Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Chore 5 Willy Wonka’s Roald 9 Deadlocked 13 Risk region 14 Quibble 15 “Simple Simon ___ pie man” 16 One of Shakespear­e’s kings 17 What you’re doin’ when your turnin’ brown rice into white? 19 Runs for office 21 Exams you never write 22 Losing tictac-toe line 23 Scarce, wild Indonesian ox 25 Critical, time-limited, fall situation 31 Highfaluti­n bit of verse 32 Whiskey cocktail 33 Accompany to the airport, say 36 Be undecided 38 Two year old, for one 40 Overcast 41 Living on plastic, e.g. 44 Tries to win the heart of 47 Huge rare whale 48 Baled hay, essentiall­y 51 Like olives or peanuts 52 Perish 53 Fern “seed” 56 Nolan Ryan pitched seven of them 62 Screwballs lurking amongst the maize? 64 Modify the text 65 Swamp goop 66 Antitechno­logy Mennonite sect 67 Hindu musical genre 68 Plodded along 69 Heads out 70 Name for many Sunni guys

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1 Baby powder, basically 2 Sailing on the Med 3 Where King Mongkut once ruled 4 World chess champ Anatoly, 1975-1985 5 Brief, fast car race 6 Once more, a la Li’l Abner 7 Hungarian cavalryman of old 8 Souvenir from “Luau night”, maybe 9 Accepted with enthusiasm 10 Aloe ___ 11 Abbr. after a list of names 12 Old time actresses Martin and Grey 14 Light operatic solo 18 Nary a soul 20 Vikings’ weapons 24 Xi preceders 25 Arizona natives 26 Important Mideast shipping port 27 Rips to shreds 28 Egypt’s boy king 29 Three, so they say 30 Abode 34 Jumpy little critter 35 Dart about 37 Polled, like cattle 39 Goutsuscep­tible body part 42 Short 43 10 digits on a bus. card 45 Somewhat peculiar 46 Loretta of “M*A*S*H” 49 Bundle of energy 50 Straight, casually 53 Tommy Douglas, originally 54 Like Yorick 55 Rice-sized pasta 57 “The Grapes of Wrath” migrant 58 Spandau Prison’s last prisoner 59 Popular dutch cheese 60 Latvian metropolis 61 Red giant, for one 63 Tarry

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