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LEISURE | BRAIN TEASERS
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ANSWER TO THIS SUDOKO WILL BE PRINTED NEXT MONTH.
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1 The Beehive State
5 PIN points?
9 Bring aboard
13 Beget
14 Entreaty
15 Nonchalantly unconcerned
16 Bewitches
18 American Idol winner ___
Studdard
19 Block
20 Conjectures
22 ___ Dalgleish, P.D. James
protagonist
24 Pole
25 Biological duplicate
28 Shun
31 “A very high price to pay for
maturity” (Tom Stoppard)
34 Acquire through merit
35 Bank link
36 Strain
37 Tote
38 Speaking point?
39 Little devil
40 Pitcher’s stat.
41 Requested in exchange for a
kingdom (Shakespeare)
42 Locale of the Viminal Hill
43 Prohibition
SUDOKO
44 Colombian cash
45 Artificial waterway
46 Matinee favorite
48 “Chop-chop!”
50 Magic
54 Pickle
58 Chemically inactive
59 Obsolete
61 Rocky debris at the base
of a hill
62 Fail to mention
63 Bean capital of S America?
64 Decline to bid
65 Charts
66 Everyone, down South
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1 Employs
2 Hue
3 Heavy ordnance, briefly
4 Author ___ Hesse
5 Sleeping problem
6 Careful attention
7 Encounter
8 Obi, for example
9 Insulting remarks
10 Crookedly obtain Thai
dwelling
11 Now it makes sense!
12 Pigs’ digs?
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Sudoku Medium No.327
CODEWORD
15 Diversify
17 Trusted assistant
21 Homeland leaver
23 Imelda ___, who had a
shoe surfeit
25 Tabloid target
26 Spanish saint martyred in
boiling pitch
27 Arrangers
29 Synthetic meat can be
created in this
30 The Pearl of the Black Sea
32 Third letter of the Greek
alphabet
33 Eject
35 Gazed upon
38 The door in Dordogne, or
in Texas
42 With celerity
45 Found behind the shin
47 Ventures
49 Lends
50 Small tuft
51 Machu Picchu builder
52 Chamber
53 Where the 3:10 went
55 Mother of Uranus
56 Web code
57 Small dabbling duck
60 Apex
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