THE JOURNAL SATURDAY PUZZLE
Edited by Mike Shenk
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Rows Garden | by Patrick Berry Answers fit into this flower garden in two ways. Row answers read horizontally from the lettered markers; each Row contains two consecutive answers reading left to right (except Rows A and L, which contain one answer reading across the nine protruding spaces). Blooms are six-letter answers that fill the shaded and unshaded hexagons, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise. Bloom clues are divided into three lists: Light, Medium and Dark. Answers to Light clues should be placed in hexagons with white centers; Medium answers belong in the hexagons with gray centers; and Dark answers belong in hexagons with black centers. All three Bloom lists are in random order, so you must use the Row answers to figure out where to plant each Bloom.
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Light Blooms Distractions for would-be sleepers Arctic plain Locked horns Chicken soup tidbit Injure, as a muscle Church contributions “CSI: NY” star Gary Des ___, Iowa Stop working, possibly Paparazzo’s need
World Cup sport Kingdom bordering the Dead Sea Like pool balls at the start of a game Job offer figure
Medium Blooms Regards with disgust Witness at an important signing Nobel-winning economist Friedman “Be seeing you!” (2 wds.) Brutish sort Invigorates, with “up” Trump’s business “___ of the North” (1922 documentary) On land Barbara of “Get Smart” Elegant necklace Band Aid organizer Bob Color on Ireland’s tricolor flag Special ___ (army subdivision)
Dark Blooms Item frequently “eaten” by a couch Cavelike garden feature Name of Disney’s “Love Bug” Quattro plus uno Come after Sculptor’s tool Stops by “Book” you can add pages to “The Muppet Show” emcee Postal scale units
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A Place near a biblical garden (3 wds.) B Culture Club hit with the same title as a Barry Manilow hit (3 wds.) Film adaptation of the Nicholas Pileggi book “Wiseguy” C 1895 novella set mostly in A.D. 802,701 (3 wds.) “The delivery room for the birth of ideas”: Norman Cousins D ___ Hall (setting of a 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel) Merlin is given credit for building this in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Arthurian legends E Good judgment about everyday affairs (2 wds.) Africa’s tallest mountain
F Native American rite of passage that involves fasting (2 wds.) “All-play-all” tournament (2 wds.) G Perform irredeemably badly (3 wds.) Like glasses that improve your outlook (Hyph.) H Organization name that means “our concern” in Italian (2 wds.) Earth, Wind & Fire’s only #1 hit (2 wds.) I Like the first pitch at many baseball games Suffers a setback (2 wds.) J Cabinet position phased out in 1947 (3 wds.) Ball game that many have tickets for? K It allows a snake to track the source of a smell (2 wds.) Magnesium sulfate, familiarly (2 wds.) L Actor Keith who won an Oscar for Best Original Song