The West Coast Wire

P IS FOR PROMO

- By Barbara Olson © ClassiCana­dian Crosswords

ACROSS

1. Certain side of Chinatown?

5. Many iPhone icons

9. Destroy evidence, in a way

14. Particle that can be split

15. Countess Crawley on “Downton Abbey”

16. A little out there

17. Mediocre (2-2)

18. Sorry sort

19. Clickable zines

20. Aggressive­ly pepper with questions (4,3,7)

23. Sitting props for stand-up comics, often

24. Lists off, as examples

25. Golf variation that can be played in an hour (5,3,4)

30. Vancouver school named for an explorer: Abbr.

33. Forest-scented

34. Juan’s ones

35. School surfaces for hop scotch

37. On the ___ (legit) (2-3-2)

40. Part of a vintage store name, maybe

41. “___ stands right now ...” (2,2)

42. People might be under here: Abbr.

43. Repeatedly extend one’s parking time limit (4,3,5)

48. Stick out like ___ thumb (1,4)

49. Serena’s victor at the 2019 U.S. Open

53. Try to aggravate, as one’s mom (4,3,7)

56. ___ Québécois (Plamondon’s political group)

57. Saguenay sky

58. Duet numbers?

59. Big smoke?

60. Head & Shoulders rival (1-3)

61. ___-Brite (glowing picture toy)

62. Viking dog of comics

63. No-good scoundrels, initially

64. Saisons in the sun

DOWN

1. Talks like a movie mafioso, maybe

2. “Let ___” (Ed Sheeran song) (2,3)

3. “Seinfeld” klutz

4. Punk fusion genre (3,3)

5. Cryptogram cousin

6. Come down in buckets

7. Prone to lecturing

8. Chris Hadfield’s Ontario birthplace

9. Off-kilter

10. Raised in rustic simplicity

11. Clearly enjoy a joke

12. Tachycardi­a tests, in brief

13. Bad start?

21. Words before coin or switch (4,1)

22. Railway stop: Abbr.

26. Certain freight trains, for short

27. Use the backward arrow in Word

28. “Magical Mystery ___”

29. Recipe amounts: Abbr.

30. Flipped-out sign on a school bus

31. Complete a trip?

32. Language that gave us “shampoo”

36. Major celebrity

37. Don’t mothball

38. Ones with “dogged” determinat­ion (3,5)

39. Swallowed a loss (3,2)

41. Explorer Vespucci

44. Common swag bag item (1-5)

45. Water, chemically

46. Puts up

47. ___ one’s cage (provoke)

50. “Aha, ___ makes sense!” (3,2)

51. Borden’s bill, slangily (1-4)

52. Certain burden bearers

53. Pesky person

54. Quitter’s bane, often

55. English network nickname, with “the”

56. Lenovos and HPs, e.g.

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