Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Gloomy Gus’ advice 7 Country miss 10 Handknotte­d Swedish rugs 14 Greek goddess of wisdom 15 Took a lunch break 16 Claudius’ adopted son 17 Large fishing nets 18 Ladies’ man 20 Notice 21 Common skater’s jump, these days 23 Occasion for a Vietnam lion dance 24 Soldier’s assignment 26 How to take cough syrup 28 Dedicatory verse 30 Since, to Burns 31 Move like molasses 32 Bambooeati­ng fave 34 Medics 36 Comic pages pooch 39 Be subjected to 41 Sofa material 43 Old card game for 3 44 Mushroom spore sacs 46 Emus’ cousins 47 Not as many 49 Barrel producer’s gp. 51 Ref’s merciful decision, at times 52 2-channel system 54 Mount Fuji locale 56 Just a little resistance 57 Some kind of a nut 59 Stumbles or bumbles 62 More like a baguette 64 Something a pitcher may hold 66 Sahara headwear, say 67 Crooner Cole 68 Ritzy rural retreats 69 Virgo’s mth., mostly 70 Uncanny trio 71 Whiteboard stands

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1 Headquarte­rs 2 Shoshone tribe members 3 ‘62 Seuss character who bites his tail to awaken 4 Nairobi’s republic 5 Acadian article 6 Napoleon or Danish 7 Jovian moon discoverer 8 On the summit 9 Release into the wild 10 Cytoplasmi­c material, briefly 11 ‘58 Seuss character who was “King of the Pond” 12 Prospero’s pixie 13 Like many chimneys 19 One who saves the day 22 Repetitiou­s musical themes 25 Old Bulgarian despot 27 Mercury, to alchemists 28 “Bloom County” bird 29 Moist and musty 33 Scare off 35 Tacky tie type 37 Hard durable wood 38 “In that area” 40 Molotov cocktail component 42 Curved trajectori­es 45 Accomplice­s 48 Pew or stool 50 Salad green 52 Foot warmers 53 Musketeers number 55 Tap dancer’s tappables 58 Like the Grinch 60 Not phony 61 Answer back, saucily 63 Get in the saddle 65 Hush-hush VA. org.

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