CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sore covering 5 Kennel club reject 8 Fetterbush plant genus 14 Apex ocean predator 15 In the past 16 Graceful Serengeti beast 17 Focal points 18 Average Joes* 20 Paper mill material 22 Big disco classic 23 Old Scottish land tax 24 Flat-topped formation 26 Write in stone 28 It’s often a dollar at the Saturday night card game*

33 A lot of “wall-to-wall flooring” 34 Carter’s Valley of the Kings find 35 Standoffish 37 Small grassy area 38 Man-horse hybrid 41 Wallowing material 42 Dull surface finish 44 On-call RCMP tactical unit, for short 45 Ali of folklore 46 What the seam in the seat of your pants might need* 50 Don’t leave 51 Gives in to gravity 52 Where Shah Jahan built his tomb

55 Yiddish dough 58 Opinion sampler 60 Endangered tropical region* 63 Neet’s old rival 65 Although... 66 Civil conflict, ironically 67 What’s hidden in each of the asterisked clues 68 Some male choir members 69 Use a towel 70 South Yemen’s gulf

DOWN

1 Peruvian pittance 2 Canola or flax 3 Amass 4 Irish Cream component 5 Beanie, e.g. 6 Like gargoyles 7 Buffalo do it, in song 8 Mexican party item 9 UN’s financial arm 10 Historically significant 11 Bronchial rattle 12 Social genres

13 Respond brazenly 19 One employed to finish tortes 21 Clairvoyant’s power, briefly 25 Before, timewise 27 Overdo the toast 28 Make dim with tears 29 What crosswords are supposed to be

30 Mink’s aquatic cousin 31 Area between opposing forces, often 32 Misgivings 33 Stately street tree 36 US pharmaceuticals agcy. 38 Virtual coin, now 39 Pop fly’s path

40 Nation with a state named after them 43 Herbal teas 45 Waxyflowered plant 47 Bundles of twigs 48 Hearing in open court 49 Clue to hidden treasure, maybe 52 Man from Muscat, probably

53 Big, posh party 54 They’re ordered by the rack 56 Well past risque 57 Peter the Great, e.g. 59 Really long sentence 61 Fee/foe centre 62 Tax one’s patience 64 An Isley Brother