canadian crossword

ACROSS

1 Ruminated 6 Oriental nursemaid 10 Thai temples 14 Mink’s aquatic relative 15 Fiesta fare, perhaps 16 Cookie that lived through two world wars 17 Brazen crime 20 The lady over there 21 Rejection from a highland dancer 22 Japanese art of flower arranging 23 The ___ of one’s teeth 24 Twofold 25 Bond orders 29 Mentally intimidates (with “out”) 33 ‘79 Sigourney Weaver thriller 34 VIP roster 36 Carp in the very early stages 37 A lot of talk on the street 38 Bert Bobbsey’s twin 39 Well beyond beefy 41 Be sick 42 “That ___ so bad.” 44 Not as vibrant 45 Pants leg measurement 47 Seismic events 49 Ancient Athenian hub 51 Casanova type 52 One of Canada’s time zones 55 Puzzle abbr. for alternate spellings 56 Where le soleil appears 59 Overseer’s activity 62 Talk indistinctly 63 In short order 64 Bestow with authority 65 15 to 1, say 66 Ilk 67 Tree houses?

DOWN

1 Rockers’ rivals in the sixties 2 Provo’s locale 3 Detriment to winking 4 Long, wriggly fish 5 Output of many interior fountains 6 Pericles, Plato and Socrates 7 Welcoming porch item 8 Unpleasantly pungent 9 Assignations, slangily 10 Unstable 11 A few square metres 12 Shore bird that sounds a bit bent? 13 High protein vegan staple 18 Put on a few pounds 19 Mule, for one 23 Weapon used in “Exodus” 25 East African native 26 Tuckered out 27 Omani money 28 Lean to one side 30 Belief, in brief 31 Common Canuck 32 Packets from the nursery 35 Meddle 40 Bundle of hay 43 One who pens love poetry 46 Aromatic compounds 48 Pitiful wail 50 Irritate 52 Imperial brand name 53 Positively ancient, to Burns 54 Bud Light’s one-time mascot ___ MacKenzie 56 Terminates 57 Hare’s tail 58 Summer shirts, casually 60 Go one better than 61 67 degs., 30 mins.