CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 VHS competitor, once

5 Ashen 8 Search for plunder 14 Calamitous exclamation 15 Is, for a number of people 16 Large, devastated Syrian city 17 Really big sandwiches 18 Peggy’s

Cove view 19 Boards 20 Aboriginal People’s “___ No More” 21 Widely-read Potter

23 Small cysts 24 Mysterious prognosticator

25 Mollify

27 You can take it in the dark 29 Sharon and Shamir 33 Pouter’s protuberance 35 UN Plaza display 37 Commence 38 Mrs. Lennon, once

39 Sends out again

41 Spawn, basically

42 Make

amends (for) 44 Far from fresh 45 County’s market value fig.

46 Trivial

matter

48 Johnson of “Laugh-In” fame 50 After a couple

52 Like cancelled stamps 55 County event 58 Concerning kidneys

59 “The

Lion King” villain

60 Mad

62 Queen of Spain (190631)

63 Be concerned 64 Michael who redid “When a

Man Loves a Woman”

65 ___ Francisco

66 Wartime partner 67 Curls one’s lip

68 Vicious of the Sex Pistols 69 Monster’s locale, supposedly

DOWN

1 Starting point for a discussion 2 Slip by unnoticed 3 Four fluid drams 4 Voice with conviction

5 OK to launder 6 Territories 7 Myopia 8 Native Hungarian 9 Taproom serving 10 Forward a hashtagged message 11 Congregation’s focus, often 12 Wish ___ a star

13 Quixote and Juan

22 Where Putin putters around 26 Thighslapping joke

28 One way to begin

30 Of great scope

31 Steel component 32 Flight component 33 Car buyer’s need, often 34 “Will you walk ___ my parlour...” 36 Quell any concerns 40 Vancouver’s PNE amusement park

43 Saltpetre: potassium ___

47 Air-raid warnings

49 Native of Florence 51 Molokai porch

53 Members of the peerage 54 Squirrels’ nests 55 Twists the truth

56 In a while, poetically 57 Britain’s Wight 61 Svalbard’s state, for short