Ottawa Citizen

Canadian crossword

- Adrian powell

ACROSS

1 “Beat it!”

5 Blanche’s predecesso­r 10 Small flatland 14 Robin Cook’s 1977 best seller 15 Taurus neighbour 16 Cyclotron traveller 17 Reiner and Lowe 18 Watermelon coverings 19 Act like a sovereign 20 Blood clotting material 21 New Year’s commitment 23 City famous for its tower 24 Alberta clipper’s dir., usually 25 Your choice 26 Culturally distinct 28 Stuff oneself 32 Stick one’s nose in 35 Item to fasten your gi with 36 Where Honda’s HQ is 39 Over the hill 40 Do the hokey pokey 42 Get older 43 They could be once removed 45 Fall apart, in a way 48 Valve in some fireplaces 52 Beijing brew 53 Blacklist

DOWN

1 Minor injury 2 “Enough, already!” 3 Lie in wait for 4 Hobart’s island 5 Right on target 6 Sign of an April baby, usually 7 Hair tint concoction 55 Fish-eating flyer from Finland 56 Item on the school supply list, often 60 Talk to the hearing impaired 61 In ___ of (replacing) 62 Painter’s plaster 63 Travelled faster than allowed 64 By mouth 65 French farewell 66 Fanning of “Super 8” 67 Full of bounce 68 Splinter groups 69 Defunct 8 Kerfuffle 9 Force into bondage 10 Joan of Arc, for one 11 Decorative notions case 12 Napoleon of U.N.C.L.E. 13 Orison ending, usually 22 One from Montreal 27 Old fashioned pub 28 Bettor’s calculatio­ns 29 Lengthy period in the earth’s history 30 Fox rival 31 Bind 33 Aspen’s anchor 34 This could slice up a narwhal 36 XE or XJ auto 37 “Let’s give it ___.” 38 Parrot or tortoise, to some 40 Tiny strands of biotech material 41 Evaluated 43 Type of heating fuel 44 Rock formed from magma 46 Black magic 47 Upsilon’s follower 49 Common skating jump, these days 50 Germany’s Merkel 51 Hung in the balance 53 Fundamenta­l 54 Financial positive 56 Raindrop sound 57 Athlone’s area 58 Not far away 59 Formally relinquish

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