Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS 1 Hippie hangouts

5 Heaping amt.?

8 Target of a sweep

12 Usual lotion additive 13 Small, vowelheavy buffalo 15 Viola player’s instructio­n 16 Lennon had one 20 Distinctiv­e few years 21 Stimulate one’s appetite

22 Bit of aquarium gunk 23 Gumshoe, for short 25 Ammonia, for one

27 Second of April

29 Office PC system 30 Nauseating 34 Beginning of A.M.

35 Turning point for a ballerina 36 Telepathic term

37 Bob Marley admirer, say 39 Kingston duo? 41 Samantha of “The Collector” 45 Timbuktu attire

47 Meet a poker bet

49 “Well, you’re something ___!”

50 Breadmakin­g genius?

55 Baled material

56 Half a rum cocktail? 57 Perrins’ saucy partner

58 Word with kin, nip or call 59 Once, quaintly 61 Nasty lid developmen­t?

63 22nd Greek letter

65 How tragic news is delivered 70 With everything in place 71 Tomson Highway, e.g. 72 Ancient Athenian hub 73 Bleak

74 Two in a billion? 75 Offshoot group

DOWN

1 One to be trusted 2 Lighter of the ‘96 Atlanta Olympic flame

3 Pigeon houses (var.) 4 One with great vision 5 Cane’s sound 6 Racketshap­ed footwear 7 Winnie’s nickname 8 Koala’s pouch 9 Quint’s boat in “Jaws” 10 Eye-like spots

11 Native of the city of Nuku’alofa 14 First Hebrew letter

17 Ravi Shankar genre, at times

18 Wolfed down

19 Drink of astronauts 23 Old Russian monarch 24 Heavy Sicilian smoker? 26 Legislativ­e product

28 Enya sometimes sings in it 31 Caesium, for one 32 Perfume the church 33 Niamey’s nation

38 Act as the lookout guy, say

40 It’s going up, they say

42 Cover the area with ice

43 Where the COVID-19 outbreak started 44 Larson’s rock musical of 1996 46 Inundated 48 High time on the Riviera 50 Foreheadwi­ping word

51 NY pop artist Keith ___ 52 Shucked shellfish

53 With all the latest electronic­s, slangily 54 Ringo’s wife, Barbara ___ 60 Spicy Oriental cuisine

62 Easily handled, as a ship

64 Rudolf who spent 21 years alone at Spandau 66 Interac machine 67 Quite a positive word 68 Sinbad’s “wings” 69 Tweety’s tormenter

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