Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Stylish elegance 6 Dough, colloquial­ly 11 Ox-like antelope 14 Loesser’s “The Most Happy ___” musical 15 Proposed purchase price 16 Lily from Lyon 17 Something you might need after downing all the other drinks in the puzzle 19 Expert, slangily 20 Bell’s invention, briefly 21 Bothered incessantl­y 23 Poison ivy woe 26 Lab tech’s task 28 “th” in Early English 29 Eastwood’s “___ Torino” (2008) 30 Spilled the beans 33 Unresolved detail 35 June beetle, alternatel­y 37 Objectives 38 Way out, or in 39 Sharp- shooting aids, briefly 40 Recycling pick-up spot 41 Lift with effort 42 Rudolf, Hitler’s onetime deputy 43 Greek Ns 44 RCA’s “Talking machine” of 1906 48 Big mo. for harvesting 49 Acquisitio­ns specialist 51 Muck 53 Free (of) 54 Large part of two pints of martini 59 Try to find out 60 French novelist Zola 61 Fragment 62 Nay offsetter 63 Velocity 64 Fully gratified

DOWN

1 Ozone layer destroyer, briefly 2 100 bani, in Bucharest 3 Chalet’s backdrop 4 Usually inverted critter 5 Umpire’s yell, at times 6 “Old MacDonald” sound, maybe 7 Impromptu 8 Butcher’s discards 9 Skeptical 10 What hectares measure 11 Drink to have with a nice dinner, perhaps 12 S. French resort 13 Like many Kijiji items 18 Some red table wines 22 Raga instrument­s 23 Hot dog condiment 24 Immediatel­y! 25 Something you might down at your favourite Russian restaurant 27 Grandmothe­rly nicknames 29 Chromosome component 31 Preliminar­y events 32 Least sweet, as wine goes 34 One type of tank 35 Prom flowers 36 Quoits pegs 38 Two person showdown 40 Laugh gleefully 45 Sugar servings 46 Beat the pants off 47 Tighten one’s Oxfords 48 Bulgaria’s capital 49 Seek divine guidance 50 Move up 52 Glassdropp­ing word 55 Was in front 56 Obtain 57 Bergy bits material 58 Masefield’s novel “Dead ___”

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