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Rome cats end aid, throw rings up top! (with poll) [1]

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Date: 2022-08-07

First, though, let’s look at last week’s puzzles. That will show new folks who aren’t familiar with JulieCrostics what these puzzles look like and how they work.

In JulieCrostics you are given a set of clues, such as these from last week’s first puzzle:

1. Richards 2. Doctrine 3. Become more distant 4. Amaze 5. Searches for 6. Spends a lot of time at 7. back talk 8. Jack, dumb, and candy 9. Evaluate 10. Fire 11. Bike, spice, and magazine 12. Gable and Kent 13. Rabbit, cauliflower, and tin 14. Lift up 15. Less difficult 16. Row, show, or tug 17. Monastery head 18. Assistant to a baseball team

The answers to the clues need to be entered into a grid of rows and columns. In this example, there are 6 rows with 3 columns.

Every word in a row has all the letters of the previous word plus one new letter. For example, in the set of clues above the answers in the first row are: Reed (Richards), creed (doctrine), and recede (become more distant). CREED contains all the letters of REED, plus a C. RECEDE contains all the letters of CREED, plus another E. These add-on letters are placed in the grid in columns between the words, like so:

Reed C creed E recede stun H hunts A haunts sass E asses S assess sack R racks L Clarks ears I raise E easier boat B abbot Y batboy

When you have solved all the clues and written down all the added letters, the added letters will form columns that spell out a message of some sort. For this puzzle, the add-on letters spelled out CHERIB EASLEY. Put those together, and put the space in the proper place, and it spells out Cheri Beasley.

As the diary title indicated, she is very much a candidate worth supporting; she’s the Democratic candidate in North Carolina who is challenging Ted Budd for the seat in the US senate which Budd currently occupies.

I’m not one of the candidates, I’m Leslie Grace. Since my movie was cancelled I thought I’d drop in on Sunday Puzzle — I heard Batboy was appearing and thought you might enjoy seeing Batgirl as well.

Here are the clues to last week’s second puzzle:

1. Location of Hollywood South, informally 2. Calrissian 3. Famous duck or famous ass 4. Separate 5. More suitable 6. Say it again 7. Go in front 8. Perfect 9. Put behind bars 10. Standing in a system 11. Consumed liquid 12. Cloud over 13. Lose fur 14. Tear into small pieces 15. Held in common 16. Conceited 17. Unsophisticated 18. Canyon

And here’s a grid with the correct answers all filled in:

NOLA D Lando D Donald part E apter E repeat lead I ideal J jailed rank D drank E darken shed R shred A shared vain E naive R ravine

The add-on letters spell out Deidre DeJear — the Democratic candidate for governor of Iowa. (If you’re not familiar with her, here’s a link to a good news story about her candidacy.)

Here are the clues to last week’s third puzzle:

1. Bow and neck 2. Locations 3. afternoon nap 4. Evaluate 5. Pay for someone else's meal 6. What you make pancakes with 7. Hoover, Grand Coulee, and Buffalo Bill 8. West and Kinzinger 9. stories involving conflicts 10. Cheeky 11. Moved slowly on hands and knees 12. Floor covering 13. Play the lead role 14. Rips apart 15. Live, jet or gulf 16. God of war 17. School, light, and new 18. Wimsey creator

Here is the answer grid for last week’s third puzzle:

ties S sites A siesta rate T treat B batter dams A Adams R dramas pert C crept A carpet star E tears M stream ares Y years S sayers

The add-on letters spell out Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia.

So if you’re clear on how these puzzles work, here are the clues for this week’s pair of puzzles. (Or, if you’re not clear, let me know in a comment below and I’ll try to explain it better.)

Here are the clues to puzzle # 1. The answer words in these rows are 3, 4, and 5 letters long

1. Take to court 2. Prompts 3. Common form of ice 4. Took a class 5. Breakfast food 6. Cars 7. Possessed 8. Difficult 9. Fragment 10. Glimmer 11. Breezy 12. Furry

Here are the clues to puzzle # 2. The answer words in these rows are 4, 5, and 6 letters long.

1. Did extremely well 2. Ran quickly 3. Gallery 4. Forecaster 5. Remove 6. Puzzle 7. Alan 8. Vegetable dish 9. Texas city 10. Ruby and rose 11. Assembles and directs a group 12. Owned and used by more than one 13. Nuisance 14. Ill will 15. Feels sorry for 16. Ratio of sides 17. Eats 18. Joe and Jill

Have fun with the puzzles! And now you can have fun with tonight’s poll.

Last week’s poll asked: “Which game would probably help the most in solving today's puzzles?” And a list of 11 options was offered — bridge, chess, baseball, checkers, Yahtzee!, Red Rover, tag, mahjong, pin the tail on the donkey, go fish, and This is Daily Kos -- we don't play games here.

That last one, about not playing games, was the most popular choice, getting 8 votes. Several of the games — chess, Yahtzee, and mahjong — got 4 votes each.

The game which would seem most obviously helpful in solving the puzzles is tag , as there is a tag on the diary, CandidatesWorthSupporting, which clearly identifies the category the answers fall into. But for some reason that option only received one vote in the poll.

I guess that could be because most of the poll voters had already figured out the answer category, since it was spelled out (albeit in anagram form) in the diary title:

Den cat said => Candidates throw => Worth ring to pups => Supporting

And now, here’s tonight’s poll question. Tale a look at the next line:

C D F G I J K L M N P Q R S U W X Y Z

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