WWW.QNS.COM RIDGEWOOD TIMES JANUARY 9, 2020 25
PUZZLES
Across
1. Sharp and stimulating
7. Catchphrase
14. Paved airstrip
15. Afraid
16. Back
17. Foresight
19. The most flexible
21. Queen, maybe
22. Coin opening
23. Baggy
24. “Beetle Bailey” dog
25. “Absolutely!”
26. Switch material
27. Pipe material
28. ___ bear
29. Bust
30. Divine
33. Make sport of
34. Depth charge targets
35. Jazz player, for
example
36. Rinse, as with a
solvent
37. Kind of engineer
38. Bon ___ (witticism)
41. Easter flower
42. Aspect
43. Maker of holes
44. “The Three Faces
of ___”
45. Good-fellowship
47. Vacillated
49. Speaker at a university
50. Earache
51. As a precaution
52. Units of force
53. Gawks
Down
1. Noisy
2. To move or stir
3. Emcees’ lines
4. Candied
5. Go-___
6. A downward fold
7. Pudding ingredient
8. All over again
9. “Silly” birds
10. Bringing up the rear
11. Bank offering, for
short
12. Denial
13. Lacking teeth
18. Put away
20. Crush
24. An abalone
26. Butter up?
27. Diagonal face of
chisel or gem
28. Relating to soil
29. Dried leaves of the
foxglove
30. Supplied with
energy
31. State of being completely
forgotten
32. Random gambling
game
33. Have second
thoughts
35. Summer insects
37. Entered (2 wds.)
38. Brick-and-______
39. Good-for-nothing
40. Not heres
42. North Dakota’s
largest city
43. Center of activity
45. Ax of stone
46. Mar, in a way
48. “Hee ___”
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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