Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- adrian powell

ACROSS

1 Make an even trade 5 Ghana’s largest city 10 Rose holder 14 Opera where the high priest of Egypt sings 15 Gin flavouring fruits 16 Order for lunch 17 Eastern European gal 18 Mass of humanity 19 Instrument­s seen at a luau 20 Take it all off 22 Undoes 24 Dal morsel 26 Silly stuff for kids 27 Women’s clothing size 30 Islamic leader 32 Night time sky display 33 “By George!” 34 Argentina’s Peron 37 Like curling stones 39 Acid used to make soap 41 Hundreds of thousands of years 42 Wurst location 44 Off track 45 Gleams 47 Steals 48 RandMcNall­y tome 50 Gulf of California: Sea of ___ 52 Railway car with fold out beds 54 Manitoba’s Clarke of the Philadelph­ia Flyers 58 Posh fur 59 Reared its ugly head 61 Long African river 62 Airline created in ‘48 63 First Nations’ abodes, once 64 Important Mid East shipping terminal 65 Totally dehydrated 66 Bloodhound’s clue 67 Reuters topic

DOWN

1 Be really cheeky 2 Basketball’s Chamberlai­n 3 Winter month in the Hebrew calendar 4 World Fair location 5 Ember’s ultimate end 6 Political muscle 7 Snowy overhang on a mountain ridge 8 Warning signs 9 Out in the Mediterran­ean 10 “Hush!” 11 Be a fall guy 12 Big social occasion 13 Not very neat 21 Germs are grown in it

23 Fly trap, at times 25 Tidy up 27 Royal attendant 28 Markka’s 2002 replacemen­t 29 Outside the moon’s orbit 31 Most up-to-date 35 Climbing plant 36 Works on stage 38 Like some catfish or eels 40 Phoenix native 43 Carbon-14, e.g. 46 Feather on a military headdress 48 Career highlights 49 Popular upholstery fabric 51 Frankincen­se, e.g. 53 Doesn’t go fast 55 Stick around 56 Squandered 57 Uncontroll­able urges 60 Tallinn’s area, briefly

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