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Show J2 PUZZLES & GAMES The Salt Lake Tribune THE WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE By Fred Piscop PUZZLE VY A v 4 J v Hewas inhis 40s and had three adult children. I’msurefriends and family members who call mean well, but thosecalls are very painful for me. How much betterit wouldbe if they sim ply said, “Iamthinking about youtoday,” and not mention Caltfornia 60. Olty of arrondisse62 Seafood entree 63. Brahman feature 64 Strait-teced one 65 Civic or Prelude 66 He went to hell, commoners 80 to speak 30 Most bizarre 31 Long in the tooth 32 About 13 cubic yards 33 Novelist Harte H Wetiops 67 A proper senior has one 68. The others 69 Dorothy, to the Tin Man 71 tle da ta Cite waters 37 Non-native 72 Places to turk Amecrays Poser of sorts TOMMY Links figure 78s beitiert 77 Scoring attempt. perhaps 80 Opheiia's 4% Gouge 104 “For — us 51 Rug ret acid...” 78 Art4CBM PoP 56 In knots 57 Sault ~ 59 Popeye and Biuto, for two 60 Worked a placer 61 Petits fours 62 Not 63. Hatt of program 79 83 84 87 68 89 64 Bit of fight 66 Cubes SQUIRT Oppressive Cheerful in the know Achilles, to Hector Noted Harper's Bazzar illustrator 90 Encounters 91 Something to watch, maybe 92. Winter vehicte 67 Become 95 "My teuki* 70 Lounge fzards CAP 410 = many words may be spliced 71 73 74 75 6 S Bin and Hilary, 305 Lift 6 Like arainbow 7 Late July births shogan 107 Trester's phrase 108 Early autos 109 Cian units 110 111 Russion news agency ARR 1 Makes little waves: 96 Ringling Museum of bet city 100 SPEAR 102 Six 2 Like crazy 3. Stil ste iter 4 Toothiess mammal 29 Vichyssolse once 106 Start of a '50s 81 Big pitcher 82. Tiny chisper 83. Uke some neil polish veawe 85 Lizards with 32 Play in a mud Dear Texas: Here’s yourlet ter. | hopeit will register with readers whodon’t know better thanto extend cheery “Happy Mother's Day”greetingsto parents whohavelost children. Noparent evergets over the loss ofa child, but seven years is a long time to remain sosensitive about Mother’s Day greetings. I hope youwill con sidergriefcounseling. Also, I suggest you contact the Com passionateFriends. This group hasproven extremely helpful to parents whosechildren have died. Theaddress is The Com3696, Oak Brook,Ill. dencethatit is indeed possible to havea great marriage that P.O. Box 5 (www.compassionatefriends.org). Please givethese dedi- well, the number is staggering. Keep reading: Dear Ann: | read yourcol- umn in the Marysville (Calif.) cated peoplethe opportunityto Appeal-Democratabout the couple that has been married for 72 help you. Here's another letter from yearsandis still holding hands. Thewriterasked, “Can anyone top this?” Well, I think I can. forget about Mother's Day: Dear Ann: Mother's Day has Our friends just celebrated their 76th wedding anniversary on Nov. 18. Wilfredis now 100 year's old, and Marthais 95. someonewhowouldpreferto comeand gone, andfor me,it is the most depressing dayof the year. Myparents weredivorced when I 9 yearsold. Dadleft the Monday after Mother's Day. Mom andDadnevergot Theyarestill active. Marthais busyknitting afghans for her descendants, andWilfred tends a great garden. Theytell their along, andI was relieved when they split becauseat least I wouldn't have to listen to them yell at each other anymore. I knew from some ofmyfriends at schoolthat a divorce would be nopicnic, but it would have children, grandchildren and great-grandchildrenthe secret to their everlasting love is to exchangea goodnight kiss every night and neverto goto bed didn’t hit each other, but the name callin} terrible. The divorcewa ter one. Dad had another womaninhis life, and Mom caught him. Please tell yourreaders, Miss Landers, that if parents friends and family membersto to be better than whatwasgo: ing onin ourhouse. They needtoget divorced, not to do it right beforeor aftera holiday becauseit will forever ruin that holiday for their kids. Name- mad. Thesebeautiful people have, overtheyears,invitedall their helpthem celebrate their 50th, 60th and 70th wedding anniversaries. I have been toall of them and am looking forward to the 77th. R.B., Colusa, Ca- lif. DearR.B.: How wonderful to havebeenblessed with so many happyyearstogether. Please give Wilfred and Martha my heartiest congratulations. suction-cupped puddle 33 Reveaied tothe toes 8 Abe's boy 9 10 Fifth Army landing site 11 Navajo oF Hopi 12 Rules’ 13 Work the aisles 14 Onetime transit worker 15 Dispatch 16 Press 34 Historkes 35. Race site since mu 36 RAY 37 Pop up 38 Bonanza sources 39 TOP 40 Strike out 41 Did some cobbling 86 River to the Caspian Sea 88 Stickbatl venws, usualy 90 Damp 91 Ersatz java 92 Side track 93 Mudville ‘count 94 Twice tetra 95 17 Big birds 44 Factory 96 Foul mood 18 Mesmerized 26 “Tattered Tom” author 26 Logical front Mother's Day. Thereare un doubtedly a number of other parents who have lost children and feel the same way. Will you please print my letter for all of Still Hurting in Texas passionate Friends, less in No Man’s Land Dear Nameless: I don’t recall ever receivinga letter that madeyourpoint. Thank you. Andnowfor somesolidevi. endures for My onlysonwas kidnapped 54 5S 56 8 craft, for short year. and murderedsevenyearsago. Stratocaster 15 Piaintrt 19 Novedst ‘Sutitoe 20 “Moods 21 Retort to “Ain't 22 Humeriet Sombeck 23 25 SMOKING 27 Mibs of a kind 28 Romen 77 Semait-runwey . ANN LANDERS in the hopethis letter will head offthose calls next $2 53 predecessor Dear Ann: Every Mother’s Dayfor the past few years, I wish me“Happy Mother's Day.” I decided to writeto you 50 47 Roasters place 49 It's on the house 50 Push-button Mother’s Daypain continuesto linger have received telephonec: from well-meaning friends who Going Great Guns 38 42 43 45 SUNDAY, May 23, 1999 € THE BAGK PAGES Tribux 47 Quiz scandal 97 Eugene's figure Charies daughter Van — 96 Rolaids rtval 48 “Lucky Jie” writer Beticose god 101 Abu Dhabi is Bs cap. 108 Project completion them WORDY GURDY"1:21:10 1. Prison for mea only (1) 2. Hint for this Every answer is a rieyming palr ofwords (like FAT CAT DOUBLE TROUBLE), they will ft in the letter ‘The sumer after the defiaition ells you how many syflables in each number (1) 3. Above subway odor (1) 4. Placed a ‘on a seale (1) 5. ‘of a city e bird (2) "s movie 1 ble cell © 1000 Unies Feanes Syrctcate nc a) ‘or radio (2) TEMIa SSTTRULL ¢ SANAIS SANTEE NIDOTNS NOBDId 9 SOV? Canora ¥ TIAWS TA OWL 21D T live ZIV eaMeNY Thisis an aerial view looking upstream at the Deer Creek Dam on the Provo River. This dam, completed in 1941, stores Provo Riverflood waters, surplus waterof the WeberRiverdiverted bythe enlai Weber-Provo Diversion Canal and surplus waterfrom the headwaters of the Duchesne River. The water stored in this reservoir generates powerin the plant at the base ofthe dam and provides irrigation water for downstream lands and supplemental waterfor the metropolitan water districts of Salt Lake City, Provo, Orem, Pleasant Grove, Linden, American Fork and Lehi. Humansfaulty underpress oftime n real life. er SOLVE-IT after 19. Qh3 Fritz 6.32 BEGINNER'S CORNER 8 x eaas es ei ate se a? ee ‘a AO Lowlife imitates the movies B Life tates ’ that read WHITE HAS A CRUSHER the movie Take the Money and Run nt E. Rudolph, 36, wasar d in York, Pa., in March and charged with three robber NEWS OF THE WEIRD sex boutique owner “the Le onardo da Vinci of the con dom,” ed a holdup note Give me the money CHUCK SHEPHERD more payments than what the overcharge of $1,224. Thejury awardedthe plaintiffs $58) mil lion: @ The Asian Wall Street nding unusua moves that humans Journal reportedin April that va under dur r their ery nigh bodies th ventional time limit of three stes per move t bounty. top programat rapid Duringa rec for the ry orted ‘on one woman who guarded a grave ever weeks but became ill n mid-April and Liowingrob her sister's grandmasters mu: hold their own when ; ¢ rapid-play match (% player, per game or an averag about 40 seconds per move Budapest, Judit Polar 18th in the world suffere« to 2% loss as the hand: man programPritz The bbers move the @ In May jury ir ham. Ala. ru Barbara Carli ents in their law Refs rmi: n favor of and her par it against two compan) exponsiblefor harging them 18 mont is embroiledin a patent disputein a Newark, N.J I got a gum @AnApril A om Dar e a, described recent in competit n for dead pect while in captivity @ Inventor Dr. Alla Venkata Krishna Reddy, called by one a Muslim organization in Jakarta, Indonesia, has de cided to establ a formal re cruiting and registration office for suicide bombers, complete with brochu and promises of training in teaching and first aid. “We got 600 appli cants in two days,” said the of fice director. And in March, ac ordingto authorities in sti gatingthe suspected kidnapper sexual abuser David Parker Ray in Elephant Butte N.M., Ray hadp ‘ed an orientation” videotape that he playedfor his victims to let them know what they could ex court because he has turned out two different models that threaten to revolutionize con. dom use through built-in bulges that increase sensitivi. ty. According to an April New York Timesstory, financial backers of Dr. Reddy's earlier Pleasure Plus condomsay that Reddy copied the basic design withhis new Inspiral condom andhavetiedup theInspiral witha request for injunction but Dr. Reddy points out that the PleasurePlus uses a pouch for friction whilethe Inspiral uses a “shock absorber” effect @ Recent Inventions: In March, Bruce Bryan of Pitts burghreceived a patent (though not yet Food and Drug Administration approval) for makingfood that glows, using a substance taken from jelly fish and fireflies. And in Febru ary, threefashion houses | South Kore: an marketing men's suits containingfragrant microcapsules that burst when pssed |
