CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dungeons & Dragons beast

4 Many moons 8 Earthenware jars

14 Notable Chinese Chairman 15 Margarine’s old name 16 Yank out a weed 17 Traveller’s roadhouse 18 Try to get elected as the city’s top official

20 Snippet of information 22 In stock item for the demolition crew 23 Trickster of Norse myth

24 The Far and the Near? 26 Wear for a lot of Trump supporters 28 Recurring twitch

29 What soccer fans do when the team scores 33 Winning-everything connector 34 It might precede maiden names 35 Geddy, who played for Rush 36 Underlying principle

38 Loony

40 Popular web

portal

44 Helios, in

Rome

46 Part of a pep rally yell

48 Warty critter,

it’s said 49 Action if you capsize in shark infested waters

54 Escapees are on it 55 Wide-eyed wonder 56 Boutonniere site

57 Spheres 59 Shortest month, in a way

61 Unusual find 64 Something it’s not great to do, these days

67 Viscous crud 68 Moslem maidens of Paradise 69 Thigh/shin separator 70 ___ port in a...

71 Pours cold and hard 72 Smooth some wood 73 ___mycin antibiotic

DOWN

1 Leave out

2 Rajah’s consort 3 Denounces 4 Tense once used for Greek verbs 5 Trencherman, basically 6 Bard’s bedtime? 7 Yielding to the touch 8 Cut short 9 Tach’s readout (abbr.)

10 Via the mouth

11 Road Runner’s foe 12 Byrnes of “77 Sunset Strip”

13 Not at all lenient 19 Single time 21 Christening, to many 25 Goblet feature 27 Flies, to spiders

29 Headsail

30 4th largest land, in area 31 Ticker, so to speak

32 Light as a ___

37 Living room piece

39 Roald who wrote “The Magic Finger” 41 Ruffian 42 Sculler’s implement 43 Tribute in verse 45 Service with minimal ceremony 47 Lift the spirits of

49 Upsidedown tree dwellers

50 “15 minutes of fame” source 51 Saturate 52 Cut the mustard? 53 Fixed Freda the cat 58 Tender to the touch

60 Hairy Nepalese beasts 62 Timbre 63 “Walking the dog” need 65 Repartee

66 Flu bugs are full of it