CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Jumps on one leg 5 Crowning point 9 Nut for pies 14 “Drop everything” notation 15 House of prayer, for some 16 Eastwood’s three time director 17 Paint removers 19 How hermits live 20 Duchess’ head wear 21 Far from incapable 23 “Love Is a Battlefield” singer Benatar 24 Item to prop your canvas on 25 Tugboat attachment 27 Current unit 29 Illinois’ Windy City, for short 30 Cuckoo Pint, e.g.. 33 Is, for a crowd 36 Arrange things for the symphony 39 Where to find Handel bars? 41 Hunk in the hen house 42 Pretty smart 44 Malt or Chin follower? 45 Dole out the cards 46 Out with a flu bug 47 Tokyo coin, until 1953 49 Assimilate 52 Club for the brainy bunch 56 Incheon International carrier 58 Right-hand page 59 Freeze 60 Susan Lucci’s Emmy winning role 62 Offensive bunch 64 Items tendered in Tijuana 65 Stagger about 66 Razor’s sharp bit 67 California/ Nevada border lake 68 15th century Gaelic 69 Changes colour

DOWN 1 Proverbial waste maker 2 Port from which Roman centurions departed 3 Legal assistants, briefly 4 Ornamental rose family shrub 5 Nasty African hisser 6 Copy someone’s answers, say 7 TV’s “___ Mysteries” 8 In another location 9 Wise Greek of 400 B.C. 10 Electrifying Amazon swimmer 11 Work together 12 “Black Beauty” author Sewell 13 Classic hair removal brand 18 Saturated fat source 22 Millhaven and Matsqui 26 Links standards 28 Pecan candy 31 All-purpose trucks, slangily 32 “A ___ formality!” 33 Mixed in with 34 Descartes of philosophy 35 Set up 37 Parental after school concern 38 Like tribal emblems 40 Peddle 43 Sparkle 48 Did some smooching 50 Wipe out. 51 Written reminders 53 Down and out 54 Sudden upswing 55 Where altars are usually placed 56 Hung on to 57 Neighbourhood 61 Dove vote sound 63 Publican’s potable