CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Christmas Oratorio” composer 5 Top of your head 10 Letters on Darwin’s Beagle 13 Debriefing data 14 Illogical dread 15 Cloud chamber particle 16 NBA player, at times 18 Golf club employee 19 Blithering idiot 20 Long, slim candle 22 Live in 25 Tall, skinny chap 28 Small, sturdy, South African antelope 30 Lab maze occupants 31 Novelist Poe 32 Topper with a pompom 35 Is, for many 36 Kraft’s cheesy partner 38 Tax man’s US employer 39 Lager alternative 40 Wistful 41 Name that was once on many theatres 43 Radiate 44 Brief commuter flight airplane, slangily 47 Ready to freak out, say 50 Polished and debonair 51 Feudal lord 52 Early Icelandic saga 53 Big, clumsy galoot 54 Decathlete, some of the time 61 Before (pref.) 62 Timehonoured sayings 63 Gooey, mucky ground 64 Drum location 65 Dartmoor’s locale 66 Watermelon discard

DOWN

1 Highchair wear 2 Give ___ for effort 3 Stallions’ org., in ‘94 and ‘95 4 Delays 5 Closed tightly 6 One in the cooler

7 2 on a touch tone pad 8 Make things up

9 Law firm principals 10 Nile heavyweight 11 Truffle’s cousin 12 Slumberous rumble 14 Coral component 17 Clonks on the noggin 21 Can. Book Day mo. 22 Gooey gumbo veggies 23 All-season Olympian Hughes 24 Commended for merit 25 Auction offer 26 Locomotive 27 This will get mould on it, hopefully 29 Fall back 32 Florida metropolis 33 Xenophobe’s aversion 34 Olympic measurement 36 Desk top computer accessory 37 Tots up 42 Like a lot of geezers 43 Prepares a mummy 44 Place to hang your hat 45 One of the twelve apostles 46 Karachi’s language 47 Good spot to ski 48 Jewel-covered headband 49 Send for a consult 52 Without a wrinkle 55 76’s “___ to Billy Joe” 56 Water closet from Worcester 57 Evil twin, perhaps: alter ___ 58 Dead heat 59 “Look ___ ye leap” 60 Bordeaux coloured, usually