2019-05-01_Games_World_of_Puzzles

ANSWERS

74 GAMES WORLD^ OF PUZZLES^ | may 2019

29 I CRAZY PAVEMENT

WILD CARDS

26 BORDERLINES

1. New Hampshire and Vermont


2. Arizona and California (It only forms part of the Arizona-Nevada border.)


3. New York


4. New Mexico and Texas (for a short distance just above El Paso)


5. Maryland, where it borders the District of Columbia


6. Michigan (Mackinac Bridge connects the Upper and Lower Peninsulas; not taking
   it would require driving through Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.)


7. Virginia (The portion on the Delmarva Peninsula can be reached by driving
   through Maryland.)


8. Part of Missouri separates the Kentucky Bend from Kentucky geographically, but
   the land route goes through Tennessee on account of the Mississippi River.


9. Minnesota


10. Washington

26 STARTS & ENDS WITH...

A: Alfalfa

B: blurb

C: catastrophic

D: diamond

E: engine

F: Falstaff

G: ginseng

H: Hialeah

I: Iraqi

K: Kodiak

L: Lionel

M: medium

N: nylon

O: Ontario

P: pickup

R: reindeer

S: seamless

T: thermostat

U: Ubu

V: Viv

W: Warsaw

X: Xerox

Y: yearly

Z: Zardoz

26 SIX LETTERS, SEVEN WORDS

The six-letter word is BRIDGE (well-known game). The answers to the other clues

are: RIDE (amusement park sight); BIDE (endure); RIDGE (part of a roof); BRIG (place

of confinement); BRIE (type of cheese); and BRIDE (wedding sight).

27 COMPETITIVE CINEMA

1-i (ice hockey)

2-h (pool)

3-j (distance running)

4-a (tennis)

5-r (bicycling)

6-o (football)

7-l (horse racing)

8-k (bodybuilding)

9-e (auto racing)

10-n (surfing)

11-b (soccer)

12-s (baseball)

13-g (figure skating)

14-p (boxing)

15-q (bobsledding)

16-d (golf)

17-c (bowling)

18-t (basketball)

19-m (yacht racing)

20-f (rugby)

26 PRIME CHOICES

27 GLOBAL THINKING

1. Luxembourg and Mexico


2. W


3. Equatorial Guinea, Iraq,
   Mozambique, Qatar


4. -stan (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan,
   Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan,
   Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)


5. Australia (Austria)


6. Slovakia (Slovenia)
   7. Botswana, Eswatini (The latter changed
   its name from Swaziland in 2018.)
   8. Chad, Finland, Iran, Oman, Spain (A case
   might be made for Ireland.)
   9. Denmark, Ireland, Norway
   10. Dominica (Dominican Republic),
   Guinea (Guinea-Bissau), Ireland (United
   Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
   Ireland), Mali (Somalia), Niger (Nigeria)

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