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A S G O O D A S S O O N E R
I O N R I C K E T T S I A E
R Y A G A M E S S I L V A
Y A W S K E W S S E E D
A B O L E O N A R D
S H H Y A M E N S E R U M
L O A M S I T E S S Y N C
I L I A C N A I L S L E A
M E R C Y K I L L I N G
E L E E M O S Y N A R Y
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ACROSS
1. Agenda
5. Minimize loss or risk
10. Moo goo gai pan pan
13. Indian melodies
15. Beautify
16. Anger
17. Divided a disk into
marked sectors
19. Used to indicate family
name of a married woman
20. Bad feeling
21. Serving cart
23. Checking and sorting
carefully
25. What "it" plays
26. Generous in assistance
to the poor
32. "Be quiet!"
35. Official headquarters of
a mandarin
36. Emergency supply
37. Rich soil consisting of
of sand, clay and decaying
organic materials
39. Positions
41. Harmony
42. ___ artery
44. Manicurist's concern
46. Grassland
47. Act of killing someone
suffering from an incurable
illness painlessly
50. ___ system
51. U.S. writer of thrillers
55. Being essentially equal
to
60. Oklahoma athlete
61. Carbonium, e.g.
62. Rod-shaped bacteria
that causes typhus
64. Shag rug made in
Sweden
65. Amusements or
pastimes
66. Forest trees growing in
a region
67. Deviation
68. Twists
69. Lentil, e.g.
DOWN
1. Draws up the mouth
2. Hawaiian island
3. Catlike
4. Person born in a particular
country
5. "2001" computer
6. Cut, maybe
7. Catch some Z's
8. People who have
achieved distinction
9. In or toward the direction
of the ends
10. Annex
11. Sundae topper,
perhaps
12. Astute
14. Largest island in the
Mediterranean
18. Lover of Dido, in myth
22. Moorehead of "Bewitched"
24. Zodiacal constellation
between Taurus and
Cancer
27. Nickel, e.g.
28. "Mourning Becomes
Who
Said It? Name the person who said the following
famous quote:
“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair
gets up when you do.”
MAUREEN DOWD
Electra" playwright
29. Any univalent organic
radical derived from an
aromatic hydrocarbon by
removing a hydrogen atom
30. Ancient alphabetic
character
31. Pool site, maybe
32. Big loser's nickname?
33. Burrow
34. "Aquarius" musical
38. Former Portuguese
province on the south
coast of China
40. Most artful
43. Human beings whose
body have been taken
over by electromechanical
devices
45. High-hats
48. Brown bear of coastal
Alaska
49. Intuitive knowledge of
spiritual truths
52. Like a feeble old
woman
53. Steal goods
54. Apprehension
55. Breezy
56. ___ bean
57. Vex, with "at"
58. #1 spot
59. Bias
63. Cousin of -trix
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21 22
23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
32 33 34 35 36
37 38 39 40 41
42 43 44 45 46
47 48 49
50 51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63
64 65 66
67 68 69
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Puzzle 1 (Very hard, difficulty rating 0.87)
8 2 6 1
6 5 4 1 2
8 3 2 9 4
9 4 1 6 8
3 9 2 8 6
4 7 3 5
9
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/~jdhildeb/software/sudokugen/ on Fri Jul 10 19:54:32 2009 GMT. Enjoy!
P L A N H E D G E W O K
R A G A S A D O R N I R E
I N I T I A L I Z E D N E E
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Puzzle 1 (Very hard, difficulty rating 0.87)
7 2 1 6 8 9 3 4 5
5 4 8 2 3 7 6 9 1
6 9 3 5 4 1 7 8 2
8 3 2 7 1 6 9 5 4
1 5 6 8 9 4 2 3 7
9 7 4 3 5 2 1 6 8
3 1 5 9 2 8 4 7 6
4 8 7 1 6 3 5 2 9
2 6 9 4 7 5 8 1 3
Puzzle 4 (Medium, difficulty rating 0.51)
ANSWERS
AGE
7
8
9
2 3 4 5 6
Answers
Above!!
CROSSWORD
SUDOKU
JAY LENO
DOROTHY PARKER
AMY SCHUMER
WALTER WINCHELL
Walter Winchell
36 NORTH SHORE TOWERS COURIER ¢ August 2021
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