C4 | Thursday, October 7, 2010 | The Union | Section C COMICS Johnny Hart CROSSWORD


BRIDGE Phillip Alder


 Chip Sonsom


Let us see how to improve timing


Gloria Naylor, an African-American Bob Thaves


novelist, said, “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of tim- ing. There is a time for silence.” When partner has made a clear-cut


error at the bridge table, it is a good moment for silence. He already feels bad enough without your adding to the pain. Timing can also be important in the


card-play. When this deal was played, South was in four hearts.West led the heart six: three, queen, king. How should declarer have continued? At the table, South drew trumps


Dean Young & Denis Lebrun Randy Glasbergen


ending in the dummy and called for the club 10.When East discarded, declarer eventually would have had to guess dia- monds, except that East misdefended. But South could have timed the play better. First, a trump lead usually presages a


Greg Howard & Craig MacIntosh


3-2 break. It is unusual to start with a trump from one (a singleton) or four. And declarer learned about the 3-2 split when he cashed his heart jack at trick two. At that point, South should have played off his two spade tricks to eliminate that suit. Then, after crossing to the heart ace, he could have run the club 10. West would have won with his


queen and returned a club. Declarer, though, would have won the trick cheaply, cashed his club ace, and played a fourth club, endplaying West. If West shifted to a diamond, it would have saved South the guess. And if West led a spade, declarer would have discarded a diamond from dummy and ruffed in his hand. Either way, South would have got home without any guesswork. Copyright 2010, United Feature


Reg Smythe Jim Davis Syndicate


Bil Keane Scott Adams


Pat Brady NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE Across 1 Skins


6 Itʼs hardly haute cuisine


10 Miracle-___ 13 Go over again 14 “___ girl!”


15 Active volcano near Messina


16 ___ Gay Stephan Pastis


17 Move text around


18 Not a dupe: Abbr.


19 On the ___


20 Goddess of discord


22 Late-night beverage


23 Season opener? 24 Start of


instructions for solving this puzzle


27 Winter air


28 Relative of - esque


29 Helicopter part 32 A number one 34 Misses


Lynn Johnston


38 Instructions, part 2


41 Aids for police detectives


42 Lake bordered by four states


43 Female, formally


44 Dashiell Hammett hero ___ Beaumont


45 Nautilus leader


47 End of the instructions


52 Voyage kickoff? 55 Brand of wafers 56 Height: Prefix 57 Suffix with ranch 58 Cross


59Word from a Latin lover?


61 Matriculate


63 The Blue ___ (Hank Azariaʼs “Mystery Men” role)


64 Penthouse pinups


65 Rover 66 Figs.


67 Circus trainerʼs prop


ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE


B I N S A V O N U M B E R I S E E R A G U S T I L E


B A R N A C L E C H E S T E D S O F T C


E L O I S M S C H O C E R I N


S C O T C H P I N N A C L E W A R D T E A


T I L E D


O S O T O R N A D O A G A O H W O W D O E F R O M F A N N I E M A N A C L E S E T T A E L H I


M O A N U R N E E R I E


A D D A P I N C H O F S A L T G I Z M O E A S T B R I C S N E E R R A T S Y E A H


68 Divisions politiques


Down


1 Bombards with e-junk


2 Lots of “Deck the Halls”


3 Professeurʼs place


4 Poetʼs time of day


5 Ones whose work is


decreasing? 6 Denis, to France


7 Flexible weaving material


8 British co.


9 “Sprechen ___ Deutsch?”


10 Not neat


11 Prelateʼs title: Abbr.


12 All-natural sparkler


15 John who co- starred in “Sands of Iwo Jima”


21 Prefix with metric


22 “This might be of interest,” on a memo


25 Stage


26 College sci. class


27 Overhead cost for an artist?


29 Bldg. units 30 “Alley ___!” 31 Angular prefix


33 ___ curiam (like some court rulings)


34 Constellation next to the Dragon, with “the”


47 48 49 50 55 58 63 66 59 60 64 67 Puzzle by Patrick Blindauer and Andrea Carla Michaels


35 Much-discussed initials of a 1967 Beatles song


36 Bibliographic suffix


37 Pinup feature 39 It bugs bugs 40 Green rocks


44 Opposite of remove


46 Bit of A/V equipment


47 Performance fanfares


48 1988 Olympic track star, informally


49 Online financial services company


50 One way to N.Y.C.ʼs Penn Sta.


51 Prefix with -path 52 Bellini opera


53Words after “whether”


54 Designer Geoffrey


59 Abbr. on a cough syrup bottle


60 ___ Z 62 Kind of bran


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