CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Publicity events: photo ___

4 String quintet instrument 9 Backpack part

14 Result of overinflation? 15 Flexible weaver’s wood

16 Ridge on the Matterhorn 17 Linked item, for short 18 Huge problem for an actor 20 English blue cheese

22 What Boers created by circling the wagons

23 It’s twisted and sits in a cell

24 Ottoman governor’s rank

27 London’s Petticoat ___ 28 Devour

30 The Munsters’ pet 31 Orca prey, sometimes 32 California’s ___ Nevada mountains 34 Infinitesimal smidgen

36 Easy to understand 42 Item your drawbridge goes over 43 Zoroastrian in India

44 “Be there in a couple of ___.” 48 Cleopatra sailed here 50 To-do itemizations 51 Gyroscope essential

52 Terminal portion of the small intestine 54 Fashion’s Anna ___ 55 Colourful cotton fabric

57 What gets read to rabblerousers 60 Loonie’s worth compared to a cent 63 English rebel Fawkes

64 Joel Grey, in “Cabaret” 65 Snagged a dogie 66 Ruminant that rambles in the Rockies 67 Giggling sound

68 2018 and 2019

69 Quite a poor grade

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1 “Bloom County” bird

2 Yousuf Karsh speciality 3 Woodworker’s hazard 4 Purchase price

5 Legally preclude 6 Tropical forest vines

7 Thing at the corner of the table

8 It may be in a heavy metal band 9 Mia ___ of “Timecop” 10 Courthouse activities 11 Jamaican music 12 Ancient goddess of wisdom 13 Tube-nosed sea bird 19 Rarely seen haircut these days 21 Bruce Dern’s daughter who played Renata in “Big Little Lies”

25 Saliva 26 Blacksmith’s focus 28 A spider has one but a fly doesn’t 29 Straitlaced 33 Go through hell

35 Waters on the Uzbek/ Kazakh border

37 Flag down a cab

38 Carpal bones’ site

39 Mitigated 40 Small, silk purse 41 France’s Academie ___ Beaux-Arts 44 Small scented bag 45 Bring someone up, in a way

46 Finalize, as a deal

47 Mail recipient 49 One of Jupiter’s four largest moons

53 Roger Bannister, e.g.

56 Sloth’s home 58 Casino calculations 59 Little squirt 61 Moistureless 62 One of “them”