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A B C 1 2 D E F G L M N O 3 4 H I J K 5 6 7 P Q R S 8 9 Letters go down, numbers go rightward. A: Robberies of motor vehicles B: Technique created by Hancock and Goodyear, gerund form C: Old mercury name or Stephenson book D: Movie with Spielberg and Osment E: Largest SI magnetic flux density unit F: Birthplace of Abraham G: 500 meters H: Turin’s river I: Famous anterograde amnesia sufferer J: NYSE for Toyota K: PRC General Secretary, 2002-2012 L: Not am, are, was, or were M: Two pints N: Home of the Cougars O: Alternative to <b> P: Melts at 544.7 K Q: Gore or Yankovic R: Ana _ _ S: Tolkien’s World that Is 1: French for cashew or mahogany 2: Second word, origin of ultramarine 3: First word, alternate name for Krebs cycle 4: Ulcer of the mouth 5: Official report or statement – without diacritic 6: Panama, Manila, and Suez are these 7: Japanese guitar maker, owned by Hoshino Gakki 8: Also called blue bull, native to India 9: Plant with stinging hairs  A B C Each color is a word, like so: EXAMPLE X L A P M M P A L X ELPMAXE Red: The state of being unbiased Yellow: Relating to smell Green: Coen Brothers updated this Cyan: Containing pigment made from limonite Blue: Prefix for dephlogisticated air Magenta: A: Walker’s or Strangers _ _ _ in Bahamas B: Ho _ _ a ruled Albania C: Formerly Givele, first four letters  T H T E E S R E S L E T A R E I N C L U D E D S O L E L Y F O L E A N R C T E D O M N H E S P S A V E N O R E L E V A N C E T O T H E R O M S S A I N W O R C D I’m not telling you where these go. You figure it out. The numbered ones are all diagonal, I’ll give you that. And all of the colored boxes have the corresponding letters fit in somehow or another. 1: Anabaptists against education 2: Big fingers and/or big toes 3: Cipher machine, messages solved by Turing bombes 4: Loathed punchcard character code descendant 5: Alternate spelling, prototypical aromatic amine 6: Archaic name for Serendib Red: Became Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Tokelau, acronym Green: Operates Californian prisons, acronym Blue: Also known as the Dogrib, first four letters Grey: Moth genus containing Capnosia and Olivacea, first four letters  A 3 B 9 6 2 4 1 3 1 9 7 4 8 7 2 8 5 9 2 3 7 4 6 1 This is both a valid Sudoku puzzle and a word puzzle. Each 3x3 represents a word, in which the letters are arranged so that the first letter goes in 1, the second in 2, etc. They will be noted as: abc def ghi a: Authored Mort, coauthored Good Omens b: Heel bone c: Unit of solid angle d: Shetlands post-Yule fire festival e: PM during “Winter of Discontent” f: City formerly named Canton g: Contains “The Drawing Of The Three” h: IUPAC name for sodapop can metal i: Glen Campbell still hears its sea winds blowing A: Created hyperbolic geometry B: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ are rasemordnilap 1: Lisbon’s is the largest indoor aquarium in Europe – plural form 2: Dharma, adharma, akasha, pudgala, or kala 3: Deer tick family adjective