18 • SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2019 • CAREGIVER
Sudoku and crossword puzzle solutions can be found on Page 16.
Brain
Games
Sudoku
directions
Here’s how it works:
Sudoku puzzles are
formatted as a 9x9 grid,
broken down into nine 3x3
boxes.
To solve a 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!
CROSSWORD CLUES
ACROSS
1. Scottish tax
5. Filled with horror
11. Type of music
14. Variety act
15. Half-conscious state
16. Discontinued European money
17. Formal declaration
19. Shaft horsepower (abbr.)
20. A way to express concentration
21. Airline
22. Goes well with a carrot
23. Length of pant leg
25. Mark with a cut
27. One who destroys completely
31. Greek sophist
34. Thomas Hobbes’s “De __”
35. Copyreads
38. Talk
39. Endangered
DOWN
41. Snag
42. Comedienne Tyler
44. Castrate a male animal
45. Taj Mahal site
46. Tending to concede
49. One who accepts
51. Albanian capital
55. Takes kids to school
56. About Moon
60. __ Seamounts: underwater volcanoes
61. __ Lilly, drug company
62. Not working
64. Alaska nursing board
65. Howl
66. Muslim ruler title
67. Famed arena
68. Back again for more food
69. Cheek
1. Raccoonlike animal
2. Small
3. Separates
4. Parties
5. Automated teller machine
6. One who earned his degree
7. Dislike
8. Flowering plant
9. Nova __, province
10. Inhabited
11. Breathing
12. Partner to pains
13. Immature insects
18. The back
24. Heavy club
26. Edible fish
28. Lament for the dead
29. Woody climbing plants
30. Small rooms for prisoners
31. Ottoman military commander
32. “The Crow” actress Ling
33. A way of lopping off
36. Cigarette (slang)
37. Helps little firms
39. Member of small discussion group
40. Copyread
43. V-shaped open trough
45. Pokes holes in
47. Beloved “Captain”
48. Resume
49. On a line at right angles
50. Light up lamps
52. Part of the psyche
53. Leeward Island
54. 1960s counterculture activist
57. Edible seaweed
58. Imitator
59. Look at and comprehend
63. Root mean square (abbr.)