The Province

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

|“HE’S MR. PANTS TO YOU”,

- BY TIMOTHY E. PARKER

ACROSS

1 Like some tea 5 “Fresh as” flower 10 Arab ruler 14 Silent entertaine­r 15 “That’s enough!” 16 Walking aid 17 Mr. Fancy Pants is not excessivel­y tidy, he’s ... 19 Wrinkly fruit 20 Blacksburg-toAlexandr­ia dir. 21 Nick’s time on cable TV? 23 Hector 24 Color lightly 27 Make sure 29 Indulgence for a diva 31 Gofer’s runs 32 Instrument panels 34 ___ Lanka 35 Some time units, briefly 36 Swedish currency 39 Car stat 42 Fall back 45 Geometric curve 48 Ask for 52 Increase 53 Act of oozing 55 Tries out 56 Actor McBride 57 Comportmen­t 58 Stock unit 59 Puts food away 61 Mr. Fancy Pants isn’t social, he’s ... 66 Turn sharply 67 Impression­ist Claude 68 Home among the branches 69 Very dry 70 Supplement 71 Dull color

DOWN

1 Global finance org. 2 Secretive government org. 3 Some type widths 4 Picks up, as a scent 5 “Any Major ___ Will Tell You” 6 Darth, as a boy 7 Desktop images 8 Artificial water channel 9 Attachment to “year” 10 FormerFren­ch coin 11 Mr. Fancy Pants isn’t noble of spirit, he’s ... 12 Like parquet floors 13 Rules 18 Opposite of a conclusion, briefly 22 Makes a mistake 24 Type of support 25 Prince in an opera 26 No illogical conclusion­s for Mr. Fancy Pants; he makes a ... 27 Very unoriginal one 28 Hot roofing material 30 Type 33 Bread for dipping and dunking, e.g. 37 Palindromi­c bread of India 38 Circle part 40 Small ground plot 41 Guys’ partners 43 Blossom-to-be 44 Sunlight unit 46 Role player 47 Preparing tea 48 Grade-school playtime 49 Let it all out? 50 Blot on one’s reputation 51 Steering system part 54 Without letup 58 Roman statesman 60 “Catch what I’m saying?” 62 Attain 63 “___ the ramparts we ...” 64 Dos Passos trilogy 65 Farm enclosure

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Solution to last week’s puzzle

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