CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Actor Pickens 5 On the summit 9 Old Greek coins, once 14 Military assistant 15 Western movie backdrop 16 At full tilt, at sea 17 Soccer requirement 18 Grumpy 20 Home for rodents who just love Justin? 22 YouTube video intros 23 Extremely, in musical scores 24 Weird glows 26 New Year in Hanoi 27 Chairs to watch Alex, Geddy and Neil? No tickets needed. 33 Disband the troops 34 Water lily relative 35 Edible taro root 38 Telemarketer’s need 41 Where owlets live 42 Scarce Asian antelope 44 Perhaps 46 Felon who victimized Shania? 49 On fire 52 Climb aboard 53 Employee incentive 55 Old coin from Tokyo 57 One of Corey’s medical team? 61 Courses of action 63 What Pandora unleashed 64 Indian tea-growing area 65 Completely dried out 66 Mineral find 67 Swimming competitions 68 Run the whole show 69 Some members of the flock

DOWN

1 Pagan festival 2 Serve as a go-between 3 Most slothful 4 Soprano Dame Nellie ___ 5 Caliph’s honorific 6 Blab 7 Norwegian city 8 Big bamboo eaters 9 Sideways pass 10 Two metre tall Aussie 11 Tape worm, e.g. 12 In a dead heat 13 Phrase connectors 19 Shivering fit 21 Country with a harp on its Euro 25 Set things right 28 Home plate official 29 Fah follower 30 Mushroom cloud maker 31 Greek consonants 32 Govt. levy in Can., Aus., NZ., etc. 33 Motherless calf 35 i.e. portion 36 Margery of rhyme 37 Identify an illness 39 Catch red-handed 40 Look at 43 “God Save the Queen” and “O Canada” 45 Shivery utterance 47 The driveway ends here 48 Forward surge 49 Remain in hiding 50 Wagner’s ‘Tristan und ___’ 51 Tightens up 54 More than supple 55 A lot of e-mail 56 Isle of Mull talk 58 Balsa or baobab 59 Hypo contents, maybe 60 Like yard sale items, usually 62 Tabby, e.g.