CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Letters like THESE, briefly 5 Sacrificial area 10 Peter I or

Ivan IV, e.g.

14 Peace Prize presentation site 15 Skein members 16 Paquin of

“The Piano”

17 What the labour organization financial documents indicate 20 Common crossword silk worm 21 Hermitage collection

22 Some printers’ dashes 23 Earth-moving machine, slangily 24 Wake of an Airbus, say 27 Bird’s-eye view? 29 Many North American Labour Day celebrants 33 Sales chart, for one

36 Deranged 37 Something

Ben Heppner once sang 38 Ireland’s

___ Lingus

39 ‘65 Andress movie

42 Traditional Nordic rug 44 Seance holder’s claim

45 Strange, in Strathclyde, slangily

47 Yearning

49 Ways of acting 51 Guilty sentence handed down on the Sept. long weekend, say? 55 Many days travel 56 South Dakota region

60 Bar

62 Boo-Boo, to Yogi 64 Formerly, maritally speaking

65 Gone on an errand 66 Surprising, thunderous event called by the shop steward, perhaps?

70 Think tank output

71 Attempts 72 Surrounded by rollers

73 Oasis flora

74 Native Israeli 75 Roll-top, for one

DOWN

1 Sine’s reciprocal, briefly

2 ___Turf

3 Not fancy

4 One often wasted 5 Athenians’ old market centres 6 Southpaw 7 Fireworks and dragon dances occasion

8 “Off the Court” author

9 Personify again 10 Make leather 11 Giggled quietly 12 Small Sulawesi ox

13 Angry outburst

18 Rare ___ :scandium, yttrium, etc. 19 One with track marks 25 Recipe meas., briefly

26 Law degree letters

28 RCMP poster letters

30 More than a few fights 31 Gain some height

32 Drains of energy

33 Flashy trinket 34 Gambling draw near Lake Tahoe 35 Michael or Gabriel

40 Fire fighting water sources 41 Moray, for one 43 Lucky charm

46 Big buffoon 48 Make an arrest

50 Ingestion openings, to biologists

52 Spell bound. 53 Shropshire sausage

54 “The ___ File”: Forsythe 57 Cacophony 58 Wellington and York

59 Rare serving, for some

60 Dot on a radar screen 61 Opera set in Egypt

63 Money in Messina, once 67 It usually gets cured

68 You can write with this 69 Radiation measure