CROSSWORD
“SCREEN TIME” BY MATT GAFFNEY
INSTRUCTIONS: Tis puzzle’s contest answer is an important social issue. Email your answer to
etfocrossword@etfo.org by Aug. 15, 2025 for a chance to win prizes. Make sure you put the word “Crossword” in the subject line and remember to include your local with the information you send. Te answer to last issue’s puzzle was Climate Justice. Winners are Emily Potter, Lambton Kent Occasional Teacher Local; Paula McIntosh, York Region Teacher Local and Diana McKenzie, Hamilton-Wentworth Teacher Local.
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1. Loud weather 5. Papa 8. Spanish for “hand” 12. “Tat’s awful news!” 13. Motivating force 14. Lots and lots (of) 15. “Quiz Lady” actress, 2023 17. “Encore!” 18. Shaving option
19. With 46-Across: maker of the 1993 documentary “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance”
21. Kept them in stitches? 24. Find a job for
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25. Highest card 26. Nobility rank 29. ___ culpa (admission of guilt) 32. “Te Avengers” actress 36. Range 37. Have ___ of brandy 38. Prefix meaning “bone-related” 41. Units of computer memory 42. Greek goddess of wisdom
44. Org. that gave Canada the Games in 1976, 1988, and 2010 45. Also 46. See 19-Across 51. Where some docs work 52. Burrowing animal 53. Prefix with call or cop
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Women of Film 7
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54. Word before a maiden name 55. “I knew ___ like it!” 56. ___ out the victory (barely won)
DOWN
1. Santa Claus sounds 2. “Now I understand!” 3. Comfy stopover 4. Another comfy stopover 5. Hand out the cards 6. Before the present moment 7. Qatar’s capital 8. Some parents, casually
9. Patching things up by saying you’re sorry 10. Seaweed used for sushi 11. Small bills 16. Like the Maple Leaf on flags 20. Period of low activity 21. ___ fly (baseball play) 22. Green prefix 23. Part of www 26. Tat thing, in Mexico City 27. Equipment moved by a roadie 28. Wish you could take back 30. Port Colborne’s lake 31. Scary snakes 33. “Got it” 34. Lack of waste 35. Concern for working parents 38. Like Cheerios 39. Mall tenant 40. Te ones over there 41. Diddley and Jackson, for two 43. Ending for “peek’ 44. Typed messages to, once 47. Nigerian actor Jacobs 48. Pan for moo goo gai pan 49. “May ___ excused?” 50. Acknowledge someone wordlessly
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