18 FEBRUARY 10, 2022 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
PUZZLES
3 6 4 8
8 7 2
5 7 3 4
5 9 8 4
9 4 1 6
7 3 8 6
4 6 9
1 9 7 4
Across
1. Office clamper
8. Postulates
15. Halo
16. Farm laborer of low
social rank
17. Baked dish
18. Anxiously
19. Above
20. Dilly-dally
22. Cheesecake ingredient?
23. Islet
24. Arid
25. “Frasier” actress
Gilpin
26. Jagged, as a leaf’s
edge
28. Apply gently
30. Domestic animal skin
disease
31. Some speech sounds
33. Told of an occurrence
35. Happiness
37. Newspaper stories
40. Like some knees
44. Destined
45. “___ any drop to
drink”: Coleridge
47. Commemorative
marker
48. Construct
49. Cold cuts, e.g.
51. Cambridge sch.
52. Bauxite, e.g.
53. Uttered an attraction
call
56. Spoil, with “on”
57. Kitty
59. Enthusiastic supporter
61. One reciting in a singing
tone
62. Subject of this puzzle
63. Orphaned child with
new legal family
64. Puts into appropriate
form for publication
Down
1. A Muslim
2. New Zealand lizardlike
reptile
3. Dry gulches
4. Chick’s sound
5. Court ploy
6. Say “Li’l Abner,” say
7. Hold back
8. Acted like
9. Close, as an envelope
10. Dressing ingredient
11. “It’s no ___!”
12. Margin
13. Blow up
14. Blocked
21. Causing fatigue
24. Blue-ribbon
25. Bring up
27. Texas/Louisiana border
river
29. “Wanna ___?”
30. Fair to middling
32. “Do the Right Thing”
pizzeria owner
34. Stop on a crawl
36. Big ___ Conference
37. Cleaning chemical
38. Behind
39. Finds an interest (2
wds.)
41. Vernacular
42. Snob
43. Picks up
46. Illicit cigarette
50. “Haste makes waste,”
e.g.
53. Copper
54. Arch type
55. Shrek, e.g.
56. Computer info
58. Blouse, e.g.
60. Affirmative action
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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