Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- adrian powell

ACROSS

1 ___, bravo, Charlie, etc. 5 Light fixture insert 9 Swoon 14 Student aid, usually 15 One of 450 billion cookies made in the last 115 years 16 Possessive person? 17 It’s hard to miss from here 20 Shopaholic­s’ binges 21 Tennis footwear 22 Sweet orange or purple tuber 23 1880’s revolution­ary 24 Winged love god 25 Bic product, often 29 Adolf’s Braun 30 Dane or Afghan 31 They last won the Stanley Cup in 1967 35 Mosque tower 38 Flapjack-making need 40 Supplement 41 Red Guard’s idol 42 Stop living 43 Rugby feat to try after a try 48 Bosc or Bartlett 51 Super dry, to vintners 52 Big “Arabian Nights” avian 53 Territory grabbing event 55 Tortellini and rigatoni 58 Focus on the core issue 60 Short-fused 61 Chrysler’s auto-making partner 62 Turn out on election day 63 Jagged 64 Tennis segments 65 “I’ll get right ___!”

DOWN

1 Yodelling locale

2 Air show manoeuvre 3 Domain reigned over by Queen Mab 4 Toughen, as steel 5 Hoskins, Newhart and Barker 6 Internet address, briefly 7 Alternativ­e to purchasing, perhaps 8 Jag’s hood, in Hull

9 “In ___ penny, Ö “10 Roused from slumber 11 One type of tube 12 Black, to Dali 13 Braid of hair 18 Office sub. 19 Sushi wrap 23 Demonstrat­ion that gets out of hand 25 Raised area around the altar 26 Ready and eager

27 “To a Mouse,” e.g. 28 Washington’s “The Book of ___” (2010) 32 Monkey on one’s back, so to speak 33 French flatfoot 34 Hunt for 36 Draws in 37 Quarrel 38 Peculiarit­y of walking 39 Will Ferrell’s Burgundy 41 Dudley Do-Right, e.g. 44 Brief news piece you’ll never see 45 Math experts’ creations 46 Catch animals 47 Serbian breakaway state 48 Snowboarde­r’s downhill run 49 Cross the threshold 50 Naval mail boat 54 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s isle 55 Teachers’ favourites 56 Resistant to, in combinatio­ns 57 “Don’t make the changes” manuscript direction 59 Derby or fez

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