By Dave Green
Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each
correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on
the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.
Subject: “ME” IN THE MIDDLE
Each answer is a six-letter word with “me” in the
middle. (e.g., A large pear-shaped fruit. Answer:
Pomelo.)
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FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. Used to take photographs.
2. A very short period of time.
3. Ships of the desert.
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SUDOKU is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9
grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the
numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each
column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only
once. King Features
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PUZZLE BY AIMEE LUCIDO
24 German
grandmother
26 Grins
27 Prime-time hour
31 Sound recording
copyright
symbols
35 An exhibit
at F.D.R.’s
presidential
library is
dedicated to it
40 On the horizon
41 Bit of workout
gear
42 Occasion to
speak up?
43 Get better
44 Long cold spell
54 Alternative to
ChapStick
56 Spoken
flourishes
58 Some signatures,
briefly
47 41-Down, by
another name
59 Makes a home
48 Enlightenment
61 Fool
36 Some Gillette
razors
49 It may get fired
because of a
thought
66 Kanga’s kid
38 Pickle unit
52 Pretense
67 Beach lotion
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GRADUATE LEVEL
4. Happening at the right moment.
5. Concrete.
6. A medicine that cures a disease.
Last Week’s Answers:
PH.D. LEVEL
7. A cry of sorrow and grief.
8. To make people have less respect for
someone.
9. To encourage people to have angry feelings
or to protest.
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SUPER QUIZ
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ANSWERS: 1. Camera. 2. Moment. 3. Camels. 4. Timely. 5. Cement. 6. Remedy. 7. Lament. 8. Demean. 9. Foment.
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1 Pit boss?
2 Humiliates
3 Lengthy rants
4 Often-memorized
string: Abbr.
5 Car tower
6 Yellow primrose
7 “Doesn’t matter,
but …”
8 Steam
9 Part of 21-Across
10 “Uh-oh! Don’t do
that!”
11 Three-syllable
man’s name
12 Draw
13 Able to be felt
17 Moan and groan,
e.g.
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ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
60 Activewear akin
to leggings
62 Suffix with thick
or sick
63 Coach
Parseghian
64 Get around
65 Like Andrew
Jackson and
James Buchanan,
by heritage
67 Cut
68 “King Lear”
daughter
69 “Alki,” for
Washington State
70 Black widow
spiders make
dangerous ones
71 Others
72 Cortège
73 Channing with a
14-year N.B.A.
career (2005-19)
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32 Cavaliers, on
scoreboards
33 Peak in Thessaly
34 “Fish and visitors
stink after three
days,” for one
37 “Melrose Place”
actor Rob
39 Underground
warning … or a
warning about
four squares in
this grid
42 Raindrop in the
sunlight, e.g.
45 Like many
theater kids
46 Keys often hit in
panic: Abbr.
50 “Parks and ___”
(familiar name of
a TV sitcom)
51 Rudolph formerly
of “S.N.L.”
53 How Twitter trolls
often comment
55 Like the acid in
pickle juice
57 Native of the Lion
City
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1 Setting for
“Amazing Grace,”
maybe
5 “___ Revere,
Engineer” (best-
selling picture
book)
10 Mix, as eggs
14 Something
taught in a 101
class, so to speak
15 Over-the-top
16 Shrine
18 Bring in
19 Barre bends
20 Abandon,
informally
21 Dir. from Lubbock
to San Antonio
22 Hard labor
23 Classic fraternity
bash
25 New York City
28 Not shoot
straight
29 Exchange for
cash
30 ___ Pro
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