Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- Adrian powell

ACROSS 1 Chumps 6 Drum major’s hat 11 Minute part of a joule 14 Baffin Islander, usually 15 Girl of bygone years 16 What high jumpers clear 17 Demand from the subjugated for free dance routines? 20 To be, to Tiberius 21 They’re really long in lotteries 22 Subterfuge­s of sorts 23 Pantyhose shade 25 Units of capacitanc­e 26 Modern toy that works over wi-fi? 30 Chewbacca or Jabba the Hutt 31 Solitary outcroppin­g 32 Ugly looking African antelope 35 High spirits 36 Pinball palaces 40 Desire 41 Urgent palindromi­c call 42 Activate a torpedo 43 Deducted from gross weight 45 Extinct Samoan bird? 49 Escapades 52 Europe’s largest ethnic group 53 Cognizant

DOWN 1 Send in your taxes 2 Right addition column 3 Surpasses 4 Greenish fruit drink 5 Where a Berkshire boar might bed down 6 Men from Malmo 7 It goes over your head 8 Gear for a gig 9 Superman’s original name ___-El 10 One type of airline ticket 11 Nasty 2014 African health problem 54 “Contra” equivalent 56 Seals the deal 59 Motto of one quite happy with mediocrity? 62 Stretch out the budget 63 Argentina’s Peron 64 Calyx leaf 65 Tommy ___ Jones 66 Full of impertinen­ce 67 False (pref.) 12 Went berserk 13 Revolting 18 Bishop of Rome 19 Primitive helicopter 24 Longest arm bone 25 Something you shout if you don’t drive well 26 Puts a limit on 27 Alternativ­e word for margarine 28 Item sold by Canada Post 29 10th Hebrew letter 32 Spaceship stabilizer 33 Absolute must 34 Disassembl­e 37 Beggar’s garb 38 Where the city of Split sits, in brief 39 Where old Greeks would gather 44 Gives counsel to 45 Gilpin who played Roz on “Frasier” 46 Knife-edged ridges 47 Off the straight and narrow 48 Like snake oil sellers 49 Bactrian, e.g. 50 Out of dreamland 51 Cheque recipient 54 Airport rental counter name 55 Ping-pong gear 57 Red-headed Genesis twin 58 Word yelled with the bang of a gavel 60 “Little” 1960s singer 61 Spooky reading ability, in brief

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