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HERALD BANNER PUBLICATIONS April 26, 2019 2 April 26, 2019 • Herald-Banner Premier Crossword By Frank A. Longo

Herald-Banner • April 26, 2019 3 CROSSWORD THOMAS JOSEPH

ACROSS DOWN 1 Half of a ’60s group 1 Showy parrot 6 Foot connection 2 Love, in Lombardy 11 Barn-raising group 3 Silent performers 12 Gives a hoot 4 African viper 13 Personal bearing 5 Digging tools 15 Verb for you 6 Took a part 16 Neckline shape 7 Saigon setting 17 Farrow of film 8 Politburo home 18 London theater area 9 Not strict 20 Rent out 10 Fancy homes 21 Antique 14 Tear 22 Penalty 19 Work hard 23 Big trucks 22 Little lies 26 Pointers 23 Comforted 27 October birthstone 24 Perfect example 28 Fly catcher 25 Mob member 29 Cover 26 Warm areas 30 Resort site 28 Dress in 34 Noshed 30 Elite Navy group 35 Corn unit 31 Singer Cara 36 Galloped 32 Tango or twist 37 Private room on a train 33 Come in 40 Online messages 38 Peach core 41 Therefore 39 Got together 42 Cars’ scars 43 Ranch animal 4 April 26, 2019 • Herald-Banner Cryptoquip

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O through- out the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error.

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Herald-Banner • April 26, 2019 5 6 April 26, 2019 • Herald-Banner Herald-Banner • April 26, 2019 7 Word Sleuth Challenger

Find the listed words in the diagram. They run in all directions - for- Fill each square with a number, 1-9. Horizontal squares ward, backward, up, down and diagonally. Every puzzle has one un- should add to the totals on the right, vertical squares should listed clue. add to the totals on the bottom and diagonal squares should add to the total in the upper and lower right. FOUND IN A BOWL CLUE LIST

Cereal Fingers Fish Football game Fruit Pipe tobacco Porridge Pudding Punch Rice Salad Soup Spoon Stew Sugar

WINTER SOLSTICE CLUE LIST Axial tilt Cultural Date varies December Festivals Hemisphere Hibernal Holidays Longest night Midwinter Rebirth Rituals Shortest day Sunrise Sunset

8 April 26, 2019 • Herald-Banner CROSSWORD Point & Solve THOMAS JOSEPH In this crossword puzzle variety, the clues appear in the diagram itself. Simply enter the answers in the directions indicated by the arrows.

ACROSS DOWN 1 Frighten 1 Informal language 6 Vagrants 2 Reef material 10 “Death of a Salesman” 3 Baja buddy salesman 4 “Norma —” 11 Leaves out 5 Signs up 13 “The Tempest” sprite 6 Uses a drill 14 Incurred, as debt 7 Thurman of “Kill Bill” WE SPECIALIZE IN ALL 15 Old horse 8 SUV’s cousin 16 Rink surface 9 Pupil 18 Groom’s answer 12 News-paper section MEDICARE, LIFE INSURANCE AND 19 Explains away 17 Animation frame 22 Ocean between Eur. and 20 Store events RETIREMENT PLANNING. Amer. 21 Maine college town 23 Talk crazily 24 Wolf’s cousin 24 Locks up 25 NASA or NATO 27 Layout choices 26 Smelter’s need 28 Land unit 27 Racer, for example 29 Make illegal 29 Pollen collector 30 Bridges 31 Tiny dot 2608 EASTLAND AVE SUITE 205, 35 — -Tiki 32 Bud holders GREENVILLE, TX 75402 36 Parrot or puppy 33 Put in office 37 Boxing’s “Greatest” 34 Hazards (903) 494-5411 38 Battery end 39 Game cube 40 Lawyer’s jobs 41 Pub brew 42 Song line [email protected] 43 Smart — (wise guy) 44 Timid 45 Takes a break Herald-Banner • April 26, 2019 9 Sudoku Cryptoquote

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with A X Y D L B A A X R several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to is L O N G F E L L O W 9 in the empty squares so that each row, column and 3x3 box contains the same number only once One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for three L’s, X for the two O’s, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, and length and formation of words are all hints. The code letters are different for each puzzle.

10 April 26, 2019 • Herald-Banner Kakuro Best described as a number crossword, the task in Kakuro is to fill all empty squares, using numbers 1 to 9, so the sum of each horizontal block equals the number to its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the number on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.

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Herald-Banner • April 26, 2019 11 Multi-Sudoku ANSWERS Each puzzle consists of two or more Sudoku grids overlapping each other in various configurations. The grids may be Classic Sudoku or a mix of differ- Premier Crossword from Page 3 ent Sudoku variants. The object is to solve all grids according to their variant rules. Note that overlapping areas comply with the rules of more than one grid.

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2014-2018 Word Sleuth 1 from Page 8 Joseph Crossword from Page 4

Cryptoquip Answers from Page 5

Classic television and film actress who was full of enthu- 1 siasm all the time: Eve Ardent. Word Sleuth 2 from Page 8

I apparently misplaced my entire collection of fencing 2 weapons. I am at a loss for swords.

Head of government officially in charge of snooping Love is... 3 around rival countries: the pry minister.

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Herald-Banner • April 26, 2019 13 ANSWERS

Challenger from Page 8 Point & Solve 1 Cryptoquip Answers from Page 10 from Page 9 1 The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a de- 1 parture into unknown lands. — Sir Richard Burton

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Susan 2 Sontag

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. 3 Neither need you do anything but be yourself. — Lao Tzu

Kakuro 1 from Page 11 Kakuro 2 from Page 11 2 Sudoku 1 from Page 10

3 Multi-Sudoku 1 Sudoku 2 from Page 10 from Page 12 6 8 4 5 9 1 2 7 3 1 2 3 8 4 7 6 5 9 7 5 9 6 2 3 8 4 1 8 7 2 1 3 4 9 6 5 4 1 5 9 8 6 3 2 7 3 9 6 7 5 2 4 1 8 2 6 1 3 7 8 5 9 4 2 1 6 Joseph Crossword 5 4 8 2 1 9 7 3 6 8 5 4 from Page 9 9 3 7 4 6 5 1 8 2 3 9 7 6 5 2 8 1 7 9 4 3 9 8 4 6 2 3 5 7 1 1 3 7 9 4 5 6 8 2 5 2 1 4 6 8 7 3 9 2 1 5 8 4 3 2 7 9 1 6 5 8 3 4 7 9 6 3 5 1 4 2 8 7 9 6 1 4 7 9 5 6 3 8 2 6 9 3 8 7 2 5 4 1 8 2 5 3 1 4 6 7 9 9 8 2 6 4 7 1 5 3 7 1 6 5 9 3 4 2 8 5 3 4 2 8 1 9 6 7 14 April 26, 2019 • Herald-Banner 06510021991 DESIGNS TO COLOR

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