actual sudoku
◆ · By yowzers · Published 2024-09-30T22:05:11.143Z
Each square contains a digit, not a letter. The crossword clues tell you how to fill the highlighted squares in a given row or column. For example, if you have a clue "deadly musicians' club" for three squares “
_ _ _” and the last two are highlighted, it means to fill in the answer in the last two squares: “_ 2 7”.To solve the puzzle, start by completing as many highlighted squares as possible using the crossword hints, then finish off the rest of the grid as a sudoku.
A couple clues are in spoiler tags (like this). These ones are freebies that you can reveal if you need extra verification.
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i genuinely didn't mean it to be this hard and i was afraid it ended up giving too little context to be solvable... amazing job!!1A
16th triangle number (1+2+3+...+16) — or, alternatively, the first three triangle numbers
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Across
- 1A16th triangle number (1+2+3+...+16) — or, alternatively, the first three triangle numbers
- 4Asudoku
- 7Aarchetypal work hours (what a way to make a living!)
- 10Ainaugural year of reagan's second term
- 11Asudoku
- 12A2^5-1
- 13Asmallest prime
- 14Asudoku
- 15Aonly natural number that's twice its square root
- 16Anumber of times you need to say beetlejuice for him to show up twice
- 19Acode for "i love you", as seen on mr. rogers and in katy perry's record-breaking 2024 album
- 22Asudoku
- 25Anumber of times you need to say beetlejuice for him to show up three times
- 26Anumber of numbers representable in 8 bits
- 27Athe loneliest number
- 28Ayoungest age allowed to make an account on most websites per COPPA
- 29Awhy was 6 afraid of 7?
- 30Asudoku
- 31Anumber of seas, skies, continents, etc
- 34Asudoku
- 37Asmallest cube
- 40Aanswer to life, the universe, and everything
- 41Asudoku
- 42Aeight dozens
- 43Anumber of days in a year (...are you bumping that)
- 44Aoldest octogenarian age
- 45Aall day all week
Down
- 1Dnumber of blinks of a particular band
- 2Dmost common film thickness, in mm
- 3Dtwice this clue's column number
- 4Dsudoku
- 5Dsudoku
- 6Dsudoku
- 7Dmaximum number of ways to skin a cat, arguably
- 8Dage nobody likes you at, per 1 down
- 9D五一四 (wǔ yī sì) "i want to die" — note that even if you don't know chinese you might know what the last number is
- 16Dthe funny number (channel your inner 28a-year-old)
- 17Dhow old you used to be at birth in south korea
- 18Dnumber of times you need to say beetlejuice for him to show up once
- 19Dgreatest signed byte value, 2^7-1
- 20Dthe elites don't want you to know this but the ducks at the park are free. you can take one home. i have [...] ducks (this one was meant to be "the temperature in fahrenheit that paper famously burns at" but i messed up the last digit and was very fortunate that this meme exists instead)
- 21D"_ _ _, damn she fine" —lil jon (they're multiples of 3)
- 22Dsudoku
- 23Dthe loneliest number
- 24Dsudoku
- 31Dhouse number opposite the simpsons on evergreen terrace
- 32Dnumber of letters in the english alphabet
- 33Dmeaning of penta-
- 34Dzero with a belt
- 35Dleetspeak g
- 36Dsudoku
- 37Dsilver medal placement
- 38Dfour score and... fourteen
- 39Djenny's area code