CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Alphabet letter used by King John 4 London’s Marble ___ 8 Lawful 13 Enemy 14 Slowmoving lemur 16 Lack of muscle tone 17 PETA peeve 18 Chinese mallard that’s good at hide’n’-seek? 20 Food poisoning cause, perhaps 22 Erase, in editor-speak 23 Chong of “Quest for Fire” 24 Wine in a strawcovered bottle 26 Magnificent view 29 ‘30 Rogers and Hart song about low optician fees? 33 Vietnam War’s ___ Offensive 34 Big name in hotels 35 Put up with 40 Hawaii’s Ho 42 Fowl language? 43 Sources of organs 45 Pecan, for one 47 Successfully casts the evil eye by following the rules? 54 Kidney-like 55 Grey matter areas 56 At the back of the boat 58 Club drink 60 Jung contemporary Alfred 61 Optometrists’ coastal locations? 65 Philanthropist ___ Khan IV 66 Mission that was the site of an 1836 battle 67 Small beef 68 Tiny drink 69 Western rustler-chasing bunch 70 Russia’s Alexis I, e.g. 71 Seattle-Regina dir.

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1 Outcome 2 Fencer’s cry 3 Speedball ingredient 4 Like most of Austria 5 Spawn, basically 6 Attributed 7 Tackle a nature trail 8 Dawdle 9 “___ make no difference” 10 Popular dance in the 1600s 11 Pre-Columbian empire 12 Rug rat 15 Benjamin Franklin player of “1776”: Howard Da ___ 19 Cry from the corral 21 Quebec’s ___Megantic 25 It may lead to an explosive event 27 Tongue trouble? 28 Folk story 30 Like a pebble beach 31 Peace officer 32 Big portions of a spinning jenny? 35 Do sums 36 Disapproving crowd sound 37 Argon, or nitrogen 38 Two pills a day, say 39 Olivia Walton’s TV daughter 41 Wackos 44 Hide away 46 Bistro beverage 48 Softly hit single 49 Blackboard cleaner 50 Got out in front 51 Pumpkin-shaped 52 Mount Hood’s state 53 Kung fu cousin 56 Lickety-split, briefly 57 Baklava dough 59 Tea for Two, for one 62 Bligh’s Bounty initials 63 Portion of a foot 64 Zsa Zsa’s sis