CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Make believe

5 Quite limber 10 Bubbling with excitement 14 Coffin cover 15 Make a frog sound

16 Big, fancy wingding 17 Former label for the Stones, Led Zeppelin and Iron Butterfly 20 3-way junction 21 Social or liberal ending 22 Hoity-toity Spanish title 23 Permissive word

25 Overwhelming wonder

27 Really bad witnesses 28 Line going right through Auyuittuq National Park 32 Big, biblical boat builder 33 Chick watcher? 34 Pain in the rear end 38 Needle and ink creation, for short

39 Josh around

40 Trig. function 41 Pull behind 42 Gradually implant

44 One with a good beat? 45 Become less severe

46 Math whiz from Bangalore, maybe? 49 Trimmed off the rind 52 Network since ‘36 53 Backtalk, slangily 54 Like fatty tissue 56 Goldblum’s Dr. Malcolm of “Jurassic Park”

58 Easily scrambled item

61 One of the fifty or so folk from Adamstown 64 Yokel’s word of ojection 65 Washed up 66 Patrick’s “Ghost” costar

67 Spyglass component 68 Impresario’s presentation 69 Hushed “Hey, you!”

DOWN

1 Lovers’ quarrel

2 Not like one bit

3 Stray toms 4 Nunavut politician, e.g.

5 Pursues a stage career 6 Made a pained face 7 Winter Games organizer 8 More capacious 9 One who just squeaks by 10 Painful ordeals 11 Lake west of Verona

12 What you become over time

13 Xenon and neon

18 One type of decree

19 Maria of the Met

24 Kenya’s northern neighbour, for short 26 Take first prize 28 “Contra” equivalent 29 Steed with a reddish-grey coat

30 You or me, once

31 Cuts into pieces

35 Bad situations for cattle drovers 36 What most people do at Vegas 37 Ceramic basin filler 39 Somewhat 40 More succinct 43 Cuff link companions 44 It’s hailed in many cities

45 U.K. recording giant, until 2012 47 Timmies’ chilling treat, slangily

48 Bone connected to the elbow bone

49 From Francis, maybe

50 Old proverb 51 London’s

‘78 Umbrella Murder poison

55 Rye container 57 “Betsy’s Wedding” star

59 Emeralds and such

60 Fine gravel 62 “___ been thinking...” 63 Alexa McDonough’s gp. of the

‘90s