CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Left the land of Nod 5 Good place to sit 10 Finished 14 Pockmark producer, perhaps 15 Concerto finale, often

16 Give away 17 Temperature regulator

19 ‘92 Barenaked Ladies hit 20 Verse writer’s “before” 21 Bighorn babe 22 TIFs and JPEGs 24 Frankincense or myrrh 26 Garlic-smelling warfare gas 28 Novocaine result 31 Work at the Stratford festival 34 Frisbee, basically 37 They’re in your eye

38 “... ___ iron bars a cage”: Lovelace 39 New Mexico’s NW neighbour 40 Weaker, excuse-wise 41 Beige, basically 42 Sight on centre court

43 This will turn litmus blue 44 Levesque of Quebec 45 One-time recording business giant 46 Residents 48 Pieces of pottery 50 Chloroform’s anaesthetic successor 54 Kenyan adventure 56 Bear necessity 58 Old French dough 59 Bands from Japan 60 “Hurry!” 64 Rendezvous with 65 Port-au-Prince land

66 Just sit there with the motor running 67 Undertow, maybe

68 Pick up the tab 69 Deity from Tut’s time

DOWN 1 One of life’s essentials 2 Dirty yellow hue 3 Couple of joints 4 Perpetually, poetically 5 Brag loudly 6 Stockings 7 Hobby farm critter 8 Crete’s highest mountain 9 Revolving spit 10 Something seen from Christmas Island 11 Retaliation 12 Actress Falco of “Nurse Jackie” 13 Scarlet and vermilion 18 Before dinner reading material 23 Be wide of the target 25 Yardstick fraction 26 Zoos are full of them 27 Flip, in a way 29 High-precision machinery expert 30 Slowed the car

32 Big toe callus 33 “Correct!” 34 Frank Herbert sci-fi classic 35 Tidbit on the news 36 Really pleased 41 “At one time”, archaically 43 Midyear Hebrew month 47 Nevada’s “Biggest Little City in the World” 49 Excessively quick 51 Hearkens 52 Staph’s relative 53 Ancient characters 54 More than one or two 55 In the hay, so to speak 56 Info 57 Exude 61 Small hammer and anvil’s area 62 Create a sheepshank 63 “QB ___”: Uris