22 DECEMBER 9, 2021 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
PUZZLES
2 3 9 8
3 1 5
8 5 6 7
2 6 1 5
5 3 2 9
6 8 9 5
2 7 8
7 8 2 3
Across
1. Beer buy
5. Computer picture
9. Junk E-mail
13. Those who appeal a court
decision
16. Goya’s “Duchess of ___”
17. Treacherous person (4
wds)
19. “Sesame Street” watcher
20. Chain letters?
21. Describes in vivid detail
22. Bad look
24. Brightly colored venomous
snakes of SE Asia
27. Clavell’s “___-Pan”
28. Artist’s stand
30. Clinker
31. Annoyance
32. Kitten’s cry
34. Finger jewelry with a signet
(2 wds)
37. Total destruction
39. Short postscript to a literary
work
41. Big Apple attraction, with
“the”
42. “Schindler’s ___”
43. “To ___ is human ...”
45. Dutch pottery city
49. Bank offering, for short
50. Declaration of intent to
inflict harm
53. French Sudan, today
54. Medicinal shrub
56. “Flying Down to ___”
58. Big wine holder
59. Simultaneously (4 wds)
63. Quaker’s “you”
64. Affording gain
65. Reddish-brown gem
66. Poet Angelou
67. 1992 Robin Williams movie
Down
1. Royal home
2. Temporary interruption in
breathing
3. Floods
4. “A rat!”
5. Go furtively
6. Don’t believe it
7. Queen, maybe
8. ___ power
9. Delhi dress
10. Banana variety
11. Fast
12. Coming together to form
a group
14. Certain digital watch face,
for short
15. Aug. follower
18. Neon, e.g.
23. Change from solid to liquid
again
25. Spartan
26. “I had no ___!”
29. Rotating to the left, shortened
31. For the time being
33. Card
35. Store convenience, for
short
36. Emulated Pinocchio
37. Fiasco
38. Litigant
39. Evokes
40. Carnivorous freshwater
fish
44. Make less dense
46. Ritual hand washing during
Mass
47. Without showing any emotion
or interest
48. Voluntary contributions to
the church
50. 20-20, e.g.
51. Door fastener
52. Leg bone
55. Abandon
57. Crumb
60. Branch
61. Bygone bird
62. “Dig in!”
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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