Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Holmes smoked it 5 Tonto’s faithful steed

10 Low volume “Yo!”

14 Sphere of expertise 15 Father, informally 16 Eight (comb. form) 17 Occasional hunter without a license? 20 Calm as can be

21 Warsaw natives 22 Handy, spacesavin­g abbr. 25 Louse egg

26 Cheerleade­r’s word 28 Wallach who played “The Ugly”

29 Cooks way past well done 33 Chemist’s solution strength

34 Talk show interviewe­e 35 Veggie burger bean 36 What a lousy football team often does

38 Still in the sack

42 Yours, to a

Quaker

44 Funeral lament

45 Gets furious while cooking?

48 Sask. politician, briefly

50 Peggy who

sang “Fever”

51 Hoot at the opposing team, maybe 52 Cough medicine dose, in brief 53 “Here’s looking ___, kid.”

55 Pilot a plane 58 Something spies might transmit

63 Like lemons 64 Fill your flat again?

65 Foil or dynamic beginning

66 Graceful shade trees 67 “Get Smart” star Don ___ 68 Brief “how to” session

DOWN 1 Semi-liquid food

2 The wordy Gershwin 3 As ___ usual 4 Stops fasting 5 Seance “guest of honour” 6 Snap out of it

7 In full bloom 8 Pugilist’s punch 9 Chinese “way”

10 A little on a score

11 Haul, slangily 12 Sink material 13 What tank tops cover 18 Unable to relax

19 Big genus of agricultur­al pests 22 Immature amphibians 23 The Graces, e.g.

24 Delhi’s a big one

27 Zeus’ bellicose son 30 Muse of lyric

poetry 31 Ford replaced him

32 This might connect two stories

36 Heap 37 Opened, as an envelope 39 Bart Simpson, for one

40 Theme of this puzzle, in a way

41 Like Robeson’s voice 43 Blackeyed pea’s “black eye”, technicall­y 44 Hindu loincloth 45 Aftershave scent

46 Spacesavin­g term in footnotes 47 Raises one’s glass to

48 Tricky billiards shot

49 Major’s superior, briefly 54 Bireme gear

56 The Sail, astronomic­ally 57 Quaint old oath

59 Barely There product

60 Birth Name signifier 61 Human appendage 62 Where a bloke might flush

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