CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fathers

5 Big heap of sand 9 Carolling time 13 Gargantuan 14 Twig broom 15 Teck Resources searches for these 16 Eva’s “Green Acres” role

17 Bitter tasting 18 Architectural S-curve 19 Cinderella’s hirsute benefactor? 22 Rural overnight stop

23 For all time, poetically 24 Vientiane native 25 Ducks and geese, e.g.

27 Canopy supports, perhaps 32 Sailing near Grenada 34 Nepali garment (var.) 35 Furthermore 36 Attributes of a con who’s always demanding a curling iron? 40 Clean a catfish, say 41 Infuriated 42 Cookie that’s mostly vowels 43 Non-medallists, e.g.

45 Univ. lecturer 47 ___ Moines, Iowa 48 Beefeater product 49 Global finance org. 52 Hairdressing school exam practice session? 57 Tournament exemptions 58 Pandemonium 59 Indiana’s neighbour 60 Funerary containers 61 Licorice flavoured plant 62 Carte du jour 63 Seltzer 64 Become inclined 65 Sound of leaking air

DOWN 1 City with more than 20,000 millionaires 2 Bee related 3 Destroys the germs 4 Appendectomy relic

5 Style of furnishing 6 Taken advantage of

7 What’s expected 8 Give courage to 9 Attention-getting shout

10 Twist one’s arm 11 Creepy look 12 Rome to Athens dir.

14 Roll with a hole 20 Coniferous evergreen 21 Used an old VCR 26 Acorn’s destiny 27 Thai dough 28 Leamington’s lake 29 Five-armed sea critters, often 30 Rent asunder 31 Passable

32 Bit of birdbath gunk 33 Marvin Gaye sang it

34 Penn of “Milk” 37 Begets a foal 38 Military biggie, slangily 39 Dissatisfied audience sound 44 Vancouver’s Ukrainian sister city 45 Fragment

46 Flu virus’ chemical 48 Spectre 50 Major water carriers

51 Defy openly 52 Raw recruit 53 Split apart 54 Queen of Dharampur’s title 55 Worse than merely wicked 56 One-sided victory 57 School transportation, sometimes