CANADIAN CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Transition point, astrologically
5 States aloud
9 Olympic symbol
14 DC delivery org.
15 Island group in Ireland’s Galway Bay
16 Imperial
17 In a bad pool situation
20 Is for quite a few of us
21 LXXV divided by XXV
22 Beginning of Lent
23 Word ending for many enzymes
24 Dishwasher’s helper
27 Something missing from this puzzle 29 Small, for a basketball player
32 Butterfingers’ cry
36 Young urchins
37 Something easy, supposedly
38 No-see-um, e.g.
39 Discontinue
40 Diabolical type
42 Language of Nigeria
43 Obsessive to the max
45 Letters before one’s gang name
46 Lamb Chop’s Lewis
48 Curly-leafed green
49 Worrisome thing if it comes at 3am 52 Siamese doc?
54 Bathing suit brand
55 “Big Band,” for one
58 Sign you’re dreaming
60 Neighbour to Ind.
61 French Canadian beverage
64 What the September equinox signifies
68 Farm buildings, often
69 Black marsh bird
70 Weaver’s warp crosser
71 Tilt
72 1/16 rupee, once
73 Lunch leftovers of yore
DOWN
1 Bay of Pigs locale
2 Junkie
3 Roughly ballshaped
4 Penultimate Greek character
5 One who loves inflicting pain
6 More chichi
7 Slangy agreement 8 Mediaeval dagger
9 Decorative ruffle
10 Something to stand on
11 Lord, to the Ottomans
12 Gymnasts’ needs
13 1,000 km. North Sea feeder
18 Dressed to the ___
19 Thrilled to death
25 World currency gp. 26 Strikes down a law
28 Nautical journal
29 Adjust slightly
30 Would like to, slangily
31 Good way to go to hell
33 Each, reciprocally
34 Mulcahy of M*A*S*H
35 Unflinching type
40 Plump up 41 Truman’s successor, for short
44 Bulgarian
money unit 46 Home of a tome
47 Stoneworker’s carrier
50 Inferior imitator
51 Jai alai requirement
53 Young’s accounting partner
55 Dies down 56 Authentic 57 Indian city with a big white tomb
59 Vermiculite, basically
62 Weightiness
63 Little red amphibians
65 Cozy 8-room hotel, say
66 How Quebeckers voted in ‘95
67 Only even prime