Games World of Puzzles June 2022

Welcome to the June issue of GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES! As you may have guessed from the cover, you’ll find a special treat inside these pages: “Meet the Beatles,” a 13-page special section by puzzlemaker extraordinaire Adam Fromm, inspired by the 60th anniversary of the release of “Love Me Do,” the band’s first single. As we all know, the Beatles went on to become a worldwide sensation. This eclectic mix is based on the Fab Four’s discography; there’s one puzzle for each of eight of the band’s major albums. Each puzzle leads to a final answer; at the end, all of these answers will be entered into a metapuzzle, which will reveal a quote by John Lennon. The best part is that you don’t need any special Beatles knowledge to…

Each answer in this crossword variation has two clues leading to it, using different meanings of the word. The clues are separated into Across and Down, but are otherwise ordered randomly. When you find two Across or two Down clues that seem to have the same answer, add up their clue numbers to determine the place in the grid at which the answer should be entered. For example, if the clue for 1-Across were “Metallic element” and the clue for 17-Across read “Starring role,” the answer would be LEAD, which would go in 18-Across (1 + 17). Tags such as “Hyph.” and “2 wds.” have been omitted. ACROSS 1 Tidy 2 Amuse 3 What a wood stove provides 4 Heart, liver, stomach, e.g. 5 Smallest planet in the solar system 6 Even-keeled 7 Do as someone else just did 8…

There is one place for each letter of the alphabet in the 26 empty squares of each blank column in the diagram below. Fill in each letter so that a word of at least five letters is formed reading across only. Not all of the letters to the left and right of the empty box are used; it’s up to you to determine which ones are needed to complete familiar words. Some letters may fit in more than one of the empty squares to complete words, but we only came up with one arrangement that would complete a word in each row. Maybe you’ll find a better solution. Proper names are not allowed. 52-SKIDDOO…

Ben and four friends were discussing their shared hobby of puzzle solving. Each prefers a different type of puzzle (one likes acrostics best). Each puzzler has at least two puzzle magazine subscriptions; no one has more than four. Determine the full name of each of these puzzle fans (one last name is Dupree), the number of puzzle magazines each one subscribes to, and his or her favorite type of puzzle. 1. The person who likes cryptograms best and the only person who subscribes to exactly two puzzle magazines carpool to work together. 2. Neither Dave nor Maguire likes logic problems. 3. The puzzler who prefers sudoku (who takes the bus to work) has fewer subscriptions than Chan (who doesn’t like crossword puzzles). 4. Linda (who doesn’t prefer crossword puzzles) has fewer subscriptions than Dave…

ACROSS 1 Positive sign 5 Sudden burst of wind 9 Sacred song 14 Seized property informally 15 Poison ivy symptom 16 Further along in years 17 Waikiki’s island 18 Cabbie’s charge 19 Small, medium, and large 20 Ceases discussion of a subject: 3 wds. 23 Drain-clearing stuff 24 Makes one’s way 25 ___ Misérables 27 Bathing spot 30 Police HQ, for short 31 Upscale gym 34 Stable staple 36 Preschooler’s downtime 38 Made amends 40 Surpasses a Guinness Book standard: 3 wds. 43 Sports anchor Len 44 Wrath 45 Tease 46 Gridiron units, briefly 47 Neutral color 49 Clock setting for NYC residents: Abbr. 51 Andy Capp’s wife 52 Musketeers count 54 Home of the Braves: Abbr. 56 Reveals a secret: 3 wds. 62 ___ blanche 63 Defrost 64 Potato covering 65 Like a gymnast 66 Highway division 67 “Stormy Weather” singer Horne 68 Arabian Peninsula country 69 Terminals 70 Expediting acronym DOWN 1 Nudge 2 Shakespearean king 3 Covers a sofa 4 Comedian Sales 5 Word before card or wrap 6 Salt Lake City’s state 7…

Why is Chez Chichi the hottest restaurant in town? Could be the service—its 14 loyal employees have been working there for ages. So long, in fact, that each of them has actually taken on a trait somehow related to the specific food they’ve been preparing. If asked to describe the “silent guy steaming littlenecks,” for example, you might guess CLAM, while the “brainy gingersnap baker” is a SMART COOKIE. If you can figure out each restaurant staffer’s “food name,” you get an A in culinary arts. 1. The coward cooking coq au vin 2. The tall, skinny lentil-ladler 3. The grouch cooking the soft-shells 4. The boss, who’s doing fondue 5. The klutz who dropped the beurre blanc 6. That stocky guy doing ribs 7. The redhead scraping veggies 8. The small fry sautéing seafood 9. The TV fan…