Ottawa Citizen

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

- Spelling Bees by Jared Goudsmit, edited by Jared Goudsmit

ACROSS

1 Pre-k lesson 5 Doorway piece 9 Think ___ (consider

carefully)

14 Onion or garlic 15 Savage of

“Mythbuster­s” 16 Went backpackin­g,

perhaps

17 B?

20 Shock comic Eric 21 Confess openly 22 1,440 minutes 23 Endanger

26 Trevi Fountain’s

country

28 E?

32 Cello cousin

35 ___ Jovi (rock band) 36 Artist Ono

37 Concert settings 38 Historic periods 40 Ancient Japanese spy 42 Clove hitch, e.g. 43 Approve, as a law 45 Zesty flavor

47 Three thirds

48 Iota preceder

49 E?

51 Touch or smell 53 Vegas numbers game 54 Openly gay, say 56 Giants manager

Kapler

58 Amateurish 62 S?

66 Highly esteem

67 “It’s a ___ country” 68 Name found in

“camaraderi­e”

69 Word after “snow” or

“guardian”

70 Boast, slangily

71 Award for “Fleabag” or

“Ted Lasso”

DOWN

1 “Voulez-vous” band 2 “You just got roasted!” 3 Clump of clay 4 Domino’s rival

5 Skull part

6 Anti-plaque org. 7 Hawke in “Stranger

Things”

8 Low-budget film such as “I Was a Teenage Werewolf”

9 Crowd’s motion in a

stadium

10 Hit the fewest strokes in

golf, e.g.

11 “Seriously!”

12 “You can’t see me!”

wrestler

13 Like provocativ­e art 18 Revere as a god 19 Cannabis, casually 24 Unsympathe­tic

25 “___’s Delivery Service”

(Studio Ghibli film) 27 URL connection 28 Roger who said, “No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough”

29 Jones of jazz 30 23andme service

31 ___ Carlo

33 Sierra ___ (Liberia

neighbor) 34 “Hereditary” director

Ari

37 Vivian on “I Love Lucy” 39 Youtube or Yahoo 41 Lowest face card 44 Obsess over “Doctor

Who,” say

46 Spirit in a bottle? 49 Snub

50 Far from a celebrity 52 Used a sofa 54 Workplace monitor

org.

55 Well-informed

about

57 Noble title that’s also a

name

59 Original Babybel cheese

type

60 Curly ’do

61 Mess hall platter

63 Apt letters missing from

“stu_ge_n _ggs”

64 Jeans brand

65 Luthor in the Legion of

Doom

 ?? ??

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