Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Risked a ticket 5 Bull elephant seal’s following 10 Johnny, who sang about “Sue” 14 Big European North Sea feeder 15 The Who’s “Tommy”, e.g. 16 “Beetle Bailey” pooch 17 Adoptable doll of the ‘80s 20 “Sounder” Oscar nominee Cicely 21 Belonging to those guys 22 Snacks between meals 27 Big old vase 28 Stephen Hawking or Peter Higgs 31 Kernel’s coat, scientific­ally 34 Belly, slangily 35 Item to fence with 36 Lengthwise 37 Crater creators 40 Sailing into the setting sun 42 Somewhere around, time-wise 43 Result of catching your pants on a nail 45 You can whisper in it 46 Shoe lace problems 47 With deep sincerity 50 Be a contender 51 Most impolite 52 Unimportan­t facts 55 Bossa nova relative 59 One result of global warming 64 Shouts heard in the corrida 65 Big, white-headed bird 66 Case for embroidery odds and ends 67 See if it works 68 Cuts it out 69 Mediaeval farm worker

DOWN 1 The Quakers, for one 2 Start the game 3 Lessens 4 Prepare fillets 5 Souped-up Harley 6 Mimic, thoughtles­sly 7 Gang member’s cred 8 Significan­t period of time 9 TV’s “___ Houston” of the ‘80s 10 Intelligib­le 11 Trendy low-carb regimen 12 Move a little 13 Bricklayer­s’ carriers 18 Not long from now, quaintly 19 Apartment block garbage convenienc­es 23 Nullify a change in the proofs 24 Cool cat 25 Siam or Nepal ending 26 Cruise ship attendant 28 Adhere 29 Curry spice 30 Ad-libs 32 Pleasant to listen to 33 Furious 38 One with a passionate cause 39 Milk protein 41 Europe’s largest raptor 44 About 3/4 of la Terre 48 Basic Latin verb 49 Lines on sheet music 52 Bouncy gait 53 Annoy greatly 54 Sweet 16 and the big four oh 56 Parcel out 57 Indistinct image 58 “Fat chance!” 60 Stayed on a stool 61 The self, to Freud 62 Peak in northern Italy 63 Guitar pioneer ___ Paul

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