Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Small, spotted, wild carnivore 6 Guns designed by Major Uziel Gal 10 Conniption 13 Unaccompan­ied 14 Great Plains people 16 High card 17 Basic 19 Embarrassi­ng colour 20 Swindle, slangily 21 Five or six people, say 23 Pop, to an infant 25 Comportmen­t 26 Tissue box word 29 Sorta 32 Popular Brazilian root vegetable 34 Nobel Prize winners 36 Thermos-like flask 38 Shaving gel brand 39 Social class 40 Fermented soybean seasoning 41 One way to read 43 Tiny, black and grey songbird 46 Four letter word on a pump 47 Middle Eastern peninsula 48 It always starts stuttering 49 1983 Peace Prize winner Walesa 51 First to attack in “The Birds” 53 You can fill this with a pump 56 Polish or Czech 60 Biffy in Bristol 61 Breakfast beverage 63 Gi tie 64 Knot over again 65 Chips Ahoy alternativ­es 66 One of the Ryder Cup rivals 67 Small speck 68 Displays disinteres­t

DOWN 1 Big iron fishhook 2 Month before Tishri 3 Zilch, so to speak 4 Over 5 Scone relative 6 Guitar’s smaller fourstring­ed cousin 7 Brass component 8 Dotted Greek vowel 9 Locust group 10 Almost everywhere 11 Decorated cupcakes 12 Lou’s dimwitted anchorman 15 Teamed up (with) 18 News oriented groups 22 Diuretic’s target 24 Madcap goings-on 26 Desperate request 27 Scoop for soup 28 Where Tito once ruled 30 Huge Hindu centre 31 Free for the ___ 33 Welcome sights to desert nomads 35 Doesn’t discard 37 Small Old World deer 42 Alter fraudulent­ly 44 Reason 45 Stick-inthe-mud 50 Odalisque’s abode 52 ‘44 Preminger classic 53 Talks a blue streak 54 ‘49 mil. alliance 55 Make mittens, say 57 Panoramic sight 58 Desktop image 59 Tax, Irish style 60 Mary’s boss at WJM 62 “Oh, Boy!”

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