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: APPLES
(e.g., Common nickname for New York City.
Answer: “The Big Apple.”)
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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 ALAN ARBESFELD
32 Org. behind the
Human Genome
Project
34 Pizzeria owner
in “Do the Right
Thing”
37 Durham sch.
39 Park ranger’s
handout
40 Practice pieces
43 Elizabethan
dramatist
Thomas
45 Prior to, in verse
46 “Kung Fu” actor
Philip
47 Thai neighbor
49 French white
wine
50 “Gross!”
52 Eagles and
hawks, typically
53 Prepare for
printing
55 Feature of a baby
face
57 “Stop! I don’t
need to be
constantly
reminded!”
60 “Oleanna”
playwright
61 Check out
63 Hanger-on
66 Try to stay afloat,
perhaps
68 Mother of Helios
69 Fourth of 26
70 It may collect
dust
71 Hockey great
Bobby
72 Sequel to a
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FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. One of these can spoil the whole bunch.
2. This apple expression means to spoil a plan
or disturb the status quo.
3. Steve Jobs was one of the founders of this
technology company.
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. Frontier nurseryman John Chapman is better
known by this name.
5. This apple that originated in Australia is
named after Maria Ann Smith.
6. According to legend, he shot an apple from
his son’s head.
Last Week’s Answers:
PH.D. LEVEL
7. This brand of tea and juice drinks was
originally known as “Unadulterated Food
Products.”
8. What line precedes the lyrics “And it don’t
rain in Indianapolis in the summertime”?
9. This Mattel game was named “Party Game of
the Year” in 1999.
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ANSWERS: 1. Bad (rotten) apple. 2. Upset the applecart. 3. Apple Inc. 4. Johnny Appleseed. 5. Granny Smith. 6. William Tell. 7. Snapple. 8. “God didn’t
make little green apples.” 9. Apples to Apples.
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1 Paperwork?
2 Word with second
or third, but not
fourth or fifth
3 Faster than you
can say Jack
Robinson
4 Kind of terrier
5 Ridge formed by
glacial streams
6 Manages
7 Suffix with
percent
8 “Get it?”
9 Barbershop
request
10 Oscar nominee
for “Lion,” 2016
11 Bit of Inuit gear
12 Good name for a
mess hall cook
13 Little bit of
personality
14 Shade of gray
20 MS followers?
22 Go after, as a fly
26 Poetic contraction
usually at the
start of a line
28 Newbies in the
work force
29 Seventh of 24
30 Western moniker
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ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
75 Connected to a
hipbone
76 To be where
people sing of
amour?
77 It’s snowy in
Florida
78 O’Hara’s
portrayer
79 P.D.A.
component: Abbr.
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42 & 44 “You can
wait to show your
gratitude”
46 Like
48 Repeated word
in the Ten
Commandments
51 Least polluted
54 & 56 Clothing
item for the
youngest in the
family
58 It may fool you
59 Denial of
responsibility
62 Low-lying wetland
64 Best ___ Album
(Grammy
category)
65 “I’ll think about it”
67 Thumbs-up, e.g.
69 “Don’t be a
stranger!” … or
what you have to
do three times in
this puzzle
73 Gets a move on
74 Country/rock
singer Steve
ACROSS
1 Ties to the
Japanese?
5 Order
10 Some shells
15 Malodorous
16 Go ___ (be
green, in a way)
17 Opposition bloc
18 “Well, well, well!”
19 “Don’t be a
stranger!”
21 Starting points
23 Fading light
24 “Bel ___” (Guy
de Maupassant
novel)
25 Put down in
words
27 Shade of red
31 Divine
nourishment
33 & 35 Cole Porter
musical
36 Undisturbed
38 ___ Na Na
41 Increase in size
No. 0416
Difficulty Level
C rossword
Edited by Will Shortz