National Post (National Edition)

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD ACROSS

1 “The Art of Fugue”

composer

5 Cozy lodging 10 Barbershop quartet

offering

14 Hundred ___ Wood (“Winnie-the-Pooh” setting)

15 What you may pull to write an essay you just remembered is due tomorrow

17 Mix with a spoon 18 Triceratop­s or

stegosauru­s 19 Connection­s 20 Country once known as

Persia

21 Trampled

22 Basketball player who became the all-time NCAA scoring leader in 2024

26 Chiding sounds 27 Would really rather

not

30 National sport of Japan 31 Sealy rival

32 TikTok or CapCut 34 Place to get a tennis

racket restrung 37 Astronomer whose first and last name differ by one letter

39 Craze

40 Overplay a role

42 Patch up

43 Admit at the entrance of 45 Delivery vehicles

46 “My hunch was right!” 50 Disposable camera

medium

52 Party mix cereal 53 1999’s “house hippo” ad promoting media literacy, e.g.

54 “Well, whaddya know!” 57 It’s water under the

bridge!

58 “Are we doing this

thing?”

59 Italian destinatio­n in “The Lizzie McGuire Movie”

60 Otherwise

61 Like many dad jokes 62 Snow day vehicle

DOWN

1 Simple

2 “Be yourself!” 3 State of emergency 4 That woman 5 ___-Sun (lunch box

drink)

6 Poe’s middle name 7 “Golden Girls” role 8 Cozy lodging 9 Quibble

10 Subjects of Jimmy

Buffett’s “Fins”

11 Chancellor ___ von

Bismarck

12 Have to have

13 (Back off!) 16 “Puh-lease!”

20 They, in France

23 Boxing stats

24 Size above medium 25 “___ girl!”

28 Group of job candidates 29 Password used by

thieves

30 Supergoop tube abbr. 31 Catches sight of

33 Pea holder

35 End zone pose popularize­d by Desmond Howard

36 All: Prefix

38 Big Apple offering? 41 Mention in passing 44 Early movie with

sound

45 Irk

47 “Wallace and Gromit”

sheep

48 Spiteful about little

things

49 Saw romantical­ly 50 April 1 victim 51 Promissory notes 54 Pretzel-making

chemical

55 Summit

56 Capote’s nickname

57 ___ Fields