Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 What ___ got here’s a failure to communicat­e. 5 Spud’s S.American cuz 8 Brief synopsis 13 Basketball­er Johnson of the 2009-15 Raptors 14 Part of Ceylon, now 15 Miles from anywhere 16 Put up a fight 18 Do some flying 19 Pragmatic health care worker? 21 Mork’s spaceship 22 Mocking cry 23 Lime or lemon quaff 24 Cognac, cointreau and absinthe cocktail 26 Adjudge 28 Three letters in the record biz, once 30 Ghana currency 31 Podcast inserts, often 34 Signs of mistakes 37 Clutch 40 Company that created Times New Roman and Arial 41 Conclusion 42 Wing-shaped 43 Stagehand’s creation 45 Wash the decks 49 “Best guess” abbr. 50 “Barney Miller”costar Jack ___ 52 Actor Holbrook of 2007’s “Into the Wild” 55 “___ you insane?!” 56 Lon Chaney, Jr. movie of 1944 60 Petty complaints 61 Halfway between bow and stern 62 “Tough as nails,” e.g. 63 Giraffes chew it 64 Top notch designatio­n 65 Everything considered 66 OxfordLond­on dir. 67 Ran off

DOWN

1 Twisted 2 Come out 3 Countenanc­e 4 Rock guitarist Clapton 5 Rome’s ancient port 6 Christmas scene 7 Giuseppe’s opera that debuted in 1871 8 Moulin Rouge show 9 Influentia­l Muslim gent 10 End table protectors 11 Event goer 12 Port Alberni beginning 15 McNally’s publishing partner 17 Bay of pigs? 20 Owner of a Highlands estate 25 “___ the season to...” 27 Bruce Wayne’s pad 29 Big scuffle 30 Part of Miss Muffet’s diet 32 Notorious insecticid­e 33 Like a wallflower 35 A gibbon’s a lesser one 36 Daily dawn riser 37 Dairy cow 38 Greatly detested item 39 English Derby site 40 1931’s Bride of Frankenste­in actress Clarke 44 Gland at the base of your neck 46 Soup can artist 47 Garlic-smelling poisonous gas 48 Indicated the cycle had finished 50 Aroma 51 York’s river 53 Away from the main group 54 Flat screen TV choice 57 Like Hannibal Lecter 58 Ceremonial symbol of authority 59 Gp. that operates the Thunderbir­ds 60 Trident-shaped Greek consonant

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