Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Bermuda, e.g. 5 Burst into tears 9 Cavort 13 Does in a dragon 15 Macpherson or Fanning 16 Prince of Russian opera 17 Mid-game chess strategy practiced only in the wilderness of the outback? 20 Flippered critters 21 Toolbox staple 22 “Jimmy crack corn, ___ don’t care...” 23 Toonie 24 Scary Halloween item that somehow became a commercial winner? 30 Bend over backward? 31 Anne, to William and Harry 32 Compete in a track event 33 Tongue related to Thai 34 Floor coverings 37 Traditiona­l peyote user 38 Nice amount of dough, slangily 39 Slender woodwind 40 “No ifs, ___, or buts!” 41 Noise your best kitchen boss keeps uttering after his pigeon pie-making course? 46 Time of long ago 47 Stern section 48 Direction-less quantity 51 Out-standing! 55 Finally builds another bathroom? 57 Yokel’s word of opposition 58 With everything in place 59 Loses velocity 60 Chromosome part 61 Stalin’s news agcy. 62 Fist pumper’s cry

DOWN

1 Ideologies, slangily 2 Sour-tasting wild plum 3 It’s volcanic 4 Mascara site 5 Hot dog, informally 6 Caribou cousins 7 Whitney of cotton gin fame 8 Bic’s writing end 9 Clancy’s“Red Storm ___” 10 Cruel, crude dude 11 Heath covered tract 12 They play for pay 14 Short period 18 Mortar carriers 19 Sparkles in the light 23 Bloodstain, perhaps 24 Oz Scarecrow’s lack 25 Montreal’s ___ Polytechni­que 26 Where to pin a carnation 27 “The Beachcombe­rs” star Gerrusi 28 Perform better than 29 Telephone buttons without letters 30 ___ mater 34 Drinks with marshmallo­w floaters 35 Deviating from the norm 36 More than a bit part 40 In a caustic manner 42 Adhesive component 43 Assembles 44 Victim of an AD68 Roman coup 45 Small mountain lakes 48 Male elk 49 Nicolas of “Leaving Las Vegas” 50 Similar (to) 51 Tetley offerings 52 Big chunk of Arctic ice 53 Carson’s birth place 54 Something a copper can clobber you with 56 Where kelp grows

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