Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- Adrian powell

ACROSS

1 X-ray doses 5 Wall niche 11 That “Wow!” feeling 14 Shah Jahan’s city in the 17th century 15 Shortsight­edness 16 Stool pigeon 17 Record producer who once produced really spooky music? 19 Semicircul­ar path 20 Definite no-no 21 Popular scouring pad 22 Like Anglesey natives 24 Root beer container 26 Boring need 27 Spookily ceases to function 36 Ottoman harem room 37 Toughened up 38 Beeped out phrase, maybe 39 Completely flatten 41 Walk heavily 42 Lid problem 43 Attentiong­etting sound 44 Zambezi River critters 46 Diminutive toy maker 47 Becomes discourage­d, in a spooky way 50 Beach volleyball need 51 Purplish bank note 52 Stuffed carnival animal, often 55 Tot up 58 Sanction 62 Disappeari­ng arctic commodity 63 Competitio­n at a spooky track meet? 66 Totally in favour of 67 Russian annexation of 2014 68 Western defence gp. 69 China’s first president Sun Yat ___ 70 Misogynist­s, e.g. 71 Fall to earth

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1 Enthralled 2 Pooh-bah from Asia Minor 3 Negligible quantity 4 Dancer with seven veils 5 This will raise the volume 6 Caustic hydroxide solutions 7 Channel who really made scents 8 Makes a choice 9 Go head to head 10 Pincered insect 11 Waters on the Uzbek/ Kazakh border 12 Serious conflicts 13 “Draw” on glass 18 Drunkard 23 Societal values 25 Revolver’s sound 26 Ornate feature of 16th century sleeping accommodat­ions, say 27 Himalayan antelope 28 Oregon’s neighbour 29 Ming artifacts 30 Russia’s president 31 Metaphor, for one 32 Rope fibres 33 “B” western, slangily 34 Turntable needles 35 Robbery 40 Spruce up some text 45 Bushman’s weapon 48 One kind of warrant 49 Quite safe from tsunamis 52 Dots on a domino 53 Old farm measuremen­t 54 Argon relative 55 Came back down to Earth 56 Lady of the knight? 57 Salon specialist 59 Perjurer 60 Kruger of “Magnificen­t Obsession” 61 Smack hard 64 Distinctiv­e stretch of time 65 Used to be

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