CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Baby sitter from the Orient

5 Very unusual

8 Wedded state?

13 Enormous Danish toy company

14 Independent columnist, e.g.

17 When

Brutus became brutal

18 In person

19 Courteous chap

21 Terrestrial newts

22 Like the anthem

23 Sight from Waikiki

25 They’re the tops

26 Part of a farmer’s rodent control

29 Vail rival

32 Mississippi’s state flower

33 Neckline shape, at times

34 Vancouver and Halifax, e.g.

36 Like some martinis

37 Selects a jury

40 City transit needs

42 Chute opener

43 They can be choppy

45 Beige, basically

46 Took a chance

50 Nasty folk tale fiend

52 Shirley Temple ingredient

53 Small business owner

56 Give out, in a way

57 Intel Museum home

58 Take a bus

59 Teary-eyed

60 On the ___ (at large) 61 Happy medium?

DOWN

1 Put all in a row

2 Lady jilted by Jason (myth.)

3 ___ Orange defoliant

4 One type of takeover

5 Step on some toes

6 Much of Shakespeare

7 Bumper sticker

8 Denver alternative, initially

9 Vientiane’s official tongue

10 Dante’s place?

11 Construction site sights

12 Offshoot group

15 Nightfall, in rhyme

16 Thing in legal briefs

20 Sizable pork cut

23 Slumps

24 Amphora, basically

26 Flying mammalian fructivore

27 Unlike Joan’s hangers

28 Pringles rival

29 Declare without doubt

30 Big rig, often

31 Deli purchase

32 “The Avengers” Peel, for one

34 Andean territory

35 Like Mother Hubbard

38 Goes along with

39 One of Russia’s W. neighbours (abbr.)

40 Restrain, like breath

41 Shylock and his chums

43 Lady from La Paz

44 Memory trace, in theory

46 Absolutely necessary

47 Linen-like Asian fabric

48 Say “fo’c’sle,” e.g.

49 Discourage

50 Military special ___

51 Raisin’s weight, roughly

52 Agar, e.g.

54 Boomtown resident?

55 Like January in Regina