You Rule!

by Alex Vratsanos

This "mid-week level" puzzle honors, in a sly way, the individual pictured to the right. After completing the puzzle (spoiler), to fully understand what is going on, it may help to click here. Updated January 6. 2016: Reposted for an auspicious personal occasion in the life of the this puzzle's "ruler."

Click here to view or download the puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution.

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