CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Solicits a reply 5 Chicken or turkey

9 Mulligatawny, e.g. 13 Late night show’s opening segment, often 15 Tornado Alley city 16 Expensive dye jobs? 18 How to drink hot soup 19 Corsica’s surroundings 20 Proffers 21 Room that’s full of hot air 23 Cat call?

24 Big, jagged cut

27 Pot you only use to melt down some of your rings, say?

31 Mezzo’s colleague 32 They constantly get fired 33 Herring creation

34 Bent the facts

35 Really petite

37 Try to fly 38 Pappy Yokum’s grandson 39 Vatican decree

40 Popular Brazilian root veggie 41 Precious little creepy crawlies that might just eat your wallpaper? 45 Cardinal’s abode

46 Common legume 47 Everett of “Medical Center” and Lowe of “Pretty Little Liars”

49 Pope since 2013

52 Get one’s wires crossed 53 Writer’s submissions (abbr.) 56 Valuable and rare metal found in a famous Soho theatre?

59 Of yore

60 Kid’s income 61 Apart from that... 62 Recuperate 63 Reebok competitor

DOWN

1 Word on a fuse

2 What arias are, basically 3 Make a stone axe

4 Bar habitue 5 Get ready for a test 6 Williams’ “The Night of the ___” 7 Planter’s punch uses it

8 Financial millstone 9 Solar ice crystal effect

10 From an earlier era, quaintly 11 Manipulative sort

12 Quarterback’s option

14 ___ Marie Presley 15 Copy machine powders 17 Like many tarts

21 Like racehorses’ feet

22 More than merely good 24 Black tie celebrations 25 Accused’s trump card 26 Caribbean music makers 28 Revelry 29 Lots and lots

30 Redcap’s work place 35 Hit the sack 36 Gremlin’s cousin 37 Will-o’-thewisp locales 39 Mariner’s guide

42 Buyer,

slangily

43 Nut

cases?

44 Strumpet 48 Use a sketch

pad 49 Ice shelf

breakaway 50 Throw the dice

51 Train for a big fight

53 Small (pref.) 54 Use a straw 55 Bob Hoskins “Hook” role 57 Draught brew, often 58 Chief ___ George