National Post (National Edition)
UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “What did I get myself ___?”
5 Increase, as a gap
10 0 shape
14 With 4-Down, “Days of Our Lives” or “Coronation Street”
15 Tequila plant
16 Presidential power
17 Land with sea all around
18 Stick with marks
19 Former lovers
20 Answer to “What’s left?”
23 Letters on an envelope
24 Magazine unit
27 ’60s psychedelic
30 Answer to “What’s right?”
34 “___ of Avalor” (former Disney series)
36 Where M.D.s make the cut?
37 Big Apple mayor Adams
38 Landlocked West African country
39 Church composition that’s an anagram of 31-Down
41 “Queen of Country” McEntire
42 “Jackie Look” creator Cassini
43 Mined stuff
44 One of a biblical 150
45 Answer to “What’s up?”
49 “___ Miz”
50 “I feel the same!”
51 Futon frame part
53 Answer to “What’s down?”
59 ___ Traffic Merge Left
62 Animal hideouts
63 Not include
64 Song for two
65 “King of Rock ’n’ Roll”
66 “Impressive!”
67 Arousing
68 Like a disreputable bar 69 Got larger
DOWN
1 “Really?”
2 Munch between meals
3 Word after “fairy” or “folk”
4 See 14-Across
5 What a fireplace exudes
6 Lizard with a dewlap
7 Spanish surrealist Salvador
8 Divisible by two
9 Most geeky
10 Supervisors
11 Drive up the wall
12 Munched
13 Part of UCLA
21 “At Last” jazz legend ___ James
22 Mind reader’s “ability”: Abbr.
25 “Just amazing!”
26 Fine to consume
27 Sour fruit
28 Zigzaggy ski race
29 Backspace over
31 Carving on a pole
32 Beats by ___
33 Schemes to lighten people’s wallets
35 Acceptable reason to show up late to work?
39 Eyepieces for the rich, stereotypically
40 Kind of chart featuring a CEO
44 Excellent, in the ’90s
46 Debt voucher, for short
47 Login name
48 Sophisticated and stylish
52 Skimpy bikini bottom
54 Healthy green
55 “___ Nights at Freddy’s” (2023 horror flick)
56 Kuwaiti noble
57 Congee ingredient
58 Cook for hours
59 Six-pt. football plays
60 Palette choice
61 Tyrannosaurus ___