Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Nickel and cadmium 7 Repeatedly bother 10 Famous two-person starter home? 14 There’s no place like it 15 William Tell, for one 17 Fiddle 18 Cornish delicacies 19 “Anything ___ I can get you?”

20 Kids’ likely answer to “Who wants dessert?” 22 Manservant 23 Part of Winchester Cathedral 25 Round hammer head 27 Skein members 30 Like some potatoes, sometimes 35 Unsubtle observer 36 “Cool” jazz fans

37 Use oil and grease

38 You can use it but I can’t 39 Box office bombs 42 “Skid” or “stop” prefix

43 Moore of “A Few Good Men” 45 Recumbent one

46 Born fool 48 Total calm 50 White cotton trousers 51 Go first 52 Soul-stirring poetry 54 Stretch mark, technicall­y 57 “It doesn’t matter which.” 58 Proofreade­r’s find 62 Earthbound layers 65 Saturated (with) 67 Esthetical­ly pleasing 68 Used your hammer 69 Song for a twosome 70 One of the Babas

71 Dead ducks DOWN 1 Silence the audio 2 Useful Latin abbr. 3 Thumb and Mix

4 Make peace with

5 Make the polygraph go nuts 6 Garments worn in Gwalior 7 Aborted operation 8 Screen legend Gardner 9 Peridot, for one

10 The kick in kirsch 11 Field of honour event 12 129km river in the NW of the isle of Ireland 13 Hornets’ home

16 Whoop it up 21 Caught sight of

24 Full of bounce

25 New Jersey’s third-largest city

26 Real first name of Elaine Stewart, Roonie’s co-star of ‘53 27 Provokes 28 White fishspeari­ng bird

29 Fragrant varnish resin 31 Birthday candle holders 32 RomeCartha­ge ___ Wars

33 Kindle download 34 Small depression­s 40 Humerus adjunct 41 Flank

44 Like gun running 47 British garbage can 49 Doesn’t hold water 53 About to conk out

54 Large unnamed amt. 55 By way of, slangily 56 Ancient, sacred ceremony 57 Fungal spore cells

59 The Xmas season

60 One’s equal, supposedly 61 What most gamblers are aware of 63 Touchdown info, briefly 64 Zippo 66 Tienanmen Square honoree

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