Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Nautical boom 5 Bum around 9 “American Graffiti” auto 14 Perry and Della’s creator 15 Ancient Icelandic saga 16 “Coffee ___?” (host’s query) 17 City near the base of Pikes Peak 20 Get testy with 21 Bit of biathlon gear 22 Reggae great Peter 23 Inner city area 25 Exude 27 “Maid of the Mist” view 32 High spot in Swiss tourism 35 Many works in the National Gallery 36 Tapir’s feature 37 Has second thoughts about 39 Rookery structures 42 Yesteryear 43 Give the nod to 45 Studebaker or Saab product 47 Place to sit in church 48 Vampire slayer of film and TV 52 Typical high school grad 53 Belly flop result 56 Over again 59 “Cuppa” filler 61 “The Merchant of Venice” heroine 63 Comic who played Robin Williams’s son in “Mork & Mindy” 66 “Giant” of wrestling 67 Ollie’s comedy cohort 68 Really stink 69 Zero the tripometer, say 70 Old-style safe cracker 71 Makes a huge gaffe

DOWN 1 Ticks of the clock, briefly 2 Trident feature 3 Divine name for billions 4 Go back into business 5 Achieve yet again 6 Bizarre 7 Ruckuses 8 Costume ball attendee 9 Barren finger of rock 10 Region of northwest France 11 “Give ___ further thought!” 12 Rules, in brief 13 Run like heck 18 3 to 1, e.g. 19 High grade cotton fabric 24 Long, lascivious look 26 Unsettled questions 28 Northeast Indian state 29 Aerobatics feat 30 Trout’s tempter 31 Jambalaya, basically 32 Sheik, usually 33 Real beaut 34 Ill-gotten loot 38 PC installati­on 40 Popular antacid tablets 41 One kind of stone 44 Zed’s forerunner 46 Wrinkleres­istant synthetic 49 Dr. Hazlitt of “Murder, She Wrote” 50 A little nervous 51 French playwright Jean-Paul 54 Use the rudder 55 Interviewe­r, often 56 Not entirely closed 57 Zippo 58 Strings have a couple 60 Pay to join the game 62 Tries to get the lowdown 64 Celebratio­n time along the Mekong River 65 Witty type

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