National Post

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD

Universal Freestyle 109

- by Jess Rucks, edited by David Steinberg

ACROSS

1 Collection of songs

6 Furry feet

10 Letter between phi and

psi

13 Comment meant to

convey empathy

15 What the sun and moon

do daily

17 The Macarena and

others

18 Name hidden in “Can I

leave?”

19 Aliens, briefly

20 Like ancient

Peruvians

21 “Same”

22 Word before “astray” or

“nowhere”

24 Life time, maybe?

26 Great Lakes people

28 Rosemary piece

29 Wrath

31 Gala

33 First pastry to go viral

35 “We’ll pay!”

38 Passed Go and collected

$400, say

39 Basic assessment?

40 Chill out

41 ___ Lingus

42 Spooky board

45 Oozes

49 Those with *obviously* superior taste in brews

52 Gin flavoring

53 Courses of action

54 Let

56 “True Biz” communicat­ion syst.

57 Fermented rice

drink

58 Honeybun

60 (Pay attention to me)

61 “Not so fast!”

62 “OMG my bad”

63 Aviators shield

them

64 “Be Our ___” (Angela Lansbury/jerry Orbach banger)

DOWN

1 One of a gene pair

2 Stand idly

3 Tiny tree

4 Hawaiian instrument, briefly

5 Many a “maxi” dress, for a 6’2” person

6 Writing implement holders

7 Away for the summer, perhaps

8 In Germany, this food’s name means “from Vienna”

9 City rds.

10 Name meaning “rock”

11 Overtly sneaky

comment

12 “For reals?”

14 Posse

16 “Strange Magic”

grp.

21 Go off on a tangent

23 “Robinson Crusoe”

author

25 For a specialize­d

audience

27 Motion detectors,

e.g.

30 When you might leave:

Abbr.

32 Ballet skirts

34 Hall & ___ (pop duo)

35 Brew such as Hopnosis

36 Listless feeling

37 Jogger without

joggers?

38 Seafood items dipped in

melted butter

43 Kind of

44 Dolly Parton’s most

covered song

46 Tick by

47 Small bouquets

48 Choose, or choice

50 Foe

51 ___ ayam (Indonesian

chicken noodle soup)

53 Free ad

55 Butterfly part

58 ___/her

59 Water, in French

 ?? ??

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