Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 All in a lather

6 Shark attractant

10 Fawn over

14 Romaine recall cause, perhaps

15 One who saves your bacon

16 Satan’s specialty

17 “That’s garbage!”

20 Unlaid lawn

21 21 sq.km. Pacific Island nation

22 Shoots yourself in the foot, say

23 Canyon periphery

24 Disapprovi­ng sound

25 Steers well clear of

34 Ham-fisted

35 Analgesic targets

36 The lower the better, for pitchers

37 Chocolate treats

38 Basic assumption

39 “Jaws” actor Robert ___

40 The old days, poetically

41 Ain’t written correctly

42 Parasol’s offering

43 Process of retiring while in your igloo?

46 Owned, once

47 Graffiti, to the one with the spray cans, maybe

48 Service centre?

51 Mid-calf pants

54 T, in frat names

57 Place where the team’s signal-caller can rest?

60 Do/others separator

61 Heads out

62 Inexplicab­ly creepy

63 Quite a long time

64 They may give a hoot

65 Uses gritty paper on

DOWN

1 Hacks (down)

2 Nymph spurned by Narcissus

3 “Wind in the Willows” character

4 Formal bus. letter abbr.

5 Grand player?

6 French cabbage

7 Receive some news

8 Common Peshawar language

9 Dairy sound

10 House of Commons event

11 Reproducti­ve cell

12 Sticker on your fork

13 Bugling beasts

18 Buddhist Dharma teacher

19 Misplays

23 Things to do at the gym

24 Pour like crazy

25 Taunting remarks

26 Taken together...

27 Noted composer Giuseppe ___

28 Like candles

29 Cup cake topping, often

30 Hindu loincloth

31 Where you’ll go after losing an arm

32 Barter

33 Spoke hesitating­ly

38 Drought-like

39 Your COVID vaccinatio­n, slangily

41 In two different places

42 Decides to quit working?

44 Alexandria’s ancient lighthouse

45 Drug cop

48 One type of lung

49 Water (pref.)

50 Noted London gallery

51 What the humbled eat

52 Cain’s crime victim

53 Quarterbac­k’s option

54 Mountainsi­de pond

55 Stomach contents

56 Hawaiian guitars, briefly

58 Megalomani­ac’s obsession

59 The Sargasso, for one

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