Sudoku and Crossword

Challenge yourself with this month’s sudoku and crossword puzzles.

BY TOM SCHIER

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.

EASY

DIFFICULT

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Around the Solar System

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ACROSS

1 Overworked horses
5 Tubular fall blooms
11 Cheer up
16 Mideast port and gulf
17 _____ Marcus (retail chain)
18 Companion of day
19 Famed armless Greek statue
21 Farm-equipment pioneer John
22 Excuse to avoid blame
23 Not ‘neath
24 Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day
26 Varnish ingredient
27 Dolts
29 Former Kremlin-dweller
30 Veep before Al
31 Kansas’ nickname
34 O’Day and Ekberg
37 “Either he goes ___ go!”
38 Pod spherule
39 Mythical ruler of the sea
42 “The Art of the Fugue” composer
46 Fortune shelfmate
47 School-zone sign
48 Cookie sheet
51 Tolstoy or Buscaglia
52 Free of clutter
54 Spongy confection toasted over a campfire
59 Big name at South Bend, once
62 Dull routine
63 Slow-cook, in a way
64 First US human spaceflight program
69 Tennis judge’s call
70 Cries of glee
71 Calculus calculation
72 Capitol Hill VIP
75 Mimic
77 Reverent respect
78 Your of yore
80 Type of protest
81 Our home planet
84 Confidence scheme
85 Available for viewing
86 Tarot user
87 Half of scissors?
88 ___ hasty retreat (quickly reverses one’s position)
89 El Misti locale

DOWN

1 Kind of engagement
2 Writer Rogers St. Johns
3 Photo ending
4 Refuse to acknowledge
5 Far ___ wide
6 Take to the airport
7 Television programming
window
8 Mideast honcho
9 “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo ___”
10 Forty winks
11 Speak out for
12 Property encumbrance
13 To-do list
14 Frog’s place?
15 Without end, in poetry
20 North American Indians
25 Gefilte-fish fish
28 Wilderness photomuralist Adams
29 Same-aged sibling
31 Letters on some silver
32 Tulsa sch. named for an evangelist
33 Filing aid
34 Comparable (to)
35 Three squared
36 Native of 89-Across
40 Spitz-type dog
41 Ordinal suffix
43 “That’s ___ know!”
44 Bus. moguls
45 Elias or Gordie
49 Permeate
50 Describe
53 ___ Mahal
55 Octopod’s octet
56 Kick oneself for
57 Summer headwear
58 Troubadour’s tune
60 Positions a picture again
61 “No room to swing ___”
64 Puckered fabric
65 Sends money in payment of
66 Ear problem
67 Organized crime
68 Moves stealthily
72 “No, ___, Bob!”
73 Submit for judging
74 India’s first prime minister
76 Pitchfork prong
77 “___ way!”
79 Padlock part
82 Half, doubled
83 Actor Stephen of Fear Dot Com

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