CANADIAN CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Noticeable space 4 Performs in “Richard III” 8 Covers with crumbs 14 Mouths, to scientific types 15 Really painful 16 Open a clogged drain 17 Important bigwig 19 Toronto pro player 20 Something that just came to mind 21 Air-traffic controller’s tool 23 Amusement park thrill 24 Cauliflower’s cousin 26 ___ Stanley Gardner 27 Homie 29 Soldier’s headgear 30 Observes 31 Like curling rinks 32 Drink served from a driveway stand 33 Lays down some grass 35 Weapon that shoots out electric darts 37 Hulk of wrestling 41 Frilly 44 Oriole, Blue Jay or Cardinal, briefly 46 Carry a MasterCard balance 47 Drill a well 50 Do in 52 Tiny pest at a picnic 53 Gp. that generates lots of gas? 54 Boy who cried wolf, e.g. 56 Steamengine pioneer James 57 Bit of a fracas 58 Spot briefly 61 Grapecrushing sound 63 Dormant Hawaii peak 65 Where Andorrans live 66 Indian locale of a really big tomb 67 Irritate 68 Medicinal shrubs 69 What matryoshka dolls can do 70 Ns to a Rhodes scholar?
DOWN
1 Desert where bactrians roam 2 Like droughtstricken areas 3 Shoulderlength hair styles 4 Wildfire result 5 Put the squeeze on 6 Molasses, for some 7 Rarely 8 It could be full of beans 9 Stranded matter 10 Starbucks offering 11 What you have on 12 Kill time with a pencil 13 Spending binges 18 Ongoing Syrian event 22 Robust libations 25 Tara heroine 27 Tiny amount 28 30 Rockefeller Plaza letters, once 34 Garb worn by Gandhi 36 Something you can vote in 38 Pretty supple wine container 39 Part of a wheat stalk 40 Item to sleep with in malaria territory 42 Hits the hay after a long day 43 Christmastide 44 Paddler’s duty, at times 45 Items that fuel the British tabloids 47 Hauls with block and tackle 48 Impenetrable, lightwise 49 Go back 51 Gotham City’s protector 55 The Dead is a salty one 59 Machu Pichu’s locale 60 Working bovines, to Tibetans 62 Where a lot of people shape up 64 Music’s Cole