Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Plant used as a soap substitute

6 Cygnets’ dad 9 Avoid cat

litters?

13 Square-up in

advance

14 “Well, now!” 15 Traffic lane

marker

16 Carbonate

17 Reasons for blackouts, once

19 Moves at a

snail’s pace 21 “A drop of

golden sun” 22 Greek relative of Hebrew’s rosh

23 Surgical

gizmos

27 Takes care of

dinner

30 Lawyer’s

customer 33 James who had a power unit named after him

34 ___ J. Cobb of “The Virginian” 35 Tramp’s

beloved

36 Surpass, in a

way

37 “I’ve Got You

___”

38 Young Skywalker’s nickname 39 State with

conviction 41 Birthplace of the Solidarity movement 43 Inspector Lestrade’s HQ

46 Small waveskimmi­ng seabird 47 Fig. the pitching coach keeps an eye on

48 Common constructi­on around James Bay 51 Deceptivel­y

long way

55 Deep-sea

diverís worry 58 Venture out 59 Up in the air 60 Nero Wolfe’s Stout

61 One in the cross hairs 62 Stray calf (var.)

63 Was on the bench 64 Villainous expression

DOWN

1 Indoor soccer need 2 “Land sakes!” alternate

3 Huge scarletfin­ned ocean fish

4 Afterwards

5 Optical

range

6 Chinese energy source

7 Youngstown’s state 8 Soup often served with sour cream 9 Sahara dung beetle, e.g.

10 Mashed taros, basically

11 Not only

that...

12 Word you wait for the loan officer to say

13 Socks

complement 18 Lease out

again

20 Fold-away

bed 24 N. Italian

metropolis 25 US Naval Academy freshmen 26 Like many a streamline­d sports car 27 Whimsicall­y

odd

28 Excalibur,

notably

29 Light touch on the shoulder, maybe

30 Necklace

fastener 31 Deal with a

nasty boil 32 Dolt

36 Kayo

count

37 Lousy

39 Templeton

and Waugh 40 Qualities of

worth

41 Attics for

artists

42 Brewery delivery guy, long ago

44 Of really low

quality 45 Up to the

present

48 Music for

mourners 49 Horatio of “Ragged Dick” books 50 Swim

competitio­n 52 Common fertilizer component 53 Immediatel­y

following

54 Small

English lake 55

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