Ottawa Citizen

canadian crossword

- Adrian powell

ACROSS

1 Space station drink 5 Like spider webs 9 Tally 14 Israeli figure skater Tkachenko 15 Tag along 16 Auto finance option 17 What NATO practiced in the ‘90s 20 Patrick of Star Trek: TNG 21 Prominent part of a pepper 22 Sign in front of a sold out performanc­e 23 Toadstool spore sacs 24 Tall and wiry 26 Unflappabl­e under pressure 30 Long-range nuke, for short 33 Coin Putin might have in his pocket 34 What golfers could get a hole in 35 Indian liquid butter 36 “___ Showtime!” 37 Dresser compartmen­ts 41 Old Turkish luminary 42 “I ___ man with seven wives...” 44 Toronto-Mtl. dir. 45 Carried on one’s trade 47 Botches everything 48 Phenomena shown on the weather map 51 Take forcibly 53 Typical Saudi 54 “Murdoch Mysteries” TV network 56 “Not” to a Scot 57 Tome ensconced in Osgood Hall, perhaps 61 Frank Burns’s heartthrob on “M*A*S*H” 64 Choose democratic­ally 65 Adjust the pitch 66 Wexford’s land 67 Stuffed bear 68 Visually detected 69 Two Aspirin, typically

DOWN

1 Little jerks 2 Several zillion 3 Khartoum’s river 4 Southern Canadian dabbling duck 5 Hard to come by 6 Shylock’s adversary 7 Baseball arbiter 8 Wet suit material 9 Chewbacca, for one 10 When Festivus falls, briefly 11 Playground flower garland 12 Utility customer 13 Mexican coin

18 Did the dishes 19 Head honcho 25 One-night stand, in a way 26 Arson, e.g. 27 Toward the perimeter 28 Blocked 29 Widow’s inheritanc­e 31 Sire, biblically 32 Mediaeval drinks 38 Put new bandages on 39 Trisyllabi­c poetic passages 40 Spread out 43 Titania’s love in “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” 46 Put pressure on the government 49 Sam from “Cheers” 50 Wiesbaden wives 52 Togetherne­ss 54 Atkins of country music 55 Oak trunk 58 Cleveland’s environs 59 These might result in a row 60 Spoon playing site 62 Plasma screen alternativ­e, briefly 63 Subtle tone

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