Sudoku and Crossword
Test your brain with this month’s sudoku and crossword puzzles.
Test Your Brain • Sudoku
Fill in each 3×3 box as well as each column and row with the numbers 1-9 without repeating a number. Sudoku by Tom Schier
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| 1 Clear a whiteboard 6 Reef material 11 Structural 16 Kingly 17 Famed Italian violin 18 With rice, in product names 19 Highest valued card in a deck 21 Blabbered 22 Whip soundly 23 New Rochelle college 24 Refer casually 25 Going (for) 28 Mean 31 One of Columbus’ sailing trio 33 “As ___ on TV!” 34 With 56-Across,golfing axiom 39 Shill for, e.g. 43 “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-___” 44 Two-dot punctuation mark 45 Plumber’s pipe tool 46 Immense fan 48 Welcome uncivilly 50 Actress Selleca 51 Henry VIII sextet 52 The Phantom’s rival 54 Explosive initials 55 Told a whopper 56 See 34-Across 60 Shankar solo 61 Stem’s opposite 62 First major battle of the American Revolution 68 God-given 72 Heavy jacket with a hood 73 Alpine stream 75 Convention rep. 76 Eagle’s descent 77 Living room activities, perhaps 81 1,000 kilograms 82 Ben-Hur attire 83 Shiraz native 84 Three-time Masters winner Sam 85 Distorts, as statistics 86 Fidgety |
1 Poetry muse 2 Sportscast wrap-up 3 Contract negotiator 4 ___ Paulo, Brazil 5 Pixie 6 Guitar accessory 7 Muscat inhabitant 8 Fastball clocker 9 Took a loss on 10 Fleur de ___ 11 Black or blue fish 12 Pencilless exams 13 Ring-shaped cake 14 Positively charged terminal 15 Like graph paper 20 Accept a package delivery from UPS, in a way 24 Quite ___ (many) 26 Billing doc. 27 Sibling’s daughters 29 ___ Kosh B’Gosh (kids’clothing line) 30 Classic opening 32 Instant messenger provider 34 Say “y’all,” say 35 Diameter halves 36 Start of many bumper sticker slogans 37 Morrow or Lowe 38 Equine huff 39 Arbor leader? 40 Zulu or Swahili, for one 41 Barely managing 42 Places for braces 45 Convinced (about) 47 Badly chafed 49 Dolt 50 Lithographer Ives’ partner 53 Alley ___ 56 Pull into a spot 57 “That’s gross!” 58 ___ chi ch’uan (martial art) 59 Have the deed to 60 Used a scythe 62 Cordage fibers 63 Not achieved 64 Nary a soul 65 Swedish monetary unit 66 Shirt size 67 ’80s TV court drama 69 Commercial creator 70 Promgoers, usually 71 Borden’s bovine 74 “Friends” character 77 Mtge. units 78 Hunky-dory 79 “___ Along Little Dogies” 80 Have vitality |
