CANADIAN CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Encourage a crook 5 Scottish ancestor 9 Virtual currency 14 To the left (pref.) 15 Needing Bengay, say 16 This might cause many to scratch 17 Tomato variety
19 They let your legs bend 20 * Houses and such
22 Zip about 23 Gym workout unit, for short
24 Girl who graduated 26 Ship’s cable 30 Language of ancient Carthage 32 The Dalai Lama, these days 33 Bayonet’s ancestor 37 Vegas competitor 38 Excellent word that can go ahead of each of the asterisked answers 39 Fairy-tale horror 40 Traditional Papua weapons 42 Set of basic beliefs 43 Denny Doherty and John Phillips’ singing partners 44 Puts down, to a rapper 45 Watercarved gully 48 Yank
49 Fuel for an old Irish cottage 50 * Darwin, notably
57 Arm bones 59 Not wanting to be shot? 60 Brainless type
61 Bird revered by Ramases 62 Ammo holder 63 Interpol’s HQ locale 64 Clothes 65 Vegas’ lotto variant
DOWN
1 Priestly vestments 2 Veggie with a sugar variety 3 ‘Til the end of time 4 Vegan ingredient 5 Glib pitch 6 Winter roads do it
7 Arctic salmon, basically 8 Young child 9 Pack’s target, maybe 10 * Railroad employees 11 Starting players
12 Not at all lax 13 Plantain lily 18 Mass of loose rock 21 Better balanced, so to speak 25 Quebec coat of arms symbol 26 Cilantro, e.g. 27 Simple jump for a good figure skater 28 Big tippler 29 * Sportscast replay format 30 Meerschaums 31 Underappreciated string instruments 33 Future bug 34 Months on end 35 Unattached 36 Ottawa bureaucrats, mostly 38 Songwriter Paul
41 Use plastic, say
42 Stogie or cheroot 44 Undue pressure 45 Next month 46 Wellprepared 47 Marconi’s invention 48 All puffy and swollen
51 LSD, slangily 52 Classic
Dana fragrance 53 Don’t have 54 Piece of the Hebrides 55 Fragile leg bone
56 Spell checker’s find
58 “Now ___ official!”