Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- adrian powell

ACROSS

1 Cab fare calculator 6 Round Table gents 10 Dashboard read-out technology 13 Gladiator’s work place 14 Freeze 16 Evian ou Perrier 17 Prize for the most amorous boxer? 20 Gilligan’s home 21 Particle that comes with a charge 22 Oxen connectors 23 Long time Fox rival 25 Passe prepositio­n 27 This might bring good luck on Valentine’s Day? 33 Jug’s larger brother 34 Whistler or Warhol 35 Old jalopy feature 38 Sparse desert vegetation 40 Scrap left on your plate 41 Wood you can weave with 42 Go yachting 43 Sainted Archbishop of Canterbury: 1093ñ1109 45 Rebuff from McDuff 46 Illicit threeway arrangemen­t for trading oven mitts? 49 Hawkish Greek deity 50 Back the other way 51 “The ___ Man”

(‘71 Heston movie) 54 Yonder lass 56 Some whiskies 60 Tiny, amorous room hidden behind the dashboard? 64 Garden of Eden notable 65 Something to kick 66 Emerson’s middle name 67 Above it all, to poets 68 Destiny 69 Tolerate

DOWN

1 Yuletide wise guys 2 Deity this puzzle celebrates, in a way 3 Pour one’s guts out 4 Inspire affection 5 Ontario’s NDP premier 6 Barn adjunct, often 7 Clickable screen image 8 Race the engine 9 Sioux City lass 10 Security breach 11 Give two hoots 12 Total failures 15 Fee-based entertainm­ent 18 More likely to please 19 Some winers and diners, maybe 24 Spill the beans 25 Northern Ireland 26 “Batteries ___ included” 27 Big to-do 28 Big member of a small pod 29 Dismantle the halyards 30 Does penance 31 Gold medallist’s position 32 Wishing it hadn’t happened 36 Close an airlock 37 Beech, for one 39 Unfilled part of a cask 41 ‘62 Oscar nominee Sharif 43 Monopoly’s Baltic, e.g. 44 Murderer, often 47 Mountain spinach 48 Typical 51 Margarine, colloquial­ly 52 Get up and go 53 Always 54 Rotisserie rod 55 Dislike intensely 57 Tarzan’s trademark 58 Within, in combinatio­ns 59 Pack away neatly 61 Big dumb dolt 62 Harvard deg. from 1908 63 United rival, until 2001

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