Challenge yourself 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

Happy Father’s Day
•Crossword by Tom Schier

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1 Exclamations of surprise
4 Back talk
7 Cranberry patch
10 Fiber-___ cable
15 Conservative start
16 Before now
17 Bruce or Brenda
18 ___ cotta
19 Wrap up
20 Father’s Day seafood fare?
23 Santa ___ winds
24 Town north of Halifax
25 Summer on the Riviera
26 Interruption
27 Copy, in brief
29 Father’s Day baked fare?
32 Great numbers
34 Dog’s dog
35 One of nine for a golfer
39 Promotional excess
40 Laces into
44 Allan-___ (Robin Hood character)
45 Wise lawgiver
46 Loss of memory
48 Father’s Day cereal?
53 Long noosed ropes to catch animals
54 Sierra ___
55 Half ___ (Small milk order)
56 Average figures
57 Judge
61 ___ Brummel
62 ___ Paulo, Brazil
64 Develop gradually
66 Father’s Day dessert?
71 Dazzling effect
72 Ecol. watchdog
75 Head covering
76 Crude carrier
78 Sculpture material
79 Father’s Day breakfast fare?
82 “They’re playing ___ song”
83 Point in question
84 Reuben bread
85 Everyman John
86 Golf ball supporter
87 Atkins and Huntley
88 Questionnaire question
89 Slalom shape
90 Danson or Kennedy
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1 “Let There Be Peace ___ “
2 Place where poultry is kept
3 Father’s Day drink?
4 Computer on the go
5 Frankenstein’s lab assistant
6 Unexpectedly materialize
7 Softly hit hit
8 “__ the ramparts…”
9 Switzerland city
10 Common survey option
11 Unit-cost word
12 Math branch (for short)
13 ___La Douce
14 Abner creator
21 Vel attachment?
22 Worry obsessively
28 Future fish
30 Go (for)
31 Agreed with
33 Quick flick
36 Woodworking tool
37 Miscellany
38 Half-moon tide
41 “It’s a pity!”
42 Coll. course
43 Joint between the foot and the leg
44 Singer Murray
45 Improvise vocally
46 At least two eras
47 Parson’s residence
48 Good-sized piece
49 Back of the neck
50 Tosca tune, e.g.
51 Locker art
52 Grazing site
56 Miss Piggy’s query
57 Savage of fiction
58 Comedian Chris
59 Person removed from a disaster area
60 ___ mail
62 Places to be pampered
63 Fall flowers
65 Bible text segments
67 “Absolutely!”
68 Monastery manuscript
69 Ad ___ (Impromptu quip)
70 Give the slip to
72 Grand-scale story
73 Fancy-schmancy
74 Church niche
77 Grandson of Adam
80 Stock option
81 Spud bud
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