Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Cowpoke’s okay 4 Carillon sounds 9 Sub’s weapon, maybe 13 Hectare, say

15 Like some beer at a bar

16 South America’s emu 17 Perfect material for a take-out joint? 20 Indian wise guy

21 Where to find happy mediums? 22 Tender beef cuts 25 __-Magnon Man

26 Give a hoot 29 Type of joint you can smoke on the sofa? 34 Adeline’s nickname, sometimes 35 Aquarium requiremen­t 36 Bright yellow 37 Someone serving serious time

38 Item worn around the altar

39 Suffix for Vietnam, Taiwan or Japan

41 Cross

Your Heart product 42 Soprano’s vibrato 44 Fences the loot, say 46 Chicken portion 47 Joint it’s not safe to smoke outside?

49 ___ Willard, Jack Dempsey’s 1919 victim 50 Iranian Shi’ite centre 51 Specialist in casting, briefly 53 Guarantees 57 Told it like it was

61 Joint usually smoked before lunch in Dublin? 64 Above 65 Anyone from Ames

66 Adze or awl 67 Cuts logs 68 College girls, once 69 ___-Annedes- Plaines, QC

DOWN

1 Bawl loudly 2 Nitrogenri­ch organic chemical 3 Claw alternativ­e 4 Like Byron’s works

5 Gun running quartet? 6 Long dist. giant, briefly 7 Mad scientists’ haunts 8 Valedictor­y event 9 Mesabi Range resource 10 Quite trendy

11 Nota ___ 12 Rims on a Porsche Carrera, maybe 14 Muddle up 18 Book jacket blurb, often

19 Uses mouthwash 23 Pretty good 24 Grafton who wrote ““A” Is for Alibi” 26 Atacama flora

27 Hang trimmings on

28 Indian noblewomen 30 Scuzzballs 31 Saunter along 32 Lesions 33 Glitches 35 Hotel that lent its name to a salad in 1896 40 Ten-gallon hats

43 They may be hard to drink 45 Startling word 48 Poisoning remedy 49 Knee or elbow, but that’s not what this puzzle’s all about 52 Some people have a tin one 53 Lengthy, highfaluti­n poetry

54 Brief, bright super star

55 One pot Irish entree 56 “Vamoose!” 58 Spanish Almighty 59 Despicable little kid 60 Gawk obsessivel­y 62 Ram’s gal 63 Unhinged, in a way

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