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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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1 File extensions? 6 Chipotle option, for short 10 Gifford’s TV successor 14 Neckwear for Fred in “Scooby-Doo” 15 “Take ___” (1985 hit) 16 “___ Ruins Everything” 17 Nicknames of two legendary bebop musicians (and the title of their 1952 album) 19 “Swan Lake” movement 20 Oscar-winning role for Forest 21 ___ Maria (coffee liqueur) 22 They’re risky 24 Obligation 26 Way to look inward? 28 “The Matrix” role for Keanu 29 Country duo behind “Ain’t Nothing ‘bout You” and “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” 35 Ant habitat 37 Twisted tale 38 Item on a ring 39 Get together 40 Out-and-out battle 41 Syndicate bosses 43 U.S. hwy. 44 Soldier or solder material 45 “Everybody Loves Raymond” surname 46 Caillou’s Daddy and Mommy, according to the official website (sorry, parents, I feel your pain) 50 Open ___ night 51 Spotted 52 State, to Sarkozy 55 Red, white, and blue frozen treat 59 “It’s whatever” 61 MV divided by V 62 “What You’re Made Of, We’re Made For” insurance co. 63 The McKenzie brothers of SCTV’s “Great White North” sketches 66 “Le Freak” disco group 67 Character before Borat 68 Sierra ___ (California range) 69 Hit the bottom 70 Supreme Court garb 71 “People tell me ...”

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1 Beyond zealous 2 Line that breaks the fourth wall 3 More illegible, like some signatures 4 “___ Save America” (show cohosted by Jon Favreau) (no, the other Jon Favreau) 5 Sports factoid that I’ll never understand 6 Lose luminosity 7 Sturm ___ Drang (German artistic movement) 8 In the center of 9 “The Card Players” painter Paul 10 2013 Eminem song that has a Guinness World Record 11 Without much movement 12 Twosome 13 Iowa State University location 18 “Three Men and a Baby” director Leonard 23 Homer Simpson’s neighbor 25 It’s slower than a gallop 27 Archipelago components 30 It depicts “the unit of counting or measurement,” per Wikipedia 31 Inflatable couch filler 32 SW1P, for Westminster Abbey, e.g. 33 Inert lamp gas 34 Wall St. fixture 35 “___ Your Enthusiasm” (Larry David show) 36 Unfooled by 40 Prevail 41 Station wagon, e.g. 42 Indy 500 winner Luyendyk 44 Buffet that might have several salsas 45 Current “SNL” cast member Yang 47 Return remark 48 Wee drink 49 Adjuster’s assessment 53 Upscale Honda 54 “Life of Pi” feline 55 Super Bowl XXXVII champs 56 Accident prevention org. 57 Principal 58 Ralph Lauren brand 60 Cable that connects to a TV 64 Lobster shack wear 65 “Well, la-di-freakin’-___!”

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