CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 They're full

of beans

5 Styptic pencil chemicals

10 Cashless

transaction 14 Brief final

bio

15 Any group of nine

16 “My Left

Foot” setting 17 Destitute

20 TV “Playhouse” star Herman 21 Claw

alternative 22 Back road overnight stop

23 Hinny or

ninny

24 Young woman, in poesy

26 Cough up

the cash 27 Common raga instrument 28 Some winners break it

30 They happen, they say

34 Alpine

warble

37 Unexpected

benefit

38 Snooker

playing aids 40 Annoy

greatly

41 One of the Queen's favourite dogs

43 Aimless

banter

45 Bic products 47 Specified

regions

48 Bird of the Australian savannahs 50 Flubbed a

golfing drive 52 Key beside Q 55 Country

miss

56 Charles, William or Harry

57 Former coin

of Spain

59 “Jaws”

menace

62 “It ___ Necessarily So”

63 Superior ore

carrier

64 Huron/ Ontario separator

65 Borrower's

concern

66 WWII British

weapons

67 Group of two

DOWN

1 The old man 2 Shawm's

descendants 3 Takes the

plunge

4 Goulash,

basically

5 Predator with a sticky tongue but no teeth

6 “The Thin Man” co-star Myrna

7 Kind of behaviour for which you could get a yellow card

8 Apportions

9 Sesame, for

one 10 Dry, Champagnewise

11 Reference website used often to write crossword clues

12 Part of an old amphitheatre

13 Canadian coin “retired” in 2012

18 Went back to square one 19 Parquetry

design

25 Leonine

tresses

27 Scorch

29 Where skippers might hang out

30 The

Oscars broadcaster 31 Dove call

32 Tubby

33 ___ raving

mad

35 Lead pipe bend, usually 36 Small coin

from Tirana 39 Baby's

nightwear 42 Solidly

embedded 44 Works as a stevedore 46 Warmers for granny's shoulders 48 Actress Samantha of “The Brood” 49 Callas, renowned soprano of opera 51 Buddhist who's reached enlightenment

52 About

to sob

53 Chambers

of the heart 54 Like some

beans

58 Back yard

structure 60 Had a

pickle

61 Gymnastic

perfection