Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Fine wine datum 4 Crucial laptop essential 7 Actress Delores ___ Rio

10 Old haematolog­y syst. 13 Riga native 15 Tweezing target 17 Under 18 Nuclear bomb measuremen­t 19 Wing-like 20 Eat humble pie

22 Take it all off 25 Given some vittles 26 Nobel Prize category 29 Judd Hirsch sitcom of the ‘80s 32 Cotton gin inventor Whitney 33 Agenda entries 35 Shaving mishaps 38 Dental affliction 40 Of little importance 42 Tex-Mex snacks 43 Way to play a banjo 45 First imam, to Shiites 46 Personnel list 48 Dubiously designated 50 Ball-bearing gizmo 52 One way to stare 54 NW German city 57 Rainforest growth 61 Washington state high point? 62 With great skill 65 Fervent 66 “You said it, dude!” 67 Picks out of a line-up 68 Slalom pattern 69 Chunk of computer memory, slangily 70 Remain in the red

DOWN

1 Actress Jessica of 2005’s “Fantastic Four”

2 Old Manxman, e.g. 3 Vulcan’s forge site, in myth 4 Virginia spy gp. 5 Dog’s reward, at times 6 Disengage the horse from the wagon 7 Brit’s service discharge 8 Grommet’s cousin 9 Popular gift for young builders 10 Not natural 11 Demon rum, e.g.

12 Not rented or leased 14 “Aida” composer 16 Place for tea? 21 “Casey at the Bat,” for one 23 Most slick, in a way 24 Flops on a chair 26 Lions eat it 27 Where Bonaparte spent some time 28 Besmirches one’s reputation 30 Baboon, bat or beaver 31 Louis ___, Sun King 34 Forcefully coerce 36 Leafy Vitamin A source 37 Glissaded 39 Sound like a pigeon 41 Wrinkle 44 Russia’s Feodor I, e.g. 47 Sisters’ superior 49 One kind of node 50 Shinto temple gateway 51 Bushbuck’s big cousin 53 Tackle box items 55 Opposite of WSW 56 Howe’s number 58 Sgt. Snorkel’s buddy 59 Road constructi­on caution 60 Since, to Robbie Burns 63 Give up the ghost 64 Echidna’s production

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