National Post (National Edition)
UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Pueblo material
6 Female sheep
9 All two
13 Middle Eastern home of the world’s oldest capital
14 “Mercy me!”
15 Crowd’s clamor
16 Pressure sources at
school
17 Winter underwear
19 Out of juice
21 Like a highlighter hue
22 Flair
25 Parks or Luxemburg
27 *Garlicky shrimp dish
31 *Thanks for dinner
32 He pities the fool
33 Dissonant, perhaps
34 They’re practiced in
pre-K
35 Basic font
37 With little to no vermouth, or with no booze
38 How to do your best
thinking?
42 Title for Maisel or
Doubtfire
43 Sailors tie them
44 Colorful eye part
46 Went off like a smoke
detector
48 Tabby, for one
50 *Welles of old Hollywood
51 *Straight’s partner, or
like a strait
52 Grad. degrees
53 ___ on the back
(encouragements)
54 Soccer legend aka Edson Arantes do Nascimento
56 Actor Omar or Mike
58 Flowery tropical tree
62 Guitar riffs’ relatives
66 Manipulator
67 Do perfectly 68 Eagle’s home
69 Vodka serving
70 Jungfrau or the
Matterhorn
71 Boy band formed in
1995
DOWN
1 Venomous viper 2 Enhance with henna,
say
3 Deposit in a vein 4 Where chicks chirp 5 *Mock
6 “Ratatouille” restaurant
critic Anton
7 “I ___ Be Sedated” (song
by the Ramones)
8 *Privacy privet
9 Wild horse
10 “___-la-la!”
11 Tropical vacation
“souvenir”
12 Slugger’s scores: Abbr. 14 Mythical kingdom of
gold
18 Subway shove 20 Elbow’s spot
22 Time of Taylor’s tour 23 Peon
24 Finger pointer
26 Warm up for a workout 28 Small country in the
Pyrenees
29 Person who swears by
“Das Kapital”
30 Layer of paper or wood 33 Spa sound
36 “Let’s shake on that!” 39 Stick for a marshmallow 40 Neither Dem. nor Rep. 41 Tissue tests
42 Deg. from Wharton 45 Kind of pad with scour
power
47 Warhol’s soup can
paintings and such 49 Baker’s meas.
52 Word before “code” or
“colony”
55 *Hawaiian porch 57 *Pirate ship feature 58 Roast beef au ___ 59 Volcanic residue 60 Corp. bigwig
61 Skordalia or guacamole 63 Snivel or sob
64 Family
65 Fraction of a min.