CANADIAN CROSSWORD ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Party with lots of celebs 5 Hefty wire

rope

10 Slackens

14 Did a takeoff on

15 Hang around, basically

16 Algeria’s southern neighbour

17 Moved like

the dickens 18 Stable

sound

19 Ready oneself, briefly

20 Repeats exactly what was said

23 More

sneaky

24 Like barn

bedding

25 Quakers or

Shakers 28 Minor

theorem

31 Geb, Horus

and Osiris 34 Occupy two lanes, perhaps

38 Lindsay Lohan’s younger sister

39 English houses of ill repute, 200 years ago 40 Done away

with

41 Search for more info, perhaps

43 Cream or lotion alternatives 44 Kind of visual point

45 Russian autocrat, once

47 West Indian

hexes 51 Where forks are sometimes found

55 Avoid an obligation, say

59 Injured

60 Highland

groups

61 Spanish surrealist Joan ___

62 “With the greatest of ___ ...”

63 Select group

of the best 64 Consequently

65 Used Miss

Clairol

66 Philanthropist

67 Brave act

DOWN

1 Stunned

reactions

2 Horrify

3 Distrustful

4 Street, city and postal code

5 “You ___ be

serious!”

6 Astonishes

7 Minnows

and worms

8 Not weighing

much

9 Space, to

poets

10 Give official

authority to 11 Drew of “E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial” 12 Ran in the

wash

13 Wets one’s whistle, in a way

21 Underground discovery 22 Tom Jones’

birthplace 26 Northern salmon, basically

27 Burkina Faso neighbour 29 Sir Gawain’s

armour

30 Augments 31 Big fisher’s hook

32 Quite a

mixture

33 Extended conversation

35 Animal that never sounds old

36 Limo’s window treatment, perhaps 37 Brick carrying aids 39 Hay compacting machine

42 Like a formally dressed sister

43 No longer dishevelled, say

46 Target of a legal hanging

48 Travelled

parabolically 49 Something said after picking up the phone 50 Murdered 52 Ignited

53 Sombre

tune

54 Got up

55 Cabin’s smaller cousin

56 Loading

wharf

57 Fully aware

of

58 One who reads the manual, usually