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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 2020, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE Z10 SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2020 ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COMB 10 DIVERSIONS How to play Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine and each section of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9 in any order. There is only one solution to each puzzle. RATING: MEDIUM ACROSS 1 Qom religious leader 5 Usual baking powder meas. 8 Carving on a pole 13 It follows many a decree 14 Stream dam 16 Step on it! 17 Some people retire early, do this, and reach new heights 20 In the beginning 21 Beginning of Steven Tyler's group 22 Old English letter that sounded like "th" 23 ___ "King" Cole 24 Like a cheetah 26 This might put some bounce back in your life as you age 31 Have ___ at (try) 32 Popular Croatian tourist isle 33 Crannies' companions 36 Offed 38 Slimy garden pests 41 Witch's potion 42 Wheat storage bins 44 How trout starts out 45 Cheeky, green parrot 46 Smoking a full pipe daily, you went to a half pipe by doing this Manitoba Crossword 51 Big jugs 52 Above, to a poet 53 Machine full of dough? 56 Halter top, basically 57 Georgia's largest city 61 Age to do all these things, according to the Beatles 64 Durban's South African environs 65 Big fashion mag. 66 "Cheerio!" 67 Caribbean type of band 68 Perpetually, poetically 69 Rebbe's hang-out DOWN 1 Machu Picchu native 2 CFL Hall of Famer Stegall 3 "Like, no way!" 4 Marceau's talent 5 Storm chasers' targets 6 Shipped off 7 Wilbur or Babe 8 Legalese adverb 9 "... ___ home and native..." 10 Gibbon's home 11 Once, in the past 12 "Toads cause warts," for one 15 Britain, to Elizabeth II 18 Highland tobogganing spot 19 Mike Pence, slangily 24 Bedroom communities, often 25 Door opening aid 26 Geddy Lee's instrument 27 Awful looking citrus fruit 28 Actors Coward and Harrison 29 Major Asian carrier, for short 30 Writer Maksim (var.) 34 Chomping at the bit 35 Burglar's haul 37 Left slumberland 39 Baby's first "word" 40 Abalone eating beast 43 Merganser, colloquially 47 Contract stipulation 48 Delete 49 Count (on) 50 Rough write-ups 53 Beards of wheat 54 Thanks, I needed ___!" 55 Distribute 57 How big wheels get connected 58 Actor Beery of the "Rockford Files" 59 "Swan Lake" outfit 60 Salty Asian inland "sea" 62 No, to the Laird 63 Grosse ___, Quebec 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 ! 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D ist . b y An dr ew s M cM ee l S yn di ca tio n w ww .k en ke n. co m Manitoba Crossword BY ADRIAN POWELL ACROSS 1 Shaken thumb, in American Sign Language 4 The “dark” in a Dark and Stormy, perhaps 15 Schwarzbrot or Vollkornbrot loaf 16 Post-match report 17 Onomatopoeic cry 18 How a security guard might say goodbye? 19 Puts away 21 Subjects of some relative clauses? 22 ___ Geo 23 Reduplicative girl’s name 24 Mascot of the W.N.B.A.’s Mystics, e.g. 25 Most actors don’t hold real ones, informally 26 Do loops? 28 Language from which “Saskatchewan” comes 29 Part of an announcer’s home run call 30 Exhibit a male gaze, perhaps 32 Word with big or goat 33 Light on packaging 37 Biblical verb with “thou” 39 League leader, informally 40 E.U. alliance 42 Setting for a plastered cast? 44 Start of some juice portmanteaus 45 Makeup experts? 46 Bender 47 Tom’s partner 48 Opposite of calm 49 Manila Pact grp. 50 “I can confirm” 53 Device sold with a remote 54 Patchwork? 55 What’s more 56 Barrier to entry 57 “May I help you?” DOWN 1 À la mode 2 Sticking points for vampires 3 2000s rock singer with the hit albums “Hell-On” and “Middle Cyclone” 4 The tunes “The Blarney Pilgrim” and “The Lark in the Morning,” e.g. 5 “Te ___” 6 Dairy farm product 7 Not miss 8 Unhelpful follower of “because” 9 Yoga pose similar to Upward-Facing Dog 10 Nigerian novelist Tutuola 11 Alt’s opposite 12 Name that’s the title of a 1964 4 Seasons hit 13 Disbar? 14 Some sporting events 20 Placed tightly 24 Philatelist’s collection 25 Other hand 27 Yanks’ rivals 28 Really hit one’s stride? 31 Messy food servings 34 “Go ahead, ask” 35 Rarest naturally occurring element in the earth’s crust 36 Energy regulators in the body 38 Like stars in one’s eyes 39 Old-fashioned attire for a motorist 40 Opera heroine who slays a witch 41 Holy places 43 Good news for the office staff 44 Japanese city on Tokyo Bay 45 What loafers lack 48 Salon job 49 Topic in education policy 51 Sarcastic syllable 52 Mixed-___ The New York Times Crossword Puzzle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 For answers, call: 1-900-285-5656, $1.49 a minute; or, with a credit card, 1-800-814-5550. Annual subscriptions are available for the best of Sunday crosswords from the last 50 years: 1-888-7-ACROSS. Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). Share tips: nytimes.com/puzzleforum. Crosswords for young solvers: nytimes.com/learning/ xwords. EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ Rearrange the words below to complete the quotes. 1 2 The Power of Books BUT HISTORY PAIN READ THINK UNPRECEDENTED WORLD “You _______ your ____ and your heartbreak are __________ in the _______ of the _______, ____ then you ____.” — James Baldwin (1924-1987) U.S. author DEMOCRACY LIBRARY MATTER OPEN SIZE TOO WHEN “____ a _______ is ____, no _______ its ____ or shape, __________ is open, ____.” — Bill Moyers (1934-) U.S. broadcast journalist ANSWERS ON PAGE B11 BY ADRIAN POWELL SUDOKU B_10_Jan-12-20_FP_01.indd B10 2020-01-11 5:22 PM ;