CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Spelling contest 4 Siberia’s tundra cousin 9 Massachusetts town with many Halloween tourists 14 A slot machine has one 15 Hajji’s religion 16 Peritonitis cause, maybe 17 Thing on the end of a quill 18 Naval trousers, in the early 20th century 20 Nova ___ 22 Not on the guest list 23 Grassy sward 24 “Other” category, briefly 26 “No seats left for the performance”’ letters 27 Teenaged girl’s trousers, sixties style 32 Colorado tribe members 33 TD transaction device 34 Ventricular outlet 38 How Ed Norton got in to work 40 Deluge 42 Part of the PTA 43 Ornamental footed vase 44 Torn apart, old-style 45 Loose, summer season, flared trousers for the lady with a chi-chi viewpoint 49 Bytown Museum’s loc. 52 Mishmash 53 Echidna tidbit 54 Zagreb’s home 57 Brightly coloured tropical bird 60 Highland chap’s trousers, once banned in the 1750s 63 Earlier, quaintly 64 Thwart in court 65 Hawk’s huge nest (var.) 66 Freshly made 67 This puzzle’s is“trousers” 68 Small depressions 69 One who’s frequently loaded

DOWN

1 Forbids. 2 Orwell’s real first name 3 Gives some gumption 4 Of the shin bone 5 Out east of Madagascar 6 Down with a virus 7 Four qts. 8 Unexpected attack 9 ___ time limit 10 Gets theatrical 11 Takes a gander 12 Big name in glue 13 Muff things up 19 A single time 21 Quaint London cafe 24 Silent 25 An end to sex? 27 Mountain lion 28 Letters to the Greeks 29 Good buddy 30 Common rodent 31 Teresa Stratas, for one 35 X-ray exposure measurements 36 Small clump 37 Linkletter and Carney 39 Starchy Andean veggie 40 Granular pasta 41 Primero number 43 Israeli submachine gun 46 One kind of cloth 47 Like a winged insect 48 Analyzes sentences 49 Eight-piece ensemble 50 Garbage 51 Big fancy cake 55 Bohr studied it 56 VCR necessity 57 Twerp 58 Cookie often twisted apart 59 Axolotl’s smaller cousin 61 Grain farmer’s grain 62 It follows many directions