Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Witness stand no-no 4 Change for the better 9 Upsetting pantry intruders 13 Waste gas, in a way 15 Vietnamese capital

16 Way past “dried out” 17 NASA craft that visited Uranus and Neptune 19 Sound found in Ontario

20 Tough old turkey 21 Otological disorders 23 Drew a bead on

26 Tiny little fish

27 LED component

28 Muckraker’s topic

30 Boris Godunov, for one

31 Title for 7 PMs 32 Tunefully, in music

35 Like old celery 38 One-time ring king 39 NASA project that launched Shepard and Glenn

41 Big San Diego draw 42 Talkative

black bird

44 Infamous NY prison

45 Pool’s solid yellow value

46 Ont. premier who preceded McGuinty 48 Most kings

have them 50 Gutsy sort 52 What good

wines do

54 Like Arizona, say

55 Remove restrictio­ns from

57 Drill insert 58 Blow one’s own horn 59 NASA solarstudy­ing launch of 1965

64 Col. Mustard’s game 65 Shallot’s big brother

66 English blueblood 67 Zebra collection 68 Bulrush, e.g. 69 W.C., informally

DOWN

1 Ullmann of “Cries and Whispers” 2 “If ___ say so myself” 3 Cambridges­hire cathedral city

4 Polite interrupti­on from Jeeves 5 Scrawl graffiti over, say

6 Cross the threshold 7 “When pigs fly!” 8 Christian of fashion 9 Unlikely to mingle 10 NASA’s 2006 Pluto mission 11 Wooded 12 Taste or touch 14 Rotten: worm

___

18 Angerexpre­ssing oath (var.) 22 “Words from the sponsor” 23 Indian teagrowing state

24 In an aloof way

25 NASA craft that first flew by Mars 26 Bat one’s lashes, say 29 Regions

30 Flashlight, to

a Brit

33 Tenth mth., oddly

34 Pricey hotel digs 36 “Haystacks” artist Claude 37 Verses, collective­ly 40 Jamaican, to

a Jamaican 43 Staved off 47 In advance of, quaintly 49 Just a little

odd

50 Vermeer’s

nationalit­y

51 N. American chameleon 52 Nitrogen compound 53 Earthlike shape

56 Epic poetry 57 Old Roman well

60 Yuletide quaff 61 Spanish seasoning 62 George Gershwin’s bro

63 45, in old Rome

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