Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- adrian powell

ACROSS

1 Delaware, e.g. 6 Get a grip 11 Abnormal 14 Back yard lounging locale 15 Dangerous tusker 16 Eau de ___ (brandy) 17 Fermilab’s Tevatron, for one 19 Longer than a big star’s lifetime 20 Hackles location 21 Eyeball layer 22 One way to Vancouver Island 24 Orpheus played it 26 Gaze longingly 27 Cookie that comes in many wild shapes 32 Relating to the spleen 33 Shrovetide follower 34 Fishy appendage 36 Cliff top feature 37 The end of Ramadan 38 Adjutant, basically 39 Coalesce 40 Pre-storm condition 42 Asia’s largest island 44 One setting a new high, usually 47 Attended 48 Ancient Hebrew scribe 49 One giant step, maybe 51 Verbal taunt 53 Robin’s residence 57 Grimm’s shoemaker’s helper 58 Old building cleaning expert 61 Corinthian consonant 62 Greenland military base 63 Porch on Molokai 64 Lock, stock, and barrel 65 Safe havens in the Sahara 66 Sacred biblical song

DOWN

1 Bridge the gap 2 “Toodle-oo!” 3 As high as you can get 4 Case chronology, e.g. 5 Goddess of the dawn 6 Driveway material 7 Ascended 8 Nizari Isma’ili leader 9 Instigate civil proceeding­s 10 Free of flaws 11 Improve needlessly 12 Noted French fashion figure 13 Disclaim 18 Big wall painting 23 Comic book squeal 25 ‘50s Singer Sumac 26 Criticize harshly 27 Helpful sort 28 Remiss 29 Tackle Denali 30 Misleading kind of herring 31 Equestrian 32 Chicken portion 35 Something just before a phyte? 37 Olden times, quaintly 38 Bill Clinton’s birthplace 40 Awakens 41 “How ___ you doing?” 42 Ring holding a watch crystal 43 Lifeboat accessory 45 The Batmobile, e.g. 46 Hasidic teachers 49 Beyond (pref.) 50 Carrier that books no flights on Saturdays 51 Wildebeest­s 52 One type of chatter 54 It often coats much of Sicily 55 Make airtight 56 Tonsorial touch-up 59 Exclamatio­n of insight 60 Northern Italian peak

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