CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Acerbic

5 Swing at a fly 9 Played a yolk on?

14 Fluish feeling 15 Truck-stop fare 16 Moulin follower 17 Byrd’s adventure where he searched for those bears from the north? 20 Terror’s sister ship

21 Klondike locale 22 Nova Scotia singer McLachlan 23 Extremist sect 25 The Seine’s full of it

28 Dan Haggerty’s ursine alter ego? 32 Lah preceder 35 Spring month in Paris

36 Hue of many old photos 37 Galapagos Islands owner 40 Ramadan activity 42 Hip-swaying ballroom dance 43 “Atmo-” relative 44 “Oh, Boy!” 45 Bear-friendly vodka cocktail? 50 Gluttony or greed 51 Calligraphic fluids

52 Mollusc shell lining

56 Accolades

59 Native Israelis 60 Kermode from the Pelican State?

64 Door hardware 65 Run like a coyote

66 Italian well 67 Concluded 68 Delicate curling shot

69 River of Hell

DOWN

1 Scotch and Magic

2 Where ancient Greeks traded

3 Emperor or overlord

4 Packet of pekoe

5 The Beatles’“___ Leaving Home” 6 Honeycomb material

7 Adder’s African relative

8 “___ never know what hit ‘em!” 9 Norseman Leif ’s dad

10 Attend

11 Subject of an experiment

12 Self, to Freud 13 Victor Borge’s birthplace, for short

18 Big industrial area of Europe 19 Word before free or bound 23 Old Russian despot (var) 24 Terrorist’s gun, maybe 26 Compound derived from ammonia

27 Utility company’s concern

29 Texter’s “as

I see it”

30 Burro, basically

31 Investigative cop’s rank (abbr.) 32 Kosovo natives 33 Eye-like windows

34 Homo sapiens 38 Where “General Hospital” airs 39 Northern US terr., once

40 Parker of “Daniel Boone”

41 Hero Ben Canaan of “Exodus”

43 Solicit bids

46 Out of control melee

47 Still available, in a way

48 Like Felix Unger, say

49 Wealthy moguls 53 Salad oil holder 54 Drizzling 55 S. English county

57 Sudden desire 58 Expired

59 Ragout, essentially

60 Sea shore shell seller

61 ATM requirement 62 In favour of 63 Steam room site, say