CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Brief instructional session

5 Ire

10 Wear a long face

14 Noted Warwickshire river 15 Tatted little mat

16 “As before” in footnotes 17 Truly inane 20 Black bird of puzzledom 21 Old Canadian coin

22 Silly stuff for kids

23 Big name in snowboards and skis 25 Stolen diamond object?

27 Like a happy medium? 32 Traffic jam sound

33 Olympicsholding nations

34 USA’s neighbour (abbr.)

37 Night before Xmas 38 Exciting thing to throw

39 Deploy

40 Easter period of 2016, briefly 41 Cambodian language 42 Violinist’s direction 43 Famous religious artifact actually created in the 13th or 14th century 47 Immense time spans

48 Evil Norse

god

49 Future oak 52 Backpacker’s stuff

54 Bit of Tirana dough

57 “Wind in the Willows” critters 61 Bhutan fauna, maybe

62 “Time flies” is a short one 63 Wall Street optimist

64 Writer

Uris

65 Widow’s inheritance 66 Rush order shorthand

DOWN

1 ‘20s art movement 2 Fifty-fifty, say

3 Those that want to see the big picture? 4 Name heard in “Come Together” 5 Sum component 6 Eight bells 7 Wedding present 8 Dutch or Siberian type of tree 9 Bread variety 10 Baroque dance

11 Death notice, in brief

12 Four gills 13 Up tight

18 UN aviation gp.

19 Lowest or highest orbital point 24 Subdivision piece 25 French home-style eatery 26 Overly pretentious 27 Social snippet

28 ___ Scotia

29 Private Eye Writers of America award

30 Went over again and again

31 Grossly abusive 35 Fungal spore cases

36 Vivid marker category 38 Loudness unit 41 Reykjavik coin

42 North Atlantic diver 44 Smack, so to speak 45 Insulting tweeter

46 Old air pressure unit

49 ___ nitrite (uppers) 50 Buffy SainteMarie, e.g. 51 Actor Kruger of “Saboteur” (1942) 52 Work like a beaver

53 Thing to avoid falling over

55 Jazz scatter with 13 Emmys 56 Large brown seaweed 58 Woody, to Arlo

59 Huge foofaraw

60 Exec’s

degree, e.g.