54 DECEMBER 7, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Across
1. Custom
5. Sloughs
9. Inevitably
13. Small buffalo
14. The New Yorker cartoonist
Edward
15. The “A” of ABM
16. Balkan native
17. Lift up by mechanical
means (var. spell.)
18. Put one’s foot down?
19. Business’ private investigator
(2 wds)
22. Twenty-four of these in
a day
23. Euphorbiaceous plants
24. Police, with “the”
26. Bridle parts
28. “... ___ he drove out of
sight”
29. Mozart’s “L’___ del
Cairo”
30. Ahead of the times
35. Dawdle
38. Flipper
39. “All kidding ___...”
40. Adverse secondary
reaction to a drug (2 wds)
43. Big ___ Conference
44. Ten liters (abbrev.)
45. Loafer, e.g.
47. Back muscle, familiarly
48. Lightweight cotton
cloth, usually plaid
51. Appeared
53. Business investors with
no active roles (2 wds)
56. Knowing, as a secret
(2 wds)
57. Bill of fare
58. John Paul II, e.g.
60. Clearasil target
61. Astrological ram
62. ___ vera
63. Call for
64. Go through
65. Onion relative
Down
1. Functioned as
2. Aces, sometimes
3. Zero degrees compass
point
4. Ban
5. Substance used or prepared
for eating
6. Ashtabula’s lake
7. Crows’ homes
8. One out?
9. Filled pad to sleep on
10. Strip of ropes and tackle,
nautical
11. Hot spot
12. All alternative
14. Moroccan prince or
ruler
20. Hangup
21. Papal court
24. Gobs
25. Palm berry
27. Dumps
31. Not recorded on a map
32. Hamlet, e.g. (2 wds)
33. “I had no ___!”
34. Copper
36. Blushed
37. Long
41. Freight car without
sides or roof (2 wds)
42. Rich cakes originating
in Austria
46. Long, long time
48. Chop finely
49. “Home ___”
50. Extra
52. Calyx part
53. Capital of ancient
Chinese empire
54. “Mi chiamano Mimi,”
e.g.
55. ___ gin fizz
59. “A rat!”
4 7 1
7 4 5 3
2 9 4 8
4 5
4 8 5 2 6
7 9
3 4 8 1
6 7 8 5
5 3 2
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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