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Challenge yourself with this month's sudoku and crossword puzzles.

Test Your Brain • Sudoku

Fill in each 3x3 box as well as each column and row with the numbers 1-9 without repeating a number.

Seasonal Wishes

ACROSS

1 Kapow!
4 Sextet halves
9 Bay lynx
15 "How sad!"
17 At daybreak
18 Spain's peninsula
19 French wish
21 Lively Spanish dance
22 Not straight
23 Bottle cap?
25 What ___ Bid?
26 English wish
30 Great Lake
33 Set the dog (on)
34 Does not exist
35 "... ___ a lender be"
36 Shelved, for now
39 Crowing time
41 Mixed bag
43 Danish wish
48 Get wider
50 Choral syllable
51 Brilliant radiant beauty
52 Spanish wish
57 As a result
58 Tramcar lodes
59 Bother to no end
61 Not spec.
62 Adored person
65 ___ de deux
67 Zebra relatives
69 Hawaiian wish
73 Goalie's protection
74 The ___ Brothers Band
75 Diamond flub
79 Seer's sanctum
81 Italian wish
84 Smooth transitions
85 ___ vie (two words)
86 Hurries
87 Go from 3 to 9, say
88 Brightened
89 "___ likely!"

DOWN

1 Lower California, familiarly
2 Tremendously
3 "___ be of service?"
4 Gore-___ (fabric)
5 Campaigned
6 Often-missed humor
7 Fatty acid type
8 Dainty folklore beings
9 According to the
Good Book
10 Wide-range reeds
11 ___ Paese (Italian cheese)
12 Defeats decisively
13 Sky guy
14 Believer in wu-wei
16 City west of Montgomery
20 In ___ (unborn)
24 Group of lions
27 Proposer's offering
28 Irritate
29 Feel a sensation
30 Type of switch
31 ___ prosequi
(court-record entry)
32 Verdict source
37 Cable syst.
38 Like a Stephen King work
40 Secret locks?
42 Meadowlark's kin
44 Tots' pop
45 Novelist Amado
46 Motivator
47 French silk-producing city
49 Book before Neh.
53 Native of Katmandu
54 Big ____ outdoors
(two words)
55 Physics class topic
56 Comic Carvey
60 "___ hike!"
62 Customs duty
63 More expensive
64 Gerontologist's study
66 Abu ___
68 C&W singer Brooks
70 Superman's birth name
71 Hawaiian island
72 Going either direction
76 Drought buster
77 Muffin topper
78 Kick back
80 Wrigley Field player
82 So. Bend campus
83 New Economic
Policy (abbr.)

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