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The Salina Journal Fun Monday, December 12,1988 1JT Shoe The Far Side IKJ THE Pen. Calvin and Hobbes I'm gonna pound you gvm class, shrimp. GETXOUR WOCS NOW, XOU GUNWVAR. FREfVK, 8KWSE ONCt 100 GRDVJ UP GO BECTMG PEOPLE UP R5R HO I guess you're. REAU.X WSN I WK 1 WEAHT tt 19BO Chronicle Features Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate CROSSWORD By Eugene Sheffer ACROSS 1 Many- layered minertil 5 Make an offer 8 (reject) 12 Anagram for 44 Down 13 Ending for stamp 14 N.Y.

barge 52 Was a canal copycat 15 Baseball's 53 Billy Bucky Williams 16 Dejected 54 Creeks 18 Ancient 55 Cincin- chariots nati team 20 56 Classified of items 21 Soaks flax 23 French 37 Sudden 57 Venomous drop from snakes power 39 Mauna 41 Wild plum 42 Love affairs 45 Accuse 49 City's business district 51 Heraldic bearing DOWN 1 Fashion 2 Caesar's fatal date 3 Pantry items 4 Behind a ship 5 Household item 6 Witness- box phrase 7 Hindu deity: var. 8 Pie nuts 9 Opera by Richard Strauss Bloom County "Thai settles it, From now on, you're getting only decaffeinated coffee!" The Family Circus donkey 24 Conductor's stroke 28 Thick piece 31 Author Levin 32 South Pacific island group 34 detector 35 Lifeline's locale Solution time: 24 mlns. OJ Yesterday's answer 10 Eager assent, in Spain 11 precedent 17 Blue Eagle 19 American socialist 22 Aegean island 24 Party mix 25 Money of account 26 Rolled about in mud 27 Water- skiers' ropes 29 Trouble 30 Barbara Geddes 33 Presently 36 Small hills 38 Man's hat 40 Funny Carney 42 Jewish month 43 Sulk 44 Fountain fare 46 Spring flower 47 Applaud 48 Hardy girl 50 Tied tin- knot OCCUPANT- OCCUPANT-" SOCI6TY.t SUFFERING -SHORT, (OH, PARK, NOS6 THAT'S For Better or for Worse RS WE STrTMS RT THE FIRE, RN' FflCE. SO RFRRlD THE BILLS LEFT ONPfilD, WOKDER HRVE ORROLS 25 42 52 55 43 26 39 32 40 44 53 56 50 45 "There may be grumbling, but this year I'm concentrating on low-tech toys." Ziggy Hagar the Horrible ALL UP OUP LITTLE TOVVlM FoP Now, WMepe we THe MORNING, FiRST THINS DO IS CHecK MIRROR TO Garfield PO VOO THINK I'LL A GOOP I HAVE A PATE GARFIELP OOOP, NO. 12-12 CRYPTOQUIP ZUIBAELXI MWL OR1XUNLR- KRECA KFDKDXV BLL MUN ZCXUNXV UN Saturday's Cryptoqulp: VERY NATURAL BLONDE'S I COMMENT ABOUT HER HAIR COLOR: "I NEVER SAY 1 Today's Cryptoquip clue: equals The Cryptoqulp is a simple substitution cipher in which each letter used stands for another.

If you think that equals 0, it will equal 0 throughout the puzzle. Single ters, short words, and words using an apostrophe can give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is accomplished by trial and error. King Features Syndicate. Inc.

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