CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fiji’s notso-close neighbour 6 Judi Dench’s title 10 Stand for a funeral 14 Gould’s instrument 15 Big strangesounding lake 16 Just a smidge 17 Conflict of the far distant future, perhaps 20 Loony type 21 Bodies of art? 22 Like a weekold loaf 23 Where Hope and Crosby went in ‘52 24 To ___ his own 26 What a mediator does first in 17A 30 Croak, so to speak 33 It’s even in Kleenex, these days 34 Feel bad about 35 Finale 37 Grip tightly 39 “As written” 41 NHL transaction 42 Present and future, e.g. 44 Unbridged area 46 Spanish licorice liqueur 47 Those with clout 48 Next step after 26A has taken place 51 Obsolete VCR format 52 Merry king of rhyme 53 Cut gem feature 56 Rain forest vine 58 Act shrewish 61 How the antagonists in 17A will hopefully live, eventually 64 Beat the pants off 65 Ascorbic acid, for one 66 Gown fabric 67 Loses rigidity 68 Basks in the sun 69 River banks do it

DOWN

1 Figure skater’s feat 2 Aboriginal from the Kuril Islands 3 ___ Dunigan, ex-CFL QB 4 Crucial time in “Hickory Dickory Dock” 5 Pretty big arteries 6 Fallen rock, often 7 Aphrodite’s brother 8 Environs 9 Snake-like fish 10 Delivery result 11 Cedar Rapids’ area 12 Subst. for many names (abbr.) 13 Really uncommon 18 From the sun 19 Rise 23 Make holy 25 Common bandage brand 26 Desert plants 27 L-shaped wrench 28 Many college students have them 29 What kings do daily 30 Rigg of “The Avengers” 31 Punjabi or Bengali, e.g. 32 Expel, anatomically 36 Festoon 38 Spanish dough, until 2002 40 Disapproving audience sounds 43 “Don’t just stand there!” 45 Fake 49 Silvery lead ore 50 Tick by 51 Sugar sources 53 Trees with needles 54 Scarce, small Asian ox 55 Guzzle 57 Part of a conspiracy 58 Mil. alliance since ‘49 59 Alkali neutralizer 60 Hackman of “Unforgiven” 62 Boxer’s doc 63 Van Gogh’s loss