October 2018 36 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 52 Crossword Sudoku Cowboy Comics & Jokes Across Soot speck 1 Place 5 Garden areas 8 Father of a leveret 12 Like the earliest life forms 13 Top guns 15 "Blazing Saddles" actress --- Kahn 16 Tombstone's --- Earp 17 Flatbread of India 19 Statute 20 Well-liked 21 Anthology 24 Guitarist --- Clapton 27 Sets aside for later discussion 31 Bright coarse cloth 32 --- Chanel 34 Pretty young girl 35 Carryall 36 Plant juice 39 Passed away (Abbr.) 42 Identified 43 Passionless 47 Cab 50 Seek 51 Storm centers 52 Kvetch 53 Lone Star State (Abbr.) 54 Wharf 55 Down Pygmalion writer 1 Department store founder 2 Common fertilizer ingredient 3 Experimental aviator 4 Pollution meas. 5 Planet discovered by Herschel 6 Flowing and ebbing 7 Sound intensity unit 8 Wicked 9 Funnyman --- Carvey 10 Killed 11 Model and actress --- Suvari 14 Start of a Hamlet soliloquy 18 Sign of infection 22 Demoted 23 How some stocks are traded (Abbr.) 24 "Little Red Book" author 25 S N L network 26 Ridicule 28 Place for the very ill 29 One way to pay for mail-order 30 Stocky horse 32 Straight --- arrow 33 Repeat aloud from memory 35 Whiff 37 Doctrine 38 Irritating email 39 Too 40 The Pope 41 Salad sauce 44 Corporate officer (Abbr.) 45 Flat circular plate 46 Can plating 48 Boat director 49 Crossword Solution on page 52