Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Scoped the joint out 6 These can be found in veins 10 Stage layouts 14 More than just supple 15 Dance through the daisies 16 Create flint tools 17 Bristle-like 18 US state named after a French king 20 Character sold in a famous 1852 novel 22 Unfeeling 23 Bit of a flap 24 1/3 of a banana 25 Supermarke­t walkways 28 L, in Lesbos 31 Take part in Stratford’s festival 32 UN workers’ rights gp. 33 Unlawfully at large: on the ___ 34 Peat moss, basically 36 Birdbrain 39 Jack Horner ate one 40 You play “Taps” on it 41 Corner sitter’s head wear 43 Every last bit 44 Go off the deep ___ 45 Hudson or Chedabucto 46 Aide 50 Downhill vehicle with handlebars 52 Shelley’s “To A Skylark,” for one 54 Robust libation 55 Lump of gunk 56 Sentimenta­l 59 Split off 62 Mel Blanc, vis-a-vis Barney Rubble 63 Pretty puny puppy 64 Garden entrance 65 Avocado-shaped 66 Pangolins eat them 67 Where Adam arose 68 Be inefficien­t

DOWN 1 Not at all formal 2 List of events 3 “Corner Gas” or “Little Mosque on the Prairie” 4 Something that flies high over Israel 5 Proof reader’s removal mark 6 DuPont acrylic fibre 7 Apartment divisions 8 It’s big in Australia and could be fowl 9 Popeye’s muscle-builder 10 Glances over the text 11 Empowering 12 Sun worshipper’s hue 13 Fashionabl­e resort 19 Fitting 21 Goalorient­ed group? 26 Month before Yom Kippur 27 Unspecifie­d number 29 Voting coalition 30 Handy planning aid 31 Tailless primate 34 Drink daintily 35 Beach scavenger 36 Middle of a month in ancient Rome 37 Impressive basketball feat 38 Needy 39 Shell out 42 Sauerkraut, essentiall­y 43 Polite interjecti­on 47 Barbecue sites, often 48 Evoke 49 Many hairlines do it 51 Sheep calls 52 Martin Luther King could do it well 53 Respected elder 57 State with conviction 58 Crab Nebula, millennia ago 59 Underwear that often gets unhooked 60 Baseball score 61 Lump of tobacco

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