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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

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“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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