CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Use a blowtorch, perhaps 5 Item used for fencing 9 Toot one’s horn 14 Away from the wind 15 Eggnog season 16 Permit 17 Crows 19 Amino acid that helps Parkinson’s disease 20 Sets up for use 21 Head nun 22 “Now

___ seen everything!” 23 Block house on Baffin 25 Swifts 31 First stomach of a cow 32 Small, solitary Asian buffalo 33 Untruth 34 “___Jel” toothache remedy 35 Especially suited

37 ___ O’Leary’s cow

39 The whole shootin’ match 40 “Awesome!” 41 Pants pioneer Strauss 43 Beekeeper’s product 45 Cranes 49 Debonair quality 50 Vein find 51 “Look!” 54 Most sadistic 59 Soap plant 60 Martins 61 The last names of all the theme characters in this puzzle 62 Far beyond parched 63 Cruise line asset 64 John Steinbeck’s middle name 65 Forbids. 66 Japan’s national instrument

DOWN

1 Dry desert stream bed 2 Showmanship 3 Fisheye, for one 4 Preordain 5 Shoelace hole 6 Knitter’s stitch 7 Mythical paradise: ___fields 8 Snakylooking fish 9 Panama’s currency unit 10 Eton alumnus, e.g. 11 Soothing plant extract 12 Drenches to the bone 13 “___ brillig, and the slithy...” 18 Cuban cigar 21 Item in the apse, usually 24 Like certain garden figures 25 One who weighs the evidence 26 Missouri River city 27 Intolerant types 28 The plain in Spain 29 Fixed a squeaky hinge 30 Count (on) 31 Shingle site 36 State “Not guilty!” 38 Unselfish sort 42 Innards 44 Cleopatra’s Needle, for one 46 Dresses down 47 Most sickly 48 Hunting dogs 51 Yankee who wore number 3 52 Arabic prince 53 Unicorn’s pride 55 This can ruin a barbecue 56 Eerie cave effect 57 Tongue in cheek revue 58 Spell checker’s discovery 60 Pat on