULGARIAN VULGARIAN.

YOU KNOW I WOULD NEVER USE ROPE TO DESCEND VERY STEEP ROCK FACES. I FIND RAPPELLING REPELLING.

THEY SAY MARRIAGES ARE MADE IN HEAVEN. BUT SO IS THUNDER AND LIGHTNING. — CLINT EASTWOOD

BECAUSE I WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH BEEF THE DINER DISH HAD, I ASKED “WHAT’S IN IT FOR MEAT?”

SINCE MANY FOLKS DON’T PERCEIVE ME AS A VERY BRAINY PERSON, I’D LIKE TO BE KEEN FOR A DAY.

THE WORLD IS FULL OF MAGICAL THINGS PATIENTLY WAITING FOR OUR WITS TO GROW SHARPER. — BERTRAND RUSSELL

I WOULD SAY SWINDLERS WHO USE LEGUMINOUS SEEDS TO PLAY THE SHELL GAME ARE TRAP-PEAS ARTISTS.

BOUNCY TUNE ABOUT A CASUAL COTTON SHIRT THAT CAN BE WORN BY A PAIR OF PEOPLE: “TEE FOR TWO.”

NEW SPECIES OF RODENTS WHICH SCIENTISTS SAY ARE COMPLETELY SELFISH AND DEMANDING: GIMME PIGS.

AT THE BELT FACTORY, THE BOSS WARNED MANY SLOTHFUL WORKERS THAT IT WAS TIME TO BUCKLE DOWN.

WISDOM DOES NOT SHOW ITSELF SO MUCH IN PRECEPT AS IN LIFE — IN FIRMNESS OF MIND AND MASTERY OF APPETITE. — SENECA

THE TWO POETS WHO ALWAYS COMPOSED VERSE TOGETHER CONSIDERED THEMSELVES PARTNERS IN RHYME.

FOLKS ARE FOREVER TRYING TO TRACK DOWN MY HOME. YOU WOULD THINK I’M LIVING IN A HUNTED HOUSE.

COOKERY IS BECOME AN ART, A NOBLE SCIENCE; COOKS ARE GENTLEMEN. — ROBERT BURTON

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GRAVITATION IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PEOPLE FALLING IN LOVE. — ALBERT EINSTEIN

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WHEREVER YOU GO, NO MATTER WHAT THE WEATHER, ALWAYS BRING YOUR OWN SUNSHINE. — ANTHONY J. D’ANGELO

HE WHO KNOWS NOTHING IS CLOSER TO THE TRUTH THAN HE WHOSE MIND IS FILLED WITH FALSEHOODS AND ERRORS. — THOMAS JEFFERSON

IF YOU DON’T GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT, THINK OF THE THINGS YOU DON’T GET THAT YOU DON’T WANT. — OSCAR WILDE

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SOMETIMES THE POOREST MAN LEAVES HIS CHILDREN THE RICHEST INHERITANCE. — RUTH E. RENKEL

HAPPINESS IS AN ATTITUDE. WE EITHER MAKE OURSELVES MISERABLE, OR HAPPY AND STRONG. THE AMOUNT OF WORK IS THE SAME. — FRANCESCA REIGLER

THE LIFE OF EVERY MAN IS A DIARY IN WHICH HE MEANS TO WRITE ONE STORY, AND WRITES ANOTHER. — JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE

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REMEMBER THAT EVERYONE YOU MEET IS AFRAID OF SOMETHING, LOVES SOMETHING AND HAS LOST SOMETHING. — H. JACKSON BROWN JR.

BE LOYAL TO WHAT YOU LOVE, BE TRUE TO THE EARTH, FIGHT YOUR ENEMIES WITH PASSION AND LAUGHTER. — EDWARD ABBEY

WHEN YOU WANT TO SUCCEED AS BAD AS YOU WANT TO BREATHE, THEN YOU’LL BE SUCCESSFUL. — ERIC THOMAS

WE DREAM TO GIVE OURSELVES HOPE. TO STOP DREAMING, WELL, THAT’S LIKE SAYING YOU CAN NEVER CHANGE YOUR FATE. — AMY TAN

YOU ARE AFRAID TO DIE, AND YOU’RE AFRAID TO LIVE. WHAT A WAY TO EXIST. — NEALE DONALD WALSCH

THE TWO MOST POWERFUL WARRIORS ARE PATIENCE AND TIME. SO REMEMBER: GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS TAKE TIME, THERE IS NO OVERNIGHT SUCCESS. — LEO TOLSTOY

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