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By Dave Green 20 ___-jongg 21 Whittles down 23 Rap 24 Something heard in court ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE H O B O E W A N L I N E L E G W A A D E X B A L I C H I N G I R S T E E S S W E A S I N G A R I A D E N S S T O O M I E C N S A L B O U P T I T C H W O R D S G O O F T I R E E L L D O I U T V S E H B A L L L O O F T G O T F J F R A A D N G E E E D A R A C C T R R A A P S P T I U N N C A Y C L E 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: GERMAN COMPANIES (e.g., The name of this manufacturer of optical systems begins with “Z.” Answer: Zeiss.) P L A T E N S L Y E S T O O H A R A K E T A H O Y G O N E O P E D FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Its name translates to “people’s car” in German. Answer________ 2. It has a circular blue and white logo. Its slogan is “The Ultimate Driving Machine.” Answer________ 3. The world’s second largest sportswear manufacturer after Nike. Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL 4. The company’s fi rst and best-known product was aspirin. Answer________ 5. Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing company. Its name is an anagram for “nemesis.” Answer________ 6. Its products include shaving and grooming items. Its name translates to “Brown.” Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. The largest chemical producer in the world. Rearrange the letters in “FABS” to fi nd its name. Answer________ 8. This personal care brand specializes in body care. Its name is an anagram for “naive.” Answer________ 9. The name of this consumer electronics manufacturer is an anagram for “drug gin.” Answer________ ANSWERS: 1. Volkswagen. 2. BMW. 3. Adidas. 4. Bayer AG. 5. Siemens. 6. Braun. 7. BASF. 8. Nivea. 9. Grundig. 16 • oregoncoastTODAY.com • facebook.com/oregoncoasttoday • May 22, 2020 2020 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Last Week’s Answers: 2020 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc. SUPER QUIZ M A R A C A 6/04 19 Bombeck who wrote “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression” 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 6 2 1 7 4 3 8 9 5 18 Point for Poseidon 6/04 5 9 4 1 8 2 6 3 7 17 Tweak Difficulty Level 8 7 3 9 5 6 4 1 2 16 First name of an early explorer of Vinland 7 5 6 4 1 9 3 2 8 15 Sound from a toy train 4 1 2 8 3 5 9 7 6 14 “The City of a Thousand Minarets” 9 3 8 2 6 7 5 4 1 10 Refilling site 6 8 4 9 1 6 8 7 5 6 8 5 7 1 6 2 4 3 5 9 2 4 7 6 9 8 1 5 3 6 “Like, no way!” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 45 20 Questions category 14 15 16 47 One of the Cyclades 17 18 19 48 Place for un 20 21 22 23 béret 49 Free to attack 24 25 26 27 50 “Go ahead, 28 29 30 31 shoot!” 52 Role for Vin 32 33 34 Diesel in the “Fast & Furious” 35 36 movies 37 38 53 Student ___ 54 Easy-to-park car 39 40 41 42 43 44 55 “Don’t make me 45 46 47 48 laugh!” 57 Role for John Cho 49 50 51 52 in the “Star Trek” movies 53 54 55 56 58 Troubles 57 58 59 59 Easiest rating for a ski slope 60 61 62 60 Type of short haircut PUZZLE BY CAITLIN REID 61 Picks up 12 Video game 44 Common seafood 62 Bunker need 33 Knockoff of a series since 1989 garnish Greek sculpture? 34 Something to 13 Deceptive 46 “Put your big boy DOWN shoot for basketball moves pants on!” 1 Rigorous training 35 University of 22 Target for courses 47 Immature retort Oregon logo clippers 2 “I’m not listening 36 Default for many 50 Hill worker 23 Burns up in film? to you!” airport TVs 25 Stopgap, maybe 51 Items carried 3 Whichever 37 Daydream in spoons in an 4 Hurdle for an 27 In which nothing 39 Doesn’t land, as outdoor race M.A. pursuer is everything a joke 54 Time, e.g., in 40 It’s chewed by 5 Breed 29 “Should ___ brief the chatty shouldn’t …” 6 Athleisure, e.g. 42 Ripen, maybe 30 Affectionate 56 Singer/ 7 Liking 43 Made good nose-rubbing songwriter Rita 8 Cannon ammo in sci-fi Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle 7,000 For answers, call 1-900-285-5656, $1.20 and per more minute; than or, with credit past card, 1-800- 9 Challenger puzzles, (Or, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). 814-5554. just wait for next week’s TODAY.) 10 Vales Read about comment on each Crosswords puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay. Share tips: and nytimes.com/puzzleforum. for young solvers: nytimes.com/ 11 “Sssss” makers learning/xwords. 2 1 3 6 9 5 7 1 2 8 4 1 Pirates, say 26 Michigan, e.g.: Abbr. 27 Mysterious monster, familiarly 28 Rush-hour subway commuter, metaphorically 30 Fig. on some I.R.S. forms 31 Extra periods, for short 32 “Oh, baloney!” 34 Artful 35 Goal-scoring opportunities in soccer … or a hint to this puzzle’s theme 37 Efron of Hollywood 38 “When We Were Very Young” author, 1924 39 Snazzy dresser 40 Christmas season purchase 41 20 Questions category 8 5 2 4 1 8 5 3 2 4 7 6 9 ACROSS No. 0430 Difficulty Level C rossword Edited by Will Shortz