Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Clipper, to the skipper 4 Flinches, perhaps 10 Wound covering 14 Thole contents 15 Nimble-fingered 16 Hamburg’s river 17 Record player 19 Tiny little bottle 20 Sphere of study 21 The woman across the room 22 Org. for smart folk 23 Mechanic, slangily 27 Chef Boyardee offering 30 “Dangerous” McGrew of verse 31 Expert witness in a sanity trial 33 Raises one’s glass to 38 Tundra growth 39 Brit’s rain gear 41 Shower requiremen­t 42 Concerning one of the US fifty 45 More audacious 48 Nine-tailed whip

50 As a rule 51 Spirits from the Emerald Isle 56 Black bottom, e.g. 57 Portuguese “she” 58 Thousands of centuries 62 From within (comb. form) 63 One way to kick a habit 66 Walk-in mine entrance 67 Contemptuo­us expression­s 68 Vied for office

69 Old soapmaking solutions 70 Bradshaw and Fox 71 Joined the dining party

DOWN

1 Spritzer mixer 2 “Good Morning Starshine” musical 3 Galloway’s Gaelic, years ago 4 Imperial rule in India 5 Shogun centre of the seventeen hundreds 6 Expression of yore 7 Popular soft drinks 8 Like big wedding cakes 9 Barn adjunct, perhaps 10 World Series: best of ___ 11 Jail, slangily 12 Belittle 13 Make fast, at sea 18 Most canny 22 Kissing disease, briefly 24 Mick’s Stones’ buddy 25 Clint and Lee’s ‘67 costar 26 Place setting protector 27 Team from St. Louis 28 Far more than needed 29 Border guard’s request 32 File folder flap 34 Busy figure in a goldrush 35 Planter’s product 36 Old Asian weight unit 37 Surprising­ly lively 40 Person with a cause 43 Molar malady 44 Judge’s concern 46 Request permission 47 Instigate litigation 49 The Matrix’s Neo, say 51 The way it should be

52 “The Guess Who” member Bachman 53 Low-budget film genre 54 Highlander­s, e.g. 55 More sickly 59 Veggie from the Deep South 60 Like Felix Unger’s room 61 “Auld Lang ___” 63 Winnipeg winter hrs. 64 Make an attempt 65 Letters on an aircraft carrier hull

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