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Monthly crossword: Cake edition

  

Caroline Ho
Assistant Editor

 

ACROSS

1. Dictate

4. Norse thunder god

8. Cake-making place
14. Prefix meaning “equal”
15. Musician Shankar

16. Dickens’ Twist

17. Rammed

19. Internet connection
devices

20. With 54-down,
operatic interlude

21. Abbr. in beer
measurement

22. Cake baked in a ring-
shaped mould

25. Equiv. to mLs

27. Ruhr city

32. Painkiller brand

33. Resistance unit

34. Woolen fabric

35. Unspeaking

36. Law, en francais

37. Novelist Larsson and
others

38. Chocolate sponge,
cherry-filled cake (2 wds.)
41. Laboured tirelessly
43. Work week end, briefly
44. Butter derived from an
African tree

47. Edmonton NHLer
48. White fish variety
49. Bow counterpart

50. Famous sled dog

51. Organic compound
suffix

52. Cake with equal
weights of flour, butter,
eggs, and sugar

53. Licensed
establishment

Previous solution

55. Churn

57. Grading scheme

61. Make complete

65. Whole

66. Exceptional thing
67. Napoleonic war
marshal

68. Soft, fluffy food often
used in cakes and other
desserts

69. Like many cakes

70. This American Life
broadcaster

DOWN

1. Curved bone

2. Our southern
neighbour

3. Neither’s partner

4. 30, en frangais

5. stop

6. Make a cake too dry

7. Shed

8. Explosive

g. “Gentille” bird

10. Young goat

u. Biblical first woman
12. Sleep phase (abbr.)
13. Decade components,
in brief

18. Layered chocolate
cake often coloured with
beetroot (2 wds.)

21. Suffix for a belief

22. Explosive sound

23. Inuit knife

24. Sport similar to
basketball, except with no
dribbling

26. Very light, fluffy cake
28. Cylindrical sponge
cake (2 wds.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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29. Transparent, briefly (2
wads.)

30. Test measuring brain
waves (abbr.)

31. Handheld console
released in 2004, briefly
36. TV screen type

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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37.__ Lanka

39. Cardio exercise

40. Getting a cake custom-
made

41. Weep

42.__ Fail

45. Very long time

46. Abbr. for many SUVs
48. Vehicle

49. Honeybee home

54. See 20-across

56. Universal donor blood
type (abbr.)

57. Edge

 

58. Family card game
59. Heating abbr.
60.__’_al Ghul

61. Enemy

62. Charged particle
63. Shock

64. Make a mistake