CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Biting one’s nails, e.g. 6 Yonder chap 9 Bs, to Greeks 14 Bleep out, e.g. 15 Fragment of French on a menu 16 Throat dangling doohickey 17 Educational medium overtaken by the videocassette 19 Material Levi Strauss worked with 20 Phone bk. entry 21 Cantina creations 23 Weaken 24 Snail-like 26 Programming pro 27 Solo in a libretto 28 Osprey’s weapon 30 Actor McKellen of “The Da Vinci Code” 32 Forerunner of euchre 34 It’s official in Iqaluit 40 Vegetation 41 Is able to 42 Kyoto’s neighbour 43 Where hacks hover 45 Cabbie’s counter 46 “Caught you redhanded!” 47 Admirable quality 49 “I Got You Babe” singer 52 Overturn 55 Clumsylooking old bird of Mauritius 58 All ___ up (agitated) 59 Bucharest’s land 61 A sampan has one 62 Give the slip to 64 DIY type’s love 66 Turns over to 67 Toronto-New Haven dir. 68 Ziggy Marley fan, maybe 69 Used a prayer rug 70 Headed the group 71 Time after time

DOWN 1 Lifts like a dead weight 2 Servant freed by Prospero 3 Election day receptacle 4 Belief system, slangily 5 Dry run 6 One of Dylan’s instruments 7 Homer’s tale of Troy 8 Typically Canuck tree 9 Some brewskis 10 The twilight zone, briefly? 11 Steinway service person 12 Defensive tale 13 Sexy Brazilian dance 18 Tex-Mex munchie 22 L’Anse aux Meadows founder’s pa 25 Jedi knight, e.g. 27 Absinthe ingredient 29 Dog walker’s gear 31 Molecules’ make-up 32 With regularity 33 Nunavut politician, for short 35 One of the Bobsey twins 36 Indomitable 37 Skin pic artist 38 Luau music producer 39 Bitumen product 44 Yellow Brick Road traveller 48 Wine tasters do it 49 Scrutinize 50 Hayes of the theatre 51 Tough piece by Liszt 53 Urge ahead 54 Hesitate 56 “The Inferno” poet 57 Lung, for one 59 Doze on the couch, say 60 Bubble-filled bar 63 “Runaway” singer Shannon 65 Spitfireflying gp., once