Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Tylenol target, perhaps 5 Buck 11 In need of medical care 14 Taj Mahal’s locale 15 Era of sabre tooth cats 16 Not quite straight? 17 Nonsense poem beasts that are like badgers, or lizards, or corkscrews... 19 This was one for Madame de Gaulle 20 Seed coating, scientific­ally 21 ___ Andreas Fault 22 Cats walk on them 23 In need of water, quaintly 26 College VIPs 28 The nonsense poem’s author’s pen name 32 Light on one’s feet 35 Poker player’s buy-in 36 Ham’s equipment 37 Mekong native 38 Catholic convent thrice daily devotion 40 Mighty strange 41 Nymph Artemis adored 43 “The Auld Sod,” poetically 44 Cut-throat’s knife 45 “Frumious” beast the nonsense poem says should be shunned 48 Mick Jagger, e.g. 49 Medium sized cigars 53 Excavates 54 The Aral or the Caspian 57 Cool one’s heels 58 Had an energy bar 59 Mysterious nonsense poem penned in 1855 62 Usual number of paces 63 White elephant, e.g. 64 On the lam 65 Shrek’s buddy is one 66 No longer tired 67 Marsh lands

DOWN 1 Macaroni, e.g. 2 Tip for a boot lace 3 Popular type of stew 4 Dressed to the nines 5 Initials handymen swear by 6 Last qtr. mnth. 7 Kids born on the August long weekend 8 Basalt, once 9 Underlying plan 10 Tiny housing unit? 11 One of the first discovered dinosaurs 12 Frank, Alberta disaster of 1903 13 Caustic solutions 18 ___ Krishnas 22 Trooper prefix 24 Former cygnet 25 Traces of colour 27 Bungles things 29 Quite unpermissi­ve 30 Relating to the abdominal cavity 31 Rich body of ore 32 Untidy type 33 Lice and tape worms 34 Measures of gamma radiation exposure 38 Airport that Yemenia lands at 39 Poetic prepositio­n 42 Noisy brouhahas 44 Grandstand­ing type 46 Flea market event 47 Avian crop 50 Abalone’s covering 51 2003 “American Idol” runnerup Clay ___ 52 They make it tough to close the lid 53 Results of lab tests 55 Diminishes 56 Wee amount 59 Cookie receptacle 60 67.5 deg., to the helm 61 Long piece of dowel

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