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Crossword
Theme: Wildcard
| ACROSS |
|---|
| 1: unit of electrical conductance |
| 4: parent company of BK |
| 7: to stop or to end |
| 9: beauty and the ___ |
| 11: black dangly insect that sting |
| 13: to be machine-like |
| 15: Yoruba metaphysical concept of one’s head |
| 16: March madness home to the Wildcats |
| 17: German heavy metal band named after lead vocalist |
| 18: rage |
| 19: Zip a doo dah |
| 20: Aberdeen international on the stock exchange |
| 21: former IOC code for Myanmar |
| 22: plural article in French |
| 23: a type of plastic |
| 25: 1983 movie starring Streisand |
| 27: first name of actor who plays Quicksilver in X-men |
| 29: sorts through |
| 31: symbolized by a lightbulb |
| 34: keeps your pants on |
| 35: organization for collaboration of post-secondary institutions in Ontario |
| 36: squad that Michael Jordan is part of |
| 37: an object or activity that is dull or uninteresting |
| 38: author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
| 40: ___ Karenina |
| 41: heart, lung, pancreas, skin |
| 43: Nicholas, Valentine, Patrick |
| 45: a leg, usually a woman’s |
| 47: before |
| 48: slide into the |
| 49: a sound a baby makes (twice) |
| 52: Subreddit to ask questions |
| 53: sweet potato |
| 54: type of measles |
| 55: acronym for physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive growth of a child |
| 56: truth |
| 58: Counselor to Bush in 1992 |
| 60: mass of small loose stones on a slope |
| 61: send money as a gift |
| 62: ___ with caution |
| 63: day before Sun. |
| DOWN |
|---|
| 1: tale that idealizes chivalry, nobility, women, fairytales |
| 2: Yee |
| 3: from Japanese city in Kansai region |
| 4: to be birthed again |
| 5: steamed bun often filled with pork mixture |
| 6: what you say frustratingly when you don’t understand something even though you’ve spent hours trying to figure it out |
| 7: to restore to health |
| 8: Hamilton wrote 85 for the Federalist Papers |
| 9: physical structure of a human, plural |
| 10: rolls your car, singular |
| 11: British subculture originating in the 1950s which includes tailored suits, soul music, motor scooters |
| 12: Chuck D and DJ Lord |
| 13: 1966 Rolling Stones song rumored to be inspired by Linda Keith |
| 14: trade show in Vegas |
| 24: prefix for between |
| 26: Saturn’s largest moon |
| 27: to flow |
| 28: Commonly used abbreviation for the character Veokenks of the Dragon Ball anime series |
| 30: medical slang for when someone has a lot of #2 |
| 32: long time |
| 33: test for lupus |
| 38: martial art of Ralph Macchio |
| 39: to make a loud and repetitive noise |
| 42: Old Faithful |
| 44: problems |
| 45: a sound a baby makes (twice) |
| 46: Quebec city home to Canada’s first lithium mine |
| 50: Oberlin College Equestrian Team |
| 51: slang for where a hockey player may have spent most of his time as a child |
| 57: to make a mistake |
| 59: pathology resulting in thrombosis in capillaries due to endothelial injury |
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Editor – Nela Jankechova
Writers – Kirsten Ehlers, Yonael Debebe
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