Ottawa Citizen

canadian crossword

- Adrian powell

ACROSS 1 Lettuce variety 5 Not ready to be picked 11 Mason’s carrier 14 A month in Israel 15 Nerverelat­ed 16 Fearful reverence 17 Sat on one’s ass 18 White House attraction 20 Special aptitude 22 60’s actor Ron who had a chimp co-star 23 Underlying commonalit­ies 25 Hardly a close-cut hairdo 29 “Green Eggs and Ham” guy 30 Cut it out 36 Was out in front 37 Water conduits 39 60’s and 70’s Plymouth muscle car 41 Couch potato’s need 43 Cup cake decoration­s, maybe 44 Gold-related 46 Shakespear­e’s “Move it!” 47 Evening affairs 49 Number of Fs in this puzzle 50 Draws to a close 52 Make smaller 54 In time past 57 Backseat driver, e.g. 59 Compulsive buyer 63 Chinese benevolent associatio­n 66 Cosmologic­al time frame 67 Hindu festival of lights 68 On top of 69 Sodden 70 Shakespear­ean work 71 State of South America

DOWN 1 Place to get shots 2 “Don’t mind if ___” 3 Cranky 4 Freshwater sunfish 5 Prelude to rebellion 6 Xenon’s glowing cousin 7 Old auto problem 8 Displeasur­e 9 Knight in training 10 “Raid on Entebbe” airline 11 Used to own 12 Remain in the red 13 Scand. nation 19 It’s often walked all over in Sweden 21 Some scripture readings 23 About 5 ml. (abbr.) 24 Sharp turn on a road 26 Medical imaging machine 27 Safety limit indicator 28 Seraglio section 31 Daggers used in footnotes 32 Sulky hauler 33 It’s not poetry 34 North end? 35 Researcher’s raw material 38 UK recording giant of yesteryear 40 Superior French vineyard 42 One way to stop a bout 43 Sea shell seller 45 100 yr. span 48 Educe 51 Sticky stuff in a trunk 53 Stop lying? 55 Wanders aimlessly 56 Akron’s area 57 The McBeans, e.g. 58 Get angry 59 Fix a hem 60 It gets ground up? 61 St. Catherines’ prov. 62 Possess 64 ... hide ___ hair 65 Novelsound­ing antelope

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