16 MARCH 3, 2022 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
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Across
1. Resting places
5. Healthful retreats
9. Fink
13. ___ cheese
14. Casts
16. Maui dance
17. Viewed with approval or
pleasure
19. “Iliad” warrior
20. Two-seater
21. Back, in a way
22. Saws with the grain
23. Goes on and on
25. Fox relative
27. Thin wires with tiny tufts
of yarn
31. “Much ___ About Nothing”
32. Course
33. Chest material
37. “___ we forget”
39. Hot spot
42. Baby
43. Song of joy
45. Achy
47. Absorbed, as a cost
48. Short tables accompanying
sofas
52. Disperse
55. 100 kurus
56. Farfetched
57. Sylvester, to Tweety
59. Big step
63. ___-bodied
64. Hardly ordinary
66. Bottom of the barrel
67. Slope of loose rock
debris
68. ___ Scotia
69. Coastal raptors
70. Aims
71. Form of matter
Down
1. Doozy
2. Icelandic epic
3. Angry outburst
4. Small amount
5. Clutter; a total mess
6. Quote, part 3
7. “Mi chiamano Mimi,” e.g.
8. Product motto
9. Keen or eager
10. Papal court
11. Beth’s preceder
12. Boito’s Mefistofele, e.g.
15. Dorm annoyance
18. Change, chemically
24. “Buona ___” (Italian
greeting)
26. Parenthesis, essentially
27. Segmented organ near
mouth of invertebrates
28. “I had no ___!”
29. Ask
30. Charm
34. Call
35. A chip, maybe
36. Bakery selections
38. Indiscreet, inconsiderate
40. “O Sanctissima,” e.g.
41. Skilled performers
44. “___ a chance”
46. Our “mother”
49. Unborn embryo
50. Home of Paris
51. Large estate or manor
52. Flat
53. Wooden pole used in
Scottish games
54. ___ wrench
58. Conflicted
60. “American ___”
61. Hawk’s opposite
62. Final, e.g.
65. Cabernet, 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
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