APRIL 2023
CABIN Fever PUZZLE BOOK
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Publications bllicati attio ion The newspaper of today is the history of tomorrow.
This book is filled with word searches, crosswords, word scrambles, sudoku, mazes and connect the dots.
Steven V. Baker, Ltd.
SUDOKU Fun by the Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Answers on page 14
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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!
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WORD SCRAMBLE Unscramble these words pertaining to D&B Autobody
1. D O B Y H P S O 2. P I A E R R 3. L L I I O O S N C 4. R C A 5. R E I T 6. G N E N E I 7. E A H D G T H I L S 8. A N P I T 9. D l L E H S N D W I 10. O U A T 11. O D O R
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12. R I R M R O 13. G T S I L L I T A H 14. L K B I N R E 15. E S E N L C I Answers on page 13
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Hair & Body Works
SUDOKU Fun by the Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Answers on page 21
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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!
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Sauk Rapids Liquor CLUES ACROSS 1. Influential Swedish, Belgian clan 6. Swiss river 9. Nocturnal S. American rodent 13. Like coagulated milk 14. Lima is its capital 15. Lying down 16. Jai __, sport 17. Egyptian statesman 18. Napoleon Dynamite’s uncle 19. Renovated 21. Chadic language 22. 18-year period 23. Beverage container 24. Natural logarithm 25. The “mecca” of basketball 28. A way to darken 29. Mackerels 31. Actor Pitt 33. Places to buy seafood 36. True firs 38. Neither 39. Fencing sword 41. Italian pastas 44. Island nation close to the U.S. 45. Begets 46. Resembles a pouch 48. __ student, learns healing 49. Sodium 51. Indicates position 52. The world has one 54. Partner to pains 56. Photographer 60. Chew the fat 61. Culture of the British Iron Age 62. Weaverbird 63. Advice or counsel 64. Asian nation 65. Brought on board
66. German river 67. Airborne (abbr.) 68. Leaf-footed bug genus CLUES DOWN 1. Mark left behind 2. Cry weakly 3. Ancient region in modern Syria 4. Farewell 5. Blue grass state 6. Genus of mosquitoes 7. S. Israeli city 8. You can get stuck in one 9. One who mistrusts others unjustifiably 10. First month of ancient Hebrew calendar 11. Tigers legend Fielder 12. Make more attractive 14. Horses 17. Slight projection in typefaces 20. Male parent 21. Jack and Jill are two 23. After B 25. Licensed for Wall Street 26. Missile with about 49. Mother-of-pearl 50. Hurt 600-mile range 52. Legendary slugger 27. Goddesses Hank 29. A day kids love 53. Polio vaccine 30. Oily secretion developer 32. One-tenth of a 55. Incline from vertical meter 34. A father’s male child 56. Sea creature 57. Actress Kate 35. One point east of 58. Affirmative votes southeast 59. Nothing 37. Silk garments 61. Pie _ __ mode 40. Cool! 65. Expresses surprise 42. The color of anger 43. Trade profession 47. It can get you Answers on around page 2
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SUDOKU Fun by the Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!
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!
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Village Pharmacy & Gifts
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1. Liquor 2. Scotch 3. Makers Mark 4. Old Fashioned 5. Bourbon 6. Party Store 7. Case of Beer 8. Whiskey 9. Whistle Pig 10. Goldschlager 11. Wine 12. Pinot 13. Mogen David
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Village
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Milaca Liquor
WORD SCRAMBLE Unscramble these words pertaining to Milaca Liquor
1. O U L R Q I 2. H T C O S C 3. S R M E A K A K M R 4. L O D D F N A S I E H O 5. R U N B O B O 6. T P A Y R E O T S R 7. E S C A F O E E R B 8. S I Y K E H W 9. I L T H E W S G P I 10. A E L L O R D H G C G S
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11. I N E W 12. I O P N T 13. O M G N E I V D A D Answers on page 15
Intersection of 169 & 23 16
Pierz Co-op CLUES ACROSS 62. Doctors’ group 1. Scream loudly 63. Actress Susan 5. Antidepressant 64. Appropriate (abbr.) 8. The bill in a CLUES DOWN restaurant 1. Cool! 11. Oblong pulpits 2. Hebrew unit of 13. Adult female measure chicken 3. Swedish rock group 14. Abnormal breathing 4. College army 15. Financial 5. Black eye obligations 6. One who stopped 16. Belonging to a thing working 17. Winged 7. Teach a value 18. Peoples 8. Rhythmic patterns 20. College hoops 9. “MASH” actor Alda tournament 10. “Friday Night Lights” 21. An informal body of director friends 12. Midway between 22. Region of the world south and southeast 25. In an early way 14. Indian musical 30. Connected by pattern kinship 19. Fulfill a desire 31. Type of tree 23. Water soaked soil 32. Official order 24. Brass instrument 33. Foundation for an 25. Before idea 26. Popular color 38. Small, faint 27. Peyton’s little constellation brother 41. Book lovers 28. Partner to cheese 43. Vegetable 29. Put onto 45. Cabbage variety 34. “Much __ about 47. A way to heal nothing” 47. Adventure story 49. Illuminated 35. A way to mend 48. Marine bivalve 50. Dish that features a 36. Anger mollusk stick 37. Soviet Socialist 51. Retrospective 55. Insurance-related Republic analysis (abbr.) costs (abbr.) 39. Mobilized 52. Actor Pitt 56. Solid water 40. Resembles an 53. Tibetan village 57. Soldier’s gear earlobe 54. A way to change by 59. “Uncle Buck” actress 41. Cut of meat heating Hoffmann 42. Nigerian people 58. A beam of sunshine 60. Former measure of 44. Recently length 45. Square stone 61. Arabic name building at Mecca meaning “spring” 46. Adhere to orders
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SUDOKU Fun by the Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Answers on page 24
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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!
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Coil’s Flags & Flagpoles
WORD SCRAMBLE Unscramble these words pertaining to weather
1. E G N E R I Z F 2. S U S H L 3. E I H A R N R U C 4. I H U M D 5. G H N L G I N T I 6. O S E C V A T R 7. O H P T Y O N
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8. Y D N I W Answers for page 15
9. Z A R Z B L I D 10. B E R Z E E 11. W V E A A E T H 12. R E W H O S 13. H E S N U S I N 14. Z Z E L I R D
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Sauk Rapids Liquor
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ALWAYS BE RESPONSIBLE.
Make sure to watch for our beer of the Month!
City Owned. Our profits go back to work for you!
Sauk Rapids
LIQUOR
312 Benton Drive N, SAUK RAPIDS
320-251-4185
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Danny’s Dugout
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CLUES ACROSS CLUES DOWN 1. Autonomic nervous 1. Accumulate on the system surface of 4. Kids love it in 2. Not a good feeling summer 3. Got smaller 8. Dashes 4. Helped a golfer get 10. Polynesian sarong around 11. Chapter of the 5. Military forces Koran 6. Partner to ways 12. Evildoer 7. Low, one-horse 13. Japanese sleigh commercial city 9. Japanese seaport 15. A way of binding 10. Inclined to favor 16. Early Christianity 12. Avid reader French historian 14. Lead singer of Heart 17. Kids’ term for bugs 15. Pigeon sound 18. Beloved family 17. Vital part holiday activity 19. People who are not 21. Work unit Jewish 22. Bundle 20. Shed tears 23. A number or 23. Pokes holes in the amount not ground specified 24. Beverage receptacle 24. Military official 25. Stone used to (abbr.) surface roads 25. Queens ballplayer 26. French-Belgian river 26. Type of gibbon 27. Type of phone 27. Norma Jean’s stage 28. Long-lasting light name bulb 34. Places 29. Type of medication 35. Bluish greens (abbr.) 36. Argued publicly 30. German city 37. Having the shape of 31. Animal disease a cube 32. They’re in martinis 38. They star at 33. Get away from weddings 34. Dormouse 39. Indian god 36. Database associated with management reproduction system 40. Ocean sunfishes 41. Slowly leak through 42. Plant part 43. Midway between south and southeast Answers on page 7
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Murphy Chevrolet
SUDOKU Fun by the Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test!
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!
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SUDOKU Fun by the Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Answers on page 34
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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!
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Lash’s Auto Repair CLUES ACROSS 1. Female parent 5. NY city 10. Israeli diplomat Abba 14. Surrounded by 15. Car part 16. Simple aquatic plant 17. Tough skin of fruit 18. Finnish lake 19. Composition 20. Very willing 22. One and only 23. Cluster cups 24. Famed Hollywood director 27. Score perfectly 30. Important lawyers 31. Undivided 32. Part of the foot 35. Spun by spiders 37. Married woman 38. Reagan’s Secretary of State 39. Instruments 40. The A-Team drove one 41. Short-tailed marten 42. Oil organization 43. Predecessor to the EU 44. “Hotel California” rockers 45. Color at the end of the spectrum 46. Actress Ryan 47. Digital audiotape 48. Expression of creative skill 49. Scientific instrument 52. Dog-__: marked for later 55. Israeli city __ Aviv 56. Fencing sword 60. Turkish title 61. Wise individuals 63. Cold wind 64. Popular type of shoe
65. The territory occupied by a nation 66. Tattle 67. Chop up 68. Actress Zellweger 69. Romanian city CLUES DOWN 1. Female of a horse 2. Bowfin 3. Chinese dynasty 4. Small venomous snake 5. Global news agency 6. Common fractions 7. American state 8. Tired 9. Boxing’s GOAT 10. Made less severe 11. A group of countries in special alliance 12. God of fire (Hindu) 13. Northeast Indian ethnic group 21. Anchor ropes 23. They __ 25. Apprehend 26. Autonomic nervous system 27. A theatrical performer 28. 2-door car 29. Partner to flowed 32. Pair of small hand drums 33 Former Houston footballer 34. Discharge 36. Former women’s branch of the military 37. Partner to cheese 38. Witch 40. Live in a dull way 41. Satisfies 43. Snakelike fish 44. Consume 46. Type of student 47. Erase
49. Instruct 50. Girl’s given name 51. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation 52. Every one of two or more things 53. Indian city 54. Greek letters 57. Weapon 58. Geological times 59. Cycle in physics 61. Soviet Socialist Republic 62. Witness
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Sauk Rapids Liquor
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Gilleland Chevrolet
SUDOKU Fun by the Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Answers on page 12
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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!
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1. Freezing 2. Slush 3. Hurricane 4. Humid 5. Lightning 6. Overcast 7. Typhoon 8. Windy 9. Blizzard 10. Breeze 11. Heatwave 12. Shower 13. Sunshine 14. Drizzle
CLUES ACROSS 1. One who regrets 5. Time zone 8. Subway dweller 11. Bend in a river 13. Alias 14. Isodor __, American Nobel physicist 15. Very (music) 16. Zero 17. Phil __, former CIA 18. Competitions 20. Unwell 21. Puts in place 22. Gets rid of 25. Allows light to pass through 30. Climbed quickly 31. We all have it 32. There’s a North & South 33. Emaciation 38. Supervises flying 41. Very dark colors 43. Unwanted 45. Grants 48. Three visited Jesus 49. Wife of Amun 50. Broadway actress Daisy 55. A Spanish river 56. I (German) 57. French opera composer 59. Six (Spanish) 60. Last letter 61. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation 62. A curved shape 63. Make a mistake 64. Tall plant CLUES DOWN 1. Computer memory 2. “Et __”: “And wife” (Latin) 3. Ancient Syrian city 4. College army
5. Cassava 6. Talented 7. Capital of Estonia 8. Finger millet 9. In a way, assists 10. Men’s fashion accessories 12. Misery 14. Skin disorder 19. Selling at specially reduced prices 23. Good friend 24. Stationary portion of a generator 25. Expression of disappointment 26. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet 27. Where birds fly 28. Midway between north and northeast 29. Chaotic states 34. Comedic actress Gasteyer 35. Kids’ dining accessory 36. Snakelike fish 37. Midway between south and southeast 39. Assign lifelike qualities to 40. One who cites 41. Midway between east and southeast 42. North wind 44. One or the other 45. Cavalry sword 46. Of the Hungarian language 47. Life stories 48. Flat tableland with steep edges 51. Swiss river 52. Plant that makes gum 53. French cleric 54. One point east of northeast 58. Free from
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Central MN Arts Board
CMAB Central MN Arts Board
Investing in the Arts throughout Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright Counties 34
D&B Autobody
SUDOKU Fun by the Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Answers on page 3
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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!
Collision repair, large or small,
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AFTER
Coil’s Flags & Flagpoles 60. Folk singer DiFranco 61. FL city 62. Naturally occurring solid 63. Language of indigenous Asian people 64. Dark brown CLUES DOWN 1. Soviet Socialist Republic 2. Zoroastrian concept of holy fire 3. Venomous snake genus 4. Uninteresting 5. Straightforwardness 6. Expression of wild excitement 7. Arrange in order 8. East Indian cereal grass 9. Hillsides 10. Bird beak covering 12. Baseball stat 14. Edge of a surfboard 19. Wrapping accessory 23. Express approval 24. Deduce 25. Similar 26. Born of 27. Automobile 28. Obliged to repay 29. Live in 34. Influential journalist Tarbell 35. Set aflame 36. OJ trial judge 37. Scottish town 39. African nation 40. Egg-shaped wind instrument 41. Mimic 42. Frees 44. In slow tempo
45. Sword 46. Related on the mother’s side 47. Mars crater 48. Plant of the lily family 51. Suitable in the circumstances 52. Hillside 53. Metrical foot 54. Amazon river tributary 58. Adult male human
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CLUES ACROSS 1. It’s all over the beach 5. A cirque 8. Corpuscle count (abbr.) 11. Influential report author 13. Satisfaction 14. Recurring only at long intervals 15. Islamic calendar month 16. Neither 17. Gelatinous substance 18. American electronic music producer 20. Old computer system 21. Professional organization 22. Malaria mosquitoes 25. Not composed of matter 30. It’s in the ocean 31. Peyton’s little brother 32. French commune 33. Eyelashes 38. Equal (prefix) 41. Quality of little or no rain 43. One who beheads 45. Sung to 48. Influential punk artist 49. Amount of time 50. Polio vaccine developer 55. Abba __, Israeli politician 56. Job 57. Flat-bottomed sailboat 59. Japanese wooden clog
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