CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Words to the wise 7 Anti-stick cooking spray 10 Slice open 14 Heath family shrubs 15 Monty Python’s “___ a lumberjack and ...” 16 Japanese bean paste 17 Three time federal election loser of the 60’s and 70’s 20 Powerful intl. cartel 21 Attentiongetting yell 22 Like a proverbial lily 23 Coloured optical layer 25 Big, fisheating, European bird 26 Spacey Canadian lady? 31 Flood control structure 32 White House e-mail suffix 33 Blocker of “Bonanza” 35 “I get it now!” 36 Narrow canyons 40 Egg cells 41 Crony 42 ‘97 World Series Champion pitcher Robb ___ 43 Baggy style of pants 45 What this puzzle’s all about, in a way 50 Malt-drying kiln 51 A sax only has one 52 Baltimore ball club’s insignia 55 Blackball 56 Tiny scintilla 60 “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” songwriter 63 Best commercial award 64 Utter failure 65 Like many sweaters 66 In addition 67 Hog farmer’s pen 68 Walked purposefully

DOWN

1 Kit Kat rival, maybe 2 Plummet down 3 Vague feeling in the air 4 Cola cooler 5 Herbie the Love Bug, e.g. 6 Biblical follower of Nehemiah 7 Compassion 8 Gp. that Marcus Welby was part of 9 Indonesian brackish water tree 10 Said “cheese” 11 Made stuff up 12 Scotland’s Skye, e.g. 13 Sweeney, Fleet Street’s barber 18 Theatre reservation 19 Huckleberry of fiction 24 Joe Biden, until 2017 25 Coal-black, to Coleridge 26 Post-op recuperation centre 27 1/4-round moulding 28 Cheese process 29 Gussy up 30 Uttered inanities 31 Sever 34 Hanoi’s locale, slangily 37 Sambuca flavourers 38 Verbally let loose 39 Cobbler’s creation 44 Book reviewer? 46 Tot’s minor mishap 47 Exotic Indonesian isle 48 East Jerusalem resident, may be 49 Extends a subscription 52 Big apex ocean predator 53 Sound of drums 54 Bird sacred to Tut 55 Sign of foul play, maybe 57 N. European capital 58 ___ the line 59 Crooner Murray 61 When stags compete 62 “Fiddlesticks!”