National Post

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

ACROSS

1 Changing habit, place kind of order (10)

6 Dance bouncer (4)

9 Fellows’ protective leather wear (5)

10 Giving orders, ink in some food prep (9)

12 Gear alien set around comedians? (9)

13 Swine by an earthen abode (5) 14 Meteorolog­ist’s line: “I cry a river” (6)

16 At hearing, Bohr gets ready to make a proposal (6)

20 Left priests some beasts (6)

21 Sheep in summer in Ontario (6) 24 Taken out frequently, so it’s said (5)

26 Gatekeeper holding top of an observator­y measuring device (9)

28 Backing off taking tenants, including the Spanish (9)

29 Shift smoothly among house guests (5)

30 Grow gradually larger and yellow, like some ears (4)

31 Retrospect­ive permits nothing more by Greek film actor (4,6)

DOWN

1 Cooked chic meal with changing power (8)

2 Wrongly put aloe in cooking fluid (6,3)

3 Sent back model with a fabulous figure? (5)

4 Education stops some turbulence (6)

5 Stimulatin­g popular observatio­n in speech (8)

7 Imitating a light metallic sound (5)

8 Stage final story (6)

11 Two articles about call on a tennis court player (7)

15 A bunch of musicians on leave (7)

17 Close-fitting tee grabbed by runner before dark (4-5)

18 Mention about concert booster’s temporary home (8)

19 Broken bordello buzzer (8)

22 Regret broadcast involving Bruin great (6)

23 Fuss about a game’s first quarter, one played slowly (6)

25 Life altered by Mendelssoh­n (5)

27 Flub in form is doubted (5)

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