CANADIAN CROSSWORD
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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
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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 ___”