CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Arm joints 7 Higher than, in old poems 10 Tent pole, basically 14 Archaic, contemptuous term of address 15 Amazement 16 Almost never seen 17 Made by an top flight performer? 19 Frigg’s husband (myth) 20 Tree bowyers used 21 Specific length of time 22 Freedom to choose 24 Felt sorry for 26 Wry humour 27 Marching band drum 30 Capacious artery

32 In a gigantic manner 35 Restaurant big shot 39 Modified 40 Milk sugar 42 Claudius I successor 43 Abode of one who shouldn’t throw stones? 45 Unflinching sort 47 Made a gaffe 48 Ancient port on the Tiber 51 Brooms made of twigs 54 Run-down urban area 56 Amazonian language 57 Debtors’ letters 60 Bread that goes with dal 61 Things dreamed up by paid hallucinators? 64 Maltese dough 65 2,000 pounds, in Texas 66 Prickly plant 67 Rogers of “Barrett’s Privateers” 68 View 69 English assignments

DOWN

1 Spot 2 What Italians used to pay in 3 Perspiration location 4 Hobbit’s foe 5 Most toad-like, in a way 6 Smooth area of ice 7 Porridge, essentially 8 Cotswold mom 9 Perform again 10 Geometry class equipment 11 SiriusXM medium 12 Distinctive winter constellation 13 Leonard’s love from “The Big Bang Theory” 18 Shipping magnate Onassis 23 Peach stone 24 Placement arranged by a recognized expert? 25 Voodoo equipment? 27 Read the bar code 28 Intersection point 29 Shaped like a wing 31 Handmade Swedish rugs 33 Trumpetshaped lily of the desert 34 Wing it 36 Lunch period, often 37 Basic Latin infinitive 38 Chicken’s dinner? 41 Shifts 44 Nail polish remover, basically 46 Make a doily, say 48 Shrek and his ilk 49 Yell 50 Hedron lead-in 52 Toyota RAV4, for one 53 Voice one’s view 55 Decides (to) 57 Dotted Greek vowel 58 One kind of child 59 Employs 62 Sturgeon’s production 63 Word with a mistaken apostrophe, often