Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- adrian powell

ACROSS

1 One kind of hat 7 Natl. Cookie Day mo. 10 “Fine” subject to study 14 Sadist, e.g. 15 Naughts and crosses failure 16 Starkers 17 Utility workers read it

19 Cast of thousands flick

20 Bow to gravity 21 Like a Swiss Army knife 23 Part of a cheer from the cheering squad 25 Protein that lets skin stretch 27 Times of yore, quaintly 28 Furious emotion 29 Your pad, for short 30 Rough 32 Ramallah residents, mostly 36 First Lady of Jazz 37 Canada Post vehicle 38 Cauliflowe­r purchase 42 Tyke’s starter bike 47 Tenant 50 Unit of corn 51 The Mesozoic, for one 52 What Romans ate for breakfast 53 Numbers yet to be crunched 56 Nursery rhyme moon jumper 57 Last leader of the Soviet Union 59 Took a load off, so to speak 61 Mirth 62 Golfing rarities 66 Actresses Arden and Plum

67 Toy maker’s assistant 68 Belfast’s county 69 Take a break 70 Part of a tennis match 71 Excretes

DOWN

1 Grope, in a way 2 Cameleer’s robe, perhaps 3 Few words, figurative­ly 4 In the Black, or the Red 5 Corporate unions 6 Slot machines have one 7 Showers with love 8 Use some influence 9 Napoleon’s birthplace 10 Aid an evil mastermind, perhaps 11 Zorro’s sword 12 High-pitched warbling sounds 13 Formally pull out 18 Slippery as an eel 22 Unattribut­ed, briefly 23 Ready to pluck 24 World’s 4th largest lake, in the fifties 26 Give the goahead to 31 Mid seventies tennis icon 33 Noshes away 34 Burnsian denial 35 Interlace 39 Eligible voters 40 Chocolate bar introduced in the UK in ‘35 41 Whip out your gun 43 Juno’s Greek equivalent 44 Arrives at 45 This could be over your head 46 Board monitor’s responsibi­lity 47 Lumberjack 48 Develop over time 49 Ranee’s dresses 54 Undivided 55 Blue and white pottery 58 Cream of the crop 60 Cost of getting dealt in

63 Party invite encl. 64 Louse egg 65 43% of mammals

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