CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fit for the queen

6 Small, skinny, Greek character

10 Out of danger

14 Upstate New York city

15 Short silk or wool fibre

16 Av’s successor

17 Secret little dogs?

20 Timehonoured practice

21 Bus. alternative

22 Blotch

23 Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Princess ___”

24 Endangered Asian mini-buffalo

25 Ammo for idiots?

33 Of practical value

34 Gene Kelly’s “___ Girls”

35 Sleeping spot for unexpected visitors, maybe

36 Soft, matted fabrics

37 Big cavity

38 Bunch from the Mormon Tabernacle

40 To’s comeback

41 Tin

42 Old Flemish capital

43 Two star item in the entertainment pages

48 Charming

49 Time delay

50 Muscle beach swimwear

53 Dip in the middle

54 Lengthy, complicated tale

58 This will make everyone happy

61 Actor Alan of “Mephisto Waltz”

62 Overwhelming desire

63 Roomy auto

64 Sneaky tactic

65 Food containers

66 One in a black suit

DOWN

1 The German Rust Belt

2 Seamstress’ notion case 3 Central point

4 Deep yearning

5 ___-di-dah

6 Trouser leg datum

7 Sounds of wonderment

8 Server’s reward

9 A graduated chap

10 Like a nasal partition

11 Got off the train

12 Combustible stuff

13 “All ___ being equal...”

18 Piece of Pakistani patter

19 Popular swimming spot

23 Historic March day to old Romans

24 Act as a getaway driver, e.g.

25 Rears

26 In ___: not yet born

27 Raonic of tennis

28 Popular tripledecker sandwich

29 Slavic crepes

30 They’re small, but create a lot of culture

31 Sheer linen fabric

32 Scatter about

37 Lay down some blacktop 38 Horsefly

39 Bug that might develop into AIDS

41 Nondairy milk source

44 Type of airline ticket

45 South of France

46 Cheers up

47 Big pasta sauce name

50 Switch

51 Pharmacy staple

52 Interior (pref.)

53 Speak to deaf ears?

54 Big first for a baby

55 Popular Verdi opera

56 Spur on

57 Songstress Murray

59 “Sahib” alternative

60 Arsenic Sulphide, briefly