Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Pants on fire type 5 Propose 10 Eurasian tree duck 14 Spot in the Shetlands 15 Make giggle 16 Gondolier equipment 17 Robin’s Marian, for one

18 Item slowly thawing in global warming 20 One of music’s Three Bs 21 Add years to one’s life 22 Buenos

___

23 Cause of coral reef bleaching, basically 27 50% of a postal code, briefly

28 Often flattering piece of poetry 29 Egypt’s Aswan, e.g. 32 Be superior to

35 Rough up

37 Tag along

38 CO2 and

CH4

41 Lemon peel 42 Wild romp 43 Multiplex

facility, often 44 Foundation stone letters 45 Three, in Turin

46 Alternativ­e to a Reuben, perhaps 47 Ultimate effect of glacial melt 53 Petal extract 56 Tierra ___ Fuego

57 Big bones in your hip region 58 Coal or oil, notably 61 Losing strategy? 62 Notable slices of history 63 Bolivian capital

64 Greenish wild plum 65 Lean and sinewy

66 Put some duds on 67 Adam’s place

DOWN

1 Uncomforta­ble place to be in

2 The non-fig Newton? 3 Lewis Carroll heroine

4 In the act 5 Melonlike fruits

6 Big name in watches since 1894 7 More confident 8 System of beliefs, briefly

9 Mad Hatter’s drink

10 Piece of holly 11 Heathcover­ed tract

12 “Do it or ___!”

13 Hoses down 19 Temple, old style

24 Lunch time for many 25 Meek and timid

26 At a loss for something to do 29 Recommende­d drug intake 30 Father’s final word 31 Arizona’s third most populous city 32 Cannibalis­tic monster

33 “QB VII” author

34 Backpacker’s accommodat­ion 35 Spongylook­ing mushroom 36 Eight in a date, in brief 37 Bullet case, often 39 Traditiona­l Israeli dance 40 Impudence 45 Hatcher of “Lois & Clark”

46 Ball beauties 47 Full of

chutzpah

48 Infer

conclusion­s 49 Swerves off to the side 50 Ancient Greek classic

51 WWII Leningrad event

52 Devoured

53 Several

54 Songwriter Amos 55 Serbian leader, 650 years ago 59 “Turn on, tune in, drop out” drug

60 Mink or

sable

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