QUOTATIONPUZZLE

Building add-on, sometimes

7. Cap. of Brazil (until 1960)

8. Indonesian currency

9. Former employee? 10. Corner of note

11. Bog

Liquids

Scull implement

My ______; friends; kin

Road division

Type of cavity

Be _____ someone; leery

DIRECTIONS: Recreate a timeless nugget of wisdom by using the letters in each vertical column to fill the boxes above them. Once any letter is used, cross it out in the lower half of the puzzle. Letters may be used only once. Black squares indicate spaces between words, and words may extend onto a second line.

Solution on page 14.

Use the letters provided at bottom to create words to solve the puzzle above. All the listed letters following #1 are the first letters of the various words; the letters following #2 are the second letters of each word, and so on. Try solving words with letter clues or numbers with minimal choices listed. A sample is shown. Solution on page 14.

As her slender friend walked up the sidewalk to her front door, the girl watching from inside muttered to her mother, “It’s just not fair. Look at her. She’s so thin it makes me sick.”

Her mother hugged her and said compassionately, “Darling, if this is something that really bothers you, decide right now to do something about it.”

“You’re right,” said the girl, blinking back tears. Turning to the door she opened it, welcomed her friend inside and said, “Would you care for a slice of chocolate cake?”

Moe: Hey, I got a good joke for you.

Joe: Fire away.

Moe: How come the seamstress couldn’t quit her job at the convent?

Joe: I give. Why?

Moe: Because it was habit forming.

Joe: I thought you said it was a good joke.

Moe: Remember when NASCAR used to have an Internet Explorer car?

Joe: Yeah...whatever happened to that?

Moe: It kept crashing.

Moe: Why do vegans always look so unhappy in photos?

Joe: They hate to say cheese.

Moe: You know what they call a Quarter Pounder in Paris?

Joe: Sure, everybody knows that. Royale with Cheese.

Moe: But do you know what indeed.com is called in London?

Joe: I do not.

Moe: They call it indubitably.com.

Moe: The ophthalmologist I go to has the coolest website. You just type in your symptoms and it will give you a preliminary diagnosis and schedule an appointment.

Joe: I bet that’s a site for sore eyes.

Moe: Why was the mountain in the Italian Alps hungry?

Joe: It forgot to avalanche.

Moe: I wonder what Ice Cube’s kids call him.

Joe: Popsicle.

Moe: What’s large, gray, and doesn’t matter?

Joe: An irrelephant.

Moe: I’m trying to think of some example of a perpexing problem of logic but I’m drawing a blank. Can you think of one?

Joe: How about: “the cheapest condoms are actually the most expensive”?

Moe: What’s another word for naysayer?

Joe: Horse.