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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
CLUES ACROSS
1. Second sight
4. Standard electrode potential
7. Type of gibbon
8. John Joseph __: American industrialist
10. Manning and Whitney are two
12. Abrupt
13. Baroque musical instrument
14. Post-burning residue
16. When you hope to arrive
17. Sign up (Brit. Eng.)
19. Sun up in New York
20. Employee stock ownership plan
46. Tropical tree and fruit
48. Company officer
49. Contact lens term
50. Your consciousness of your own identity
51. “Ghetto Superstar” singer
52. Piece of turf
CLUES DOWN
1. Number of players on each side in a football game
2. Containing salt
3. Reasoning or knowledge: a __
4. Car mechanics group
5. Leave a place
6. Southern Colombian capital
8. Old English letter
9. Tide
11. Walk heavily
14. Chemical compound (abbr.)
15. Artificial openings
18. Luteinizing hormone
19. Unit of energy
20. Circular movement of water
22. A way of holding
23. Popular book of words (abbr.)
24. States’ group
27. Dashes
28. Body part
29. Electronic countermeasures
31. Consumed
32. Small bird
33. Unhappy
34. Football’s big game (abbr.)
35. Valued object offered in good faith
36. Wild goats
37. Precede in place
38. Small edible fish
39. Notice of death
40. Body cavity of a metazoan
44. Partner to cheese
47. Not around
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Solution for puzzle on page 7
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21. Where people live 25. Method to record an electrogram 26. Angry 27. No longer living 29. Simple 30. Swiss river 31. Portion of a play 32. It’s under the tree 39. Wood sorrels 41. No (Scottish) 42. Dialect of English 43. Former Steelers’ QB 44. Popular beer 45. It can make you sick
SUDOKU
Here’s How It Works:
Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
1 2 3 4
2 3 4
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
CLUES ACROSS
1. Type of cat
6. Weaponry
10. Western Christian Church service
14. Significant eruption of pustules
15. Baltic nation
17. Start of American holiday season
19. Unhappy
20. Maintains possession of
21. Metrical foot of one long and three short syllables
22. Mountain pass
23. Vestments
24. Type of dish
26. Escaped quickly
29. Zoroastrian concept of holy fire
31. Wings
32. Political action committee
34. Touches lightly
35. Stood back from 37. Philippine Island
38. Popular winter activity
39. Type of amine
40. Small freshwater duck
41. Filled with love
43. Without (French)
45. Vetch
46. Swiss river
47. Describes a sound
49. Sign language
50. Hair product
53. Have surgery
57. Quality of being imaginary
58. Far-right German party
59. Drove
60. Former French coin of low value
61. Hard, durable timbers
CLUES DOWN
1. Body art
2. Middle East military title
3. Actor Pitt
4. Container
5. Speak incessantly
6. Relating to algae
7. Jacob __, journalist
8. Rock TV channel
9. Boat’s cargo
10. Most wise
11. Within
12. Chinese industrial city
13. Scotland’s longest river
16. Not capable
18. Footwear
22. Savings account
23. Capable 24. Vaccine developer
25. Tax collector
27. Fencing swords
28. Native religion in China
29. Promotional materials
30. A shot in a film production
31. Afflict in mind or body
33. A passage with access only at one end
35. Breathing devices
36. Employ for wages
37. Kids’ TV channel (abbr.)
39. Popular Boston song
42. Made amends
43. Selling at specially reduced prices
44. Atomic #18
46. With fireplace residue
47. Unleavened cornbread
48. Draw out
49. Southwestern Alaska island
50. Where the Pyramids are
51. People of Nigeria
52. Smaller quantity
53. Destroy the inside of 54. City
55. Chivalrous figure (abbr.)
56. No (Scottish)
See Page 2 for Solution
Solution for puzzle on page 2
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