APRIL 15, 2022 www.qns.com RIDGEWOOD TIMES
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PUZZLES
Puzzle SUDOKU 10 (Easy, difficulty rating 0.43)
Answers to Last Week’s Crossword
2 3 9 6 4
6 7 8 1
9
5 2
5 6 9 4 8 7
7 8
7
3 4 9 5
4 8 2 5 3
Across
1. Brewer’s need
5. Conclusion
9. Be a bad winner
14. Fencing sword
15. Extol
16. Blood carrier
17. Desperate (hyphenated)
19. Begin (2 wds)
20. Instrument for measuring light
intensity
22. The Beatles’ “___ Leaving
Home” (contraction)
23. Masefield play “The Tragedy of
___”
24. Justification
26. Prominent feature of aroid plant
30. ___ Station in NYC
31. Something to chew
33. Spain’s Gulf of ___
34. Chatter (2 wds)
35. ___-tzu, Chinese philosopher
36. Grammar topic
37. Decide to leave, with “out”
38. Be bombastic
40. Cooking meas.
41. Snares
43. Discomfit
44. Be in session
45. Fastidious
46. Catch, as in a net
47. Contemptible in behavior and
appearance
49. Abbr. after a comma
50. “What’s gotten ___ you?”
51. Calm
57. Manicurist’s concern
59. Barren
60. Feed, as a fire
61. Ado
62. Elliptical
63. Perfect, e.g.
64. A long, long time
65. French door part
Down
1. “S.O.S.!”
2. Brightly colored fish
3. 100 centavos
4. Rectangular paving stone
5. Culmination
6. Like Cheerios
7. Water carrier
8. Followers
9. Neon, e.g.
10. Fertile soil
11. Potash feldspar
12. Weakens
13. New Mexico art community
18. Italian operatic composer
21. Ashcroft’s predecessor
25. John Madden, e.g.
26. Short tails, like those of rabbits
and deer
27. Ardent
28. Inherited modification
29. Archaeological site
30. Litter member
32. “A merry heart ___ good like a
medicine”: Proverbs
34. Inn outside city limits
39. Engine speed, for short
42. Reduced instruction set computer
(acronym)
46. Some solvents
48. Parents
49. Fey
50. Acad.
52. “I’m ___ you!”
53. Above
54. Opera star
55. Brio
56. Drop
58. “Comprende?”
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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