Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Some things to schuss with 5 Ancient memento 10 Bay of Pigs locale 14 Subtle coloration 15 Where Spartacus worked 16 Part of a conspiracy 17 Big pitcher 18 Winter wear you can lie on, in a pinch? 20 Lab measuring tube 22 Threesome 23 Ess follower 24 Originates 26 Have the gambling routine down pat, no matter what happens? 30 Turner of “Proud Mary” 31 Practition­er of a trade 32 Notable slices of time 36 Vidal of hair care 38 Writing on a Post-it 41 Lump in your skin 42 Local ecosystem 44 Variety of Buddhism 45 Charge for shipping to Nova Scotia, e.g.? 49 Burt of “The Cannonball Run” 52 Ancient mariner, slangily 53 Semicircul­ar Roman bench 54 Dough saved for a rainy day 58 Actor Affleck, spotted doing field events at a track meet? 61 Vegetating 62 Inspiratio­n 63 Like a Viking longship 64 Venetian arch shape 65 Wellmanner­ed bloke 66 Practices boxing 67 Require

DOWN 1 Samba move 2 Weirdlooki­ng New Zealand bird 3 Total incompeten­ce 4 Urban thoroughfa­re 5 Actor George of “They Drive by Night” 6 Writer who created Perry, Della and Paul 7 Grassy forest opening 8 Wayfarer’s stop, maybe 9 Cambridge U. student, informally 10 Protozoans with “little tails” 11 Not edited for TV 12 Paladin player Richard 13 Tosses in a white chip, often 19 White-tailed sea eagle, alternatel­y 21 Speed, musically 24 Bengal or Vietnam ending 25 Rare Vancouver Island beast 26 Kind of brakes 27 “Sure!” 28 Worldwide agcy. for labour rights 29 Roc’s passenger 33 Epitome of sharpness 34 Gets older 35 Shipped out 37 Stick to one’s guns 39 Pink Floyd’s old label 40 Sons of Freedom and Branch Davidians 43 Contacts with pull 46 Topologica­l shapes 47 Argentinia­n grasslands 48 Positively charged particle 49 Modify the set up 50 Trickle out 51 Mideast Red Sea state 54 It’s never in odes 55 Dwindles to a halt 56 Great delight 57 Hung a right when mounted 59 Breach 60 Stripper’s penultimat­e discard

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