Ottawa Citizen

Canadian Crossword

- adrian powell

ACROSS

1 Gullible soul 5 The inevitable 9 “Taps” instrument 14 Feminizing suffix 15 Ravencolou­red, in poems 16 Stupid blunder 17 Callousnes­s that flares up in January? 20 Knocked senseless 21 Underwater forest vegetation 22 Gnat-sized 23 Take it easy 25 Plant with antiseptic qualities 27 Fellow that wears really “cool” duds? 32 Psi follows it 33 Hindu woman’s garb

34 The cops will shock you with this

36 Big Dipper’s ___ Major 38 Gadded about 41 Sundance Film Festival locale 42 Sword fights 44 Arab notable 46 18th century Samurai centre 47 Conflict that erupts in subzero temperatur­es? 51 World’s best-selling cookie 52 Yothers of “Family Ties” 53 Atmospheri­c prefix 56 Airline that serves up kosher meals 58 Coins for Shylock 62 Winter festival welcome, perhaps? 65 Bit of foolishnes­s 66 All time 67 With nothing going on 68 Weimar Republic, e.g. 69 Salsa and guacamole 70 Give up

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1 Giraffe’s trademark 2 Small ox from the Celebes 3 Internally 4 Bogart wore one 5 Orthoclase or albite 6 Old blood gp. letters 7 Fled off with 8 Ingratiate 9 Sleeping canopy supporter 10 Where ancient scrolls are stored, perhaps 11 Got bigger 12 Get trounced 13 A few words from an old Manxman 18 Warning sounds 19 World’s best-selling fashion mag. 24 Inexperien­ced one 26 Jacob’s Biblical twin 27 Hydrangea, e.g. 28 Issei’s kid 29 Pearl collector 30 Aromatic oil, often

31 All set 32 Ruminant’s mouthful 35 Hebrew’s “rosh” to a Greek 37 Deep-voiced songstress 39 Give off 40 Cubicle partitions 43 Elongate 45 Accumulate­d, as debts 48 Sinuous and slippery 49 Laughed heartily 50 Milk-derived 53 Ethiopian area where “Lucy” was found 54 Large European raptor 55 Griddlebak­ed Indian bread 57 Big name in blue jeans 59 Glorified gofer 60 Related 61 Old dirk 63 Spelled as written 64 Very large mushroom

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