Ottawa Citizen

canadian crossword

- Adrian powell

ACROSS 1 “___ better to have loved...” 4 Run for it 8 Diminish gradually 12 Soprano’s colleague 14 Many a N. African ruler 15 Tide rival 16 Pants on fire type 17 Long haul rig 18 Important blood vessel 19 Florida launching site 22 Large fish grouping 23 Gore’s “___ My Party” 24 “___ Believer” (‘66 Monkees hit) 27 What Little Jack Horner did 31 In the doldrums 34 All straighten­ed up 35 From dusk ‘til dawn 36 Revival meeting cry 38 Old King and Nat King 41 Stark raving bonkers 42 New employees are shown these 44 Leave out 46 Not quite straight? 47 Those Colorado tribespeop­le who emigrated to Spain long ago? 51 Before 52 Down with some sort of bug 53 Plod along 57 Red Lobster faves, for some people 61 “Fawlty Towers” owner 63 Fog warning 64 Strange radar blips, possibly 65 Night stand jugs 66 Anticipati­ng eagerly 67 Bishop of Rome 68 Winds down 69 Gets really wet 70 “Frae morn to ___ ...”: Burns

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1 Bathroom powders 2 Hip bone related 3 Dangerous bacteria, briefly 4 Like the Giant’s Causeway 5 Augur 6 Capital of Peru 7 “Jeopardy!” staple 8 “Hold on thar!” 9 Carrier with a Cork base? 10 Amount left after expenses 11 Baseball’s Koufax had a very low one 13 Chocolate chip alternates 15 Leno’s predecesso­r 20 Layer of paint 21 More of the same, briefly 25 Three Tenors conductor Zubin 26 Chichi 28 Oath taker’s reply 29 Dental floss material 30 Heroic TV dog ___ Tin Tin 31 Mumbai attire, for some (var.) 32 Love, in Lourdes 33 Really blue 37 Morpheus’ Matrix ally 39 Large flightless bird 40 What portrait photograph­ers have 43 Careless coffee mishaps 45 Sea swallow, e.g.

48 It’s related to yew 49 Oahu greetings 50 Dawn 54 “Moll Flanders” author 55 Reach out blindly 56 Dusseldorf neighbour 58 Superior looking mannerisms 59 Aborted, as a mission 60 Plummet 61 Pollinator, often 62 Cereal grain bristle

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