Ottawa Citizen

N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

- ALEX EYLAR / WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Shoestring­s 6 Cook in oil 9 Brewing giant originally based in Milwaukee 14 Roofing alternativ­e to shingles 15 Whopper (but not the Burger King kind) 16 Hawaiian greeting 17 Extremely inexpensiv­e 19 Things sometimes hidden behind paintings 20 Extinguish, as a fire 21 Cost of a bank transactio­n that’s not with one’s own bank 22 Confucian philosophy 24 Bottom-up, as a political movement 26 Runs away to marry 29 Like some winter highways 30 Perfect test grade 31 New Testament trio 33 Pop a fly? 37 “Now things are getting interestin­g” … or a hint to the first words of 17-, 24-, 45- and 57-Across 40 Gilbert of “Roseanne” and “The Conners” 41 Knots 42 Ship of 1492 43 High degree 44 Bub 45 Amateurish 51 GPS lines: Abbr. 52 Going from gig to gig 53 Texas city seen in many westerns 56 Hatred 57 Bars that kids go to? 60 Get a feeling 61 Iraq War danger, in brief 62 One of the Hawaiian Islands 63 Parts of a forest 64 “Here’s something interestin­g,” in brief 65 Got some Z’s

DOWN

1 Timothy Leary’s drug 2 “The Greatest” in the ring 3 One who doesn’t travel to work alone 4 “___, Brute!” 5 Religious offshoot 6 ___-de-lis 7 Cowboy’s rope 8 Informal affirmativ­e 9 Danish or cream puff 10 Avis competitor 11 Highly successful, in theater speak 12 One of 500 in a ream 13 Zaps with a police gun 18 Harleys, in slang 21 PC character set 22 Milk dispensers 23 Leader of the pack 25 Sounds of resignatio­n 27 Stage after larva 28 Bilinguali­sm subj. 31 Sacred peak in Greek myth: Abbr. 32 Had one’s fill 33 Equipment often transporte­d on a car’s roof 34 Was a maverick 35 Chipped in at a poker game 36 Old Russian royals 38 None of the above 39 Computer’s “brain,” for short 43 Clouds of smoke 44 What the Titanic had a disastrous encounter with 45 Give a lift 46 Beneath 47 “Goosebumps” writer R. L. ___ 48 One of four purchased for a Monopoly property 49 Sticky 50 We, on a candy heart 54 Fraternal group 55 “You’re on!” 57 Alternativ­e to Skippy or Peter Pan 58 Big mouth 59 Cambridge sch. for budding engineers

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