CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Contents of the joint 4 Priggish folks

10 Stab in the back

13 Rankle

15 Head Hun honcho

16 Early English vassal 17 Northern Yukon garb, at times 18 Wranglers alternatives 19 “Let’s give it ___.”

20 Less credible, excuse-wise 21 More likely to smirk 23 Pappa’s partner 25 “Cutty Sark” is a famous one

26 TorontoOshawa dir. 27 Without decoration 29 Poetic lines of praise 30 Diagonally cut pasta tubes 31 Reverent astonishment 34 Occupy the throne

35 Wimp

38 Mean dude’s quality

40 Not a giver 42 Remove red eye, e.g.

43 Runs out of steam 45 Cataract site 46 Fashionably dressed Christian 48 Melonlike tropical fruit 49 Tortellini topping, maybe 51 Wonderfully different

52 Like a first draft 53 Construction zone cones

54 An act of genius

55 Mere fraction of a microjoule

DOWN

1 Sugar, perhaps 2 Turk, long ago 3 Three-level galley 4 Foremost, in a way 5 Throws together 6 Hopi cousin 7 Seriously broken 8 Display unit for knickknacks 9 Sonoran sir 10 Canaanite god

11 Burglar’s deterrent 12 Sherpa’s beast of burden 13 Decidedly unhealthy 14 German white wine 22 US dept. that prints US passports 24 Be really grateful

25 Dog

Star locale: ___ Major 28 Island’s downwind beach 31 Temporarily suspended 32 Wielder of a hose, perhaps 33 Tokyo, before it was Tokyo 35 Slalom necessity 36 Aquarium bubbler 37 Weighing heavily (on) 39 Pain in the neck, Yiddish style 41 Inability to coordinate the muscles 42 Romulus’ twin of Roman myth 44 Pouches, biologically 47 Engine coolant’s place, slangily 48 Get-up-andgo

50 Rite words to say?