Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 It sometimes goes around the moon 5 Old Greek character 10 Tortilla creation 14 Singapore’s setting 15 Thesaurus compiler 16 “Gadzooks!” alternatel­y 17 Follows a risky course of action 20 Watch surreptiti­ously 21 Cherry discards 22 Fencing manoeuvres 23 Indigenous Japanese 24 Bit of New Mexico scenery 25 Is seriously in doubt 31 Piece of a long poem 32 One of your mates from Montreal 33 Harvard’s Ivy League competitor 34 Bug that causes AIDS 35 Split into three 39 Item prone to gout 40 30’s Dust Bowl migrant 42 Verdi’s “___ tu” aria 43 Small intestine section 45 Open the chute 49 Perjures oneself 50 Great white relative 51 Hamilton’s Copps, of ’90s politics 54 Basilica’s focus, often 55 Ringdoctor’s call, sometimes 58 Sandie Shaw’s ’67 Eurovision song winner 61 Hours and hours and hours 62 Where to find a good French teacher 63 Nitpicky in the extreme 64 You, in mediaeval times 65 These dogs are great! 66 Variety

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1 Turns left, to a plough horse 2 Stat, to an ER surgeon 3 Yvonne De Carlo’s Munsters role 4 Sturdy tree 5 Gets in shape 6 Spa amenity 7 Shield of Jupiter 8 Second year sheep 9 Like a jock 10 Three-part 11 Visibly stupefied 12 Breton, for one 13 Uplifting poems 18 Outlet to an urn 19 Keister 23 Tiny aphid farmer 24 ’58 Rosalind Russell role ___ Dennis 25 17-syllable work 26 Chorus instrument in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” 27 Yitzhak and Shimon’s coNobel Prize winner 28 “Peter, Peter, pumpkin ___” 29 In a normal voice 30 Hold as an opinion 31 Use an axe 36 Warmed in the microwave 37 Gets mad 38 Parking infraction result 41 Satellite’s orbit 44 “The facilities” at the BBC 46 Mah Jongg piece 47 Run a skewer through 48 Overtakes 51 Minor squabble 52 Hefner, notably 53 Heaviest Olympic sword 54 In a few ticks of ye clocke 55 Pint-sized 56 Fashion a stone axe 57 Stare openly 59 Common Bolivian crop 60 Gerbil’s larger kin

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