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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!
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Across 1. Popeyes side 5. “Surprise” subtitle in “The Price Is Right”’s “Hole in One” game 10. Sherman ___, CA 14. Nautical prefix 15. Ecstatic hymn 16. “On Air with ___ Seacrest” 17. Cash cab, really? 19. Architect Saarinen 20. Construction worker on “Fraggle Rock” 21. Brand in the dairy aisle 23. Dumbstruck 26. Too inquisitive 27. On the clock? 30. Gary’s st. 32. Doesn’t give up 35. Recovered from 36. Make it through 38. “___ Junipero” (Emmy winning “Black Mirror” episode) 39. Petty peeve 40. Item near a litter box 41. ___ nutshell 42. “Get ___ Ya-Ya’s Out!” (Rolling Stones album) 43. Like some wages 44. Long journey 45. Parenthetical comment 47. Lao-___ (Chinese philosopher) 48. “The ___” (podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro and Sabrina Tavernise) 49. Math subj. 51. Commend highly 53. Willingly obedient 56. 22-Down variant 60. “Yeah, I get it” 61. Magazine for the discerning Abominable Snowman? 64. Lt. Dangle’s city 65. Prolific writer Asimov 66. Finn on a raft 67. Words of clarification when spelling 68. Lose intentionally 69. Accident-monitoring gp. Down 1. Right ___ Fred 2. Host of the recent “You Bet Your Life” revival
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3. Gas brand that’s also a musical direction 4. More dizzy 5. “Jerry Springer: The ___” 6. Templeton, in “Charlotte’s Web” 7. Spilled drink 8. Like some cheese rinds 9. Vegetable for which goggles may be used when prepping 10. End of an ultimatum 11. Electronic assistant for a Madagascar lemur species? 12. Byron of “MythBusters” 13. Runny nose problem 18. Become well 22. See 56-Across 24. Triumph in the end 25. Countersign 27. Margot played her in 2017 28. Elite eightsome of higher ed 29. Author Morrison, when writing poetry? 31. Two-unit home 33. Team of judges 34. Like a winding road 36. “Foucault’s Pendulum” author Umberto 37. “Curious George” author H.A. ___ 40. Display unit
44. Word to a hound 46. Japanese radish 48. Means of escape 50. Ark measurement unit 52. “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” network 53. Bilingual explorer 54. Jake Shimabukuro instruments 55. Phil who jammed with Jerry Garcia 57. God, to Caesar 58. Carve in stone 59. “Morning Joe” cohost Brzezinski 62. Stuff in a pit 63. Principle behind yin and yang
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