March 2019 40 Sponsored by The Buffalo Chip in Cave Creek Fill in the blank squares so that each row, each column and each 3-by-3 block contain all of the digits 1 thru 9. If you use logic you can solve the puzzle without guesswork. Sudoku Solution on page 56 Crossword Sudoku Hooves & Horns® by A.W. Erwin Cowboy Comics Across Conservationist org. 1 Throw 4 Pursue ardently 8 Geological time composed of periods 11 Sloping trough 12 Blunder 13 Big Apple monogram 14 Wore 15 Fall behind 16 Passionately 17 Blanche ---, lead role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" 20 Obtain 22 "I am just --- boy, though my story's seldom told ..." (Simon and Garfunkel, "The Boxer") 23 Words of departure? 24 Chinese ultimate reality 28 Begets 29 Spelling competition 30 Requests 31 Moves cautiously forward 34 Strike 36 Australian tennis champ Lleyton --- 37 California State University campus site 38 Lubricate 42 Bit of broken pottery 43 P C to web link company 44 Food label letters 47 Nowadays 48 Copy 49 Range of knowledge 50 Stalk 51 Rural negative 52 Down Type of cyst 1 Ironic 2 Company co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg 3 Jaws 4 B M W rival 5 Yes-men 6 Two fins 7 Not ill 8 Spoken 9 Saturnalia 10 Group of singers 12 Low 18 Consumed 19 Collection of facts 20 Poisonous Javanese tree 21 Armed conflict 24 Volcanic glass 25 Bases 26 Suffix for a focused event 27 Maven 29 Rider Haggard romance 32 Groundbreakers 33 Wanting 34 Supposedly wise bird 35 Whisky distiller --- Walker 37 Damage 38 Trusted assistant 39 "The Birth of a Nation" group 40 Slowly disappear 41 Health club 45 Bench with a back 46 Crossword Solution on page 56