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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 2022, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE B8 SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2022 ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COMB 8 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 Manitoba Crossword 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 ACROSS 1 Fused, base-of-the- spine bones 6 Monk from Lhasa, say 10 “Atlas Shrugged” author 14 Relating to hearing 15 “Cleopatra” or “Ben Hur” 16 Big lake that sounds a little frightening 17 Sign at a laundromat? 20 Hailing from the Orient 21 Girded one’s loins, so to speak 22 One curl in the gym 23 Waggle dancers 25 Skiff requirement 26 Seize without any violent protest? 31 Godfather’s group 34 Cockney’s answer to “Where?”, maybe 35 Coffee container 36 Issue 37 Unified, in a way 38 Omsk’s area 39 Often fracked item 40 Atmospheric pollutant, in brief 41 Funereal toll 42 Emulated O. Henry, e.g.? 47 Miss identification word? 48 Result of damming 49 Flying mammalian fructivore 52 Convention offering 56 Prologue 58 Those who use gift paper while humming a funky beat? 60 Totally engrossed by 61 Oklahoma Chisholm Trail city 62 T.S. of literature 63 Turned right while in the saddle 64 Divining equipment 65 Strongly denounce DOWN 1 Big tree feller, often 2 Precursors to migraines 3 Chip from Chelsea 4 Twitter tirade, maybe 5 Math topic with many variables 6 Director Sergio’s family 7 Boston Marathon month (abbr.) 8 Go wide of the mark 9 Nail polish remover 10 Think the world of 11 Protective seed cover 12 Delightful 13 Good thing for scouts to do 18 At no charge 19 Harvest the crop 24 Sign painter’s template 26 Stand-up comedian’s asset 27 Feeling of wrath 28 Church’s eastern projection, usually 29 Wind into spirals 30 And others, from Latin 31 Cry over spilled milk? 32 Arabian prince (var.) 33 Flaky Greek pastry 37 With regularity, to poets 38 Not a particular one 40 Less expensive 41 Genuflected 43 One-legged camera stand 44 High-ranking military officers, briefly 45 Whitewater rafting challenge 46 Bit of gumbo 49 With no frills at all 50 Stage performer 51 Ill-tempered 52 Guzzle 53 Raptor seen by the Norwegian cliffs 54 Winning chess move 55 Western Nevada betting setting 57 Thing to keep tabs on? 59 England’s FBI ● Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating. ● The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. ● Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner. 3- 16 -2 2 Ke nK en ® is a re gi st er ed tr ad em ar k of K en Ke n Pu zz le L LC . ©2 02 2 Ke nK en P uz zle L LC . 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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 itoba Crossword BY ADRIAN POWELL ACROSS 1 Birdie of Broadway’s “Bye Bye Birdie” 7 Maize patties 13 Throw on the floor 15 Poet who wrote “Love is so short, forgetting is so long” 16 Korean rice dish often served in a hot stone bowl 18 Silent partner? 19 Replete (with) 20 Like the villainous Max Shreck, at the end of “Batman Returns” 22 Like typical projects in Popular Mechanics magazine, in brief 23 Palindromic periodical title 24 Crime show extras, for short 25 Memory measure 26 Word with bass or bed 27 Humble 28 ___ noires (bugbears) 29 Certain pie filling 31 Archetypal bossypants 32 Result of selling out 33 Part of a quote 34 Tears 35 It’s a racket 38 Horne of music 39 Disbands 40 Live on water, say 41 Part of a play group? 42 Sayings attributed to Jesus 43 “I can row a boat. ___?” (groaner joke) 44 Dome 46 Sugar substitute? 48 Russian writer and dissident Limonov 49 There’s no doubt about it 50 Gets tight 51 “Ruff ___ Anthem,” 1998 hit single for DMX DOWN 1 Old-time messages 2 Colorful bird in the blackbird family 3 Crab ___ 4 Subject of an end-of-year office memo, maybe 5 Horde 6 Talk over? 7 Home to the highest active volcano in the world 8 Kind of grass 9 Period 10 Sighting in a classic Looney Tunes cartoon 11 Appointed by the court 12 Accept a proposal 14 Marijuana, some say 17 The right one can produce a smile 21 Bronze producers 24 ___ Vecchio 25 Eponym of a lifetime achievement award in fashion since 1984 27 Holiday pancake 28 Majors, say 29 Kufrin of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” 30 Disgusting buildups 31 One way to put on a coat 32 Like early uncensored Hollywood films 33 Hollywood precursor? 35 River that flows through or beside 10 countries 36 Compound with a chemical “twin” 37 Nonproliferation treaty subjects, in brief 39 Gets tight (with) 40 Staged 42 Bygone Vatican money 43 Booker of the Senate 45 Oomph 47 “___ Mutual Friend” (Dickens’s last completed novel) 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 For answers, call: 1-900-285-5656, $1.49 a minute; or, with a credit card, 1-800-814-5550. 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BATH HIGH LIFE POINTS TENDERLOIN THOSE “A ____ and a __________ steak. _______ are the ____ _______ of a man’s ____.” — Curtis Siodmak (1902-1988) German screenwriter COOK DIET ONLY STEAK TIME WAITING WHILE “The ____ ____ to eat ____ food is _______ you’re _______ for the _______ to ____.” — Julia Child (1912-2004) U.S. author and cooking show host ANSWERS: 1 2 ;