Sudoku by Ashish Kumar
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Theme: Empty Diagonal
Author/Opus: This is the 42nd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Ashish Kumar.
Rules: Standard Sudoku rules.
Difficulty: 3.5 stars
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 3:30, Master = 5:30, Expert = 11:00
Solution: PDF
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Excellent puzzle! I really enjoy medium/difficult classic sudokus, completely fair techniques but applied in interesting ways.
5:26. Resolving the digits at the end took a while. Good fun sudoku.