SPELLING BEELonghand (3 points). Also: Algal, aloha, along, analog,doodad, gallon, gangland, gland, gonad, gondola,halal, handhold, hangdog, hodad, lagoon, nodal,nonagon. If you found other legitimate dictionary wordsin the beehive, feel free to include them in your score.KenKen® is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. © 2020 http://www.KENKEN.com. All rights reserved.Answers to puzzles of 3.22.20
Answers to puzzle on Page 72
further commitment would be an unmovable
fl ag in the ground.
On the last day of swim class, Paul admon-
ished me for grabbing onto the wall whenever
I got scared or tired. ‘‘There is no wall on the
beach!’’ he said. This was why we spent so much
time at the beginning working on starting from
the front plank and fl ipping onto my back. He
wanted to make certain that if I’m ever in dan-
ger or too tired or confused, I can fl ip to fl oat
and regain my senses, elementary backstroking
to safety. It took me half the course to perfect it,
and I savored practicing the move, sloshing my
body from left to right as if a pickle in a jar. The
point of ‘‘The Reluctant Swimmer,’’ really, was
baked into this motion: I didn’t need to know
how to excel at swimming. I needed to know I
could save myself.
I wanted to try the move on Grace Bay: If I
can do this, I wagered to myself, I can get out of
the water. On my last day, I lifted my head, took
a gulp of air, then descended. I pulled twice and
fl ipped onto my back with relative ease. I ele-
mentary backstroked, following the instructions
from class — hanging each arm like a chicken
wing, stretching my body out like a starfi sh,
pulling my limbs all together like a rocket ship
— gliding over the water. When I learned the
stroke, I explained to friends who thought this
meant I knew how to swim that it was only a
safety stroke, something I would do if I were ever
pushed off a boat. ‘‘It’s not for fun,’’ I would say.
But it was, once I got used to it. I was relaxing
on my beach vacation.
Self- defi nition is a grueling, delicious task. To
be a teenager is to be a testing ground for the
assembly of your person; to be a young adult is tohave free rein to make mistakes. At some point,
we make a plan that refl ects the self- knowledge
we’ve accumulated thus far — I am this, I like
that, here are my intentions. But a plan is a lim-
ited comfort. What would happen if we allowed
ourselves to deviate?I might still spend this summer on the shore,
and even now, ‘‘lesbian’’ feels close but not pre-
cise. (My new joke is that I’m a Kinsey 5.) Two
months after coming out, I wrote this in my
diary: ‘‘Some days, I feel like ... I can peacefully
submit to the new tide; other days, I feel like I’m
drowning. I can’t control the movement, but I
can control the actions.’’ That was before I ever
submerged myself in water.73Swimming
(Continued from Page 49)Fill the grid with digits so as not to repeat a digit in any row or column, and so that the digits within each heavily outlined
box will produce the target number shown, by using addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, as indicated in the box.
A 5x5 grid will use the digits 1–5. A 7x7 grid will use 1–7.KENKEN
BRING YOUR ‘A’ GAME
PAPAS COMBAT SL IMJ IM
TB I LL BLUECAP PENTODE
ACQU I REACHO I R I NCENSE
STUMPER HER FCC ATBAT
VENOM ANOI SEANNOYS
INSIPID SRI ITAN
LSU VIM PUMMELS JAW
APPALLAPAUL I DS PONY
REDBEANS NASSAU DEVI L
SWOR E TO AUNT EM C E R I S E
ARIVALSARRIVALS
AFGHAN TEEHEE OUTOF I T
CROAT DEEDEE MI LANESE
DEEM PEA ATTACKSATAX
CDS TOYLAND ENE TOT
PASO I RE CAND I ES
AVOWE LAVOWAL KLE I N
BASAL DEM BOS LEARNED
ONT R I A L A P A T CHY A P ACH E
RCADOME SATHOME SPA I N
TELSTAR PESTOS EENSYKENKEN
CROSS TIES
- Fruits: apple, grape, mango, pear
- Body parts: waist, knee, neck, ankle, toe
- U.S. cities: Tampa, Waco, Omaha, Fargo
- Dances: waltz, rumba, stomp, limbo
- Playing cards: queen, ace, deuce, nine
- Foreign money: euro, pound, peso, franc
- Gems: ruby, pearl, opal, beryl
- Musical instruments: piano, harp, organ, oboe
- Flowers: tulip, aster, rose, lotus
TRADE-INS TRIPLE TREASURE
31122453 3Answers in order:
Falklands, werewolves,
bear trap, heartstrings,
Auto-Tune, body double,
banana oil, rubber tree,
Stonehenge, possession.
The substituted letters:
Used car lot.
My life had
changed — the laws
of attraction had
morphed and expanded —
but I hadn’t:
I was always happy,
but now I
was just happier.