CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Attempt on goal 5 Runs for it 10 Mama bear, to Caesar 14 Emulated spiders 15 Oregon’s neighbour 16 Snoozes 17 Nimble mountain goat 18 Narrowly defeated 19 Common sun phenomenon 20 Weapons used in the trenches 22 Something to wear 24 Haul 25 Fox rival 28 Military directive 29 Dirty yellow colour 31 Sound off Vancouver Island 33 Whittle down 34 Laryngeal bump 38 Braggart’s attribute 39 Be due a refund, perhaps 40 Sofia coin 41 Daily specialist, maybe 43 Ancient sorcerer 44 Throngs 45 Synthetic textile 46 Forearm bones 49 Part of Ceylon, these days 50 Singleton 51 Things a lion might stalk 53 Potter’s pedal 57 Join the chorus 58 Where condors nest 61 Prepare to strike, in a way 62 Early Biblical murder victim 63 Something that usually gets paddled 64 Hang about in the shadows 65 Very knowledgeable 66 Showed zero talent, slangily 67 H’s to old Greeks DOWN 1 Do the backstroke 2 Famed Red Skelton persona 3 One way to bring down a dictator 4 Surface quality 5 Coffin stand 6 Miscellaneous scraps 7 Dilly dally 8 Popular article 9 Variety of cracker 10 Take off a seatbelt 11 Really fast 12 Mushroom “seed” 13 Sunflower’s smaller cousin 21 What some cheeses do 23 Sweet wine of Hungary 26 Rooming house guest 27 School essay 29 Ready for customers 30 Polly’s home, perhaps 32 Someone that Lenin brought down 34 Say positively 35 Exhausted, slangily 36 Kids’ building block name 37 Fifty-fifty 39 Egg-shaped 42 Bit of roofing material 43 Fetter 45 Sea urchin eggs 46 Watched an encore presentation 47 Defence lawyer’s trump card 48 Canute’s countrymen 52 Follicles, technically 54 Smell real bad 55 Gondolier’s change, once 56 Bugling beasts 59 Down a few carbs 60 It’s stranded in a cell