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Candidates Worth Supporting: One Is Silver... (with poll) [1]

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Date: 2022-08-14

If you guessed “candidates worth supporting” as the theme of this week’s puzzles, congratulations — you’re right! This week’s pair of JulieCrostics spotlights 3 very good candidates in 3 different states who are running for 3 different offices.

Which candidates, which states, which offices? Well there’s a way to find out, and it’s coming up soon. But first let’s look at the clues and answers to last week’s puzzles. (Not only will that provide the answers for people who weren’t able to solve all the clues, it will also help 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 which are bundled into small groups.

Here are the clues to last week’s first puzzle.

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

As you can see, these were bundled in groups of 3 (representing 3 words in each row of the answer grid). The answer words in each row were 3, 4, and 5 letters long, with each word in a row containing all the letters of the previous word in the row plus one new letter. Here’s the completed answer grid:

sue C cues B cubes sat O oats U autos had R hard S shard ray I airy H hairy

When you have solved all the clues and written down all the added letters, the added letters form columns that spell out the answer to the puzzle. For this puzzle, the add-on letters spelled out Cori Bush, who is the Democratic candidate for congress in Missouri’s first district. (We can talk more about her in the diary comments; she’s a very good candidate well worth talking about.)

And here were the clues for last week’s second puzzle:

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

Again there were three answer to a row, but for this puzzle the answers were 4, 5, and 6 letters long:

aced R raced A arcade seer A erase T teaser Alda S salad L Dallas reds H herds A shared pest I spite I pities sine D dines B Bidens

The add-on letter columns read RASHID ATLAIB. Put them together and space them properly, they spell out Rashida Tlaib, who is the Democratic candidate for congress in Michigan’s 12th district. Like Cori Bush, she is an incumbent Democratic member of congress and another very good candidate well worth talking about.

Here are the clues to this week’s first puzzle, “One is silver...”.

1. poem

2. brought food to the table

3. are entitled to

4. one who eats

5. precipitated

6. small fish

7. not the same

8. chair of royalty

9. flying insects

10. what 9 might do to you if they don’t like what you're doing

11. baseball team or football team

12. making fun of

13. special family meal served on certain religious occasions

14. person who puts something in the mail

15. thin

The answers to these clues are 5, 6, and 7 letters long.

And here are the clues to this week’s second puzzle, “… and another’s gold”. (But this time I’ll let you folks figure out for yourselves how many letters are in the answer words.)

1. Be quiet! 2. possessive pronoun 3. what you might call something you're pointing at 4. British thank you 5. keyboard key 8. something to wag 7. famous princess 8. put in a secret place 9. rear 10. this often follows do 11. listener 12. region 13. exists 14. do something bad 15. go down 16. occupational title 17. Stewart or Blagojevich 18. entrance 19. magazine which began publishing in December 1971 20. Dean's brother on television 21. identical 22. father 23. average 24. amusement, water, or trailer

Hi! I’m a mustela putonus, a.k.a. a European polecat.

Ah! It looks like poll-cat is here, so it must be about time to post this week’s poll question.

But first, let’s talk a moment about last week’s poll, which displayed this image

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

and asked: “What does that line look like to you?” The winning answer, with 53% of the votes, was none of the above. (And that would be poll-cat’s answer as well, since all of the letters in T H E A B O V E are missing from that line of letters.)



All right, for tonight’s poll please take a look at this image:

No the .

And here’s the poll question:

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