CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Padlock holder 5 Imogene of early TV

9 Pass in The House

14 Petri dish item, often 15 Shevat’s follower 16 “M*A*S*H” co. clerk

17 Bass brass section’s nursery rhyme fave? 20 Centre of the Bahai faith 21 Mai or Chi companion 22 Utilized 23 Actor’s “whisper” 26 French playwright Jean-Paul ___ 28 Cook-out spot where you can make smoked pocket bread? 32 Cheers for the matador 33 Tolstoy’s Karenina 34 Born first 38 Obit. datum 39 Silent acknowledgment 40 Hesitant knock

42 How Fred ended up fired

43 Nacho sauce 45 “Gandhi” or “Cleopatra” 47 Cliffside mine access

48 Last resort after your lawn-growing scheme fizzled and fell “flat”? 51 Plant that makes a tincture for bruises

54 Where the camels might rehydrate 55 Asia’s sika, for one

56 Rule, briefly 58 Silenced the video

62 “Black and white squares” version of an Italian staple?

66 With fewer contaminants 67 Cleanse, quaintly

68 Huge Indian ox

69 Put faith in 70 Merganser’s smaller kin 71 Ryerson’s Island’s lake

DOWN

1 “Hell ___ no fury...”

2 Old Asia Minor honorific 3 Indira Gandhi attire 4 Quick-to-erect homes 5 Smartphone feature 6 Lengthy poetic tribute 7 Military snack bar 8 Opera highlight, often

9 Millions of years, usually 10 7 or 11 in casinos 11 Parched, to poets 12 Something tossed about by Scots 13 Barter

18 Let up

19 Still pending, legally

24 Global air safety gp. 25 Croc hunter of an ‘86 flick 27 On the pinnacle 28 They constrict

29 Common fish tank organism 30 Movie archive holding

31 Old silver coin sheen 35 Slot in a wooden board

36 Actress

Kent (Nurse Bigelow on “M*A*S*H”) 37 1967’s “The Ecstasy of ___ Joe”

39 Dealer’s pursuer

41 Blackjack needs

44 Posh evening parties

46 Write computer code

47 Take the edge off

49 Nyctophobes fear 50 Sissy

51 Change with the times 52 Crop up again 53 ‘60s jacket fad 57 Beady-eyed fishes

59 Kremlin bigwig, once

60 Small embroidery case 61 Challenge someone 63 Old EKG monitor 64 Lady who raised Cain

65 Cool morning deposit