40 North Shore Towers Courier n April 2015 Across 1. Crow’s home 6. Gangster’s blade 10. Fix, in a way 13. Birdlike 14. Desert sight 16. Victorian, for one 17. Bring back into original use 19. Be in session 20. Bosses 21. Vacation souvenirs (hyphenated) 23. Shoestring 25. Warm, so to speak 26. Cheat 29. Duck’s home 31. Arm bones 33. Artist Chagall 35. Bakery buy 37. Belief in God based on reason, not revelation 39. Skating jumps 41. Bill and ___ 42. Taste, e.g. 43. Japanese-American 44. Chinese dynasty 46. Accommodate 47. Power glitch 49. Tablet 51. Blonde’s secret, maybe 52. Coquette 53. Checked item 55. Having flat polished surfaces, like on a gemstone 58. Ancient upright stone slabs bearing markings 62. Airline’s home base 63. Argue in protest 65. “Is that ___?” 66. Insinuating 67. Overthrow, e.g. 68. Carry on 69. Bring (out) 70. Grating Down 1. Hawaiian tuber 2. “... happily ___ after” 3. ___ Piper 4. Artist’s stand 5. Bag 6. Blubber Fill in the blank squares in the grid, making sure that every row, column and 3-by-3 box includes all digits 1 through 9. Generated by http://www.opensky.ca/sudoku on Mon Dec 15 20:09:56 2014 GMT. Enjoy! 6 9 7 5 8 1 8 5 2 6 9 1 2 8 9 1 8 1 2 3 4 4 1 1 7 5 3 7. “Stop right there!” 8. Egyptian fertility goddess 9. Hindu deity, protector of worlds 10. Held back 11. Western blue flag, e.g. 12. Gangster’s gun 15. Police officers’ badges 18. English race place 22. Wife of a raja (pl.) 24. Legislate 26. F.B.I. operative (hyphenated) 27. Part of a plane (hyphenated) 28. By reasonable assumption 30. Sag 32. English exam finale, often SUDOKU Answers Above!! 34. Divine 36. Bartender’s supply 38. Allocate, with “out” 40. Washington and Franklin on the Constitution 45. Luster 48. Scope 50. Second of two 54. ___ cotta 55. Holding as much as possible 56. Arabic for “commander” 57. Birdbrain 59. 1968 Chemistry Nobelist Onsager 60. Above 61. Mysterious: Var. 62. Accident 64. After expenses 3 5 9 Puzzle 9 (Medium, difficulty rating 0.53) rating 0.48) 5 2 7 8 3 6 4 1 2 3 8 9 9 5 6 7 1 4 Puzzle 2 (Hard, difficulty rating 0.72) 5 9 6 7 8 1 4 3 2 4 2 8 6 3 9 1 7 5 1 7 3 2 5 4 8 9 6 3 5 4 9 6 8 2 1 7 9 8 1 5 7 2 6 4 3 2 6 7 1 4 3 9 5 8 6 3 9 8 1 5 7 2 4 8 4 2 3 9 7 5 6 1 7 1 5 4 2 6 3 8 9 Puzzle 3 (Medium, difficulty rating 0.58) 1 3 6 5 4 2 9 7 8 7 5 4 8 9 6 3 1 2 9 8 2 7 3 1 6 4 5 4 6 9 3 1 5 8 2 7 3 7 8 4 2 9 5 6 1 5 2 1 6 8 7 4 9 3 2 4 3 9 7 8 1 5 6 8 1 5 2 6 4 7 3 9 6 9 7 1 5 3 2 8 4 rating 0.48) 9 3 6 4 1 5 7 6 5 8 4 2 2 1 8 7 3 9 Puzzle 5 (Hard, difficulty rating 0.60) 5 7 6 1 2 8 9 3 4 3 1 9 4 7 6 5 2 8 8 2 4 5 3 9 1 7 6 4 5 7 6 8 1 3 9 2 2 9 8 3 4 7 6 1 5 6 3 1 2 9 5 8 4 7 7 8 3 9 5 2 4 6 1 9 6 2 8 1 4 7 5 3 1 4 5 7 6 3 2 8 9 Puzzle 6 (Hard, difficulty rating 0.69) 5 7 4 3 8 9 1 6 2 1 9 3 6 7 2 4 8 5 2 8 6 5 1 4 7 9 3 3 1 5 7 2 8 6 4 9 7 6 8 9 4 5 3 2 1 9 4 2 1 3 6 5 7 8 8 2 1 4 5 7 9 3 6 4 5 9 2 6 3 8 1 7 6 3 7 8 9 1 2 5 4 0.41) 5 2 3 6 8 4 7 9 6 1 2 8 9 5 1 7 4 3 Answers: 1) Cotton Gin, 2) Interchangeable Parts, 3) Muskets, 4) Milling Machine, 5) Yale, Eli Whitney This inventor helped make cotton profitable: Puzzle 8 (Medium, difficulty rating 0.51) 2 8 9 1 5 4 3 6 7 3 4 7 8 6 2 5 1 9 5 6 1 9 3 7 8 2 9 2 3 7 8 1 6 4 5 7 1 6 4 2 5 9 3 8 8 5 4 3 9 6 1 7 2 1 9 2 5 7 3 4 8 6 4 7 5 6 1 8 2 9 3 6 3 8 2 4 9 7 5 1 Puzzle 9 (Medium, difficulty rating 0.53) 4 7 3 1 6 5 8 9 2 9 1 6 8 2 7 5 4 3 8 5 2 3 4 9 6 7 1 7 8 1 2 3 4 9 6 5 6 2 9 7 5 8 1 3 4 3 4 5 6 9 1 2 8 7 5 9 7 4 8 2 3 1 6 1 3 8 5 7 6 4 2 9 2 6 4 9 1 3 7 5 8 rating 0.43) 7 4 2 3 8 1 6 2 ANSWERS CROSSWORD AGE P U Z Z L E 9 8 7 1 Each of the following cryptograms is a clue to the identity of a prolific inventor. Using the hints Q=E and W=N, decipher the clues to name the inventor. L G F F G W M E W E W F Q K L X U W M Q U R Z Q S U K F D T Y D H Q F D T E Z Z E W M T U L X E W Q P U Z Q 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 CryptoQuiz
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