Ottawa Citizen

canadian crossword

- adrian powell

ACROSS

1 Medium length skirt 5 Cranks up the V-8 9 1/32 of a pint 13 Impersonat­e 14 Give off some fumes 15 Type of thermomete­r 16 Goofy 17 Tendon injury 18 Many (pref.) 19 Edible desert lily 20 Eugene’s state, briefly 21 Land where less than 0.2% are Christians 23 You’re working on it right now! 28 Mimic closely 29 Consume 30 Ramadanend­ing event 31 Fritter away 35 They drank it on Apollo 36 Usual number of barbershop singers 37 Nubian Desert locale 39 It follows an eff 40 Mesozoic, for one 41 Not just black and white 43 Shannon who had a “Runaway” hit

44 Earl Grey, for one 46 It’s kept in tiny chains in cells 47 Verbal goof 54 Vassal’s land 55 Sign of a recent fire 56 Old Blue Eyes’ kid 57 Runny white cheese 59 Is sickly 61 Extremist sects 62 V8 juice veggie 63 NWT official language 64 Old B&W film 65 Buffalo Bill’s surname 66 Work hard for 67 Military centre

DOWN

1 Clementine’s pa, in song 2 Adult stage in insects 3 Mesozoic beasts 4 Floe’s make-up 5 Fashionabl­y old

6 Abu Dhabi bigwig 7 Cross country train operator 8 Takes it all off

9 ‘67 Uris novel 10 Period following the Neolithic 11 Well known folk singer’s mule 12 Carry on one’s trade 13 Label on a box of odd stuff, maybe 20 Medal winner Jesse of the ‘36 Olympics 22 Bea, Betty and Estelle’s co-star 24 Health facility 25 Concerning one’s brain covering 26 Like some note paper 27 Knife’s important part 31 Quebec city and battle site of 1610 32 With the necessary requiremen­ts 33 Coin from “The Merchant of Venice” 34 Japan’s 18th century capital 35 Large arachnid 36 Ott. bureaucrat­s 38 Bridge seat 42 Easy 108-card party game 44 Tic-tac-___ 45 Expunge 48 Saintly quality

49 In finer fettle 50 Oberhausen’s industrial neighbour 51 Covers with gold 52 Remove the restraints 53 Get less intense 57 Where to see “Dr. Who” 58 Auto co. that made the Flying Cloud, Comet and Royale 60 Sinn Fein’s radical org., once 61 Corn on the ___

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