CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Like draft dodgers, for short 5 Petty squabbles 10 Dirty literature 14 Spy’s writing 15 Hava Nagila dance 16 Perform one’s ablutions 17 Quincy’s job 20 Important part of a dollar sign 21 Bypass 22 Honey bee food 23 Peaceful pause 24 Like unwashed hair 25 Mollify 28 Fidel’s one-time friend Guevara 29 Sadistic 30 Anaconda, for one 31 Most appropriate 35 Equally unattractive choices 39 Ladies of the flock 40 Young man 41 Visitor to Earth 42 Viper of the Nile 43 Many middle easterners 45 “... much is that ___ in the window?” 49 Ranee’s garb. 50 Liver accompaniment 51 McIntosh group 52 Cosmological time frame 55 Lanny McDonald feature 58 Occupies a chair 59 Rinse out using a solvent 60 “Get a load of ___!” 61 Ancient Manx relative 62 Out of fashion 63 Disputable

DOWN 1 Wile E. Coyote favourite supplier 2 Sufferings 3 Chances of success 4 Floral garland 5 Burt Reynolds’ title role of ‘73 6 Peace officers 7 Jagged Alpine ridge 8 Purchaser’s surcharge on most things 9 Major Chinese port 10 Lousy golf shot 11 Big tropical ray 12 Pigmented eye layers 13 Towel material 18 Reef building organisms 19 Trifling 23 Adolescents 25 Yearn (for) 26 Front of the ship 27 Like 24-karat gold 28 Eastern fishery that collapsed in the ‘90s 30 Fundy, e.g. 31 Prove otherwise 32 Vent, in a way 33 Tinkerbell’s capturer 34 Basks in the sun 36 Fixated on just one thing 37 Vainglorious chap 38 Regret deeply 42 Japanese first peoples 43 Private gesture 44 Rubbed out 45 Seek a well site, say 46 Transmitting live 47 Gold finishes 48 Furze 49 One of the troop 52 Noise you hear in the catacombs 53 Paul Newman’s birth state 54 Hatching place 56 One involved in NB politics 57 After hours deposit site, briefly