The Province

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

“ART STASH”

- BY TIMOTHY E. PARKER

ACROSS

1 Easy basketball score 6 Steal 11 Coral reef 14 Like a lot 15 Animal pelts 16 Mature 17 Analogous thing 19 Genetic letters 20 Not false 21 Negative one 23 Charting 27 Command to a canine 29 Tom of Hollywood 30 Military ID 31 Circumfere­nce 32 Painful spasm 33 Civil War combatant 36 See from afar 37 Courting one 38 Dance event 39 Slithery fish 40 Melts 41 Popular syrup 42 Barnum’s way out 44 Five-iron nickname 45 Moonwalker Harrison 47 Agog 48 Larkin and Plath, e.g. 49 Calm relaxation 50 In the fashion of 51 Clay pottery 58 “Dude, Where’s My ___?” 59 Say “We want a hit” in unison 60 Fierce feline 61 ‘70s self-help system 62 Some British farewells 63 Battery post

DOWN

1 ___ du Flambeau 2 “Without further ___ ...” 3 “Me? What about ___!” 4 Cremains container 5 Easily annoyed or irritated 6 “I don’t know” gesture 7 Dry dishes 8 McKinley’s first lady 9 Word with “capita” 10 Connoisseu­r 11 Science of 23-Across 12 Nixon VP 13 Have deep desires 18 Fish-eating eagle 22 Nabokov novel 23 “Fibber ___ and Molly” 24 “Get thee up!” 25 Combat award 26 Feel sorry for 27 Traditiona­l bodies of knowledge 28 Composer Stravinsky 30 Arab sailing vessels 32 Wedding event 34 Matriarch of “Dallas” 35 “Let It ___” 37 Make an edge sharper 38 Where you’re safe even if tagged 40 Cut into thirds 41 56-Down shade 43 Clock std. 44 Artist’s inspiratio­n 45 The final frontier 46 Nose-tickling beverages 47 Bangkok bills 49 Laboratory gas burner 52 Discovery sound 53 Fink 54 Triumph 55 “Long ___, in a galaxy ...” 56 Color of anger, figurative­ly 57 Before, before

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