Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Biotite, for one 5 Rum-flavoured pastry 9 Classic one pot dish 13 Tout de suite, for short 14 Towering figure 15 Basis for Hawaii 16 Excessivel­y scarce 17 Hymn to say when you’re praying you’re making the correct move? 19 Toxic atmosphere 21 Reason for a higher salary 22 Loutish fellow 23 Toronto’s Spadina, e.g. 25 John, the captain who searched for Franklin 26 Terrific serve 29 Lesser known work from Van Gogh’s chess-playing years? 33 Where Shanghai is 34 Old Greek architectu­ral style 35 Not even on the map 38 Stalin’s predecesso­r 41 Dashboard dial, briefly 42 Related to an arm bone 44 Legs, technicall­y 46 Chess piece that works best from a hilltop? 52 Where folk shape up 53 1947’s “The Ghost and ___ Muir” 54 Like a wily fox 55 Bled 56 Did some data entry 58 Chaperon 60 Black chess piece that moves well enough to win a Nobel Prize? 64 Big, water jug 65 Nitrogen-rich chemical 66 Pompous types 67 Yield 68 Cut, by a carpenter 69 Profit, in England 70 Shaving gel additive, maybe

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1 Rodent of the Rockies 2 Major biblical prophet 3 Something to serve Sangria in 4 Tarzan’s friends 5 Brief profile 6 Where to find quarks 7 Rolls source 8 Arctic kayaker’s garb 9 Bit of a blind 10 Private’s ID 11 One who raised Cain 12 There once ___ a girl... 14 Work hard 18 Diabolic type 20 Topologist’s forte 24 Raptor that haunts Europe’s coastline 26 Big Yamuna River city 27 Elegantly smart 28 Carve into stone 30 One who’s all skin and bones 31 Type of dressing 32 Tiny quantities 35 Northern “penguins” 36 Wig out 37 One of the singing McGarrigle­s 39 Gets hot under the collar 40 Chromosome home 43 Juliet’s love 45 Moonbeams 47 Skillet 48 Sleeping sickness carrier 49 Bricklayer’s tool 50 Mexican border city 51 Prime rib, for one 56 Ghengis ___ 57 Process for fingerprin­ts 59 Intestinal pouches 60 School transporta­tion, at times 61 Sinn Fein’s radical arm, once 62 What seamstress­es do 63 Period of 1968’s Vietnamese offensive

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