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The Wizard of ld - py Brant parker and Johnny hart | Crossword By Abigail Van Buren

“Dear Arbby-

by Eugene Sheffer

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genus 49 Comfort 7 Type of gold y Tadd that there is no reason to answer the door if 4
15 Spoken 50 Egyptian fabric 28 Footed you are not expecting company or don’t want to be *
16 Person god (var.) 8 Kindof vase disturbed, And I am not suggesting that you turn off the
making an 51 Corpulent pastry 29 Born lights and sit in the closet until who ever it is goes away.
affidavit 52 Agitate 9 Freezes 31 Mr. H your lights are on and your radio or TV is going and
18 Lares and — 53Corn meal 10 Dune Harrison you don't want to he disturbed, just sit there.
3 2» Workbench bread 11 Worthless 4 Like a gull eet prove that you are also not tyrannized by the
* evices  § 54 Endeavor leavings 35 Row on .
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ED ING, OR JUST pital = (BAIKIEOFTISIECIO|D) % Savery ;
WITH SPOTS AND GETTING OVER 96 a 3 re EMER E TM TIERINS) 1 Enfold DEAR ABBY: Your suggestion to take the telephone off :
THE OTHER SOMETHING: yrandort CcURETIOM 41 Blood: the hook when you don’t want to be disturbed wasn't very j
HALE ISN'T (1625-32) SIAIGIASMIVEIRIANIO comb, form practical. ;
é} 30 Source of AIBIA LAINEEKIEIEIN] 42 Type of In our town (and in many otheral, a telephone left off the
energy PIAIRIEIN TSHR TIEIEINY, jacket hook for the period of time required to do a passable job of ;
a Cut a — TICE Ri 4gRip |, lovemaking activetes a “howler” that comes through the :
32 Wrath GLIEAIMECAMEMAIE] 44 Delicacy - earpiece with increasing volume. ‘
_ 43 Book af ROISKMCIAKE WAIL 45 Where the Believe me, it's not easy to bring a romantic interlude to i
Psalms AINITERAIGEGS | INIEIE Amuris + a satisfactory conclusion with Ma Bell screaming at you. i
2 36 Author of BIEJIE RIESBNIEIEID] 46 Road ORANGE, TEX.
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the-Pooh” Answer to yesterday’s puzzle. 48 Newt

B.C. by johnny hart [| yf

ID UKE TWo ACE SPINNERS, A RED Deuce ( ..AND KEEP YOUR HANDS ABOVE THE Tae. | 13

DEAR ORANGE: My suggested solution created such
6 [7 gots fre tn an uproar among my readers that 1 checked with the
Pacific Telephone Company and was told that deactivating
14 one's telephone by taking the receiver off the hook is
forbidden becauee it can create malfunction (crossed wires,
n overloaded circuits, etc.) and foul up the system.
The only solution approved by Ma Bell is to turn the
20 volume down as low aa possible (there's a knob at the
bottom of the instrument) and place the phone under a

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PUG AND A SHAKESPEARE UOKER.

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. DEAR ABBY: I have an awful problem that I'm sure
30 3 ae - many other girla have. I wear braces and when my
boyfriend kisses me, it feels like’ someone is hitting me in
36 37 _ the mouth with a barbed wire fence.

[like him a lot, but because of this, it makes me dread
% having to kisa him. Do you have any suggestions?

Loumeys
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Catfish _ | | by Rog Bollen

YA GOT SCE SEAWEED L POT IT THERE To SNE HE
CNIGHT ON YE HOOK, WORM SOME APPETITE APPEAL...

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PL) DEAR JODY: Yea. Tell him to slow up when he gets to
the fence.

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55 DEAR ABBY: I am a 14-year-old girl. My problem is
that nobody ever touches me. My parents haven't hugged
or kissed me for ¢ long time, except when I go away for a
long time. Close friends outside of the family don’t touch

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me, either.
oye 1am outgoing to & degree and sometimes when I really

want to hug someone, I just go ahead and hug them, but
BXVJHVAX NCCJ CHGYA NAC- they always stiffen up or back off. No one ever reaches out

"oe to me first, My mother and I aren't close. ] need someone
KXYBKB SWJY WACN-SGB older to talk to. ;

eT Mey : I fael like nobody cares about me or loves me. I am

Sheen Yesterday’s Cryptoquip—CAPITALISM CAN'T CAPITU- intelligent. I don’t have a mental problem. I don’t smell bad

<> | LATE TO COMMUNIST RULERS. or I'm not ugly. I'm so confused—please help me.
© 1977 King Features Syndicate, Inc. WANTING LOVE

Today's Cryptoquip clue: V equals A

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Dee H H ; The Cryptoquip is a simple substitution cipher in which each EAR WANTING: Tell favorite teacher what i
poe ag ar th e O r r io | e by Dik Browne etter used stands for another. If you think that X equals 0, it boeing you. you'll reach ont for affection in a gentle,
a will equal © throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words, non-threatening way (and a teacher can explain that more

and words using an apostrophe can give you clues to locating , you'll find what looking for.
vowels, Solution ig accomplished by trial and error. : fully), you what you are looking for, And God Bless.

IN I GOT A BUSINESS APPOINTMENT
THE FIRST THING ate MORNING

: Q B li ht Not j] iyDEAR ABBY: Cur neighbors, across the . street are
; ky, or) vely people, but they have one fault. They tie their dog
I . ; $ e eve 3 Pin aur and he barks continually, night and ©

outside in summer,
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day, for no reason at all. [love dogs, so I can’t bring myself
to do anything that might hurt him, such as poison him,
shoot him or turn him loose at night, although I confess I
have thought of it during a sleepless night while the
barking was it its peak.

I hate to make enemies of these lovely people by
reporting them to the police or humane society. And ear
plugs are out because if an emergency phone call or knock
on the door came, I could not hear it. I have spoken to

ig HMPRKIN HERD these neighbors several times about it, but they do

ORIGINATED IN EARLY’ nothing. Any suggestions?

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by Garry Trudeau = |trimven arouno THE RIM

DEAR DOG-TIRED: Tell these “lovely people” that

OF A PUMPKIN SHELL |
aince your previous requests have been ignored, you must
IKE TO RECA . ,
ie Ppp ER aah Hee Aa pars MENO rf LE ON oe aT SOUNDS pies 1D SORT now protest to the authorities. Your rest is more
THINK WE COULD 00/5 FOLLOW | |; | | ENCOURAGING ALL ERROR IT (SI THINK GOOD. WHO — RETARIES. JUST important than their friendship.
PON JUMMY'S ADHISSION THAT QUHITE HOUSE PERSONNEL. IT WOLD GO A LONG GOES FIRST? SEND THEM ALL
* HE AND ROSALY CAN'T ALWAYS | | JO OVERPRAW THEIR. WAY IN TAKING THE SHOPPING OR.
36 He HECKBOOKS 5a) | CHECKING ACCOUNTS... | HEAT OFF BERT! SOMETHING.»
BANE : B = DEAR ABBY; My husband and I have taken a teenage
fe E59 | > | | cousin into our home because she is in trouble. We have
7 : = " 11900-1975} children of our own and.are financially able to care for this
} = ) THE GREE gitl and pay all her expenses, She has one year of high
5 — eee h SHIPPING SREATE school left, which she will finish after her baby is born.
E Totter SH? WHO AMASSED A Now the problem: She wants to keep her baby. We have’
i oe - FORTUNE OF had our doctor and lawyer talk to her, and no one can get
lI Silas oe MORE THAN, through to her. She thinks it is a “sin” to give away her
. <6500,000000 own flesh and blood.
$43 ] BEGAN WiTH Abby, this child is 17 and the boy will not marry her (for ,
— A STAKE which she is lucky, as he is only a kid himself and not much
good), My husband and I would adopt the child as a

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IDENTIFIED AS THE 28 0OO ES , li A OF FEO - compromiss, but we want her to put her past behind her,

: : o . OLD THIGHEIONE OFA MASTODON ‘ on to college and start life over where no one knows of
ee T h e Am az in S Pp | D FE R - M AN Pa ~ pera ter gerne rere er ET fer r mistalce. We need your help in gonvincing her that this
oe OR Pea & BY at for her and the baby, Please help me.
were g + 1 PBA ah K ”“ ASHLEIGH | i ye ANONYMOUS
_ ) LOGFAIRANS * BRILLIANT || : |
i YOU-- PROMISED YOU WERE UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIMES | | EVEN AS THE DISTRAUGHT ris HOPELESS! Wed CAN'T fa EPPA dere ZEN 2 ~
aaa as THROUGH WITH VIOLENCE A FEW MUST BE HURT FOR VANESSA SPEAKS... HOPELESS! EVEN ER
WITH THE USE OF FORSE THE GOOD OF MANN HO MATTER —W JAMESONS | | Sregwor- THE NICEST PART DEAR ANONYMOUS: It would appear that the girl,
’ HOW BUCH UT | ee of OF A REVOLUTION under the guise of selfleceneas and sacrifice, feels guilty *
orsoGer | ANA COMES -’ and is determined to punish herself for her mistake.
MES AFTERWARDS, . Actually, she would be punishing the child more.
. For you to adopt the baby would be as grave a mistake
WHEN THEY PUT * as for her to keep it. Iknow of no one more qualified to deal
THE KING'S HEAD with “ain” then a clergyman. Ask yours to talk to the girl.
BACK ON, ‘
: tiaktgA dinicant For Abby's new booklet, “What Teen-agera Want to
7 Reaaee Pecpeprie CaS AM Baphty, Feat et Know,” aend $1 to Abigail Van Buren, 132 Laaky Dr.,
, CSREES Bn Beverly Hills, Callt, 90212. Please enclose a long,
poll-addreased, stamped (24¢} envelope. .