PUZ ZLE 1

PuzzleNation has hundreds of crosswords at all difficulty levels! See how your solving
stacks up against your online buddies. After solving this crossword, you’ll come away with
a seven-letter answer.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 65. Has legs

66. Interjection from Wayne
14 15 16 or Garth

17 18 19 DOWN
1. Shocked
20 21 22 2. More than enthusiasm
3. Stand-in
23 24
4. Do a minor cleaning
5. Costar of 38-Across
25 26 27 28 29
6. Coordination of a
30 31 32 33 34 35
complex plan
7. Operating system on
36 37 38 39 40 some servers
8. French assembly
41 42 43 44 45 9. Coaxes closer
10. Kelly Ripa, before
46 47 48 49 Regis retired
11. Student of Plato
50 51 52 53 54 55 12. Puts on
13. Florence-to-Rome dir.
56 57 21. Where ships go
22. Whispers sweet words
58 59 60 26. “Robin Hood” director,
2010
61 62 63 28. Fix a pothole
29. Not neat
64 65 66 30. North Carolina university
31. Bank’s opening?
32. From 3 to 4, for example
ACROSS 38. Costar of 5-Down 34. Does Zumba, say
1. It has dials labeled 39. It soothes 37. Herb used in Mexican
“boost” and “level” 41. Ear-related prefix cuisine
4. Anklebone 42. Moving synchronously 40. Deodorant option
9. Mil. schools 43. Tree house?
(with)
14. Predatory fish 45. Stalk in a swamp 44. Oscar Peterson, notably
15. “...two mints ___!” 46. Best Actress winner after 47. No longer affected
16. Picador opponents 49. Builds
Halle
17. Enero to enero 48. Judge, e.g. 51. Non-fiction bestseller of
18. “Time to eat!” 50. Alcohol made from rye 1973
19. Old-timey “yours” 53. Actress Julie of “Modern
bread
20. Take this... 52. Reindeer Family”
23. Big moments at the slot 56. ...and add this 54. Have on loan from
58. Uniform part 55. Like up-in-the-air
machine
24. Doomed 59. Fundamental schedules
25. Ads 60. Film director Anderson 56. From Bangkok
27. Squids’ kin 61. One time name in 57. None at all
30. Latin “behold” 58. Word seg.
Mideast politics
33. Most pleasant 62. Namely, in Latin
35. Middle of three squares 63. Period after printemps
36. Palish purple 64. Be dishonest with
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In Crossword Raiders, you’re an intrepid explorer seeking treasure on a crossword grid.

Completing the whole puzzle isn’t the point: You want to get in, get the gold, and get
out—fast! In the two-player game, you and your friend compete to explore three different
puzzles. (If your buddy gets a treasure first, don’t worry—you can always steal it.) This crossword
puzzle has treasure hidden in it, too, as well as a five-letter answer.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 3. Pet in the Arbuckle
household
14 15 16 4. Ritzy Westside
neighborhood
17 18 19
5. Got back
20 21 22 6. Touch
7. Crowe’s “A Beautiful Mind”
23 24 role
8. Practices with Mavis
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Beacon
9. Unusually profitable
35 36 37 38
product
39 40 41 42 43
10. Canned brand
11. Aaron’s daughter
44 45 46 47 48 12. Leave on the grill for too
long
49 50 51 52 13. Loft contents
21. Snopes.com subject
53 54 55 22. Part of some movies
25. Satellite’s path
56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
26. Candy maker H. B. ___
64 65 66
27. Glorify
28. Algiers Accords signatory
67 68 69 29. Hebrew for “instruction”
31. By no means Mr. Right
70 71 72 32. ’80s platform
33. Burdened
34. Get by
ACROSS 46. “Eraserhead” star Jack 37. “Hercules” spinoff
1. Hunk of goo 48. Cardinal, e.g. 40. Make a dent in, say
5. Run off at the mouth 49. Subject of a 42. “The Office” setting
9. Work at home, perhaps documentary subtitled 45. Word before bath or water
14. Assistant “From Russia With Love” 47. One of thirty on a
15. Skype’s former owner 51. Inflexible dodecahedron
16. ___ Stadium (Pro Bowl 53. Screenwriter Vardalos 50. Answer to the riddle
venue) 55. Number on a card? “What do you call a
17. Bit of rigging 56. Home to the Mayo 2000-pound gorilla?”
18. Transition point Clinic 52. “Gil Blas” author
19. Mace, say 64. Mill product 54. Call-and-response words
20. Argues before an 65. Exude 56. Valuable to a collector
already-friendly audience 66. Love personified 57. Dentist’s directive
23. Alternative to chips, at 67. The Circus Maximus, 58. Tear asunder
times e.g. 59. Machine that may run
24. Trig function 68. Prefix with “-tech”
Lion
25. It’s in front of an apron 69. Most tacky or socially 60. Simone of jazz
30. Area awkward 61. Actor Sharif
35. Name that means “king” 70. Czech tennis star 62. Go sightseeing
36. Brother rival 71. Diagnostic procedure 63. The A of NEA
38. Acts the couch potato 72. Strays 64. Bud
39. Smile broadly
41. Challenges DOWN
43. Duchamp’s genre 1. Sound of shock
44. Second-largest religion 2. Incredible person
 PUZ ZLE 3

It’s the find-the-word game set among the stars! Start at a letter and travel around the paths, forming words as you go. In the PuzzleNation game,
you’re trying to form as many four-, five-, or six-letter words as you can before time expires. In this puzzle, we’ve hidden four words (of four to seven
letters) in each star, all of them belonging to a particular category. Word lengths are given to you, as is a single letter in each word. Letters may be
used more than once, even within a single word. Unused letters, reading roughly from left to right, will spell out your 11-letter answer.

K O Y O

E X P C R N E F C U L P B M H N

L I A C A P O S I E A T

N S D R G B T I R T N A L G R I

O U E S

M
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On PuzzleNation, the faster you circle the words, the more points you score, and the louder you can brag to
your friends. In this puzzle, we’ve taken 11 three-word phrases. For each phrase, two of three words are hidden
in the word search, and the remaining word is not. (The missing word is always the one with a shaded square
in the list below.) Using the blanks and starting letters in the list below as a guide, figure out all the phrases
and write them into the list. The shaded boxes will spell out a two-word phrase reading down.

D H E E L S O M O S T
N D A T T E M L P R E
A O D G S V T R A R H
C O F F E E I E A E L
O G T E N N W F T H R
M O N V G E T O Y C C
M P E E L B A U L A V
O I R L I O O R D E L
N A A O S O E V A T T
T N P H H K D A E R B
E O R W G R A N D R S

B
C
E
G
H
L
M
P
R
S
W
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PuzzleNation delivers the sudoku in four levels of difficulty: Easy, Medium, Hard, and better-get-a-
big-mug-of-coffee-first Expert. We think we have the best solving interface on the Web, too.

This sudoku below may look crazy, but it’s just a regular puzzle. After solving it, however, follow the
instructions below to arrive at a two-word phrase. (Sudoku grid by Thomas Snyder.)

1. There is one grey square and one grey circle in each row and column. Transfer the
numbers in the grey squares down to the bottom of the puzzle. Transfer the numbers in
the circles across to the right side of the puzzle.

2. The side and bottom of the puzzle are divided into four sections each. Add up the
numbers in each section.

3. Translate your totals into their alphanumeric equivalents, so that 1 = A, 2 = B, and so on.
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PUZZLE 6
On PuzzleNation, you can buddy up with your friends and then challenge them to our two-player puzzle games. In each of the puzzles below, someone
on the left has buddied up with someone on the right according to a certain rule. (Each puzzle uses a different rule. The puzzles are separated by
dashed lines.) Draw a straight line connecting the proper buddies. In doing so, you will cross off certain letters. The letters that remain, reading down
the three columns in succession, will spell out the two-word answer to this puzzle.

MATA ● ● MOS DEF ADAM ● ● ALAN BONNIE ● ● WILLIE

HARI ARKIN RICKMAN BEDELIA MOSCONI
T R
EMERIL TOM MARGARET T G MARK NAPOLEON ● DANIEL
● ● ● ● ●
LAGASSE SAWYER HAMILTON HAMILL BONAPARTE E U BOONE

F H
MICHAEL ● ● VICTOR JESSICA ● H ● BRAM SIMON ● ● RONA
PHELPS GARBER LANGE STOKER COWELL S BARRET T
L
R E R T
ALAN E JAKE FRAN OMAR DON CHUBBY
● ● ● ● ● ●
DERSHOWITZ TAPPER DRESCHER EPPS AMECHE CHECKER
A C
GUSTAV STEPHEN BURT A ANDRE CHUCK ED
● O I ● ● I ● ● ●
FABERGE FRY REYNOLDS AGASSI BERRY MCMAHON

L L A E
SWEENEY ● ●
BENJAMIN DEBRA ● ●
TREY CLARENCE ● ●
ROBERT
TODD ZIMMER MESSING PARKER DARROW PLANT
N O
N
FERRIS TOM ARETHA ANNE N NOEL
EMINEM ● ● ● ● ● ●
BUELLER ARNOLD FRANKLIN BRONTE COWARD

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 PUZZLE 7

A Tanglewords is like a word search in reverse: We give you the words, and you figure out
how to make them all fit into the grid so that every square is filled. The starting positions of
all the words are shown (some will be used more than once), and words can extend in a
straight line in any direction. On PuzzleNation, you can play Tanglewords as a single-player
puzzle… or as a challenging two-player strategy game.
Complete the puzzle below to find one more word in the shaded central squares.

A H C R W C
A S
M
D L E
C T R
B O

C O S
C A
A B B
T M Z
S T L
R Z M W

ACHE DIRT RASCAL

ADULTS RETYPE
ALLERGIC EDDY RUNE
AUTOMAT
AVID HERO SCOTCH
HOURLY SHRED
BACHELOR SPEAR
BALD LIBERTINE SUCH
BATHE LOUD
BUTTER TAILS
MALL TOTEM
CANDLE MANIA TOWELS
CHAIN MAPLE
CHALLAH MOAN WILD
CHEMISTRY MOWN WONDER
CHERRY MUSHROOM
CLINCH MYTH ZEBRA
COWARDLY ZENITH
CRUISING ODDITY ZILLION
ORANGE ZUCCHINI
 THE FINAL PUZZLE

GuessWorks is like a supersized Hangman. The letters you guess form not words but entire clues; the answers to
those clues are used to put together a pithy little quote. Figure out the quote and win! The one-player game is
addictive enough, but the two-player game requires thoughtful strategy, as every guess you make is revealed to your
opponent.
Each of the previous puzzle answers represents a series of guesses in a GuessWorks game. Look up each letter
according to its puzzle number in the chart below, and then fill those letters into the GuessWorks game on the next
page. (For example, if there is an A in Puzzle 1’s answer, it would go in the third clue, in spaces 2, 8, and 12.) You’ll
soon see clues form. When you’ve figured out the answer to a clue, write it in the spaces on the right side of the page.
Then transfer THOSE letters to the quote down below.
When you’ve figured out the whole quote, you win!

PUZZLE 1 PUZZLE 2 PUZZLE 3 PUZZLE 4 PUZZLE 5 PUZZLE 6 PUZZLE 7

Answer

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
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