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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!
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Across 1 Garden fixture 8 It’s not the R in “MMR”, but another name for measles 15 Before 16 Maroons 17 Misheard phrase such as “nerve-wrecking” 18 Thought that one could 19 Complete beginner? 20 Martial arts-based Lego set that launched a cartoon and subsequent movie 22 Req. for a restaurant to serve alcohol 23 Eric who said “I believe in the separation of church and planet” 25 Spread for some bougie brewpubs 26 Dal ___ (Rajasthani dish with wheat bread and ghee) 27 “Barbarella” actress 29 Heart diagnostic, for short 30 Lammermoor bride of opera 31 Virtuoso guitarist Malmsteen 33 Use your break time, in a way 35 In the meantime, in Latin 37 How “Waiting for Godot” was originally presented 40 Jays’ and Yanks’ div. 44 Gotta-haves 45 ‘50s Dem. presidential candidate 47 Chilean pianist Claudio 48 E. ___ (rod-shaped bacteria) 49 Award given to “Nomadland” for Best Film in April 2021 51 Line parts (abbr.) 52 Dijon’s here 53 Santa Monica area in early skateboard documentaries 55 Biden, to GIs 56 Beauty chain since 1970 58 Model who’s the daughter of Wayne Gretzky 60 About .035 ounces 61 Connecticut-born cartoonist known for big stripey cats 62 Say again 63 Like old parchment
“Free Game!”--it’s themeless time again. by Matt Jones
Down 1 Spell out 2 Rooted for 3 Malaysian-born comedian who gained fame in 2020 for his online cooking reviewer persona Uncle Roger 4 Happy coworker? 5 About 90% of all refined metal 6 Places in the heart 7 Johnson who invented the Super Soaker 8 Harmful bloom makeup 9 Long sushi order? 10 Ballpoint pen, in the U.K. 11 “Taiwan” suffix 12 Arsenic partner, in film 13 Wright who played Shuri in “Black Panther” 14 Withdrawn, perhaps 21 Big no-no for stand-up comedians 24 King nicknamed “Longshanks” 26 Sucky situations 28 Professional staff 30 Ali who had a perfect record in the ring 32 One, in Bonn 34 La la leader? 36 March Madness event 37 Canine neighbor
38 Division of the Tertiary period 39 Former Mexican president CalderÛn and baseball manager Alou, for two 41 Puerto Rico observatory site where a notable telescope collapsed in 2020 42 City north of Flint 43 Chianti’s region 46 Visit 49 He was in a “Subsequent Moviefilm” 50 Caffeinated 53 “___ and the Lost City of Gold” (2019 film) 54 Lacking value 57 Companion of wt. 59 Rapper ___ Dicky
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©2021 Matt Jones (jonesincrosswords@gmail.com) Reference puzzle #1040
