Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- Adrian powell

ACROSS

1 100-metre race, e.g. 5 23rd Greek letter

8 Tiny Nepalese coin

13 Sound engineer’s creation 14 Steiger of “On the Waterfront” 15 What a kisser shouldn’t be?

16 Global warming or overpopula­tion, e.g.

19 Lost in Lille 20 Thine and mine

21 Wild blue yonder 22 Actors Cassidy and Danson

24 On the move 26 Lost it: went ___

28 Overly authoritar­ian

33 Cross the line first

34 Volcano often mentioned in crosswords 35 Big platform nest (var.) 36 Three-time Frazier foe 37 Kenya’s capital 41 Noah’s labour of love

42 Waikiki sight 44 Baha’i’s starting place 45 Southern bit of Italy

46 Entreprene­ur’s hope for their business 50 1982’s “48 ___”

51 Birch bark boat

52 Spider thread

54 Use an abacus 57 Have a tiny drink

58 Scuba necessitie­s 61 Dieting debate?

66 Woolly Andeans 67 Where the buck stops 68 On the calmer side 69 Like many a delta

70 Lay out the table 71 Bumped off

DOWN

1 400 fathoms down 2 Clogged hair follicle result, often 3 Pie baker’s need

4 Large, unruly bunch 5 Salaried athlete

6 Old French pittance 7 Says “Hey, I know her,” for short 8 Richard Prior’s birth place

9 Formal minister’s attire 10 Society’s evils

11 Work as a tracer 12 Beetle Bailey’s outfit

15 It’s a fact 17 American coot 18 Nosegay 23 ___ new standard 24 Greed

25 Coronaviru­s component, for short 26 Inundated 27 Mid-Eastern rice dish (var.)

29 How to make bait from a bat

30 Mournful toll

31 Wild throw, e.g.

32 British flood controls 38 Smelter’s contents

39 Big fiddle 40 As originally found

43 Hanukkah mo., this year

47 Strut one’s stuff

48 Metres, grams or ohms

49 Use the Xerox 53 Tibetan dharma teachers 54 Leather worker’s tools

55 Corned beef purveyor 56 Touch-tone predecesso­r 59 Patella’s place

60 Bouillabai­sse, e.g. 62 0 deg. long. clock setting 63 How YouTube makes dough

64 Pricey cracker spread 65 Acquire

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