SHOE CUL DE SAC BIZARRO B.C. BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS CASSATT&GARYBROOKINS MORT, GREG&BRIANWALKER MASTROIANNI &HART RICHARD THOMPSON CHRIS BROWNE DAN PIRARO JIM DAVIS

SALLY FORTH WIZARD OF ID NON SEQUITUR CURTIS LIO ZITS STONE SOUP FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO&CRAIGMACINTOSH BRANT PARKER&JOHNNYHART JIM BORGMAN&JERRYSCOTT RAY BILLINGSLE MARK TATULLI

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T JACK ELROD SCRABBLE GRAMS Make a 2- to 7- letter word from the letters in each RACK 1 row. Add points of each word, using scoring directions at right. Finally, MARK TRAIL RACK 2 7-letter words get 50-point bonus. 2nd Letter “Blanks” used as Double any letter have CATHY GUISEWITE RACK 3 no point value. All the words Triple are in the Official Word Score SCRABBLE Play- RACK 4 ers Dictionary, 3rd Edition. PAR SCORE 145-155 FOUR RACK TOTAL BEST SCORE 244 TIME LIMIT: 20 MIN CATHY Wednesday’s Scrabble grams Par score: 195-205 pts. Total: 255 pts. Rack 1: FACTUAL, Rack 3: VANTAGE, 62 points 72 points Rack 2: GRAMMAR, Rack 4: LATERAL, DARRIN BELL 64 points 57 points

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CRYPTOQUIP ©2010 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Wednesday’s Cryptoquip: IF FIXING THINGS UP MAKES YOU EXTREMELY NERVOUS, YOU LIKELY ARE HAVING REPARATION ANXIETY.

XKMSIY ZXNR QV IY IXXMBTIOTMY CANDORVILLE

MD XBTNYOTXOX LCM IFN XOZRVTYS SCOTT STANTIS TBNQNFSX: “SM LTOC OCN DKMN.” The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for an- other. 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. Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: S equals G 1/14

SUDOKU Wednesday’s Solution

PRICKLY CITY Sudoku is like a crossword puzzle, but uses numbers instead of words. The puzzle is a box of 81 squares, subdivided into 3x3 cubes of 9 squares DEAN YOUNG each. Some squares are filled in with numbers. The rest should be filled in by the puzzler. Fill in the blank squares allowing the numbers 1-9 to appear only once in every row, once in every col- umn and once in every 3x3

BLONDIE box. One-star puzzles are for beginners, and the dif- JUNE BRIGMAN & MARY SCHMICH ficulty gradu- ally increases through the week to a very challenging six-star puzzle.

Difficulty level

BRENDA STARR 4 star

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