CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 They fit in sleeves 5 Balancing on 9 Dwindle 14 Go on the fritz 15 Stark raving mad 16 Pepsi and Coke 17 Stromboli’s smoking Italian neighbour 18 Ed, who played Mingo on “Daniel Boone” 19 Bulgarian despots of old 20 One way to judge how many beets you grew 23 Comparable 24 Franciscans, eg 28 One way to combat the August dry period 33 New Delhi’s area 34 “How are you ___?” 35 Dairy Queen flav. 37 Succeeded at musical chairs 38 Sounds like a hen 41 Henry Moore abstract, e.g. 43 Boat that sailed for 40 days and nights 44 Young mythical archer 46 Moisten the bird 47 Stalk in the swamp 49 One way to cut down on your strawberry-picking crew 52 Get over a soaking 54 Ink-like, to the Bard 55 One way to increase the back forty yield 61 Tiny branch 64 Blood bank measure 65 Golfer’s target 66 Noted rules expert 67 Philippine currency 68 Pulls the plug on 69 Fencers use them 70 Handicrafts 71 Yardarm supporter

DOWN

1 Enough to count on one hand 2 Ten metres a second, e.g. 3 Frock not much bigger than a smock 4 Smelter waste 5 City of Barrow’s setting 6 Wee British warbler 7 From the Atlantic 8 Canada’s national rag 9 Thespian 10 It abuts Montenegro 11 Something that joins the pie to the mode? 12 Tobacco residue 13 Hefty dictionary section 21 Dicker 22 Otherwise 25 Birthplace of St. Francis 26 Vintage theatre name 27 Lustrous fabric 28 Security checkpoint request 29 MGM’s mascot, e.g. 30 Gin, soda and lime juice concoction 31 Printer cartridge contents 32 Expressions of surprise 36 Beach club amenity 39 Poetic one of the nine Muses 40 Tiny amount in 1780 France 42 Belfry critter 45 More strict 48 Submissive 50 Orchestra’s tuner 51 City maxims 53 Strong impulses 56 Cocoon contents 57 The enemy 58 Hebrides holy isle 59 GM brand until 2004 60 Ospreys have a big one 61 Elle, in English 62 The old man 63 Base for a reuben