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By Dave Green
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Subject: FRIDAY
(e.g., For what does “TGIF” stand? Answer:
Thank God it’s Friday.)
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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 ERIK AGARD AND JEFF CHEN
28 Squiggle on a
musical score
29 Ends up with
30 Sci-fi forest
dweller
31 Trees with red
berrylike fruit
32 Funnyman
Brooks
37 What five
answers in
this puzzle do
phonetically, in
defiance of their
clues?
38 Language of the
Canadian Arctic
39 Conciliatory
gesture
41 Window frame
33 Piece of furniture 43 Trim
often covered
48 “Sup, bro!”
with crinkly paper
49 Yellowstone
34 Study of rocks
attraction
50 Work on a tablet
52 Bay Area athlete,
for short
53 Kane of “All My
Children”
54 Sightings in the
Himalayas
55 Oar
57 English city
where the Who
once recorded a
top 5 live album
59 11-Across and
others
61 Bumbling bunch
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FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. This castaway named his companion Friday.
2. Who was assassinated on Friday, Nov. 22,
1963?
3. Jack Webb played Sergeant Joe Friday on
this TV show.
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. The fi lm “Friday Night Lights” revolves
around which sport?
5. Which Christian holiday commemorates the
crucifi xion and death of Jesus?
6. This 1980 slasher fi lm is about teenage camp
counselors.
Last Week’s Answers:
PH.D. LEVEL
7. This Katy Perry song is subtitled “T.G.I.F.”
8. Months with a Friday the 13th always begin
on which day of the week?
9. The weekday Friday bears the name of this
mythological goddess.
ANSWERS: 1. Robinson Crusoe. 2. President John F. Kennedy. 3. “Dragnet.” 4. Football. 5. Good Friday. 6. “Friday the 13th.” 7. “Last Friday Night.” 8.
Sunday. 9. Frigg (Frige, Frea, Frigga).
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.
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1 Animals,
collectively
2 Face-plant, say
3 Ice cream cone,
e.g.
4 Breakfast cereal
in a green box
5 Routine activity?
6 Beer ___
7 On the ___
(frequently, in
slang)
8 Skater Midori
9 Attire
10 “I don’t want to
hear it”
11 Sounds made by
fans
12 Lena of “Cabin in
the Sky”
13 Firefighter Red
14 Lands in the sea
22 Hawaiian fish with
a palindromic
name
24 Ending with pay
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ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
60 In the worst way
61 Neighbor of an
Arkansawyer
62 It has cork and a
bell
63 1950s-’70s
football star
nicknamed “The
Golden Arm”
64 Part of a pot
65 Bra brand
66 Stop waffling
67 Fight protractedly
68 E, F and G, but
not H
69 Opposite of the
point?
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the source of
1 White pizza
“gesundheit”
topping
32 Uber
5 Green bits of
alternative?
ornamentation
35 Pint-size
11 Masala ___ (hot
36 ___ Day and the
beverage)
Knights (“Animal
House” group)
15 Bestower of
40 Suits
the Movies
for Grownups
42 “___ it!” (“Hush!”)
Awards
43 Place for a bench
16 Keep the beat, in 44 Ancient name for
a way
Ceylon
17 Parts of a nuclear 45 Terse rebukes
reactor
46 Invite to the roof,
say
18 Where Miners
47 Like a desk that’s
have majors
a sign of genius,
19 Type of fluffy
it’s said
wool
49 Gobbledygook,
20 ___ surgeon
metaphorically
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21 Word following
abbr.
sing or play
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23 Furrowed
affectionately
feature
56 N.L. East city, on
25 Wait on
scoreboards
26 Tribal leaders
58 Lithuanian, e.g.
ACROSS
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Difficulty Level
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Edited by Will Shortz