TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2012
Chai Time
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be. Rosalynn Carter
KAKURO
QUICK CROSSWORD
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SUDOKU How to play kakuro Kakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is also suitably different. The key question: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well here are the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers. However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in the row or column referenced by the number. Within each collection of cells — called a run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once. Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly: In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. This means that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on... So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is done through elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work out the answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid combinations, and hence the answer for this particular run. Note the second cell in row two — it contains two numbers, 30 and 11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the 11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.
ACROSS
PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER
SCRIBBLING PAD
1 Mexican’s nap 7 Run ___ (go wild) 11 Hole puncher 14 Word with ‘beauty’ or ‘pizza’ 15 Scourge 16 Paranormal showman Geller 17 Goat with a fuzzy coat 18 Several bits 19 Actress Ruby 20 Being sociable in a restaurant, eg 23 ‘Been there, done that’ feeling 26 Employ 27 Give the slip to 28 Camera accessory 31 Baby’s first word, perhaps 34 Motorists’ group 35 Et ___ (Latin for ‘and others’) 37 Printed-material measure 41 What playing hooky involves 44 Tenth First Family 45 Throaty attention getter 46 Not his or hers 47 Broadway musical hit 49 Do cartooning 51 Stew vegetable 54 Boat maneuverer 56 Black gemstone 57 Open ocean 62 Stately shade tree 63 Roller derby track’s shape 64 Inflexible teachings 68 Drops out of a tree? 69 International defense grp 70 ‘Take five,’ in army parlance 71 Scrabble 1-pointer 72 Nibble like a beaver 73 Four-time Oscar nominee Mason
DOWN
1 Masseuse employer 2 ‘Atonement’ author McEwan 3 Physics unit
4 Exemplars of laziness 5 One-third of a WWII movie title 6 ___ League (Middle Eastern group) 7 Cannes clergymen 8 Chaos 9 Aware of 10 Detain 11 Video’s partner 12 Some songbirds 13 Feudal vassal 21 Fictional gentleman burglar Arsene 22 Diagrams made to scale 23 Dynamite time? 24 Like a bad roof 25 ‘For want of ___ the shoe ...’ 29 ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ director Frank 30 ‘He’s making ___ and checking it twice’ 32 Woody the director 33 City known for its Heat 36 A leader no matter how you look at it 38 From Tibet, for example 39 Oil magnate J Paul 40 British earldom 42 Hard nut to crack 43 Bracelet bauble 48 ‘Moonlight ___’ (Beethoven) 50 Adjunct for ‘war’ or ‘gossip’ 51 Beyond chubby 52 Caffeine-rich nuts 53 Posteriors 55 Having the look of love 58 Half a doorbell sound 59 ‘Terrible’ czar 60 First husband? 61 Wee bit 65 Joad and Kettle 66 Volcanic residue 67 Caspian, for one