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1. Barbara’s Visions Barbara has many strange experiences. She frequently sees people and things that are not really there; yet she perceives them as real. She also often believes herself to be in various locations far away from where she actually is....
by Perlinator
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 09:39 PM PDT
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kitties just LOVE to mess with us when we do puzzles.
by strawbale
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on Thu Dec 08, 2022 at 07:00 PM PST
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. The answer to last week’s Sunday Puzzle was Val Demings — who, as many of you are probably already aware, is running in Florida for the US senate seat currently occupied by Marco Rubio. (And Marco Rubio, as many of you are also probably aware, is one...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Oct 30, 2022 at 06:02 PM PDT
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Welcome to another Sunday Puzzle. The theme of the puzzles for the past 3 months has been Candidates Worth Supporting and that theme continues tonight (and for 2 more weeks). Back in August one of the puzzles spotlighted Dana Nessel, the incumbent...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Oct 23, 2022 at 05:59 PM PDT
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The theme for Sunday puzzle the past few months has been Candidates Worth Supporting, and that theme continues with today’s puzzle.
But before looking at today’s puzzle, let’s take a look at ...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Oct 16, 2022 at 06:00 PM PDT
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Candidates Worth Supporting has been the theme of Sunday Puzzle for the past 10 weeks, and that continues with tonight’s puzzle. But before we get to tonight’s puzzle, let’s look a little at Jamie McLeod-Skinner, who was spotlighted in last week’s...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Oct 09, 2022 at 06:00 PM PDT
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The theme for Sunday Puzzle for the past 2 months has been Candidates Worth Supporting. Last week’s puzzle, for example, featured Summer Lee (who’s running for congress from Pennsylvania’s 12th district) and Greg Casar (who’s running for congress from...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Oct 02, 2022 at 06:00 PM PDT
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Last week’s Sunday Puzzle featured Andrea Salinas and Odessa Kelly, who are candidates for congress. Information about both these candidates coming up a little farther down the page… The theme of Sunday Puzzle for the past 8 weeks (and for the next 6...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Sep 25, 2022 at 06:00 PM PDT
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Many of you are already familiar, I hope, with Janet Mills (who was one of the two candidates featured in last week’s Sunday Puzzle). She was elected governor of Maine in 2018, and she is up for re-election this year. Janet Mills has done a good job as...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Sep 18, 2022 at 05:47 PM PDT
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Once again, it’s Sunday Puzzle, and once again the theme is Candidates Worth Supporting. Let’s start with a comment from Elizabeth Warren: Before jumping into the race against Scott Brown, I talked with Patty Murray, a senior member of the U.S. Senate,...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Sep 11, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Mandela Barnes, Rochelle Garza, and Maxwell Frost were featured in last week’s Sunday Puzzle. Mandela Barnes, as many of you already know, is currently Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor, and is the Democratic candidate for the US senate seat currently...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 11:59 AM PDT
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Oh, phooey! I screwed up, and it’s a week too late to change it now! I just saw — 3 minutes before today’s post time — that Eddie Geller did not win his primary and is not the Democratic candidate. My apologies; I thought I’d checked and was only using...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Aug 28, 2022 at 11:59 AM PDT
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The answers to last week’s pair of JulieCrostic puzzles were Dana Nessel, Ilhan Omar, and Tina Kotek, all of whom are candidates well worth supporting. Dana Nessel is the Michigan Attorney General, and an excellent one who works hard on behalf of the...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Aug 21, 2022 at 12:02 PM PDT
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Two weeks ago the theme of the Sunday Puzzles was Candidates Worth Supporting spotlighting (Cheri Beasley, Deidre DeJear, and Stacey Abrams). Last week the theme of the puzzles was more Candidates Worth Supporting (spotlighting Cori Bush and Rashida...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Nova Land is a creative puzzle constructor and inspirational blogger who has been keeping the Sunday Puzzle tradition alive (and who also shares lots of cute cat pictures). The Daily Kos Sunday Puzzle franchise is in good hands, and I offer up this...
by bootleg
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on Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 11:19 AM PDT
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Welcome to Sunday Puzzle! The title of last week’s Sunday Puzzle was Den cat said: “Throw ring to pups!”, which let you know that the puzzles last week featured Candidates Worth Supporting. Hmm, I wonder what this week’s puzzles feature? There’s one...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Aug 07, 2022 at 12:03 PM PDT
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Den cat said: "Throw ring to pups!" Confused? Don’t be. The title makes perfect sense... Or at least it should if you realize this is Sunday Puzzle — complete with the answers to last week’s pair of puzzles, a trio of new puzzles, some pictures, some...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Jul 31, 2022 at 12:01 PM PDT
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Who came in first? There have been many close elections this year, with the winners sometimes not clear until days after the voting ends. Maryland, for instance, had a primary last Tuesday, July 19, but they weren’t legally able to even start counting...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 12:05 PM PDT
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Welcome to Sunday Puzzle. This series was started by the late Julie Waters (then known as juliewolf) back in 2007, and for 10 years it featured new puzzles each week. In 2017 Sunday Puzzle largely went on hiatus and has been largely absent from Daily...
by Nova Land
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on Sun Jul 17, 2022 at 07:01 AM PDT
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This is my first diary and my first entry in what I hope will become a growing and vibrant series of Sunday puzzles, with multiple entries each Sunday. More cryptics, of course, but also trivia, math, other types of word puzzles, spot the differences —...
by Advocate for Dreams
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on Sun Feb 06, 2022 at 06:48 AM PST
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