Games

Enjoy Fun By The Numbers 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 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!

JONESIN’

Across 1 Starts the golf game 8 Steel worker of sorts 15 All pointy and line-y 16 Season division 17 Yell directed at a much-hated portal? 18 Speedo bunch? 19 Org. 20 “Classic Concentration” puzzle type 22 Word before Moines or Plaines 23 Target of crunches 25 “Charlotte’s Web” author

White and namesakes 26 In ___ (actually) 27 Voicemail message opener, if you know someone well 30 Georgia airport code 31 One-named comedian and host of “Celebrity Fit Club” 32 “What’ll break if I break up with you” response, for a thuggish couple? 37 Where letters are sent to the mil. 38 Futuristic van Damme flick of 1994 39 Sweet suffix 40 Vegetarian’s “Duh!” response to why they hate their formerly vegan pal? 43 Brit or kiddie follower 44 Actress Jillian 45 Illegal lighting 46 Early gay rights advocate André 48 Campus comedy with a cameo by George Clinton 49 Wind dir. 50 Mass ___ (Boston thoroughfare, to locals) 51 Play cowritten by Mark

Twain and Bret Harte 53 Prepare the day before 57 Drink Mencken called “The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet” 60 Library’s attempt at copying milk ads? 62 Like leftovers 63 Ripken’s team 64 He’s a little froggy 65 Keep in check

“Join Up!” -- Two and two are indeed four. [#215, Aug. 2005]

By Matt Jones

2 Deputy played by Michael

Weston in the “Dukes of

Hazzard” movie 3 They’re stroked but not seen 4 Sarkisian, for Cher, once 5 Gathering dust 6 County gatherings 7 Like some refills 8 Lincoln or Grant, e.g. 9 Not-quite-ready-to-fold remark 10 Tayback who played Mel on “Alice” 11 Lang. that doesn’t really contain that many words for

“snow” 12 Forest floor growth 13 Blurry area, maybe 14 Witherspoon who played an angel in “Little Nicky” 21 Confidential phrase 24 Outdo in 26 Pt. of ESL 27 “If ___ be so bold ...” 28 Shat this clue has 29 Took on, as a burden 30 Redundant-sounding cash dispenser 31 Dominant figures 33 “___ of Me” (1993 PJ

Harvey album) 34 Auction grouping 35 Capital home to a Viking

Ship Museum 36 Ultra-bright 41 Go quickly 42 Muscle that makes things stand upright 46 Entire range 47 Trump’s ex 48 Dashboard 49 Annoy your bedmate, in a way 52 Composer Stravinsky 54 Part of a reversal, maybe 55 Actor Ed in a famous

“Tonight Show” tomahawk-throwing stunt 56 Pigsty 58 Phone line invasion 59 Lance of the O.J. trial 61 Leave change on the table

Last week's solution