Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- adrian powell

ACROSS

1 Where Mt. Carmel is, briefly 4 Acting ensembles 9 1049, to Nero 12 Ad sign gas 14 Rufousside­d bird 15 Rhode Is. RRSP 16 Bulletin for invasive veggies that spread like the wind? 18 Original NATO mbr. 19 Edits TV goofs 20 Like devoted fans 22 Fraternity T 23 Unconnecte­d 25 Mitch Miller’s instrument 26 Handy weapons for revolting vegetables? 30 Quiet verbal poke 31 Fancy needle cases 32 Done working, for short 33 Deranged 36 “‘Tain’t” comeback 38 WWII’s ___ Jima 41 Type of pneumonia 45 Nobel Institute city 49 80’s farm girl’s doll? 53 America’s “Queen of Jazz” 54 “Likewise!” 55 Clanton of Tombstone 56 Gets into 59 Bonkers 61 Warty old woman 62 Persian poet who penned peppery poetry? 65 J.K. Rowling’s 2001 honour 66 Basil Fawlty’s waiter 67 Popular snorkellin­g site, maybe 68 Road fork shape 69 Adds to the kitty 70 Long prohibited insecticid­e

DOWN

1 Write stuff? 2 Popular salt water catch 3 Some desk types 4 Prom flowers 5 Part of a wheat stalk 6 Popular massage technique 7 Look after 8 Utah’s lily 9 Hotel suite amenity 10 Hud Bay product 11 Most immense 13 Word in gran’s obit 14 Indian semiclassi­cal songs 17 Get tiresome 21 It’s tiny and strangely fishy 22 Where to connect the hose 24 Red River cart groove 27 Dough-filled machine 28 Pose for a portrait 29 Penultimat­e Greek character 34 Gardner of “The Night of the Iguana” 35 Hurtful remark 37 Fifth note of the scale 38 Skating spectacula­r 39 Kangaroo cousin 40 Bond recipient, in law 42 Odd bit of cloth 43 Uncouth lummox 44 Rubber tree fluids 46 Scraped, like a knee 47 Compared 48 Gushing piece of verse 50 Soft, Scottish bun 51 Pleasantly harmonious 52 Warm and comfy 57 Huxley’s fictional hallucinog­en 58 Arabian Sea nation 60 Gassy prefix 63 Quebec City street 64 Small spotted amphibian

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