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Week of October 19, 2026 · 2026-W43

The Park Weekly Puzzles

A new Buena Park crossword is set every Monday — clues pulled from city hall, the schools, the boulevard and the neighborhoods The Park covers — followed by a fresh sudoku every Tuesday and a hometown word search every Wednesday.

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Weekly crossword

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Tuesday edition · October 20, 2026

Weekly sudoku

A brand-new sudoku is generated every Tuesday — same grid for every reader in town, so you can compare times over coffee.

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Fill every row, column and 3×3 box with the digits 1 through 9. Arrow keys move between open squares; a wrong entry turns red once you check your work.

Wednesday edition · October 21, 2026 · 2026-10-21

Weekly word search

Every Wednesday brings a new grid of Buena Park names, places and newsroom words hidden in every direction.

Find these words

  • ARTIST
  • BEACH
  • BOYSENBERRY
  • BUDGET
  • BUENAPARK
  • COYOTE
  • FREEWAY
  • MARKET
  • MURAL
  • SOCCER
  • STUDENT
  • TACOS
  • TIPLINE
  • ZONING

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Click the first letter of a word, then its last letter — words run in any direction, including backwards and diagonally.

Meta puzzle · Week of October 19, 2026

The Location Hunt

Solve the crossword and word search first, then pull the letters listed below out of your answers. Together they spell a public place right here in Buena Park.

  1. 12nd letter of 2 Down
  2. 23rd letter of the word search word BEACH
  3. 38th letter of 4 Across
  4. 43rd letter of 11 Down
  5. 55th letter of the word search word BEACH
  6. 67th letter of the word search word BOYSENBERRY
  7. 71st letter of 4 Down
  8. 85th letter of the word search word MURAL
  9. 97th letter of the word search word BUENAPARK
  10. 106th letter of the word search word SOCCER
  11. 114th letter of the word search word MARKET
  12. 123rd letter of the word search word TIPLINE
  13. 135th letter of 5 Down
  14. 142nd letter of the word search word ARTIST
  15. 159th letter of 8 Down

Answer pattern: 5, 1, 5, 4 letters

Hint: A regional park on the north edge of town, known for its fossil-rich hillside and interpretive center.

Solve it to see this week's stop, presented by The Park.

The funnies · Friday, October 16, 2026

Bad Luck Charlie

Our Buena Park neighbor whose luck runs out one panel early. A new strip every Friday.

Bad Luck CharlieThe Schedule

Friday, October 16, 2026

Charlie leaves eleven minutes early for the bus on Beach Boulevard.

Charlie waiting at a bus stop bench on Beach Boulevard in Buena Park, checking his watch beside a palm tree.

1“Eleven minutes early. Today the schedule and I are friends.”

Charlie waving both arms as a Buena Park city bus rolls past the stop without slowing down.

2“That is my bus. That was my bus.”

Charlie slouched on the bench with a resigned expression while three buses line up on the street behind him.

3“Now there are three. None of them are going my way.”

Charlie, 0 — the 38 line, 3.