Games & Puzzles – March 2026
(Solutions at bottom)
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Crossword
By Rachel Poe
Across
1. Russian parliament
5. Outdo
8. Glow, as the Sun
13. Very unlikely (you would be Clueless to believe it)
14. Jewish house of prayer
15. Spud
16. Harvard rival
17. Rice-like pasta
18. Schoolbag measurer
19. Emerging sport for girls
22. Really steamed
23. “___ shining moment”
24. How bad excuses are given
26. Chart with rectangles
31. Nadir on Community
32. Queue
33. Shed tears
34. Yoga class need
35. Yuletide singer
38. Restaurant calculation
39. Hotel amenity
40. Owl sound
41. White House worker
42. Flying money
44. “Rocky Mountain High” singer
46. Fitting
47. Siamese fighting fish
48. Monopoly setting
52. Sound of Music protagonist
54. Estimator’s phrase
55. Sticky stuff
57. Fragrant resin
58. Last name in fashion
59. Encourage
60. First month of Hebrew calendar
61. Many millennia
62. Rush order?
Down
1. Calendar square
2. Initials on a warplane
3. Small unit
4. Afraid in Old English
5. Pang
6. Greek liqueur
7. Storyline
8. “___ than fiction”
9. Trucking company
10. “___ be worth it”
11. Originally named
12. Get it wrong
14. Tender-hearted person
20. Actress Gadot
21. Transported
24. Serpent-tailed female demon
25. Primitive calculators
26. Printing woes
27. Afflict
28. Catalysts
29. A family of lions
30. Abnormally active
35. Military clergyman
36. Main artery
37. Fish eggs
41. One of the Leeward Islands
43. Our Lady of ___ (Portuguese shrine)
44. Interior designer’s concern
45. List ender
47. Yellowstone sight
48. Mars, to the Greeks
49. Connecting point
50. Donald Duck’s nephews, e.g.
51. Hatha or Vinyasa
52. ___ in Black
53. Muhammad ___
56. Liveliness
Number-Path Puzzle
Fill in the white squares with the missing numbers, in numerical order 1 to 64, to form a single continuous path that does not cross itself and never runs diagonally.
By Susan Helton
Solutions:
