26 DECEMBER 30, 2021 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
PUZZLES
Across
1. Calls the shots
8. Black or dark green
mica
15. Oblivious
16. Republic in NW South
America
17. Accompanying documents
providing information
(2 wds)
19. Charlotte-to-Raleigh
dir.
20. So-called “royal herb”
21. “Cut it out!”
22. Spread
23. Long-jawed fish
24. Extras (hyph.)
27. Corrective lenses
31. Desire
32. Doozie
33. ___-Atlantic
35. Strengthen, with “up”
36. Overthrow, e.g.
37. “The Last of the Mohicans”
girl
38. Order to attack, with
“on”
39. Ishmael’s people
40. “Ciao!”
41. Last
43. Bring up
44. Long, long time
45. Legislate
47. Polite address for a
woman
50. Forgo
51. Unhatched chick
54. “The Simpsons
Movie,” e.g. (2 wds)
57. Swiss folk singer, e.g.
58. Feeler
59. Pain reliever
60. Fixed (2 wds)
Down
1. Leader
2. Knowing, as a secret (2
wds)
3. 90’s party
4. Female sheep
5. Light automatic rifle
6. Groups of three
7. Taste, e.g.
8. Round sound
9. Crystal meth, in slang
10. Excluded from society
11. Spuds
12. “I had no ___!”
13. High spots
14. European language
18. Fairy tale cookie boy
22. Didn’t go straight
23. Massive, wild ox of S
Asia
24. “Hamlet” has five
25. Sci-fi extra
26. Waltz, e.g.
28. Golden Triangle
country
29. Be theatrical
30. Femme fatale
32. Highlands hillside
34. Blowgun ammo
36. “___ Brockovich”
37. Links rental
39. Blip
40. “Lizard” constellation
42. Removed by boring
43. 16th century stately
court dance
46. Rechargeable dry-cell
battery
47. Poet Angelou
48. Soon, to a bard
49. Lover of Aeneas
50. “___ #1!” (contraction)
51. A long, long time
52. Departed
53. Buzzing pest
55. Big ___ Conference
56. ___ Danson, “Cheers”
actor
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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