Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Ma Baxter of “The Yearling” 4 Trade jabs with

8 Brownish greys

14 ___ Monte Foods

15 Old Gaelic tongue

16 A to A stretch, musically 17 Cleopatra’s undoing 18 Miserable rhyme that was conjured up by cold medication makers?

20 “Be ___ as it may...”

22 Fill the hold 23 Number of provincial capitals with three “T’s”

24 Salty Asian inland “sea”

25 Mass ending 27 Indistinct image 28 Unpopular rhyme about an elderly Ukrainian member of the flock?

32 Little white thing 33 Cobbler’s gizmo 34 Gunpowder holder

35 Give to with complete faith

37 What President Trump is most interested in? 41 Animal refuge of note

42 Where to find apple seeds 43 Chinese leader of the 60s

44 Rhyme that went against the human rights legislatio­n? 48 Swear a blue streak

49 Auth. unknown, in brief

50 Lost ark seeker, briefly 51 Azurite or Bornite

52 Indian noblewoman 54 Come across as

55 Rhyme that failed due to the reduced use of fossil fuels? 59 Scottish refusal 61 Inventor’s safeguard 62 Teen’s dermal woe

63 Weep

64 Spill soakeruppe­r 65 Installed a carpet

66 Just get by (with “out”)

DOWN

1 ___ Mae of “Ghost”

2 Put in a straight jacket 3 Something to learn in kindergart­en 4 Transmitte­d 5 One debating side

6 Burro, basically

7 Vote back in 8 Insect eater 9 160 square rods, once 10 Colorado native tongue 11 What Charles Manson never did get

12 Level out 13 Passover feast 19 Went to the bottom 21 Pie-mode connection 24 Accomplish­ed

25 Where Nome is home, to many

26 Crow’s nest supporter 27 Panhandles 29 Book jacket write up

30 It may be a trail at Vail 31 Macho dudes 36 What sunbathers catch

37 Stereotypi­cal freighttra­in hopper 38 What to call a cardinal

39 Canadian Museum for Human Rights, for one

40 Old geezer 42 Distrustfu­l, in a way 44 Sacking, usually

45 Did, once

46 Doorslammi­ng noise

47 Dad’s day stand-by, maybe

48 Fowl territorie­s 52 Boxing venue 53 Entry fee of a sort 54 Word after bob or dog 56 Barbie’s boyfriend 57 Starchy Andean staple 58 Singersong­writer DiFranco 60 Spot on a spud

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