CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Try to get airborne 5 Tricky billiards shot 10 Act saucily 14 Cleave, quaintly 15 Shopping hub for old Greeks 16 Huron’s neighbour 17 Genderbiased store area where you buy items that will predict the future? 20 Like a bad spray-on tan

21 Japanese entertainer with many fans?

22 It might precede your maiden name 23 “A Bug’s Life” creature 24 Whale sounds from an electronic entertainment industry giant? 32 Bubbling stream 33 A manysplendoured thing

34 Bring back to health 35 Sceptre’s ceremonial companion 36 Alternatively 37 Give up the ghost

38 Doth maketh tracks

40 Metis revolutionary of the 1880s 41 NBA player, slangily 43 Academy Award tat that covers up the result of a nasty run-in with your bike pedal?

46 Florist’s “wheels”, perhaps

47 Pick up a perp

48 Rockies ungulate 51 Suitability 55 Pretty crude hideaway festooned with sheep? 58 Large Mattress size

59 So long, in Stasbourg 60 Belonging to us all

61 Xmas and New Year’s periods 62 Gravy serving gizmo 63 Staircase unit

DOWN

1 Swinger’s direction? 2 Big wheel’s wheels 3 State without doubt 4 What a sinner may do 5 Sponging sort

6 10% of a mil. 7 Way thicker than just stringy

8 “... ___ reasonable facsimile” 9 Britain’s Thatcher of the eighties 10 Hebrew or Arabic, e.g. 11 Phobos and Deimos’ dad 12 Lao lady’s traditional garment 13 Bristle, 30 Norwegian biologically composer 18 Shifty Edvard character 31 King’s 19 Have an advisor of inclination yore 24 Root used in 32 Small, perfumery Pacific coast 25 Old pearshaped salmon 36 Slightly fiddle twisted, in a

26 Small and way sprightly 39 Nest egg 27 New York’s 41 Popular ___ Island origami 28 Quarter bird round 42 Planets’ moulding reflectivity 29 Prod gently ratios 44 $140/night,

e.g.

45 False

48 Left

dreamland 49 Tel ___

50 Air freshener fragrance 51 Really eager

52 Strip off 53 Sealed up tightly

54 100% convinced 56 Room in an old Ottoman harem 57 Rx abbr.