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Becca Balint, Beto O'Rourke, and 3 more candidates worth supporting (plus cats and poll) [1]
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Date: 2022-08-28
Tonight’s puzzles spotlight three more Candidates Worth Supporting. But before we get to tonight’s puzzles, let’s look at the answers to last week’s puzzles.
These puzzles are JulieCrostics (called that here in honor of Julie Waters, who started the Sunday Puzzle series back in October 2007 as juliewolf). In these puzzles, the clue answers are entered into rows. Each word in a row has all the letters of the previous word, plus one new letter. The add-on letters make columns which spell out the answer to the puzzle.
For example, here are the clues and the answer grid to last week’s puzzle. The clues were:
1. kind of rummy
2. search engine
3. aptly named streaming service
4. famous large clock 5. friend
6. kind of deal or bargain
7. propel a bicycle
8. jumped 9. anger
10. brown, fried, or Spanish
11. apple juice
12. kind of card 13. social insect
14. isn't able
15. The ___ __ The Hat
16. lawsuit 17. 60-min. periods
18. hasty
19. let a friend have what you've got
20. on land 21. before
22. alcoholic drink
23. aquatic bird
24. creator of Howard (the duck) 25. followers of Q
26. graphic or liberal
27. look at intensely
28. gets on a soapbox 29. agency that goes after dealers
30. pass out cards
31. soup-serving tool
32. refer to indirectly 33. took a class
34. sparkling white wine
35. follows
36. Appalachian and Iditarod 37. star
38. sisters
39. Devin
40. underwater 41. body of water
42. chair
43. flower (see picture below)
44. puzzle
And the answers (and add-on letters) were:
gin B Bing E binge B Big Ben pal E plea D pedal E leaped ire C rice D cider T credit ant C can't I Cat In O action hrs A rash E share O ashore ere B beer G grebe R Gerber rst A arts E stare O orates ade L deal L ladle U allude sat L asti L tails R trails sun N nuns E Nunes K sunken sea T seat R aster E teaser
As you can see in the first row, BING contains all the letters of GIN, plus a B. BINGE contains all the letters of BING, plus an E. And BIG BEN contains all the letters of BINGE, plus another B.
And the add-on letter columns spell out BECCABALINT, EDDIEGELLER, AND BETOOROURKE — which read Becca Balint, Eddie Geller, and Beto O’Rourke when spaced and capitalized and apostrophed correctly. Simple and easy, once you get the hang of it.
So if you’re ready, let’s move on to today’s two puzzles. I’ll let this friendly serval introduce them:
Here you go, over to my right. Have fun. And please don’t try to pet me.
1. an expression of sorrow
2. priests or monks
3. wooly-haired South Americans 4. Brooks and Gibson
5. eating occasions
6. posts a really insulting comment 7. black, green, white, and herbal
8. sales and income
9. unnamed movie characters 10. take a nap
11. scatter about
12. clock, bell, ivory and Trump 13. let off steam
14. happenings
15. scary King 16. couch
17. young horses
18. parade vehicles
There are 3 answers to each row, and the answers in each row are 4, 5 and 6 letters long.
Well, that looks short and easy. Only 18 clues to solve, and once you solve one clue in a row the others are pretty easy to get.
So if you’re still in the mood for a little mental exercise, and if you’d like to see the names of two more Candidates Worth Supporting, here’s a second puzzle you can play with. There are 3 answers to each row, and the answers in each row are 3, 4 and 5 letters long.
1. plant fluid
2. junk mail
3. wild onions 4. passports and membership cards
5. helps
6. so long 7. a way to go downhill quickly
8. go down
9. Castle, Cannon, and Fury 10. one or more, or even part of one
11. Warhol
12. useful 13. favorite
14. Seeger
15. cone-shaped tent 16. use a chair
17. a straight and narrow cut
18. stationary 19. pig's home
20. remain
21. like potato chips 22. piece of wood
23. online journal
24. sphere 25. kind of potato
26. what you might do with a book
27. A, B, C, D, or E 28. something you might do in a card game
29. something you might feed
30. something you might do to hair 31. night before
32. not odd
33. Jules 34. short name for a kind of dog
35. group of turtles
36. bright flame 36. sit in the sun
37. famous Lee
38. Cruz or Fe
“Wait a minute! I want to know more about Becca Balint. You didn’t tell nearly enough about her up at the top. I’ve been patiently waiting through all the rest of the words you posted to hear more about her, and you still haven’t gotten around to telling more. I’m comfortable up on this branch at the moment, but I can come down to, let’s say, discuss this with you if you don’t put up more information about her right now .”
Oh. All right. Hang on a minute, I remember seeing a really good 3-minute video on her website…
x YouTube Video
And now Poll Cat has a question they’d like to ask you folks reading this:
Question:
What’s your favorite kind of large cat?
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