CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Haile Selassie worshipper 6 Cross of Valour recipient, maybe

10 Slam on the brakes

14 Man O’War’s environs 15 Something lurking in the asterisked clues 16 Reactor centre

17 *NYC weekly founded by Norman Mailer in 1955

20 Give up rights to 21 Roman Earth goddess 22 Paella pots

23 Tomato coloured

25 Wagner’s “Tristan und ___” 28 *Destructive little bug that might infect your ears?

32 Cherry holder

35 Quite overweight 36 E-mail button

37 Lg. genetic molecule 38 Seine, for example 39 Agent, for short 41 Sydney’s Aussie state (abbr.)

43 Scrap for the

cat, say

44 Tuner’s asset

45 Big

African river 47 Apportion 49 Tequila serving 51 *Old-style entertainment

53 Floor cover materials 55 Grant permission 56 Off from the centre

58 ‘Twas in the present?

60 Briefcase

closer

64 *Noted Rossini opera (with “The”) 68 Small decorative case 69 Jack-in-thepulpit, e.g. 70 Presage 71 Learner drivers challenge 72 Congeals 73 Very bright

DOWN

1 US university recruiting org.

2 Hard workout result

3 This is for the birds 4 Pubs, essentially 5 Item missing in ths clue 6 Tech support, e.g.

7 Hard to pin down 8 Roughneck’s work place 9 Grand ___ Opry 10 Chastises 11 It hangs around in the bathroom 12 Big bicolour dolphin

13 3/8 of an apple pie 18 Prospector’s bonanza 19 Radio knob letters

24 Largemouthed jug 26 Fell from grace

27 Auto pioneer Ransom E. ___

28 Volcanic shapes

29 West Indies folk magic 30 Microscopic little thing that changes its RNA to the host cell’s DNA 31 Old observation

33 Join the class

34 Photo finish

option

40 That “green”

feeling

42 Greet from a distance

46 Lecherous 48 Lightest

metal

50 Juicy morsel 52 On the other

hand

54 Alumna’s bio word 56 Crookedly connive

57 Content fully 59 Dogmas, briefly

61 Bit of birdbath slime

62 Utter unclearly 63 Bouncy 65 Joplin’s genre

66 What assayers assay

67 Duct, to a doctor