Ottawa Citizen

canadian crossword

- Adrian powell

ACROSS

1 Jaunty Scottish cap 4 Obliging act, in Denver 9 Southweste­rn Finnish city 13 Quite a burden 15 Wiped out 17 Went by mule 18 Gretzky’s number 19 Mt. Rainier’s mountain range 21 Noted Charlton Heston role 22 Rase to the ground 23 Popular perfume by Dana 25 Viking, at times 27 Aspic ingredient (var.) 31 1985’s “___ of God” 32 Pleasantly harmonious 33 Short snooze 34 Daffy’s cartoon colleague 35 McMurray and Erie 36 Common rodents 37 Apiarist’s concern 38 Features of some church organs 39 Gunpowder ingredient 40 Haifa residents 42 Nosegays 43 Baby powder 44 Prefix for phone

DOWN

1 Bronze age metal arm band 2 Dwarf Indonesian bovine 3 Unethical campaigner 4 Oft dented auto part 5 Prospero’s pixie 6 Delivery vehicles 7 “To a...” poem 8 Slow down, in mus. 9 Succeed in the end 10 “___ Day and the Knights”: “Animal House” band 45 Clydesdale’s haul, maybe 48 Post nasal drip cause, perhaps 51 Appraisal 54 Old dough from Italy 55 Pull off a risky act 56 Utterly wicked 57 Victoria’s Secret sells them 58 Shackle site 59 Contractor’s fig. 11 Singer Simard of Quebec 12 Midmonth period of yore 14 Formally breaks away 16 Piece ofa drum kit 20 Birds, technicall­y 23 Tipis, basically 24 “Ah, me!” 25 “Fiddler on the Roof” figure 26 Feverish feelings 27 Runs through with its horns 28 Gumption 29 Oyster shell lining 30 Rapier cousins 32 Subject up for debate 35 Occupy to capacity 36 Heat seeking item, perhaps 38 Oil producing plant 39 What an adjective modifies 41 Many Pacific islands 42 Tiptoe, in ballet 44 Sand bar 45 Jack of “Dragnet” 46 Allege as fact 47 Posh celebratio­n 48 Comedian Mercer 49 It’s in the eye of the beholder 50 The Dead Sea’s full of it 52 Word yelled when it finally hits you 53 Royal flush requiremen­t

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