CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Meerschaum or brier 5 Guitar lick 9 Oldfashioned anaesthetic 14 Not just merely similar 16 Indian corn 17 Top of the world 18 One type of red 19 Leave orbit 21 Grandfather clock feature 22 Pepsi product 25 Soloist’s showpiece 27 Working cattle, basically 28 Botch the job

30 New parents, usually 34 Bring into harmony 35 Tradition 37 “Wind in the Willows” character 38 Like rock made from magma 40 Fair to middling 42 Prefix meaning “new” 43 Fully developed 45 Man in the Irish Sea 46 Set of nine 48 Edvard Grieg’s nat. 49 Scaloppine meat 50 Uppity types 52 Ospreys’ European kin 53 Powder room powder 56 Snake that issues a warning 60 Fake butter varieties 62 Roughterrain two-wheeler 66 Begin 67 Parts of headsets 68 Sentimental sort 69 Resorts located at springs, often 70 Result of a bump in the car park

DOWN

1 Dressmaker’s need 2 Knot-tying words 3 ___ capita 4 Mesmerize 5 Like red tomatoes 6 Symbol made of pixels 7 Stumbles 8 Naval assemblage 9 Big Londonbased recording co., once 10 Bicycle built for two 11 State of the art sound system, in the ‘50s 12 Noted poet Pound 13 Not dreamt up

15 Most common English word

20 Go past the allotted time 22 Trig. ratio 23 Something in the air 24 “Woman” singer 26 Lord’s lady 28 Quito’s country 29 Squeaky hinge cause, perhaps 31 Puzzle solver’s need 32 Loosesleeved sweater 33 Prepares for battle 36 Veggie often eaten at a luau 39 Saudi Arabia neighbour 41 Salmon spawning spot 44 Take off a seatbelt 47 Accompany 51 Kathy in “Fried Green Tomatoes” 53 Flip a coin 54 Anne Murray’s vocal range 55 Tree flutterer 57 Famed movie plantation in Georgia 58 Chicken’s lack 59 Director Roth of “Knock Knock” 61 Hog pen 63 Hard water? 64 “Jackdaws” author Follet 65 i.e.: id ___