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 Texas’ 35 district). Tonight’s puzzle continues that theme, and spotlight’s another candidate who deserves our support in November’s elections.
I’m very pressed for time today so let’s take a quick look at the clues and answers to last week’s puzzle and then move right on to this week’s puzzle...
First, here are the clues to last week’s puzzle:
1. certain
2. deceptions
3. strong forward movements
4. price
5. person who goes ahead to look
6. woos
7. stock, sports, and police
8. studies at the last minute
9. cold, sour, and whipped
10. Ephron
11. large house
12. legendary le Fay
13. old, hard, and high
14. warms up
15. plays unfairly
16. urgent
17. bicyclist
18. Las Vegas player
19. Alaska city
20. shade of yellow
21. lacking humor
22. cause of illness
23. come together
24. scanty
25. prompted
26. two
27. lessen
In these puzzles, clues come in groups which form rows. In this case there were 3 answers per row.
Each answer in a row has all the letters of the previous answer in that row, plus one new letter. The new letters form columns, and what they spell out is the answer to the puzzle. Here’s the answer grid:
sure S ruses G surges
cost U scout R courts
cars M crams E creams
Nora M manor G Morgan
hats E heats C cheats
dire R rider A Raider
omen L lemon S solemn
germ E merge A meager
cued E deuce R reduce
As you can see in the first row, RUSES contains all the letters of SURE, plus an S which was written into the column between SURE and RUSES, and SURGES contains all the letters of RUSES, plus a G which was written into the column between RUSES and SURGES. When all the answers and add-on letters have been entered correctly into the grid, the add-on columns spell out SUMMERLEE and GREGCASAR — which, when correctly capitalized and spaced, read Summer Lee and Greg Casar.
If that’s all clear, then it’s time for tonight’s puzzle…
1. Diddley
2. work one is paid for
3. banned from Daily Kos
4. leave
5. in the past
6. incite
7. Land of Oz? No, not really.
8. something which might be useful on a journey
9. something most people prefer not to get
10. where to find Odessa Kelly
11. kind of foil
12. one way to make a scarf
13. In 2005, Katrina did a lot of damage to Louisiana; here's where Katrina could do a lot of good in 2022.
14. kind of mother which some scouts have
15. eat
16. what comes after X
17. combine
18. 2022 TV series starring Ophelia Lovibond
19. present
20. [look at the picture above]
21. is not able
22. office to re-elect Nessel to
23. fall behind
24. well-known fictional Dorothy
25. Gore
26. beer
27. genuine
If you have any questions or comments about the puzzle, I’ll check the comment section at least once a day during the coming week so please don’t hesitate to post any comment you’d like to make; I’ll see it within a day and answer as best I can.
Comments expressing your thoughts about Summer Lee and Greg Carar are also very welcome — usually I include information about the spotlighted candidates and the things they stand for in these diaries, but unfortunately don’t have time to do that this week.
But Poll Cat insists that there’s time to include a quick poll, so I’ll turn things over to Poll Cat:
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Poll Cat asks:
What’s your favorite type of cat?