CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Abacus counters 6 Wild harangue 10 Disgusting gunk 14 Ghanaian metropolis 15 Declare bluntly

16 Sari wearing royal, once 17 Illogical thing that workers at the Canadian Mint do? 20 Several hundred degrees

21 “Et tu” day 22 Early Sonar system 23 Very, to Vivaldi 25 Diffuses through a membrane

27 Cheap type of bread?

30 Relating to bees

31 Trolley car track

32 Fidel’s friend, once 35 Buffalo Bill ___

36 Cummerbund locale 38 Karate move 39 Dir. the St. Lawrence flows, roughly

40 Golf course standards 41 Texas siege site of 1836

42 Org. founded by FDR in ‘38 concerned with mom and baby health 45 Reaches, as a goal 48 Small Pacific salmon

(var.)

49 Runs like a well-tuned engine

50 Good sized lot

51 Romanian dough

54 Locale no one else is allowed to enter 58 Competent 59 ‘76 Pulitzer winner Bellow

60 Raggedyedged 61 Recline lazily 62 Derriere, slangily

63 Tiny units of force

DOWN

1 Ordeal for Rover, say

2 Empty hallway sound 3 Widely used industrial solvent

4 Not even moist 5 3-stringed Japanese instrument 6 Easily earn big bucks 7 Class that’s for the birds 8 ___ compos mentis

9 Number of Ks in the puzzle 10 Dangerous inhalant with a coal tar smell

11 South African dough

12 Free from restraint 13 Spinal buffers

18 6th

Jewish month 19 Caravan component

24 Keep from littering? 25 Andean root crops

26 “SNL” offering

27 One big step 28 Having the latest info 29 Like Oscar Wilde 32 Colourchanging lizard

33 Base runner’s goal

34 Grandiose

poetry

36 Tip off 37 Elliptical segments 38 Ad writer’s award

40 Old Pakistani coin

41 Stuck like glue

42 Big name in comic book publishing 43 Black

magic

44 Knock ___ loop

45 Shock, in a way 46 Supercharger 47 Quavering sound

50 One type of lung

52 Irish, years ago

53 Utilizes

55 1/3 tablespoon, for short 56 Small drum location 57 Judge in court