CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pertaining to the ear 5 “Arctic Air” actor Beach 9 Speaks Crow? 13 Bouncy kind of stick 14 Pleasant odour 15 Stomach problem 16 Pretty much in the neighbourhood 19 Internal rupture 20 Sleep, informally 21 Throat infection, briefly

24 Mame Dennis’ faithful butler 25 Pleasantsmelling carbon compound 28 Slices off 30 Grey of “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3” 33 Cello’s little sister 34 Building blocks of matter

36 Very popular dog, briefly 38 Basil Fawlty’s establishment 39 Japan’s Hagibis, e.g. 41 Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Princess ___”

42 Choice piece of lamb 43 Lessened 44 Gagarin did one in ‘61 46 Were for one?

48 Not imaginary 49 Small stream barriers

50 Tiny smidgen 52 Reckons

54 Acts like a paper towel 58 Odd duck 62 What Andrew Sheer has, apparently 65 Bit of Arctic land, often 66 Less seldom seen

67 Item you can pitch

68 And right afterwards... 69 Like traditional Easter eggs 70 Droops in the centre

DOWN

1 Ocean moonfish, alternately 2 Came apart at the seams 3 Borodin’s Prince ___ 4 Give advice to

5 Cave drawings, basically 6 A word from Bart’s dad 7 Actor Ed of “Mister Ed” 8 Exaggerated sense of manliness 9 Egg container 10 Complaint often spotted on teens

11 Miss Muffet fare 12 Withered and dry from the heat

14 Fast of Esther month 17 Exported Chilean resource 18 Result of three strikes 22 Tick away 23 Stoner 25 Satanic 26 Connective tissue 27 Where King Tupou VI reigns

29 Dog named Fifi, often 31 Surprise for the prosecution 32 Bottommost point 35 Guys who always get black eyes? 37 Bananas 40 Con

45 Doesn’t cooperate 47 Filched

51 Line made with a compass 53 Yachting’s America’s Cup, basically 54 Horizontal mine entrance 55 Obama’s predecessor 56 Willy Loman’s goal 57 Don’t dash off 59 Saturn’s second largest moon 60 Fender bender consequence 61 Decides (to)

63 Riled up sensation 64 The mark of Zorro?