CANADIAN CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Love handles, basically 5 Freon initials 8 Beantown 14 Jacob and Leah’s son 15 It’s often flushed on Fleet Street 16 Tricktaking 32 card game 17 Type of bridge bid 19 Troubles, in Yiddish 20 He sung about the “Edmund Fitzgerald” 22 Gold bars, e.g. 23 Marsh lands 24 Deep distress 27 Nevertheless (literary) 30 Harry Potter’s pal Weasley 31 Flightless ranch birds 33 Jumpy 37 Cereal grain species 38 Circuses have a big one 39 House site 40 Shaft of light 41 Picturesque cavern 43 Dispense 44 What candles on a cake symbolize 45 Hired assassin 47 Huge vast hole 49 Church area with a curved wall, often 52 Smoothly, to Schubert 54 Cream of wheat, e.g. 60 The Cat in the Hat wore one 61 Church’s incense holder 62 Thwarts 63 Stopped working, briefly 64 Silently accedes 65 Most tender 66 Pool’s solid yellow ball 67 Little black fly
DOWN
1 Use a catoí-nine-tails 2 Prefix meaning “left” 3 Announce with confidence 4 Three on a par four, e.g. 5 Hollow, ringing sound 6 Post-op appointment, perhaps 7 Intestinal complaint 8 “Little Women” role 9 Kick out 10 Brief fracas 11 Painful spasm 12 “Dances with Wolves” studio 13 Chick hang-outs 18 Parade precipitation 21 Retail levy, usually 24 Sea dog’s libation 25 Something lions do 26 “It’s hard to put ___ words.” 28 Raspberry’s cousin 29 Aardvark, for one 32 Disputable 34 Horsedrawn cart 35 Stand-up snippets 36 Watches closely 39 Stretch out 42 Play’s milieu 43 Toscanini’s title 46 Sask. house rep. 48 Yawninducing 49 Palestinian statesman Mahmoud 50 Utah ski resort 51 Garment worker 53 Very perceptive 55 Model builders’ sets 56 Slug or song ending 57 Coal-black, in poems 58 Senator Vinick portrayer of “The West Wing” 59 Remembrance Day word