Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

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?

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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

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