Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Sharp inhalation 5 Key with no sharps or flats (abbr.) 9 One-time track great Moses 14 Hidden out of the gale 15 Spritzer mixer 16 Semiconduc­tor device 17 Brass that goes well with cream cheese? 20 Short fracas 21 Minister of Transport Garneau 22 Plump 23 These instrument­s are piercing 26 Entering a hot tub sigh 28 Low brass that might carry a lot of eggs? 35 Be moodily silent 36 Lahore Lingo 37 Hirsch of “Into the Wild” 38 Spain's Olympic abbr. 39 Stiffly formal 41 Bite the dust 42 Indian statesman Jawaharlal of the ‘50s 44 Indian healing tree 45 Kaput 46 Brassy, posh soiree? 49 Deg. Harvard offered in 1908 50 Some deli loaves 51 Credo, slangily 54 Apply pressure, kinda 57 Chars the surface 61 Brass player that part-times as a masked superhero? 65 Common dye used in lab tests 66 Senator garb, long ago 67 Voice mail prompt 68 Intended 69 Casino machine, briefly 70 Sight on Everest

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1 Spaces 2 Yucca plant cousin 3 Scottish clan division 4 Pre-game ritual, often 5 Total dingbat 6 Stooge Howard 7 “Ditto” in a footnote 8 Zilch 9 Soundly schooled 10 Unkind remark 11 Real howler 12 Mental inspiratio­n 13 Chinese soup ingredient? 18 Mournful wail 19 What many regular people eat 24 Uncouth bully 25 100m dash, e.g. 27 Irritating droning noise 28 Signal flare 29 Start to bet? 30 Couch potato, for one 31 Director like Atom Egoyan, say 32 European bathroom fixture 33 What a criminal might go by 34 Bit of bird feed 35 Mailed 39 Overexpose­d, in a way 40 TV's Oscar 43 Butter from the farm 45 Mojave and Gobi 47 Boldly attempt 48 Mazatlan money 51 Tidbit of gossip 52 Real loafer 53 Painted Desert sight 55 Obtains 56 Compound with a CCOH group 58 Nameless scribe, for short 59 Nevada spot with lots of slots 60 Ragout, essentiall­y 62 Tonic's partner, often 63 Conceit, basically 64 Tom or tabby

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