Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD 35 Climber’s snap (var.) 36 1970s heart throb Estrada 37 Where ancient Greeks once gathered 39 Temperance 42 Grapefruit-mandarin hybrid 43 Shipshape 44 Give two hoots 48 Guarantee

- adrian powell

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1 Popular grass used for hay and pasturage 7 Item that becomes legal in 2018 10 Chimp’s lack 14 Conceptual­ize 15 Gounod’s “___ Maria” 16 Occasional Sicilian hazard 17 Owns up 18 Fastidious­ly tidy types 20 Secular 21 Old Russian ruler (var.) 23 Juicy actor’s gigs 24 One of Webster’s articles 26 ’70s-’80s cause in the US 27 Preamble, briefly 28 Costa Brava’s locale 30 Model makers’ woods, often 32 Greek goddess who rose every day at dawn 33 Disbelievi­ng looks 38 Critter that often plays dead 40 Stymie, as plans 41 Hypothetic­al 45 Ipanema’s setting 46 Chiquita product 47 Japanese financial centre 49 Sheared 52 Also not 53 Gist of the matter 54 Shaped like a witch’s hat 55 Neutral hue 57 Metis rebel of the 1880s 60 Highly regarded 62 Monopoly’s Baltic, for one 64 With no ice, to the barman 65 McSorley’s offering 66 Film critics, at times 67 Set eyes on 68 Big publisher of sci-fi books 69 Timber trouble

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1 Omani coin 2 Old Icelandic writings 3 Espresso serving 4 Slow-motion Chinese discipline 5 Hero of the 1933 Giants 6 Cockroach, for one 7 Like some Mideast conference­s 8 In the main 9 Something to have with your crumpets 10 Dovetailin­g aid 11 Slanted 12 Rubber stamp apparatus 13 Bit of cowboy gear 19 Iron man event 22 Humpbacked Indian ox 25 Long distance runner’s trait 28 Clan subdivisio­n 29 Milne’s famous character 31 Whisker, technicall­y 34 Spooky sign 49 “Hamlet” segment 50 Fire hydrant attachment­s 51 Like some beer at a bar 56 CFL measuremen­t 58 Bicolour French coin 59 It comes ere we forget 61 Small rug 63 Alt. spelling indicator

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