CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Newspaper sales stat (abbr.)

5 Leave out

9 Elite type of private school

13 Big US storm forecasting org.

14 More than very uncommon 15 Passe

preposition 16 Really fast clip around the racetrack 19 Epic poem

segment

20 “Hold

everything!” 21 Thunderous

response

24 Word after

“woe”

29 “Wow!”

32 One rotation, Earth-wise 34 Place you can do some rapping

35 Porcupine

feature

36 Like many well-treed city parks

38 Narrow

furrow

40 Time periods made up of eras

41 Kind of

wrinkly

43 Only just

manages

44 One type of

scan

45 Long-running

sports feud 49 One behind

the other

50 Sword with a triangular cross-section 51 Big butterflyshaped bones

54 Wynonna’s

mom 58 ‘74 Mel

Brooks spoof 63 Steeplechase, e.g. 64 Chalked

sticks

65 Flamboyant

behaviour

66 “The Virginian” author ___ Wister

67 Poultry farmer’s needs

68 Blistering

tirade

DOWN

1 Pay TV network that covers US financial info 2 ___ Campagnolo, BC’s first female Lt. Gov.

3 Drought breaking event

4 Cuba’s Fidel

or Raul

5 It’s quite

unrefined

6 Disfigure,

maybe

7 Something in

your eye

8 Yurt,

basically

9 Punch and

Judy, for two 10 It’s stranded

in cells

11 Abbr. not seen at the start of a sentence 12 Creepy story

teller of yore 17 Tap on the

horn

18 Desert with average Jan. temps of -20 deg.

22 Tallies up

23 Member of a violent

protest

25 Category

26 Utter

stupidity

27 Oscarwinning actress ___ Reed 28 Expel,

anatomically 29 Church

songbook

30 Russian novelist Maxim ___ (var.)

31 Mourn

32 Quite a cowfriendly megalopolis 33 ‘79 Sigourney Weaver thriller

37 Noted Nepali

legend 39 Letters scrawled on a rush job

42 Resident

46 Supermarket section, usually

47 Advance

some dough 48 Library

patron

52 Slowly creep forwards

53 Shivery fever

(arch.)

55 Clay casa

cookware 56 Statistician’s

figure

57 “Strange, ___

it?”

58 Hip-hop

buddy

59 Min. of Justice’s area

60 Carrey’s

Ventura of ‘94 61 Ottawa skater, briefly

62 Samson’s jawbone source