Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Nannies of the Orient 6 Org. with many ends and centres 9 Big bundles of hay 14 Scoundrel 15 Tongue spoken around the Mekong River 16 Gent from the Arabian Sea area, maybe 17 Unruffled 20 Bond, for one 21 Half of a ‘60s peacenik pair 22 Where to get cash in a hurry 25 80’s sitcom planet 26 Weird 27 Field’s “Norma ___” 30 Utterly selfsatisf­ied 34 Protest that gets out of hand 35 Spanish Inquisitio­n torture tool 36 Southern cuckoos 38 Letters on an old radio knob 39 Meditative discipline 40 Even less clear 42 Colgate container 44 Spotless 48 Merry old time in Da Nang 49 It’s right from the horse’s mouth 50 Bit of cereal 51 Ott. NHL player 52 Nine-tailed whip 53 Alephs’ followers 55 Almost weightless 62 Heep, Wilkins Micawber’s boss 63 Inuit butcher’s tool, say 64 NE African capital 65 Bookstore category 66 Disastrous rugby score 67 Quebec pianist ___ Ganon

DOWN

1 Thrown javelin’s path 2 Utterance from the paddock 3 Back in the past 4 Polynesian dance 5 Poseidon, for one 6 Haunted house sounds 7 Indisputed bit of data 8 Gehrig of baseball 9 City limit 10 Shells and the like 11 Where mad scientists work 12 WSW’s antithesis 13 Private’s oft repeated word 18 Blood bank inventory 19 Cryptograp­her 22 Aries’ mth., for the most part 23 Subject to court proceeding­s 24 Regular lunar event 26 National gemstone for Aussies 27 Really cheap shots? 28 Fit for the stage 29 ___ out a living 31 Neighbour of ancient Carthage 32 Mall, in old Mykonos 33 Marsh birds 37 Soak up some rays 38 Waistcoat 40 Beer fest mo., often 41 Pakistani yogurt dip 43 When to spot Venus, to poets 45 Wretched 46 More than dislike 47 Homer’s “Odyssey” setting 52 Singe 53 Exotic Java Sea isle 54 Lee of Spider-Man fame 55 Big doofus 56 Steamed feeling 57 Beefeater product 58 Early riser? 59 Concealed 60 Slip up 61 Caviar’s make-up

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