Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROACROSS

1 Bit of dance 5 Pretty big twitch 10 Tommy Douglas, originally 14 Central cathedral area 15 Your biggest blood vessel 16 Result of shock, maybe 17 “Bearded” bloom 18 N. European flatfishes 20 Weasel’s smelly cousin 22 Surpass in the military hierarchy 23 Spread that Gerald O’Hara won in a poker game 24 Leaky faucet sound 25 American Revolution antagonist, e.g. 29 Complete baffler 33 Hotshot 34 Sonogram subject 36 Imam’s holy book 37 The thing I’m pointing at 39 Mildly object 41 Number of Muses 42 Miscalcula­tion 44 Sit and turn red? 46 Farm enclosure 47 Hertz customer 49 “Star Trek” co-star of William and Leonard 51 NASA’s California Research Center 53 Go upwards 54 Cause suffering 57 Soft shoe? 61 Unable to read and write 63 About 4% of a marathon 64 Cut down on the calories 65 Popular sweetener 66 Flamboyanc­e 67 Prevent a Persian pregnancy 68 Yarn 69 Welfare, slangily

DOWN

1 Barber shop sound 2 Polynesian root crop 3 The forces of darkness 4 Madrid money, once 5 Like full-time employees, usually 6 Lousy writer of verses 7 Elbow setting 8 Got to one’s feet 9 Organic farmer’s need 10 Zodiac arachnid 11 7-Up alternativ­e 12 Sign of impending doom 13 Undertakin­g 19 Smell skunky 21 Young bison 25 Hours from now 26 Natural earth hue 27 Feel a longing 28 Swollen 30 Grumble 31 Gnu features 32 Concerning, quaintly 35 DiCaprio, Damon or Depp 38 High point of an eclipse 40 Oil plant 43 Mail in payment 45 Rudolph’s notable feature 48 Small nook 50 Reprimande­d (with “out”) 52 Swagger like Jagger 54 Abets 55 Turn over 56 Shepherd’s tormenter 58 About 2.2 pounds 59 Airline that made it’s first flight from Geneva in 1948 60 ___ Coty, predecesso­r of Charles de Gaulle 62 Times past

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