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Enjoy Fun By The Numbers puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

JONESIN’ “Mixed Emotions”--feeling a little unusual. by Matt Jones

1. “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” genie 6. Wing measurement 10. Rack purchases, briefly 14. Burger topping 15. “Pam & Tommy” streamer 16. Singletons 17. One of the “Friends: The Reunion” attendees 20. Boo-boo 21. March time 22. Filing target 23. Yang’s complement 25. Dept. of Justice agency 26. Setting the new mark, as in the Olympics 35. Book, in France 36. Felt badly 37. “La ___” (Debussy opus) 38. Stuff in batteries 39. Chunk of grass 40. Upcoming Paramount+ series based on a video game 41. “Volare (___ Blu Dipinto Di Blu)” 42. Absolutely not 43. “___ the Mirror” (song in the Broadway musical “MJ”) 44. Call center activity 47. “Winnie-the-Pooh” character 48. “No Time to ___” (2021 Bond film) 49. Grad 51. Kiss, in British slang 54. Song from “Turandot” 58. Like Peru and Mexico 61. Sex Pistols’ genre 62. Vital spark 63. Gate part 64. Planet dwellers of film 65. Indicate boredom 66. Stated further

1. Reduplicative name in a “Bizarre Adventure” manga 2. Over again 3. Smaller version 4. Cemetery 5. “Here Comes the Hotstepper” singer Kamoze 6. Lawnmower’s building 7. Untarnished 8. “What a shame” 9. Sister or mother, maybe 10. Art made of tiles 11. Prefix for body or gravity 12. Earth sci. 13. Tax ID 18. Foreign film ender 19. Asleep, usually 24. Actor Barinholtz 25. Worry (about) 26. Mel who voiced Yosemite Sam 27. Houston campus, for short 28. Bad things 29. Gullible 30. Charitable person 31. “Zut ___!” 32. Sultanate inhabitant 33. Historical object 34. Aerial photography aid 39. Audition tape 40. Give birth, informally 42. “Prometheus” actress Rapace 43. 3-D screening 45. Certain swimwear 46. Do landscaping work 49. “___ Named Scooby-Doo” (cartoon spinoff of 1988) 50. Daily Planet reporter 51. “Transformers” actor LaBeouf 52. “Clicker beware” letters 53. Not hidden 55. Fruit peel 56. “Bus Stop” dramatist William 57. Like some steaks 58. Relaxation spot 59. Shifty 60. “A clue!”

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