National Post (National Edition)
UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Camila Cabello hit with a
repetitive title
7 Soon to receive 12 Discord
18 State of fullness
19 1990s cardio-boxing
program 20 Literature and
drama, e.g. 22 Nervously 23 Banana ___ 24 Beef, for one 25 Hotel door opener 26 Bubbly brews 27 French friend 28 Mononymous “Cheap
Thrills” singer
29 Pizza divisions 30 Apple alternatives
31 “Harry Potter and the ___
Hallows” 33 Gender-affirming treatment,
for short
34 Bird with an eye for eyes?
37 Decelerated
38 Red and green, say
40 Fashionable 1950s footwear
42 Ringo of the Beatles
43 Pop in the mail
44 Ned’s eldest on “Game of
Thrones”
45 Fixer of hairy problems?
47 Online crafting marketplace
48 Occupied, as an office
49 Penne ___ vodka
50 “No clue!”
53 In the lead
55 Big name in 1980s gaming
57 Patricia of “The Day the
Earth Stood Still”
58 Record label now owned by
Sony
61 Brought up
63 List ender (Abbr.)
65 Traffic reporter’s eye in the
sky, in slang
67 MSFT coder
68 Hold on to
71 Stereo alternative
74 Ghanaian river or Italian physicist
75 78 Tossed
Sluggishly out spread of a game
80 Badgers
81 Fibula, for example
83 Solo for Leontyne Price
85 Square ___
86 Makers of green eggs but not ham
87 Turkey bakers
89 Thermopylae combatants
91 Classic 1990s puzzle game
92 Weaves, in a way
94 Devilishly devious design
95 Morse code dash
96 Nickname spray-painted on the Kwik-E-Mart
98 “___ to Joy”
99 Emulates Etna
103 Fish with a long snout
104 Deck swabber’s tool 105 BASIC command
107 Threefold
108 Chemical that gives nail
polish remover its smell
110 Boost, in slang
112 Greets, as the new year
113 Person dyeing for desk
work?
114 Nestles
115 Manage
116 Black Sea port
117 Like proverbs
118 “All right, already!”
DOWN
1 Old hat
2 Big name in 1970s gaming
3 Grilled cheese ingredient
that comes in singles?
4 Holders of some solutions
5 Completely still
6 “Heavens to Betsy!”
7 Third-person pronoun
8 Vegetable that fits the bill for kimchi?
9 Just missed
10 Off-Broadway award
11 Decays
12 Priceless violin, briefly
13 Most crosswords and essays have them
14 Tries anew to get through
15 “___ Spock” (Leonard Nimoy autobiography)
16 Raw bar offerings found in banks?
17 Cyber Monday sellers
18 Lets the dogs loose
21 Use an umbrella, perhaps
30 ___ Beach
32 Ojibwa clan symbol
34 Tournament groupings
35 “Back” button
36 Hopeless gaming neophyte
38 Tittering sound
39 Tender side like roti or tortillas?
40 Sports ___ 41 Marvel-ous group?
43 Pottery fragment
46 Main squeeze
51 ___ Mahal
52 Slovene or Slovak, say
54 Ice hockey fake
56 Bank amenity, briefly
59 Tennis racket string material, once
60 Compile
62 Present time? (Abbr.)
64 Ice cream flavor that might
be mint-based?
66 Greedy and avaricious ... like someone devouring the ends of 3-, 8-, 16-, 39- and 64-Down
69 ORD guess
70 “Law & Order” suspect
72 Generic, as groceries
73 ___ layer
76 Game that always ends in
collapse
77 Molds
79 “Star Trek” extras in
makeup, briefly
81 Small corner stores
82 Type of vegetarian
84 Curving trajectory
88 Some Martin Luther King Jr.
orations
90 Olympic event with heavy
weights?
91 “Semper Fidelis” service
members
93 Precious gems
95 Obtain, as a formula
97 Genre for Leontyne Price
100 No longer in vogue
101 Makes an effort
102 “Auld Lang ___”
105 Shocked reaction
106 Hotel chain whose name
means “all”
107 “Iliad” setting
109 20-20, say
111 “Gangnam Style” performer