CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rainbow shapes 5 Spanish tidbit

9 Shrek and his buddies 14 2 litre bottle filler, often 15 Skedaddles, to Shakespeare 16 Beast that sounds like an eastern monk

17 Seat of the Scottish parliament 19 Suzuki, for example 20 Reason for two nostrils 21 Crowe of “Gladiator” 23 Cutting remark

24 Cap with a pompom 25 Totally overcast 26 Brief personal history 28 Beatty/ Christie/ Hawn movie of ‘75

31 Shrimp ___ Creole 32 Twofold 33 Dispatches a fly

37 Hitchcock or Olivier title 38 Pertaining to sight

41 More than one or two 42 “...would thou ___ ne’er been born”: Othello 44 Lymph node swelling 45 Entrepreneur’s deg. 46 Penetrate every part of 49 Burns birthplace 50 Women’s Olympic sport since 1996 53 Thataway, quaintly 54 Stable colour? 57 Urban project 59 Perth’s eastern, more populous neighbour 62 Exam mark 63 Troublesome 66 Pacific abalone eater 67 Fabricate 68 ___European languages 69 Where I’m pointing 70 Flashy style 71 Old Irish tax

DOWN

1 Great blackjack cards

2 Sat on one’s ass

3 Where PCs copy things to

4 Blitzen’s boss

5 Signal of approval

6 It’s got global coverage 7 Cribbage counter 8 Hindu retreat 9 Cutlass maker, once 10 Scottish city on the banks of the Clyde 11 Delirious one 12 Actor Hirsch of “Into the Wild”

13 With a heavy heart

18 Prickly, clingy seed case

22 Ref’s buddy, perhaps 24 Powerful Afghan Sunni fundamentalists 26 Clobber

27 Big butterflyshaped bones 29 Deerstalker, e.g.

30 52’s Winter Olympic locale 32 Shower with love

34 Type of garnet

35 Type of pottery drinking jug 36 Betelgeuse, for one 39 Bison chew it 40 Scotland’s North Sea oil centre 43 Traffic cop’s target 47 Shaggy Scandinavian rug 48 Setting on a YouTube clip 50 Rye fungus 51 Central Scottish city on the banks of the R. Tay 52 Related on ma’s side

55 Left the building

56 Bit of tomfoolery 58 The Way We ___ 60 Offensive athletes? 61 Attributes of the conceited 64 Chum 65 Music of Jamaica’s “Wailers”