MIND GAMES SUDOKU Difficulty level: medium
Each row and column of nine cells must contain each of the numbers from 1 to 9 once and only once.
Each of the nine 3 x 3 boxes of nine cells must contain each of the num- bers from 1 to 9 once and only once.
ACROSS 1. The zodiacal sign for Cancer 5. Wager 8. Fifth book of the New Testament 12. Sharpen 13. Furnishings of a room 15. City in Italy 16. “Once ____ a time” 17. Strange or spooky 18. Leave out 19. Wonderfully 22. Writer/poet Edgar Allan ___ 23. Encountered 24. Nimbus 26. Rubble 29. Ligneous 31. Male sheep 32. Metric unit of distance 34. Boundaries 36. Historical periods
38. Heroic tales 40. Break 41. Snake poison 43. Demurely 45. Estimated Time of Arrival 46. Having a woven pattern 48. A tomb or shrine 50. Small slender gull 51. Child 52. Three in Roman numerals 54. Fellow plotter 61. A house for chickens 63. Scottish for child 64. A contest with rules 65. Anagram of “Neat” 66. Branchlet 67. Sword 68. Backtalk 69. Emergency Services Management 70. Dispatch
DOWN 1. A European game fish 2. Braided cord 3. Dwarf buffalo 4. Make insensitive 5. Meat from cows 6. Beige 7. Work 8. Anagram of “Boa” 9. Ran for office 10. Threesome 11. Location 13. God-like beings 14. Pass along 20. School semester 21. Christmas time 25. Batons 26. Summoned sufficient courage 27. Discharges 28. Pile
Answers appear on page 22 Riddle Me This 1. What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?
2. I have a tail, and I have a head, but i have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I?
3. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
4. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
5. I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn’t find it. What am I?
6. I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket and I’ll make it lighter. What am I?
20 YOUNG AT HEART ♦ February 2012 Actors and Actresses Anagrams
Work out the name of each actor or actress with the anagrams. Name lengths are shown in brackets.
Actors: OMIT CURSE (3,6)
A PAL ICON (2,6) COOL EGO ENERGY (6,7) GERMAN FOREMAN (6,7) LESS RELEVANT TO SLY (9,9) WILL USE CRIB (5,6) INERT BROODER (6,2,4) COOL RAINDROP IDEA (8,2,6) MONK HATS (3,5) BIG MELONS (3,6) JAW DUEL (4,3) SCOWL ANTIDOTE (5,8)
Actresses: LENGTHY PART WOW (7,7)
RAINY WONDER (6,5) WARY UNIVERSE EGO (9,6) IN FINE TORN JEANS (8,7) NO ALIENS DARLING (7,8) REALLY HERB (5,5) IDOL NICKNAME (6,6) NO EAGLE IN JAIL (8,5) SEEN AT A RICH JET-ZONE (9,4-5) TWEAK TINSEL (5,6) ROBUST JAILER (6,6) TRY REM SLEEP (5,6)
29. Medical pictures 30. The end of life 31. Revised (abbrev.) 33. Self-importance 35. Resort 37. A few 39. Quenching 42. Made from the residue of grapes 44. A giant slain by Odin (Norse mythology) 47. Arrogant people 49. Memorable sayings 52. Freezes 53. A very small amount 55. Back of the neck 56. Knights 57. Dainty 58. Adhesive strip 59. Portent 60. Anagram of “Deer” 62. Dance step
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