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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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JONESIN’ “Free Up Space”--another themeless, for these times. by Matt Jones

Across

1 Skids laterally 10 Indifferent individual 15 1968 album whose first single was “Think”/”You Send Me” 16 Decoy customer 17 Comic commentator on both the U.S. and Australian versions of “Holey Moley” 18 “O Pioneers!” author Cather 19 Anna Mill/Luke Jones 2018 graphic novel about robotic cities 21 Room 204, at the Roman Holiday Inn? 22 Lying beneath 23 Gp. that supports summer reading 24 ___ kama (imitation crab used in California rolls) 25 One-liner, e.g. 26 Drive out on the prairie? 28 San Francisco Bay structure 29 “Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth” author Rick 31 “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” stuff 32 “Right?” 33 Culatello or Black Forest, e.g. 36 Sponge cake seen on “The Great British Bake-Off” (and named for an Italian city) 37 Streaming service that sounds like a Haitian religion 38 Microsoft hybrid product announced in 2001 41 30-miles-per-hour runners 42 Regional butter substitute (I swear nobody calls it this on the West Coast) 43 “___ Poetica” (Horace work) 44 Lesson at the end 46 Imperfection 47 Leaders of the bunch? 50 Paleontologist’s big find 52 Fake (like with lip-synching or air guitar) 53 Flee, in a way 54 Embarrassed acknowledgement 55 Small, but cute 56 PBS series of programs for at-home education

Down

1 ___-CoV-2 (virus that causes COVID-19) 2 “Confederacy” of Native American peoples 3 Explained as false 4 Web-based stock follower, maybe 5 Hobbits’ home, with “The” 6 Red Stripe is one 7 “Splendor in the Grass” Oscar winner William 8 With “The,” Dallas indie-pop group that often has up to 27 members 9 Tiny candy brand with the slogan “Be Both” 10 London-to-Madrid dir. 11 Get set 12 Early carrier tank on the tracks 13 “Fighting” NCAA team 14 His Final Jeopardy response was “Who are three people who’ve never been in my kitchen?” 20 Shaw who sang “Puppet on a String” for the U.K. at Eurovision 1967 25 Research ctr. that co-manufactured the Curiosity Rover 27 2021 role for Mayim 29 Go off on 30 Rubbing alcohol variety 32 Small, but cute 33 Focus of much genetic research 34 Flatterer 35 Letters before nus 36 Well-rounded positive makeovers 37 Supervillain who’s queen of the Skrull Empire, in the Marvel Universe 38 Heath bar ingredient 39 Alternative form of a gene 40 Long jump gold medalist Bob 44 Skill demonstrated on the U.K.’s “Countdown” (that isn’t seen much on U.S. game shows) 45 “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” reporter April 48 Reporter’s assignment 49 Scattered, as seed 51 WWE wrestler Mysterio

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