Times Colonist

DIAGRAMLES­S, 21 X 21

- By Myles Mellor

ACROSS

1 Precious stones 5 Piece of cereal 10 Lover of Tess in “Tess of the D’Urberville­s” 11 More infrequent 12 Humdinger 13 Middle East titles 14 Neatnik’s opposite 15 Style of abstractio­nism 16 Let up 22 Replay of a TV show 26 Muscat native 27 Looker 28 Gulls and geese 29 Brown alternativ­e 30 Bush with yellow flowers 31 Some tributes 32 Partner of each 36 Rickman and Thicke 40 Prefix with plane 41 Hawaii state birds 42 Weatherman’s forecast 46 Latvia capital 47 Lucky strike 48 Cartoon character Krabappel 49 Slog 50 Veins of minerals 51 Pleads 52 Observers 53 One of the Jacksons 54 “Dracula” writer Stoker 57 Photograph 61 Justice’s garb 62 Sanctuary 63 Right you are! 64 Quantum mechanics pioneer Bohr 65 Gave out 66 Granite colored 68 Girl in “Candle in the Wind” 72 Anomalous 76 Farewell, in France 77 Need relief 78 Ice cream flavor 79 Vegas attraction 80 Don’t exist 81 Deep-six

DOWN

1 Liquid measures (abbr.) 2 12th Jewish month 3 Dramatic introducti­on 4 Aqua lung device 5 Cooling liquid 6 Living room light source 7 La Scala highlight 8 LPGA star Cristie 9 “While” beginning 17 Chess champion Fischer 18 Mideast chief, var. 19 Tropical staple 20 Inner, prefix 21 Action of taking something apart 22 Seizing cars where a debt is not being paid 23 Saw 24 Surrealist Magritte 25 Coffee pots 32 Tombstone lawman 33 Bridal gown accessory 34 Proof word 35 Throughway 37 “Bad, bad ___ Brown” Jim Croce 38 Positive electrode 39 “Well, I ___!” 42 First name in country 43 Arabian gulf 44 Dutch or German girl’s name 45 Democratic donkey designer 53 Outlaw, James 54 Highlands hillside 55 Alitalia destinatio­n 56 Victim of Cain 58 Letters 59 Riding the waves 60 Gloss 65 Frighten 67 Ferment 68 California wine valley 69 German border river 70 Chinese staple 71 Aim 73 Soundwave reflection 74 Fraternity letters 75 Poisonous evergreens

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from Canada