canadian crossword

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1 Back-talk

5 Botch

9 Snakes the pharaohs were familiar with 13 Biblical preposition 14 Of a specific district 15 Detect 16 Office Depot purchase, perhaps 18 Not exactly vibrant 19 HMCS portion 20 ___ out: dress up 21 Lousy imitator 23 Recent arrival from Kyoto 25 Two metre tall runner 28 Trout fisherman 30 False start? 33 More malleable 36 Show of hands, say 38 Ref’s boutstopping decision 39 Before, to sonneteers 40 Ebbed 42 ___ Aviv 43 Tread the boards 44 Culture for lab techs? 45 Dali or Miro 47 Beelzebub 49 Used clothes dealers, once 51 Thoroughly 53 Greek Titan who held up the sky 57 What passwords provide 59 Sleep lab study 61 Wrinkle cause, often 62 Orthodox Islamic sect 63 Jogger’s wear 67 They’re used to just getting chicken feed 68 Ventricular outlet 69 Milk drinker’s favourite dunkable 70 Watery expanse by Buffalo 71 Way back when 72 Carl Sagan’s “The Dragons of ___”

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1 Raw seafood, basically 2 Pays to be dealt in 3 Hollywood celebs 4 Bar habitue 5 Genghis Khan, notably 6 Number of Ws in this crossword 7 Way off in the distance 8 Philadelphia skater 9 Gelatin garnishes 10 Basic type of pasta 11 Team water sport 12 9mm. WWII gun 14 Monkey house locale 17 Street people 22 Unrealistic notions 24 Take in some calories 26 Quite a few 27 Stepped 29 The oldest Brady kid 31 Hawaiian instruments 32 Bozo 33 Weddell and Ross 34 Seal hunter, sometimes 35 Alfredo companion 37 Pair of oxen, say 41 John Dickson ___ 46 This will bring down the house 48 “Relax”, in the forces 50 Wiggle around 52 Short story cousin 54 Wealthy Scottish landowner 55 Share the same view 56 First American saint 57 US tennis champ with a namesake stadium 58 One of filmdom’s Eastwick witches 60 Seventh Greek letter 64 Try to win over 65 Goof up 66 Do groundbreaking work in one’s field?