Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- adrian powell

ACROSS

1 ___ trap for 5 Hallucinog­enic drink 10 Pull-out on a WestJet jet

14 Petit-four finisher

15 Bull riding event

16 Fabled race loser

17 Specialist­s in the use of words*

20 Obama’s middle name

21 Famous Valley of the Kings find, in brief

22 Pictureper­fect

25 Los Angeles football team

28 Imperial Tobacco brand named after the Governor of New Amsterdam*

34 Wildly enthusiast­ic 35 Wavy-bladed Javanese dagger

36 Really underhande­d 37 Starts up the PC again 41 Catch in a trap

43 Indie musician DiFranco

44 Popular Indonesian isle

46 Tiny unit of memory

47 Roles filled by Oscar winners, say*

52 Blackthorn fruit

53 Cheek colouring

54 Donkey’s sure-footed cousin

56 Woodcuttin­g tool for pattern work. 61 Comfylooki­ng living room piece* 66 Upset mightily

67 PhD exams, sometimes 68 Sandler of “Happy Gilmore”

69 Like Mr. Clean 70 Alpaca habitat

71 PQ successors in answers to the asterisked clues DOWN 1 Wistful exhalation 2 Typical pantyhose hue

3 Lipton specialtie­s 4 1929’s “A Farewell to ___”

5 Pigtails 6 Green superhero of crimefight­ing fame

7 Bus money making items, often 8 Thing that’s really not gross 9 Painful toe ailment

10 They precede iotas

11 Tried to get elected

12 Group of Seven material

13 “You betcha!” 18 Rabin’s

Israeli predecesso­r 19 Coercion’s kin, legally 23 Puffin’s Atlantic cousin 24 Instrument Orpheus played

26 Where Penang is 27 Sounds of derision

28 Old Ottoman coins 29 Happenings 30 Related to the shinbone 31 Long ago Tokyo

32 French wine 33 Use Twitter 38 Fixate 39 Popeye’s anchor, slangily

40 Slanderous

remark

42 Leno’s old employer 45 Knot-tying words 48 Laughed heartily 49 Large overthe-shoulder bag 50 Emergence 51 Act of derring-do 55 Ancient colonnade 57 One that Lenin brought down

58 Establishe­s some turf

59 “... to buy ___ hen”

60 Huge US bank that collapsed in 2008, briefly 61 Sceptre’s companion 62 By way of 63 90-degree angle shape 64 Big ornamental vase 65 Cabbage Patch dolls, e.g.

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