Weekly crossword:

Cephalopods!

Caroline Ho
Assistant Editor

ACROSS

1. Word after “black” or
“special”

4. Cherish

g. “It’s cold!”

12. Tai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13. Fermenting place

15. Not home

16. Allow

17. Borscht vegetable

20. Poem of praise

21. Captain in Twenty
Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea (1870)

22. __ Tome

24. Refuse

26. Astrological sign

27. The Time Machine

Tella,

(1895) people

2g. Org. for Canucks and
Leafs

30. Slim blade, or the heel
named after it

33. Wine-related prefix

36. Take a breather

37. Place of educ. (abbr.)

38. “Zounds!”

39. French article

40. Electronics and the like

(abbr.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

43. Naval abbr. in Canada

45. Ego’s counterpart

46. Applied science subj.

48. Scottish or Irish
surname starter

50. “And others,” for short

52. Large seabird

53. Cram into an ill-fitting
space

56. US speed meas.

58. “Dancing Queen” (1976)
group

Previous solution

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59. Frozen H20

61. Treatise

63. Large container

64. Primetime TV hour

66. Slangy denial

67. Far-fetched, as a tale

69. Take in, as food or
information

71. “Equal”-meaning prefix

72. Board game token

74. Sister

75. “Farewell!”

76. Attempted

77. Steeped drink

DOWN

1. Portent

2. Group of experts

3. Elegant cat breed

4. Hole-punching tool

5. Gas

6. Atop

7. Turns off and on again

8. Before

g. Illicit

10. Impolite

u. Hwy.

14. Coniferous tree

17. What people are often
told to pull themselves

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B;A|D

   

up by, idiomatically

19. Soak up sunshine

23. Brewed beverage

25. Thin-cut fries variety

28. Prickling feeling

31. Mineral suffix

32. Resistance unit

34. Hammer’s target

35. Not even

36. Place in hierarchy

39. __ Misérables

41. Small units of length
(abbr.)

42. “That’s funny.”

44. Business bigwig

47. Detective

49. Shoemaker

51. Of long ago

54. Sushi shrimp

55. Tend to

57. Head topper

60. Follow

61. Not difficult

62. Candied veggie

65. Sicilian volcano

66. Pen tip

68. Rent

70. Bomb often used in
guerilla warfare (abbr.)

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