Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- adrian powell

ACROSS 1 Ramesses I’s successor 5 Shipping container 9 Bet

14 Touched down 15 Tropical cuckoos 16 Tell’s target 17 Go ahead from the tower

20 Fibbed 21 Kinsey’s topic 22 Goldfinger’s golden first name

25 Asia’s Bigfoot cousin 28 Sternum attachment 31 Five o’clock, for many 35 Huge disturbanc­e 36 Vivid crayon category 37 Prone to backtalk 38 Frequently 41 ___ Monica, Calif.

42 Nasty smelling 43 Appendix adjuncts 46 Nobelwinni­ng UN labour branch

48 Fade into obscurity 52 Common crossword snake 53 Bounce off the walls? 54 Decidedly blubbery 55 Relevant 57 Madrid lab rodent 59 Strong out of the gate 67 Uproar 68 Enthusiast­ic 69 Flair 70 Balderdash 71 Launching sites

72 Small impression DOWN 1 Biological bag 2 Cockney’s alternativ­e to ‘eaven? 3 Overtime generator 4 Font that’s aslant

5 Small eatery 6 Painkiller, in the 1800s 7 Wilfrid Laurier, for one

8 Item a roofer gives you for free, for short 9 Going-away party? 10 Pyramid’s pointy part 11 UK mail org., until 1980 12 Fairy’s cousin

13 Red card giver, briefly 18 Comedian Mercer 19 “Don’t you wish!”

22 Fake name indicator 23 Dismantlin­g types 24 Helipad site, at times 26 Megalomani­ac’s obsession 27 Big old weight 28 Powerful current 29 Gazelles’ cousins

30 Old Tunisian poobah 32 Comfy place to stay 33 Where St. Pete is 34 Element #50 39 Word of advice

40 Tokyo of long ago

41 Contest entry encl. 42 US pill-approval gp. 43 Ozone depleter, for short

44 English letter that King John used 45 Eyeball’s vascular layer 47 Hematite, for one 49 Crumbly Greek cheese 50 Putrefies 51 Subsided 55 Resting upon 56 Sweat opening 58 Uses an abacus 59 O’er and o’er 60 PETA peeve

61 Work wk. end, for most 62 Obvious space

63 Roe, technicall­y 64 Maugham’s “Cakes and ___” 65 Competed for office 66 Quarryman’s supply

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