34 JANUARY 20, 2022 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
PUZZLES
Across
1. Two-masters
6. Advocate
10. Attempt
14. Depth charge target
15. Battering wind
16. “Giovanna d’___” (Verdi
opera)
17. Smokejumper’s need
18. Pinocchio, at times
19. Bloody
20. Advise against treatment
23. Devoted
24. Kind of phone
25. Ancient colonnade
27. Offices of public officials
in the Chinese Empire
32. Become unhinged
36. A chip, maybe
38. Calyx part
39. Scar’s royal position in
“The Lion King” (2 wds)
42. Eagerness
43. Delhi dress
44. Breezed through
45. Idle talk or rumor
47. Acceptances
49. Aromatic ointment used
in antiquity
51. Triangular metal bracket
for joist strength
56. Thick white paper for
pencil and ink drawings (2
wds)
60. Legal prefix
61. Aroma
62. Accustom
63. 20-20, e.g.
64. ___-mutton
65. Adjust, as laces
66. “Cool!”
67. At one time, at one time
68. Hillsides
Down
1. “The Beast of ___ Flats”
(1961 sci-fi bomb)
2. Dislike, and then some
3. Twisted
4. Coffee order
5. Rears
6. ___ fruit
7. Saying popularized by
Jonathan Swift (4 wds)
8. Clearing
9. In a spooky manner
10. “Roots,” e.g.
11. Bring (out)
12. “God’s Little ___”
13. Male child
21. Essential oil from flowers
22. Catch
26. Aces, sometimes
28. Intro to physics?
29. “Beowulf,” e.g.
30. Church part
31. Coaster
32. Catch fly balls
33. “I, Claudius” role
34. Boosts
35. Some Olympians,
nowadays
37. Coin featuring Leonardo
da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man
40. Design transferred from
an engraved plate
41. Gnatlike insect
46. Early release of a prisoner,
subject to continued
monitoring
48. Crackerjack
50. Equestrian
52. More rational
53. Expectorated matters
54. Like “The X-Files”
55. Ashes, e.g.
56. Bat’s home
57. Length x width, for a
rectangle
58. Bluster
59. Small cave
60. Ballpoint, e.g.
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
Answers to Last Week’s Crossword
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