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48 SEPTEMBER 9, 2021 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM PUZZLES (PLAY MORE GAMES ONLINE AT GAMES.QNS.COM) �� Across 1. Jellied garnish 6. Sports figures 11. Costa del ___ 14. Ark contents 15. Hold while moving 16. “... ___ he drove out of sight” 17. Studies of words 19. Free from, with “of” 20. Cold one 21. Queen, maybe 22. Slang for relaxing/ watching television 23. Radioactive element used for cancer treatment 26. Easily taught 28. “Much ___ About Nothing” 29. Poison plant 33. Anita Brookner’s “Hotel du ___” 34. Haul 35. Change 36. At attention 39. Coastal raptors 41. Impolite dinner sound 43. Legal prefix 44. Brown shade 46. Boring 47. Depress, with “out” 48. Parenthesis, essentially 49. Book of maps 51. “Fantasy Island” prop 52. Football player Gale 55. To say again 57. “A Nightmare on ___ Street” 58. “___ moment” 60. Drag 61. “For shame!” 62. Opposite of a small company 67. Elephant’s weight, maybe 68. “Bye” in Spanish 69. Like “The X-Files” 70. “How ___ Has the Banshee Cried” (Thomas Moore poem) 71. Cantankerous 72. Affirm Down 1. Absorbed, as a cost 2. Boozehound 3. Be nosy 4. Poets’ feet 5. Group of singers 6. Boat with an open hold 7. What “it” plays 8. “Mi chiamano Mimi,” e.g. 9. Current 10. Part of a heartbeat 11. Able to be worked on 12. Architectural projection 13. Pigeon’s perch 18. Like monkeys 23. Hotel posting 24. Be crazy about 25. First payment before paying the rest 27. Be a kvetch 30. Kind of toast 31. Mature 32. Reef material 37. Barbaric 38. Dravidian language 40. “Your majesty” 42. Lighthouse 45. Circus performer 50. One thing after another 52. Brief brawl 53. Cool 54. Insinuating 56. Article of faith 59. Auspices 60. In use 63. Another term for AI 64. Victorian, for one 65. Be in session 66. “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 Answers to Last Week’s Crossword SUDOKU /WWW.QNS.COM /GAMES.QNS.COM