P uzzles
Playthings
ACROSS 1 234 5678
1. Toy with rules
5. Summer drinks 14 15
9. Beats
14. Prayer ending 17 18
15. Spherical toy
16. ______nous 20 21 22 23
17. Young female
18. Church part 25 26 27 28
19. Baking need
20. Capture 30 31 32
22. Brit. mil. award (abbr.)
24. Movie player 33 34 35
25. Making indistinct
28. I found it! 40 41 42 43 44
30. Big
31. Painting holders, 46 47 48 49 50 51
in process
33. Familiarize 52 53 54 55
35. Sibling, for short
36. Gone With the Wind 56 57 58 59 60
estate
40. Eggs 61 62 63 64
41. Quick swim
43. Score (plural abbr.) 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72
45. Unruly group
46. Place to buy this 73 74 75
puzzle’s theme items
48. Ordinary (abbr.) 76 77 78
50. Take the place of
52. Beetle
55. Thorny plants
56. Ridiculous 69. Little Sesame Street 77. Aide (abbr.)
59. Sky color (noun) monster 78. Oklahoma town
61. What this puzzle is about 73. Grads (abbr.)
62. Poetic contraction 74. Riding toy
64. Oil cartel 75. Humanoid toy
65. Myanmar 76. Native American
67. And so ons (abbr.) structure
9 10 11 12 13
16
19
24
29
36 37 38 39
45
DOWN
1. Prank
2. Friend, in France
3. Volatile
4. Make bigger
5. Counting devices
6. Scooby Doo character
7. Heights (pl. abbr.)
8. Toy with runners
9. Contaminate
10. Join (abbr.)
11. Kitchen top
12. Wheeled toy
13. Spanish missionary
21. Tendency
23. Takes care of (two
words)
25. Ulysses’ protagonist
26. Insect before
metamorphosis
27. Auto need
29. Q-U connectors
32. Take a small drink
34. Diatribe
37. What a good toy does
38. Lassos
39. Bottomless chasm
42. For each
44. Loose rocks at slope’s
bottom
47. Baton Rouge sch. (abbr.)
49. Talk (and talk)
51. Give in
53. Fold
54. Building toys
56. At the plate (two words)
57. Pear-shaped synthetic
gem
58. Maple tree product
60. Make mad
63. McEntire
66. French Mrs.
68. “My country” follower
70. Code for London’s
airport
71. 1051, to Nero
72. Aged
Sudoku
34
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5
8
7
1
7
28
1
26
6
9
7
53
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3
6
2
9
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Solutions
75 1 396842
9842 1 5673
362874 1 95
1 73542968
29876 1 354
5469382 1 7
43562978 1
6 1 7483529
829 1 57436
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