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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 TRENTON CHARLSON
23 Bulk-purchase
retailer
24 One who closely
adheres to the
Torah
28 Picked locks?
30 Some library
catalog info, for
short
31 Magellan, e.g.
33 Runs up, as
expenses
34 Surfboard
stabilizer
35 Higher-up
37 Golden ___
39 Carrier that offers
only kosher
meals
41 Bibliographer’s
phrase of
inclusion
42 Levels
48 Something no
single speaker
provides
50 Menial
52 Certain B.S.
holder: Abbr.
54 Cornered
56 Letter in the
NATO alphabet
57 Prefix with -phyte
58 “What a long
week!”
59 “___ is other
people”: Sartre
60 Commands
respect from
63 Swimming gold
medalist Thorpe
64 Columbus-to-
Cleveland dir.
65 Old Pontiac with
a V8 engine
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FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. This word is used to tell a horse to walk more
slowly or to stop.
2. Term for the person who cares for horses at
a stable.
3. This long-noosed rope is used to catch and
control horses.
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. Which chess piece is represented by the
head of a horse?
5. In which game might you throw a ringer?
6. This horse idiom means “wait a moment” or
“be patient.”
Last Week’s Answers:
PH.D. LEVEL
7. What is the logo of the NFL team
Indianapolis Colts?
8. Six-letter term for a horse that is still wild,
especially in a rodeo.
9. A _____ horse is spotted or patched,
especially in black and white.
ANSWERS: 1. Whoa. 2. Groom. 3. Lasso. 4. Knight. 5. Horseshoes. 6. Hold your horses. 7. A blue horseshoe. 8. Bronco. 9. Piebald.
Subject: HORSES
(e.g., Budweiser is associated with this type of
horse. Answer: Clydesdales.)
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1 Snarky remark
2 Residents’ org.
3 Muscleman with
a mohawk
4 Eponymous
Dutch town
5 Subject of
several Georges
Seurat paintings
6 Doth proceed
7 Horror movie
staple
8 Part of a parka
9 Winter season
10 Place for cold
cuts
11 Like skating
rinks, typically
12 Manners
14 Rock group from
Sydney
16 Vets’ charges
20 Dish seasoned
with saffron
22 Uncultivated
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ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
56 Classic tune
often played by
ice cream trucks
61 Adjust
62 Sport that
is the key to
interpreting
the answers to
21-, 40- and
56-Across
66 Consist of
67 Get to
68 Temporarily
inactive
69 “That really hurt!”
70 Waitress at Mel’s
Diner
71 Magic 8 Ball
response
72 Prefix with -phyte
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32 Comic strip title
character who is
Beetle Bailey’s
sister
35 Winter D.C.
setting
36 Quite an
accomplishment
38 Do some
underground
exploring
40 Find an ideal
compromise
43 Transitional zone
between two
biomes
44 Early Cuzco
resident
45 Pull
46 End notes
47 Highland tongue
49 Aunt ___ of
“Oklahoma!”
51 Estadio
exclamation
53 Pie hole
55 Places where
people may have
the knives out for
you, in brief
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1 Bind
4 It’s not much
work
7 Short
10 Average name
13 Talk show
medium
15 Quite an
accomplishment
17 Señora Perón
18 Secret
headquarters for
Bruce Wayne
19 Not be oneself?
21 “I’ve heard
everything I need
to hear”
23 Relative of a
haddock
25 Moon of Saturn
named for a
Titaness
26 Instant
27 Black-and-white
predators
29 Martin ___,
“London Fields”
novelist
No. 1226
Difficulty Level
C rossword
Edited by Will Shortz