CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Eases up 5 Branch Davidians, e.g. 9 Throatsoothing candies 14 Run away 15 Century plant 16 Raptor’s residence 17 Perfectly 18 Suspicious story 19 Flip over 20 Classy office door adornment 23 Ear adornments 24 Iranian lady’s traditional attire 25 Element #56 28 Skinny 29 Figurative flop 32 Single serving of butter 35 Old Hebridean tongue 36 Something stored in a lifeboat 37 Not a one 38 Unknown John 39 WWI emergency infantryman’s grub 43 Backside, slangily 44 Church donations 45 Shoves 48 Tightfisted type 50 Introduced Great Lakes game fish

DOWN 1 Directdeposit payment, for short 2 Steve McQueen’s sci-fi adversary of ‘58 3 Fuzzy Wuzzy, e.g. 4 Save for later 5 Mandarin’s cousin 6 Hefty looking antelope 7 Dr Pepper and PepsiCo offerings 8 Overrun (with) 54 Dye used in temporary tattoos 55 Sphere of study 56 Sea dog’s libation 58 Fire bug’s felony 59 Underwriter’s calculation 60 Easter goodies 61 Handle an axe 62 Gratify completely 63 Twitter source 9 Le roi’s heir, perhaps 10 Make new blueprints 11 Mythical Greek nymph 12 Piebald pony 13 Important Jewish ritual 21 Ticket remnant 22 Repetitive noise 25 Ran in the wash 26 Dynamic intro? 27 What wreckers do in Wrexham 28 Old unit of air pressure 30 What rioters sometimes do 31 Chile’s national airline 32 Tigger’s pal 33 “Dragonriders of Pern” sci-fi author McCaffrey 34 MacLaine’s “Guarding ___” (‘94) 37 Nearly 80% of the atmosphere 39 Banshee’s bailiwick 40 Reckless 41 On the line 42 Wedding cake layer 43 “Hospital smell” chemical 45 Sceptical utterance 46 Embryos’ homes 47 Smell or hearing 48 Soprano Callas 49 That is, to the Romans 51 Dumbo’s “wings” 52 Egg on 53 Garb 57 Child care is exempt from this