CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gene Simmons’ rock group 5 Deep-piled rug

9 ‘67 mid-east battleground area 14 Annoying audio glitch 15 Angel’s headgear 16 Stash away 17 Polynesian root crop 18 Type of vaccine 19 Shelved for now 20 Inexpensive bauble 22 You can get a shot for this 24 Discouraging responses 25 Light intensity unit 26 Biblical songs 28 Starbucks choice 31 Repulsive 34 Tibet’s largest city 36 Barely average 37 One running around wildly, maybe 43 Mule’s mom 44 Long-necked wader 45 One of the four seasons 48 Not together 53 Puts a lid on 55 Country with 36 annual public holidays 56 Something Scrooge often said 58 Time surrounding sunset 59 How many like their beer 61 Soak up the facts 63 Pop, to Yanks 65 A thou, alternately 66 Oxford University college since 1326 67 Silent night fliers 68 Livestock enclosures 69 Verbose 70 Seven day period 71 Badger’s den

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1 Whistler in the kitchen 2 Youth who flew too close to the sun 3 Cocktail tidbit 4 Earlier 5 Carthorse’s need 6 Rodgers’ songwriting collaborator 7 Chicken ___ king 8 Plays 18 holes 9 Ought to 10 Tiny bit of plasma 11 Soft, lightweight muslin 12 Directive on a cellist’s score 13 Auspicious March date 21 Ominous toll 23 Tony Randall’s “7 Faces of Dr. ___” 26 Own 27 “Oddball” category, briefly 29 Ship, to the crew 30 Grand Marshal’s accessory, often 32 “___ it or lose it” 33 Every man, to somebody 35 Bay of Haifa port 37 Common letters in the Royal Navy 38 ___ de Cologne 39 Archie Bunker’s favourite seat 40 Floor model 41 60’s school dance 42 Really silly 46 With uniformity 47 Gun the motor 49 Sums it all up 50 Orbital high point 51 What some scouts watch for 52 Heir to the throne 54 Scatter more seed 56 Heavy hit 57 Kit Kat rival, maybe 59 Unoccupied 60 Hogshead, e.g. 62 Scarlet 64 Have debts