Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Only NHL defenceman to score nine hat tricks 4 Ozone destroying chemical, in brief 7 “Mississipp­i Burning” group

11 Uproar 14 Napoleon of U.N.C.L.E. 15 Holy

Hebrides isle

16 Warm weather ermine

17 Come down in buckets 18 Will’s opposite? 19 Phrase that epitomizes some hunters’ logic?

(with 24A,

45A and 52A) 22 Asian auto giant

23 Elver’s elder 24 Phrase continued from 19A (with 45A and 52A) 31 Cinnabar, e.g. 32 Stand-out period

33 Undergroun­d worker 35 ___-O-Fish 38 Youngest Scout rank 40 Off by itself 41 Ticklish response

42 Old Brazilian capital

44 Andy Capp’s smoke

45 Phrase continued from 45A (with 52A) 50 PEI’s Peter Bevan-Baker, e.g. 51 ‘20s Pierce Arrow rival 52 End of phrase continued from 45A 59 Author Vidal 60 Aircraftre­lated (pref.) 61 Stonehenge celebrant 63 Ollie’s thinner partner 64 Ocean

Spray’s ___ -Lemonade 65 Give in

66 ‘81 Timothy Hutton film 67 Latvia’s neighbour, for short 68 AA candidate, perhaps

DOWN

1 Post cereal brand

2 Bengali bread 3 Good place to nail your shingle

4 Like October in Regina 5 Lucked out 6 Merry widow, e.g.

7 NZ native, informally 8 “Now see here...” 9 Hathaway of 2012’s “Les Miserables” 10 Cole, the King of croon 12 17-syllable Japanese work

13 Room under the roof 14 Cruise ship amenity 20 Waves from the back of the ship 21 Camel’s South American cousin 24 Shakespear­ean sprite

25 Huge cowfriendl­y city 26 Parabola segment 27 21 sq.km. Pacific state

28 Fleur de ___ 29 Bowie’s weapon 30 Family car, perhaps 31 With regularity, to poets

34 What Elton John was called as a teenager 36 Shriek from Blondie Bumstead, maybe

37 “The Finnish Flash” Selanne 39 Lighter or highlighte­r brand 43 Southern veggie with a gummy pod 46 Strasbourg’s area

47 Old fashioned librarian’s stamps

48 Oscar winning Roosevelt 49 Quran’s temptress of Paradise

52 Theta follower 53 Where to use a wedge 54 Washroom door word 55 Sassy little kid

56 Heck of long time

57 Pool tools 58 Drug trafficker’s unit

59 It was 6% in 2007 62 Popular bug spray, once

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