CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Restrict

6 Rangers’ grp. 9 Indian social tier

14 Plantain fibre, basically 15 Brief note from a poker loser, maybe 16 Jazz pianist Peterson 17 Like many bathrooms 18 Evita’s nation

20 Gem state, for short 21 Ancient

Scot

23 Bali’s bailiwick

24 Not preowned 25 Eclectic mixture 26 Snapping beast 29 1,000th anniversary

32 CBC newsman Hanomansing 33 Ultrasound deduction, perhaps

34 Crosby’s frequent costar

35 Massachusetts cape

36 Gomez Addam’s hairy relative 38 Stag party attendees 39 Teslas don’t need it

40 Shy female that maybe does some fawning 41 Breckinridge of fiction

43 Pretestimony words 45 Wayside retreat 46 Scandalous 50 Most Hebrideans still speak it 52 Caber tosser, usually 53 Gusto

55 Elon of SpaceX 56 Small part of an old prairie field

57 Gaze at 58 Disastrous score in blackjack 61 Brittle

63 This helps open a few doors

64 Cries of astonishment

65 “Before you leave the office!”

66 Go right in

67 Rice-cooking container 68 Slow-cooker creations

DOWN

1 Paris quarter 2 “Already mentioned,” in footnotes 3 Where Lilongwe is capital

4 It’s seen all over Baffin 5 Frog-to-be 6 Vitamin B3 7 Seuss’ elephant tale 8 Wheel nut

9 Use up 10 Starting to wake up

11 Pain caused by a disk in the lower back

12 Colour of most camels

13 Gay nineties, e.g. 19 Consume greedily 22 Holly, botanically 27 Home to many Hmong

28 What all good things must do

30 Vehicle used in amphibious military ops., briefly

31 Cloud chamber particle 36 Macbeth’s traditional burial site 37 Slumlord’s holding

38 “The A-Team” tough guy

39 Gross gunk

40 Make a hole

41 Not as dry

42 Disgusting,

slangily

43 Category 4 hurricane that hit Newfoundland in Sep., 2010

44 Picks up on 47 Confront

boldly

48 Optimistic

aspect 49 Where

Esau was sitting, in rhyme 51 Fencing manoeuvre 54 1660’s English diarist 58 Commonest English word

59 Cross the line first

60 “Up” side

62 Biodegrade,

basically