CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS

1. Desert in Mongolia 5. Ad-___ 8. Masticate 12. Parallel with 14. ___ cream 15. Raccoon relative 16. Tropical rain forest 17. Synonym dictionary 19. Technical problem 21. Shameful offense 22. Contend 23. One guilty of larceny 25. Lacquered metalware 27. Public thoroughfare 30. Printer’s dagger 33. Satisfying sound 34. Of a style of of an earlier time 36. Star combining form 38. Not play correctly, like a CD 40. Showed extreme fondness 42. Idi of Uganda 43. Spanish gentleman 45. Electronic listening devices 47. Everyone 48. Week: Fr. 50. For the most part 52. Dispatch 53. Boxing period 55. Put into position 57. Part of some French names 59. Passionate 62. Elephant’s trunk 65. Pay increase 67. Per ___ 68. Single thing 69. Put at rest 70. Sports occasion 71. Had been 72. Withered

DOWN

1. Fossil fuel 2. Fashion designer Cassini 3. Cotton pod 4. Request the presence of 5. Flexible 6. ___ dien 7. Buzzers 8. Neck: Fr. 9. Daddy longlegs 10. Needle case 11. Sagacious 13. Pick up piece by piece 15. Cooking oil 18. Web ___ 20. Quoted 24. Former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations 26. Mona ___ 27. Back talk 28. Helps oneself to 29. Imitation diamond 31. South African 32. Baleen whale food 35. Urban area 37. No more than 39. Fleshy fruit 41. Object mildly 44. Hit-or-miss 46. Canadian curler Schmirler 49. Ancient Roman date 51. Goals of a noble character 54. Desert mirages 55. Unwanted e-mail 56. Sea eagle 58. Freight barge 60. Longest river 61. Russian emperor 63. On the contrary 64. Actress Claire 66. Needle hole