Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Addictions clinic candidate 5 Not quite right 10 One of Leave it to Beaver’s Cleavers 14 Trim off the excess 15 Sega’s famous hedgehog 16 Moisturele­ss 17 Is left dangling, in a way 20 Properly pitched 21 Use the sofa 22 Utter aloud 23 Copy mindlessly 25 Tiddlywink­s, basically 27 Dull, boring type 32 Where you could watch “Mr. Dressup” 34 It’s guarded in soccer 35 Run out of steam 36 Grammy winner Whitney 38 Afternoon performanc­e 41 “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” singer 42 Orca of the big screen 43 Aphids will eat it 44 Really easy 49 Unsurpassa­ble 50 “All Seats Sold” theatre sign 51 Cardio tracing, for short 54 Female sheep 55 Completely devour 59 Underhande­d, treacherou­s sort 64 Long story from Scandinavi­a 65 Bad kind of headache 66 Newsworthy periods 67 Stone often unearthed down under 68 Abhors 69 Huck Finn’s vessel

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1 As far as 2 Like firewood, usually 3 Phantom’s name 4 Change chairs 5 Aesop’s fable animal, often 6 “Pardonnez___!” 7 Hotel on a country lane 8 Protests, sixties style 9 Mica-like rock 10 Mandible locale 11 Writer of “Redemption”(‘95) 12 Fashion’s Ricci 13 Singer Nelson of “Rose Marie” (‘36) 18 Keyboard expert 19 Engrave with acid 24 Faint reverberat­ion 25 Heck of a racket 26 Ramses I’s successor 27 Rower’s racing shell 28 Brethren 29 Belarus capital 30 Nitrogenou­s waste 31 Like the Mariana Trench 32 Work on jerky 33 Gaucho’s ball on a string 37 H.H. Munro’s pseudonym 38 West who said “Peel me a grape” 39 Rock concert musts 40 Mali desert wanderer 42 Place where Penguins play 45 Germ of a French invention 46 Fairly recent 47 Tapeworm genus 48 Lion, at times 51 Letters on a pump 52 Make stone tools 53 Noted “Lady” of rock 56 Where Rhett hung out in‘39 57 Letters on a C-17 Globemaste­r 58 “Hey there!” 60 Word on an plane from Seoul 61 Great leveller, briefly 62 Subtle colour variant 63 Swirly item before T

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