CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Alien from Melmac and John Lennon’s dad 5 Letters on a oil can 8 Current measurement 14 Plant which when soaked can make cleaning fluid 16 More conceited 17 Attempt an erotic performance aimed at generating giggles? 19 Things to think about 20 Ingest a few calories 21 Tots up 22 How Led Zeppelin got to heaven 26 New Year’s Eve figure that loves every minute of what he’s doing? 31 Coat for a stoat 33 Sot’s sound 34 Quite perceptive 35 Red blood cell deficiencies 38 Mideastern capital (var.) 40 Kuwaiti dough 41 KFC’s Sanders, briefly 42 Global workers’ rights gp. 43 Laser that pulls teeth, yet makes you smile? 48 Heroes on a mission, maybe 49 Loosen one’s laces 53 NYC opera house 54 Local protest acronym 58 Result of really a long joke, perhaps? 62 Make a father of 63 One type of basketball defence 64 Odours 65 Sonneteer’s “before” 66 Old soldiers

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1 ___ spumante wine 2 Fauntleroy’s title 3 Oscarwinning Dunaway 4 Belly flop result 5 Pittance in 1780 France 6 Eva Peron’s homeland (abbr.) 7 Regarding the upper atmosphere. 8 ‘09 Cameron movie 9 Mountie, pre-’75 10 One type of type 11 Diana Rigg’s real first name 12 Rip asunder 13 Little pieces of work 15 Squander 18 When the cock crows 23 Ottoman Empire VIP. 24 Contracting eye part 25 “Oh, sure... right!” 26 Bay of Quinte feeder 27 Hole in one, slangily 28 Adar celebration 29 And others, for short 30 Where the MGM Grand was 31 Vanish gradually 32 Operating system since the early ‘70s 36 Scuff up, say 37 Where Mosul is 38 Wrongful act, in law 39 It runs through Dresden 41 Masquerade necessity 44 Seeds used in pickling 45 Romeo, or Juliet 46 Bond villain Blofeld 47 “I, Robot” author Isaac 49 Tabloid abduction sensations 50 “Cheers” beer-guzzler 51 City slicker 52 One type of history 55 Act out silently 56 Ovine cry 57 Old aluminum Japanese coins 59 1,000 G’s, slangily 60 Bitumen product 61 Detroit-Hamilton dir.