THE JUMBLE Unsoramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, fo form four ordinary words "You know, our wid ancestors can ‘measure up to 6. feet high and can weigh as much as 2200 paunds, No you iced to beware ofthe Tibetan wat i Ht SIKKO : 3 5 “bu Cont gery, LLC ‘ XOPYE ; 0 UCYNOT : 6 WOULDNT SHUT UP. OTHERS THERE WERE LRAYSA TIRED OF THE ~~~ Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. TY Wyv y sone (TITY KAA AA AA (Answers tomorrow) Yesterdays | “umbles: GIANT THIRD — SANDAL ISLAND Answer: ‘When Jack Nicholson starred in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, he was a — SHINING STAR WORD GAME TODAY'S WORD — ACRONYM (AK-ruh-nim: A word formed from the initial letters or parts of a series of words.) AVERAGE MARK: 27 words TIME LIMIT: 45 minutes Can you find 36 or more words in ACRONYM? The list will be published tomorrow. YESTERDAY'S WORD — OUTLIVE olive veil ovule veto utile vile tile viol toil violet toile voile tole vole tule volt lieu volute live vote lout evil love etui lute RULES OF THE GAME 1. Words must be four or more letters. 2. Words which acquire four letters by addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not used. 3. Only one form of a verb is used. 4, Proper nouns are not used. 5, Slang words are not used. CONCEPTIS SUDOKU | Py Dave Green Sudoku is a numberplacing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. ‘The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3. box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Sunday. Look for Sudoku answer in tomorrow's comics. Answer to previous puzzle £ [5]9]8]3)/612]7|1)4 2 12(4/3/7/1 9|5/6/8|: ® |z[6\1[8/4/5[2/9/3}; 3 [8]7/6/4/2/3]9/5/1 % 14/25/19 7/3/8|6 13/1/9/5/8 6/4|7/2 9/5(.4/6.311/8/2/7|: |6|3_7|2/5/8/1\ 4/9} © 11/8)2]9'7 4|6/3/5 Difficulty Level tk 23 ity ie a = BRIDGE At last year’s NEC tourna- _ eight tricks. ment, in the round-six encoun- by Bobby Wolff ter between Down Under and NORTH vs. Hinden, both pairs had an 2QJ8765 opportunity to show off. bed Had Graham Osborne Q107 . Le opened a weak two-spade bid, he might have gone quietly plus WEST EAST: in that spot. But he opened one 4103 *AKo4 ae gosta vida spade, and Francis Hinden was +92 *AS863 obliged to make a try for game. #KQ965 ad Of course, after Peter Newell's SOUTH lead of the diamond nine, two a2 no-trump was a considerably VYAKQ75 more difficult spot than two am 2 spades would have been. After this lead, Hinden made the Vulnerable: Both first nice play of the deal when Dealer: North she put up the diamond queen qT ing: from dummy. If Martin Reid, south West North East sitting East, had ducked that, , te 2 Hinden’s plan would have been ONT Allpass* SS to unblock the heart suit and Opening Lead: Diamond nine play a second diamond toward her king to come home with Reid won the diamond ace and responded to declarer's coup with one of his own. He played back the diamond jack at trick two, forcing declarer to win the diamond in her hand, and cutting her off from the heart suit. From that point on, declarer had only six winners. This was a much admired play in the reports. But note if the spade 10 and two were reversed, declarer would have been able to succeed. She could have won the diamond, unblocked the heart jack, then cashed the club ace and played a spade toward her 10. So perhaps winning the dia- mond and playing the club jack at trick two might have covered all the bases equally efficiently? ©2015 United Feature Syndicate] Dist. by Universal Uclick for UFS THE STATE CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Coffee maker 4 River in Russia 9 Swarms upon 13 Half a bray 14 Ties the score 15 Makes a contribution 16 Gear 18 Like a good sentry 19 Where Asia begins 20 Waiters’ concerns 22 In a hammock, maybe 25 Easy gait 26 — truly 28 Brawl 32 Pilot's sighting 35 Sister's girl 37 Hidden supply 38 Branch 40 After the deadline 42 This, in Guadalajara 43 Hits dead- center 45 Henry VIII's house 47 Kipling classic 48 Staple, perhaps 50 Waits patiently 52 Hecklers’ chorus 54 Aerie hatchlings 58 Tenners 62 Slugger Hank PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED TT 63 Braid 64 Try hard to mooch 67 Deserves 68 Ruminated 69 Early veggie 70 Chicken part 71 Blends in 72 Chiding sound DOWN 1 Mover's rental (hyph.) 2 Copy 3 India neighbor 4 One interpretation 5 Future fish 6 Tolerated 7 Lions’ quarry 8 Selling point 9 Weigh heavily against 10 Pizzeria’s must 11 Arctic floater 12 Mach 1 breakers 15 Croc’s cousins 17 Foe opposite 21 Playful bark 23 Soir follower 24 Comparatively large in size 27 Cancel a launch D> CORcCricre U R N K E Vv — DAO!) ee ESESS 2-|\C 2am N R E A A U N T Vv A Ss E A N N E Z\O -|D\OROM|<|>\- m/olz|c iG) L 2-13-15 © 2015 UFS, Dist. by Univ. 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