Marking the Occasion

ACROSS

1 Raw egg for a hangover, some say, e.g. 5 Thumbs-up signals 9 Reply to a doubter 14 Take ___ (sustain damage) 15 Leach slowly 16 In better condition, likely 17 July 1st fireworks display, airshow, parade, etc. 20 Also, to Alain 21 Ballot choice for “un fédéraliste” 22 Not let go to waste 23 Castanet clacker’s cry 24 Birdie on the golf course 29 Nasal spray from Vicks 31 Little, by Loch Lomond 32 “Blame ___ Me” (George Ezra hit) 34 Snowbirds military org. 37 “A Doll’s House” playwright 41 Place to see William Lyon Mackenzie King 44 Pot-___ (French stew) 45 Thumbs-down votes 46 ___ No More movement 47 Troop grp. 49 Phonophobe’s fear 51 “Maybe more, maybe less” 56 180° from NNE 59 Canon model named for a dawn goddess 60 ___Wiedersehen (Berliner’s bye-bye) 61 Daft 63 Time for the occasion marked by the circled words in this puzzle 68 “O Canada, ___ de nos aïeux ...” 69 Rapunzel’s “golden stair” 70 Double click on an icon 71 “My opinion is ...” 72 Every first of July, say: Abbr. 73 Castaway’s setting

DOWN

1 Chocolate-yielding bean 2 Self-mover’s rental 3 Removes, as suds from dishes 4 Get-there guesstimates 5 Pain relief letters 6 Brit’s big book of words 7 Reeves of “The Matrix” 8 Use a hidden camera 9 “Payment due” doc. 10 Kiki who sang with Elton John 11 Come clean 12 ___ good example (mentors well) 13 “Battle of the Brians” figure skater 18 Stéphane or Céline 19 Where hairs may be split 25 Act the geek, with “out” 26 One who no longer has a cell number? 27 Kuwaiti kingpin 28 Bar mitzvah officiators 30 Puts six feet under 32 “___ Tree Falls” (Bruce Cockburn) 33 God for whom a weekday is named 35 Chicken-King connector 36 Errol of film 38 Avoids, as a tricky question 39 Letter-shaped pipe fitting 40 Montreal Expos div., once 42 Much-mocked Serbian car 43 Not give ___ (care very little) 48 Item to carry a round in a bar 50 I.D. at the library 51 Coat opener? 52 Sounded bullish? 53 Self-serving “friends” 54 Like some peas or love stories 55 “My worry is ...” 57 Welded material 58 Ontario’s premier Kathleen 62 Yours: Fr. 64 Group that sticks to their guns 65 Miss Pym’s creator Josephine 66 Disney’s Cruella De ___ 67 Suffix with mock or crock