The Province

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

- |“IDIOMATIC”, BY GARY CEE

ACROSS

1 Grain husks

6 Actors who overact 10 They’re sold in cartons

14 Reveille horn

15 Rush job letters 16 Devonshire cream feature

17 Mud marking

18 Old Italian money 19 Pear-shaped instrument

20 *It’s constantly changing

23 Not as loud

26 Tide type 27 *Unassuming existence

30 “Of Thee ___” (Gershwin musical) 34 Word with “fee” or “ID”

35 Palindromi­c Genesis woman

36 Ice hockey venues 37 That thing’s

38 *What those who agree are of 40 Powdery residue

41 Hit the sack 43 ___ and downs 44 Mount in Greek myth

45 R&B singer Braxton 46 *Grizzly or Kodiak 48 Fall ___ place 50 Pupil-washing device

51 Force an agreement, or what the starred answers’ ends complete (Hint: Imagine this answer’s first two words in quotes!) 56 Beyond the expected run-time 57 Cajun vegetable 58 Fragment

62 Bean curd

63 Dockside platform 64 Letters near a padlock in an address bar 65 “Hold it!”

66 “It remains to be ___” 67 Message board admin

DOWN

1 James Corden’s network

2 Smooth engine sound

3 “Act your ___!” 4 Sweet-talk

5 Weasel kin

6 Cup, for a pint

7 “Like I would ever!” 8 The “M” in USMC 9 Astronaut’s domain 10 Lunar ___

11 Pouring sound 12 Postpunk genre 13 Editor’s repeal 21 “What’s My Line?” panelist Francis 22 Scottish property owner

23 Hit with a water gun

24 Expulsion

25 Big party

28 “___ had enough!” 29 Thighbone

31 “Be right there!” 32 Bahamas capital 33 A flat’s equivalent 36 A rhetorical question doesn’t ask for one

38 Round gasket

39 2019 Uber event: Abbr.

42 Freezing over 44 Target of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign 46 Wizard of odds 47 Maidens in Greek myth

49 Sports car roof options

51 Acronymic sandwiches

52 Plant’s anchor

53 411

54 Drone’s obstacle, maybe

55 Make a buck 59 Interplane­tary visitors, briefly 60 Sharkey’s rank, in a ‘70s sitcom 61 Paranormal claim, for short

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 ??  ?? Solution to last week’s puzzle
Solution to last week’s puzzle

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