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By Brendan Emmett Quigley

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ACROSS 1 Very pale 4 Biblical queen’s home 9 Reliever’s stat 14 Letters on a Crest box 15 Serve some more wine 16 Spanish plain 17 Squalid hope? 19 Music scout’s dept. at a label 20 Back of the book listing 21 Coastal flyer 23 Coloration 24 It comes after 11 25 College head’s tumbler? 29 “Get back here, you scoundrel!” 30 Figures out 31 Smaller grommet 32 Choral works 34 Olaf Scholz’s nat. 35 November event for the “Black Is King” singer? 38 Grass to grow on 39 Some urinals 40 Big name in travel guides 43 Surf without comment 44 Safety’s point value 47 Get some wild felines from a store? 49 See 8-Down 50 Decorative globe 51 Game with Skip cards 52 Clear, as windshields in February 53 Dudes 55 Cafeteria item leans a bit? 59 Dude in Devonshire 60 Craze of the moment 61 Long tail? 62 Made some stitching 63 ___ Theory (postulate in sports wherein a team gets better after their star player is sidelined) 64 [Just a couple examples will do]: Abbr. DOWN 1 Going up to one’s ankles 2 “Songs in ___” (Alicia Keys album) 3 ___ the Relentless (“What We Do In The Shadows” vampire) 4 Underground riverway 5 “Explain it to me” 6 Prefix with Pen 7 Long way around town? 8 With 49-Across, alias of electronic musician Richard D. James 9 Like “sus” or “bet” 10 Copying, in the kitchen 11 Band that infamously stipulated “no brown M&Ms” in its riders 12 Software developer’s target audience 13 Most in pain 18 Mil. title 22 Sandwich store bread 25 Davidson of “Meet Cute” 26 Scottish dances 27 “Great Expectations” heroine 28 Some bricks 30 Ingredient of some milk 32 Red wine 33 Do a deep clean 35 It’s a gut punch 36 Besmirches 37 Fluid from a well 38 Drink similar to a lambic or a gueuze 40 They’re dropped when one’s angry 41 Stirred (up) 42 Day light 44 Feeling of regret 45 Set of pegs in cricket 46 “Almost done” 48 “Dunno” 49 Big Sri Lankan export 52 Dumb putz, for short 54 Squeeze (out) 56 Unpolished 57 Black bird with a smoothed bill 58 Yang’s companion Pearl’s Puzzle Difficulty Level ★ ★ ★Puzzle for the week of September 26, 2022 Difficulty Level: ●●●○

Fill in every row, column, and 3x3 box with each of the letters

S N A K Y T E M P exactly once.

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Puzzle for P E N Y T A N the week of September 26, 2022 M K pearl@bendsource.com © Pearl Stark mathpuzzlesgames.com/quodoku VOLUME 26 N K E NT Y P N A MT S Y M N K S Difficulty Level: ●●●○ ISSUE 39

Fill in every row, column, and 3x3 box with each of the letters exactly once. E A M K P M K A E Fill in every row, column, and 3x3 box with each of the letters M K N Y S E A M K P M K A E / SEPTEMBER 29, 2022 / THE SOURCE WEEKLYS N A K Y T E M P The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote: “What Turning Forty Meant to Me: I need to ________ off as soon as I get home. I didn’t used to have to do that. But now I do.” - Tina Fey The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote: S N A K Y T E M P exactly once. The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote: “What Turning Forty Meant to Me: I need to ________ off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.” ― Tina Fey

ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES “What Turning Forty Meant to Me: I need to Answer for the week of Sep 19, 2022 ________ off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.” I U F O T L W R E ― Tina FeyO L W R E I F T U

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E I O W L R U F T "Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits." - Samuel Butler