CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Balkan bloke 5 Certainly not us 9 Monsoon result, often 14 Venezuela’s Chavez 15 Jekyll’s alter ego 16 The mob’s Benjamin Roggiero, to the Bonanno family 17 Seed jacket 18 Street urchin 20 Mirth 22 Dangle a carrot, say 23 Notice 24 Sudoku solver’s skill 25 “___ done it again!” 26 Stitch things up 27 They might get hooked on sniggles 30 Ghost, to a Highlander 33 Like Phoebe on “Friends” 35 “Thanks, ___ no thanks” 36 Qatar biggie 37 Bird that grows to 130lb 38 Scary tropical African concern 40 Brownish Crayola hue 41 Dizzy Gillespie’s music 43 In underhanded way 44 Pretentiously showy 46 Dark grayish brown 47 “Pulp Fiction” actress Thurman 48 Compliant with the by-laws 50 Melee 53 Went to a diner, maybe 55 Crude floor material 57 Report of the Federal Royal ___ 59 Stone effigy 60 Unimprovable 61 Philip Kerr’s best-selling novel of ‘96 62 Colourful part of a parrot’s bill 63 “For whom the bell tolls” writer 64 Sits and has lunch 65 “Harper Valley P.T.A.” star DOWN 1 Old Iranian VIP 2 Like slasher movies 3 Supple 4 Liable to explode, in a way 5 Once, again, and again 6 Marriott competitor 7 Wired 8 ___ culpa (my fault) 9 Hurled violently 10 NDP supporter, maybe 11 Lad who’s acts as gopher 12 Related to your ears 13 Wee bit of a newton 19 Makes comments in Manx? 21 Recording studio effect 24 Die down 26 Guy who met the pie man 28 Pause in the action 29 Linger 30 Video-tape format that didn’t make it 31 First name in Persian poetry 32 Shakespearian couple from Verona 33 First appearance 34 Sycophant 39 Tough-to-see winter driving hazard 42 Changes a few words 45 ___ of the guard 47 Seventh rock from the sun 49 Deviousness 50 Stay on the surface 51 Assisted 52 Bedmate’s annoyance 53 Reason to take Tums 54 Chore list heading 55 Andrea Bocelli’s birth place 56 NY’s Watkins ___ race track 58 Set eyes on