Times Colonist

DIAGRAMLES­S, 21 X 21

- By Myles Mellor

ACROSS

1 Former Iranian ruler

5 Longing

9 African antelope

10 Pinta and Santa Maria companion

11 Prayer’s end

12 Trade punches

13 Be inclined

14 Kernels

15 Court figures

19 Bad luck

23 Make more nutritious

26 Heart

27 Chisel e.g.- 2 words

29 Ready for action!- 2 words

30 City of Indiana or Louisiana

31 Take over

32 Car feature

33 Common

36 “Grab ___!”

37 Scat queen Fitzgerald

38 Student score, abbr.

41 “All in the Family” spinoff

42 Venue for some vows

43 Two Women Oscar winner

45 Certain MD’s specialty, abbr.

46 Beach bird

47 Tennis great

48 Ice cream parlor order

50 Pickled vegetables

51 ___graph (record-player)

53 Valuable kind of element, 2 words

58 Strange bird

59 Small terra-cotta instrument­s

60 Football play, 2 words

61 Ozzy’s wife

62 Night flight

63 Fax button

64 Historic Scott

66 Ocean predator

70 Birthplace of seven U.S. presidents

71 Wedding wear

72 Remote button, perhaps

73 “Garden of Evil” novelist Buchanan

74 Direction

75 Reddish deer

DOWN

1 Three-hand card game

2 Famed Scottish philosophe­r

3 Red Sea city

4 X 100

5 Detangle, as hair

6 Shred, 2 words

7 Member of a pesky swarm

8 Dumbo features

16 Assume the position (fencing), 2 words

17 Glenn of the Eagles

18 Internet location

19 Club for smart guys and girls

20 Run up, as charges

21 Common flag symbol

22 Beatles album that included

“Ticket to Ride”

24 Base bed

25 On a roll

26 John ___ Mellencamp

27 Dine at a restaurant, 2 words

28 Flattened

30 Mean Girls star, Lindsay

32 1966 musical starring Angela Lansbury

34 Prefix meaning “extremely”

35 South American cowboy

38 Hails

39 Western Australian capital

40 Aardvark meal

42 When shadows are shortest, 2 words

43 Asian country, capital: Beirut

44 Repeatedly, 3 words

48 “Apologies!”

49 Not acceptable

51 Remain unsettled

52 Wait to be found, in a game

54 Temperatur­e controls, briefly

55 “Yay, team!”

56 Historical divisions

57 One of Ireland’s names

58 Eliminate, 2 words

62 Jockey holds them

64 Indoor arena feature

65 Swift South American bird

67 Fix

68 Art movie theater

69 Sorrowful interjecti­on

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