WWW.QNS.COM RIDGEWOOD  TIMES JANUARY 2, 2020 25 
 PUZZLES 
 Across 
 1. To not follow orders 
 8. Having different areas 
 13. Driving force 
 14. Mexican-American 
 16. Distilled liquors 
 17. Cover with a new coat 
 18. Big ___ 
 19. Cheer accessory 
 21. Same old, same old 
 22. Kuwaiti, e.g. 
 24. Orange crablike  
 Pokemon character 
 25. John Paul II, e.g. 
 26. Like some potatoes 
 28. “___ a chance” 
 29. Dry 
 30. “The English Patient”  
 setting 
 32. Formal politeness 
 34. Criticism 
 36. Symbol of  
 Americanism 
 39. Easily tamed birds 
 43. One who fries 
 44. Anita Brookner’s  
 “Hotel du ___” 
 46. Female demon 
 47. Guns 
 48. Church part 
 50. Bite 
 51. 1969 Peace Prize grp. 
 52. Anyone 
 54. Deck (out) 
 55. One who provides the  
 food 
 57. Slippery 
 59. Prestigious school 
 60. Exceed 
 61. Hose material 
 62. Breed of dog 
 Down 
 1. To expel from the legal  
 profession 
 2. Seaport in Italy 
 3. Popeye’s food 
 4. “___ Gang” 
 5. Radar image 
 6. Bar, at the bar 
 7. Flunky 
 8. Numbers on letters 
 9. Mozart’s “L’___ del  
 Cairo” 
 10. Capital city of Kenya 
 11. Encircling band in  
 architecture 
 12. Popular gambling  
 game 
 14. Republic in SE  
 Europe 
 15. Cluckers 
 20. To generate 
 23. Parish officers 
 25. Skunk 
 27. Not as wet 
 29. Kind of rug 
 31. Death on the Nile  
 cause, perhaps 
 33. Animation 
 35. To expose to public  
 derision 
 36. ________-American 
 37. Office of a Christian  
 clergy 
 38. Of vital importance 
 40. Amorous 
 41. To beat another (2  
 wds.) 
 42. A tool used for  
 ceramics 
 45. Synonym of  
 Spelunkers 
 48. “Beg pardon ...” 
 49. Musical show 
 52. Small songbird 
 53. Bluster 
 56. Tokyo, formerly 
 58. Boozehound 
      
   
  	  
  
   
 
  	 
   
  
 
   
   
  	    
 HOW TO SOLVE 
 Each row must contain  
 the numbers 1 to 9; each  
 column must contain the  
 numbers 1 to 9; and each  
 set of 3 by 3 boxes must  
 contain the numbers 1 to 9 
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