CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Just a bit of resistance 4 Monks’ head? 9 Elicit a smile 14 Title for Louis XIV 15 Very passionate 16 Eye surgery tool 17 Possess, and something missing from the asterisked clues 18 Willie Shoemaker’s unrealized goal* 20 Spots 22 Pyromaniac’s passion 23 History, languages, etc. 24 Fly effortlessly 26 Act like a baby 28 Vertically orientated* 35 Jollity 36 Pass out new swords, say 37 Part of an airline from Eire 38 Indonesia’s miniature buffalo 39 Pleasant ditties 40 Mineral formed in thin sheets 41 Longing 42 Photo hue of the 1890s, say 43 Underneath 44 Jazz standard written in 1925* 47 Nordic shag rug 48 Hostile to 49 It’s just above the wrist bones 52 Shorttempered 56 Judicial delay 59 Local hero* 62 Polar covering, right now 63 Trembling poplar 64 Tantalize 65 Org. that hands out the Hart Trophy 66 Ticker, so to speak 67 Vengeful feeling 68 Stylist’s application

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1 Top awards at los Juegos Olimpicos 2 Gordie, of hockey 3 Italian soup favourite 4 Rearwards, on a ship 5 NE India native 6 Molson speciality 7 Meal scraps 8 Greenhorn, slangily 9 Sight from a chalet, maybe 10 Penang’s region 11 Tech support caller 12 Religious splinter group 13 Goes wrong 19 Racks up debts 21 Kinda 25 Sigh in response to a massage 27 Turntable speed, briefly 28 Tough tissue 29 Kvetch 30 Sun, in combinations 31 Volga basin native 32 Worrier’s habit 33 Interior designer’s field 34 Curling tactic 35 Willie of baseball fame 39 Smoothly, to Stravinsky 40 What butchers sell 42 Oink pad? 43 Grain container 45 It’s felt in the classroom 46 Most festive 49 Nevada’s neighbour 50 Shed a few kilos 51 Source of much US wine 53 Amphibious youngsters 54 Choreographed move 55 Tangy oriental fare 57 Aleve target 58 Tarzan’s trademark 60 Nobel’s invention, briefly 61 Peg of the LPGA