C A NA D I A N C RO S S WORD

ACROSS

1 Criticize harshly 5 Ancient Christian pulpit

9 Try to catch fish 14 Castaway’s home, say 15 Athens’ acropolis, e.g. 16 Festival featuring hamantaschen

17 Noah provided them for the grizzlies? 20 Soviet martial art developed in the ‘20s 21 Applepicking spots

22 Starts a Q&A session 24 Blue-blooded Indian lady

25 Like a hatless Kodiak? 29 Smooth, curved trajectory 32 To be or not to be, e.g. 33 Wreck of the Hesperus cause

35 Useful device in a dory 37 Watched a second time 38 Your federal ID, briefly

39 ‘44 Preminger classic

41 Word in an obit 42 Level-headed 44 Dances that take two to do 45 Platypus pouch

47 Appeal for everyone to strip, maybe 49 200 bucks, to many

51 Improvement from being an extra 52 Diplomatic protest or objection 55 Poem’s summarizing stanza 59 Sings a strip-ogram about your getting axed, say?

61 Valued “Survivor” finds

62 Layers of big, dark green eggs 63 Capital of Yemen, for now

64 Ezio Pinza, for one 65 Inkwell locale, once

66 Towards the Canary Islands

DOWN

1 Lobster eaters’ wear

2 Out on the Sargasso 3 Close forcefully 4 Botanist’s plant specimen collections 5 Queen’s

“We ___ the Champions”

6 Membrane that lines the inside of your nose

7 Casket support 8 Where computer icons are 9 Hive-related 10 Coypu fur 11 Crossword diagram 12 Stretches the truth

13 Couple in the middle of swimming?

18 Unexpected absentees 19 Lamp covering 23 Som. neighbour 25 Gullible: ___ yesterday 26 Olympians’ swords 27 Totally confused 28 Less moist 30 In need of sanding 31 Tricky billiards shot 34 Thrashed about

36 Flatten to the ground 38 Seized suddenly

40 Cricket’s pair

43 Scuttle the mission 44 Binary system base 46 Saharan sights

48 One of Franklin’s ships

50 Piece of cowboy gear

52 Irrational and antibourgeois art movement 53 Cupid, to the Greeks

54 Red blood component 56 Sacred Hindu texts

57 Is in debt 58 “Odd, ___ it?” 59 Dribbler’s protection 60 Make a request