CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hogmanay mo.

4 Stable bedding 7 Listens to, closely 12 Violent disturbance 15 Just clear of the sea bed 16 Wandered aimlessly 18 Push roughly 19 Big hunk of wayward ice 20 Marine abysses 22 Blocker of “Bonanza” 23 Scurvy preventatives, once 26 Water, commonly 28 Settle differences 30 Common

pulse 31 Falls after a shower

34 Swindler’s scheme 38 Affectionate gesture 39 Blackberry drupelets, e.g.

40 Be untruthful 41 Nunavut conveyance 43 Courtroom artist’s needs

46 Luxurious Indian silk

48 Pen names 49 Brazil’s Sao Paulo’s floral symbols 53 Chick hangouts

54 Tiny, to a highlander 55 Take in the laundry 57 Regional Mun. of York’s Russian sister city 60 Burros, basically 62 Ease

65 Work in the ship’s boiler room

66 Paparazzo’s target 67 Overdoes the publicity 68 Slip on 69 Abate

DOWN

1 Not smart at all 2 Olympian’s blade

3 North Carolina city 4 Was afflicted with

5 “Hail!”, to Hadrian

6 Old tape measure alternative 7 Annoy continually 8 Long unused Anglo-Saxon letter 9 Disintegrate in the wind 10 Elegant sofa 11 Tuckered out 13 V-8, for one 14 Majors in TV’s “The

Big Valley” 17 Stratford Festival Artistic Director McAnuff (2008-12) 21 This takes a licking in the heat 24 Noise that Old MacDonald heard 25 Pertaining to both sides of the

Urals 27 Duct, medically speaking 28 Mischievous spirits 29 Soccer super-club ___ Madrid 32 Rare Scrabble result

33 All snarled up

35 Kid you went to school with 36 Glorified gofer, often 37 Sticky situation

42 NJ’s western

neighbour 44 My uncle’s 45 Creole, e.g. 47 Takes advantage of a handme-down

49 Partly

submerged 50 Piquant

51 Fabled old fable teller 52 Recuperative resort 56 Tree preferred by bark beetles 58 Desperate guess 59 Where British parking meters stand

61 Barely make out

63 Bigheadedness 64 Furniture mover’s vehicle