Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Popular French drink 5 Squabble 10 Run like the blazes 14 Taj Mahal locale 15 Really humid 16 Turbine rod 17 It’s not an instinct 20 Trifling amount, to Romanians 21 Hitherto 22 Licoricefl­avoured plants 23 Where to pick up pasta salad 25 Petulant state 26 Local tradition 30 It might offer mud baths 33 Swedish Nick 34 Infamous Hun 35 Horton of doughnut fame 36 Released 38 Thousandth of an inch 39 Grub, basically 41 Time of waning daylight 42 Many Maldives islands 45 Asia’s only landlocked country 46 Dangerous antimalari­al pesticide 47 Biting one’s mails and picking one’s nose, e.g. 49 Tabloid “news”, slangily 50 Sign of disuse 51 Red Bordeaux wine 54 Half a candy? 55 Mouflon who’s a mom 58 The daily procedures 62 Egg cell 63 Immature dragonfly 64 Sea otter’s playground 65 Key Lime concoction 66 Windex targets 67 Quite a swirl DOWN 1 Cry out to 2 James, posthumous Pulitzer winner of ‘58 3 Given to cheating 4 Toreador’s trophy 5 Canada’s part of the world 6 Came by moped 7 Tomcat, alternatel­y 8 Really take advantage of 9 Biofuel option 10 Cargo crane 11 Centre of a few revolution­s 12 Blackthorn tree fruit 13 My mom’s 18 “Little” Dickens heroine 19 Twenty Questions category 24 Let up a little 25 In a quiet way 26 In need of a meal 27 Fathered 28 Greatest degree 29 Long-legged wading bird 30 Restricted 31 Turn on one foot 32 Accumulate 37 Day-Lewis of film 40 Cleric’s white gowns 43 Highland plaids 44 Covers up 48 Uncle’s partner 49 Jungle movie omen 51 Something in your own field 52 Strauss of jeans fame 53 Sickly “can’t keep warm” feeling 54 Dory, e.g. 56 Fuse some steel 57 See in the distance 59 Knock sharply 60 ___ de Janeiro 61 Tricky Dicky’s boss in the ‘50s

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