Rows and columns are simultaneous equations. Here the crosses have left the blue-framed column with a single unknown — it solves at once, and the upper yellow cell is a ghost. Substitute that into the pink-framed row: the row is now full, so the right yellow cell is ×. Solve the easy equation, feed the answer to the next: textbook substitution.

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