CANADIAN CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Containing element #76 6 Cotton bundle 10 Uppercase, briefly 14 Get to 15 Hydroxyl carbon compound 16 Nitrogenrich compound 17 Birthday party pair 20 Punish via a fine 21 Make like 22 Bladed garden tool 24 Quaint “before” 25 Basic lunch pair 34 There’s nine on an 18-wheeler 35 Minuscule amounts 36 What most fish start out as 37 Faint trace 38 Loses one’s hair 39 The stuff you eat 40 “Sweet as apple cider” girl 41 Turn to mush 42 Having bristles 43 Evening ball game snack pair 46 Where Ft. Erie is 47 Return mail need, for short 48 Personifies 53 Turn sharply aside 58 Common dinner pair 60 Land in the middle of the lake 61 Bind one’s loins 62 Wrecks 63 Drug squad tactic 64 Problem with a lid 65 The “~” used in a pinata
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1 Huge black and white mammal 2 Underground layer of coal 3 Create 4 Writer of “Happy Birthday”, perhaps 5 Fast ballroom dances 6 Spot it’s tough to get out of, at times 7 Floridian cuckoos 8 Sets of points, mathematically 9 Earth, air, fire and water, to the ancients 10 Sandpiper’s cousin 11 Two dimensional expanse 12 Fuel from a bog 13 “Ditto!” 18 Element #10 19 Whey’s partner of rhyme 23 Charles’ royal bro 25 “Sir” in Gunga Din movies 26 Rust, basically 27 The long arm bones 28 House cat, e.g. 29 Lug around 30 Helpful types 31 As mad as a wet hen 32 Basis of an atoll 33 Stilettos, e.g. 38 Indigo, seedeating birds 39 Shriner’s head gear 41 Chinese bamboo lover 42 Jon, 15 year host of “The Daily Show” 44 Firmly implanted 45 Division the Jays play in 48 Arab League dignitary 49 Small desert plateau 50 Java’s small neighbour 51 Do a rewrite 52 Twinkle-toed 54 Decorative pin box 55 Muddy the water 56 Sell on the street 57 Infinitive once used at the Forum 59 Salute in verse