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PUZZLES
3 5 9
1 7 5 3
4 1
8 1 2 3 4
9 1
6 9 1 2 8
5 8
1 8 5 2
6 9 7
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Across
1. Crow’s home
6. Gangster’s blade
10. Fix, in a way
13. Birdlike
14. Desert sight
16. Victorian, for one
17. Bring back into original
use
19. Be in session
20. Bosses
21. Vacation souvenirs
(hyphenated)
23. Shoestring
25. Warm, so to speak
26. Cheat
29. Duck’s home
31. Arm bones
33. Artist Chagall
35. Bakery buy
37. Belief in God based
on reason, not revelation
39. Skating jumps
41. Bill and ___
42. Taste, e.g.
43. Japanese-American
44. Chinese dynasty
46. Accommodate
47. Power glitch
49. Tablet
51. Blonde’s secret,
maybe
52. Coquette
53. Checked item
55. Having flat polished
surfaces, like on a gemstone
58. Ancient upright stone
slabs bearing markings
62. Airline’s home base
63. Argue in protest
65. “Is that ___?”
66. Insinuating
67. Overthrow, e.g.
68. Carry on
69. Bring (out)
70. Grating
Down
1. Hawaiian tuber
2. “... happily ___ after”
3. ___ Piper
4. Artist’s stand
5. Bag
6. Blubber
7. “Stop right there!”
8. Egyptian fertility goddess
9. Hindu deity, protector of
worlds
10. Held back
11. Western blue flag, e.g.
12. Gangster’s gun
15. Police officers’ badges
18. English race place
22. Wife of a raja (pl.)
24. Legislate
26. F.B.I. operative (hyphenated)
27. Part of a plane (hyphenated)
28. By reasonable assumption
30. Sag
32. English exam finale,
often
34. Divine
36. Bartender’s supply
38. Allocate, with “out”
40. Washington and Franklin
on the Constitution
45. Luster
48. Scope
50. Second of two
54. ___ cotta
55. Holding as much as
possible
56. Arabic for “commander”
57. Birdbrain
59. 1968 Chemistry Nobelist
Onsager
60. Above
61. Mysterious: Var.
62. Accident
64. After expenses
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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