44 DECEMBER 24, 2020 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
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Across
1. Cooking meas.
4. Consumes
7. Windy
12. Bang-up (hyphenated)
13. “Goldberg Variations”
composer
14. Cliffside dwelling
15. Insulating tubing
17. Discover
18. Divided by a septum
19. Dig with the snout
21. “How ___ Has the
Banshee Cried” (Thomas
Moore poem)
22. Doctor Who villainess,
with “the”
23. John the ___, Jewish
prophet
27. View from Jidda (2
wds)
31. Certain digital watch
face, for short
32. Belt
34. Long
35. Aged
36. “Super!”
38. “My man!”
39. Collect slowly
42. Crow’s home
44. Howard of “Happy
Days”
45. More inexplicable
47. Partly submerged
ridge of loose material in
a river
49. Good vantage point
51. “Dear” one
52. Syndicate
54. Pablo ___, Spanish
painter and sculptor
58. Star bursts
59. Time in life when one
has attained maturity
61. Dined at home (2 wds)
62. Bolted
63. 1/500 of the Indianapolis
500
64. Square
65. “Comprende?”
66. A pint, maybe
Down
1. Hit the bottle
2. Become unhinged
3. Wooden spinning
child’s toy (2 wds)
4. “Unimaginable as ___
in Heav’n”: Milton
5. Appear
6. Bake, as eggs
7. Nonsense
8. Rise or fall of sea level
in the same direction as
the wind (2 wds)
9. Face-to-face exam
10. Kind of service for
syndicated news
11. Appetite
12. Balaam’s mount
13. Placing a wager
16. Handles, esp. on
knives
20. Propel, in a way
23. Scarlett O’Hara, e.g.
24. Calculator, at times
25. Breed
26. Ashes, e.g.
28. Mideast native
29. Overthrow, e.g.
30. Soon, to a bard
31. Balcony section
33. Spanish appetizer
37. Kind of strength
40. Armed plane attack (2
wds)
41. State when juvenile
characteristics are
retained by the adults of a
species
43. Decree
46. ___ v. Wade
48. Hindu god
50. Apartments
52. Pigeon’s home
53. Affirm
54. 100%
55. Dirty
56. Exclusive
57. “___ to Billie Joe”
58. Masefield play “The
Tragedy of ___”
60. ___-eyed
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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