I’m sure it’s just a passing craze. I like crosswords too, but the nice thing about Sudoku is that it’s always solvable without needing general worldly knowledge type stuff. Completing a crossword is however, more satisfying than finishing a Sudoku (generally speaking - there was this one hard Sudoku that was very rewarding to finish). Making up words to fit the answers so that I may see a more filled out crossword is not beneath me. 
Anyway, I was doing this puzzle yesterday and I don’t think it’s solvable. Where am I supposed to put the 4 in the middle column? Did I miss something??
Numbers in green were provided. I filled in the three numbers in black.
commente on the flickr… it’s weird doing (a tiny bit of) reverse sudoku. (=
Thanks! I didn’t see that empty box for the 8. *forehead smacking duh!* =)
For everybody who wants to try out something new in sudoku, try shendoku, using the sudoku rules but playing two people, one against the other, like battleshipps. They have a free version to download at http://www.shendoku.com/sample.pdf . Anything else they are bringing out or they are working on you can find at http://www.shendoku.com or at they´r blog http://www.shendoku.blogspot.com . Have fun, I am. I specially like one slogan I heard about Shendoku: SUDOKU is like masturbation (one person)…. SHENDOKU is like sex (it takes two).