Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Weather person’s backdrop, often 4 Where a trucker sits 7 Toward the tiller 10 “Thar ___ blows!” 13 More often than not 15 Turkey cooking pan 17 Obsequious 18 More expensive 19 Biblical dancing temptress 20 Kampala’s country 21 This little piggy... 25 On top of, in rhyme 28 Turn on the charm for 29 Quarters in a sultan’s harem 30 And this little piggy... 37 Timbuktu’s area 38 Limp badly 42 This little piggy... 46 Violin tuning gizmo 49 Wise old hooter 50 Procured 51 Quantity that’s 12 for carbon 58 Butcherbir­d 59 Landlord, e.g.

63 And this little piggy... 65 And this little piggy... 66 Sanctifies with oil 67 Toughens, as steel 68 Obsolete Japanese coin 69 Drench to the bone 70 It’s tiny and really twisted 71 5% add-on, for most things

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1 Make messy, like hair 2 Somewhere in the Pacific 3 Basic knitting stitch 4 Weather, in poems 5 Tim the Toolman actor

6 “So long!” 7 Abstract sculpture’s Jean ___ 8 Internet discussion site 9 Cold, coniferous Siberian tract 10 3 sheets to the wind 11 Took some advice 12 Printing goofs 14 Assert 16 Knife fight memento 22 Pan Am’s flying rival of the ‘50s 23 Young whippersna­pper 24 Exclamatio­n of wonderment 25 CIA’s WWII forerunner 26 Stat. to watch if you’re making a pick up 27 Cheering squad’s syllable 31 Triumphant cry 32 Big Band or Elizabetha­n 33 Father figure 34 Post cereal brand 35 Bon ___ (witticism) 36 Die down 39 Ask for a handout 40 Sign for most August babies 41 Small pond amphibian 43 Line

44 Still have a mortgage 45 Boxing’s Louisville Lip 46 Ottoman lords 47 Odourless fuelgas 48 TV chef Ramsay 52 Pretty short dress 53 Byzantine religious images 54 One hundred, in Italia 55 First American in orbit 56 Auburn hair dye 57 English art institutio­n 60 Loot 61 “I don’t mind ___. Except as meals.”: Nash 62 Remaining amount 64 6th sense, in brief 65 Lump of tobacco

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