Naked Pair

hard tier

Look at the pencil marks in the two highlighted cells in this row: both can only be 4 or 9, nothing else.

Since 4 and 9 have to occupy these two cells (in some order), neither digit can appear anywhere else in the row — so 4 can be crossed off the marked cell, even though it still has other candidates too.

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