CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Great delight 5 Chopped cabbage concoction 9 Fix firmly 14 Skylab launcher of ‘73 15 Closing musical passage 16 Povertystricken 17 Andropov’s realm 18 All aglow 19 Otto’s cartoon owner 20 Marriage incentive, at times 22 Missed out 24 Metropolitan centres 25 Big cheese in Greece? 26 Slightly sloshed 29 Showed shamelessly 33 Chinese nanny 34 Quarter, for example 35 Seedy bar 36 Red giant in Cetus 37 Up in the air 38 Neck ailment? 39 Good writers do it often 40 Wheezing sound 41 Tolkien’s brutish creations 42 Squirming in one’s seat, say 44 Put into words 45 More than merely tastes 46 Tiger territory 48 As it should be 51 A, B and C, e.g. 55 Spokes, basically 56 Sign for a seer 58 Dark, creme-filled cookie 59 Something to read on-line 60 What rowers use 61 Victorian expletive 62 Tells the cops everything 63 Dust bunny 64 Wets thoroughly

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1 Wildebeests 2 Eyelid growth 3 Classic brand with an oval logo 4 Of huge importance 5 Wash with elbow grease 6 Eerie-sounding birds 7 Internet banners, often 8 Suzuki auto maker’s slogan 9 Where it originally was 10 Basic meal 11 Sesame Street’s pigeon fancier 12 Where a mesa stops 13 Used Grecian Formula 21 Lafleur, for one 23 Had in mind 26 Circus whip cracker 27 Compound derived from ammonia 28 One of the Hiltons 29 Silly people 30 Bejewelled head piece 31 Forcibly remove 32 Like silver and gold 34 Teacher’s environs 37 Knife edge ridge 43 Wash room designation 44 Order to Fido 46 Wide awake 47 Feel the vibes 48 Gets really upset 49 Martin Bormann, for example 50 One-eyed Norse god 52 Hence 53 Cut the mustard? 54 Lays down some turf 57 Chinese leader, once