CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cat’s defence 5 Takes off the top 10 Fries source 14 In the stratosphere 15 Mythical giant 16 Sudden yen 17 Dull, nagging pain 18 Reactor 20 Century 21’s business 22 Palindromic Nabokov title 23 Not a darn thing 24 Game’s rock beater 27 Wilde land 29 University of Montana city 32 Mix-ups 35 It’s often exterminated 36 Eight furlongs of forty poles 38 Important Colombian crop 39 Bert Bobbsey’s sis 40 Econ. indicator 41 Regular union members 47 Tuque, basically 48 Deep violet blue 49 Keeps saying 51 Opening in some mines 52 Buzzing with activity 53 It often prefers the nightlife 55 Quebec flag graphic 57 Overwhelming fear 61 Thing flung by a trebuchet 65 Isle west of Mull 66 The point of a fork 67 Quilt filling source 68 No longer valid 69 Editor’s change of heart notation 70 Waste material 71 Shorebound newts

DOWN

1 Northern salmon’s cousin 2 Medicated shampoo targets 3 Ottoman title 4 Puppies 5 “Freeze!” 6 Model maker’s challenge 7 “Am ___ believe that..” 8 Singer Cass Elliott 9 Most supercilious 10 Dine late 11 Bare knuckle bout 12 Citrus bigger than a grapefruit 13 Like Paul Robeson’s voice 19 “The Cider House Rules” Oscar winner 21 Art colony near Santa Fe 25 Lion’s hard to bring down prey 26 Spanish fortified wine 28 Symbol of Aries 29 Cook Island native 30 Like lots of Peruvian ruins 31 Selfsufficient 33 They parallel radii 34 Scottish clan divisions 37 Metres and litres 42 Josh 43 Light on one’s feet 44 Discerned 45 Q, U and E 46 Popular puzzler’s lake 50 Roll in to town 53 Stops vacillating 54 Process server’s doc. 56 Start to wake up 58 Top of the mouth 59 How the speedy step 60 X-ray units 62 Winnipeg hockey player 63 Words exchanged at the altar 64 Stroud of “Survivorman”