Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 What Plummer does 5 Weighing device 10 It’s N. of the border, down Mexico way 13 Mule’s call 14 More healthy 15 Like clams on the half shell, e.g. 16 It’s worthless, but it may buy you a sick day? 19 Sound effect? 20 Cabernet containers 21 Negative responses 23 G.I.’s pet that moves from place to place? 26 Get to the present? 29 Dawn deity 30 Back yard luxury 33 Requiem singers 34 Bridge, over the Seine 36 Andy’s old radio buddy 37 Beast of burden you can catch with hook and line? 40 Loaves have two 41 Item in the gumbo 42 Very rich cake 43 Boarding gate demands 44 Weed the garden 45 Become an expert in 46 Mail order WWII taxi? 49 Some public hangings 50 It connects two stories 53 Naughty kind of knowledge 56 Something yoked that delivers the mail? 60 A bit of “Rush” gear 61 It may be in a stew 62 ‘20s designer style 63 “I’d be happy to!” 64 Haulage wagons 65 Widespread fraternal organizati­on

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1 “20/20” airer 2 Daily’s pastimes 3 Far from slack 4 “Auld lang ___” 5 Diaphanous 6 Ricochet, in a way 7 Wisecracki­ng, furry TV alien 8 Bruce of “Enter the Dragon” 9 Heath plants 10 “The Angry Hills” author Leon 11 Polio vaccine developer of 1955 12 Hole-making gizmos 17 Pitfall 18 Arm art, briefly 21 Where to find protons 22 Convenient­ly available 24 Meddlesome gossip 25 Actor Eli of “Iglourious Basterds” 27 Roustabout work areas 28 “You ___”: 1983 Lionel Richie hit 30 Wise guy 31 Facebook user 32 Postulate 34 Fireplace tool 35 Team’s pronoun 36 Ruckuses 38 “The Hound of the Baskervill­es” locale 39 Guess as to when we’ll get there 44 William the Conqueror’s foe 45 Pittance preceder 46 Droll humour 47 Without feeling 48 Carps’ European kin 50 Avoid cat litters? 51 Reference book, often 52 Egyptian vipers 54 Lymph bump 55 Newbie’s skating leap 57 Not even close 58 US pharmaceut­icals agcy. 59 Distress call palindrome

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