CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Fort ___, Texas 6 Eagerly anticipatory 10 For short, for short 14 Up on things 15 Balsam used in cough syrup 16 Change from time to time 17 Placed sparkles and tinsel on the Christmas drinks? 20 As above, in a footnote 21 Unendingly, in poetry 22 Tendons

23 One type of owl

25 Crosby of “White Christmas” 26 Fake brews? 31 Lean to one side 32 Famous US flag maker 33 British barrister’s headpiece 35 Animal skin 36 Poinsettia “petal”, technically 38 “Dollar Days” event 39 Three letter record mega-label, once

40 Throw in the towel 41 Crooked item of rhyme

42 Petty officers’ refined gettogether of 1773?

46 ‘50s pin-up girl Bettie 47 Bobsled’s speedy kin 48 Most of Mali 51 Blood relatives 52 Trawling gear

56 Hulksponsored event where you continually try different brews? 59 Leader with a Sunni outlook 60 Norse deity with only one eye

61 Leave baffled 62 Hoodwinks, slangily 63 Skilled punsters 64 Naval assets

DOWN

1 Dried-out desert water course

2 Had overdue bills

3 Try to beat the clock 4 Dixieland instrument 5 Who the Beatles saw standing there

6 Join the party

7 One who never stops 8 Way past middle aged 9 One with the most bravado 10 Get even 11 Hold back, like breath 12 Make a cuppa 13 Swedish shag rugs 18 Prefix with foil or space 19 Pointers, in a way 24 Behave

(as if)

25 ___ Quebecois 26 What mountaineers do 27 SiriusXM medium 28 Hopping mad

29 Cool one’s heels 30 Inane 31 Womanly pronoun 34 “Aw, heck!” 36 Small one-story house 37 Wedding, basically 38 It’s in numbers, so they say

40 Litre’s imperial cousin 41 What many an old couch will do 43 Muscle twitches 44 Puts all in a row

45 What to do on third and long 48 Chug from the bottle 49 Nasty type of ant

50 Old jalopy 51 Make some baby’s bootees 53 Fancy needle case

54 Office sub. 55 Easy dupes 57 Ugandan tyrant Amin 58 Complete jerk