CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Old mattress problem 4 Underground discoveries, often

8 Once existed 11 With good judgment 14 Revise everything! 15 Reptile depicted in a pharaoh’s tomb 16 Germophobic onetime host of “Deal or No Deal”

18 Rub down locale

19 YWG and YYC postings 20 Killed

21 Knee to ankle area

22 Heats up

24 “Harper Valley ___” 25 One weeding, perhaps 26 Ex-NBA great, now Charlotte Hornets owner

30 ‘Gator’s cousin 31 Mentally sharp

32 Every last bit 35 Prohibition period 36 Superlative ending 37 Church bench

38 Sounds

40 Three-___

sloth

42 The Rock,

really

46 Cans in the UK 47 Bedouin’s sleeveless robe 48 Lighthouse feature, usually 51 Spinal shock absorber 52 Mole, e.g. 54 Greenhorn (var.)

55 Big commotion 56 He plays John McClane in the “Die Hard” franchise 58 Royal flush need

59 Asian domestic 60 Ukr. Black Sea port 61 Donkey, basically 62 Cremation fire

63 Urgent plea from sea

DOWN

1 Earthquake related 2 Draught pick 3 Work-out sites

4 Highly embellished 5 Handy phone button 6 Genesis utopia

7 Sun deity, to some

8 Over the hill

9 What Eliza didn’t do for ‘enry ‘iggins? 10 Go from one side to the other

11 Near miss exclamation 12 Theta’s follower 13 Bunch of bees

17 Woolly S. American mammal 21 Categorize 23 Vets, in a way

25 Twinkies company 27 What King Richard III desperately needed 28 Alexander who played George Costanza 29 In mint condition 32 “Yep. Go on.” 33 Good times for beachcombing

34 Illicit

affairs

36 Natural gas component 39 Lip-___ (mouth the words) 41 Half-smoked pipe plugs 43 Big S. American cat

44 Tree also known as African whitewood 45 They always end up getting hammered 49 Greek goddess of the rainbow 50 ___ Parks, US civil rights icon 51 Facts and figs.

52 Sgt. Bilko’s employer 53 Deuces 56 Soft, Scottish bread roll 57 Swearing in ceremony response