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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 It may be fatal 5 Disease contracted by Seal at an early age 10 Brand that pops up frequently in crosswords? 14 Sitar master Shankar 15 ___ ear and out the other 16 Get ready for surgery 17 Couturier Cassini 18 British pottery manufacturer known for bone china 19 City that represents a county 20 Helgenberger of

“Erin Brockovich” 21 Less polluted 22 Rowboat need 23 ___-country (Drive-By

Truckers’ genre) 25 “Damn, it’s cold out!” 26 “Ty Murray’s Celebrity Bull

Riding Challenge” network 27 The Hulk’s catalyst 29 Food vendor’s requirement (abbr.) 30 Resource 33 Last name in riding lawnmowers 34 “___ bin ein Berliner” (famous JFK quote) 35 Desert landscape features 36 Spicy spread 37 ___ Na Na (group that preceded Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock) 38 It’s said coming and going 39 Kiddie lit web spinner who gets a B? 42 Fashion line? 43 Cartoonist who created Tintin 44 Insignia on Cardinals caps 45 Hathor or Hera, e.g. 47 Won back 51 John’s 2008 adversary 56 Gave high honors 58 “Out of Africa” author Isak 59 Element taken in supplements 60 Flea market event 61 Sets up tents 62 Brand with the discontinued flavorGrapeWatermelon

“Report Card”--How did we do? [#373, Aug. 2008]

By Matt Jones

Down 1 “You’ll hear ___ my lawyer!” 2 “Ooh ___!” 3 Singer Cocker who gets a C? 4 Leeway 5 Cindy Brady’s impediment 6 Like private phone numbers 7 Billionaire Branson who gets an F? 8 Price at a dime a dozen, perhaps? 9 Fortune teller 10 They’re added to foot baths 11 “Dilbert” cartoonist Adams who gets an A? 12 Equipment 13 Makes a decision 24 Hot concept 26 Chocolate necessity 27 Sum up 28 It comes straight from the horse’s mouth 31 Fred’s wife, on

“I Love Lucy” 32 ___ Maria (liqueur) 40 Get all emotional and teary-eyed 41 Part of GLAAD 45 Fade out, like a light 46 “We ___ song of sorrow ...” (lyric from Saves the

Day’s “What Went Wrong”) 47 Beat too fast, like a heart 48 McGregor of “Angels &

Demons” 49 Mineral that’s the softest on the Mohs scale 50 Killer whale 52 Bodily system that includes the lungs (abbr.) 53 Acronym that sometimes means “right now” 54 Word after blood or fuel 55 Place to play horsey 57 Dungeons & Dragons game runners, for short 58 Withdrawal symptoms

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