Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Forum’s Greek relative 6 Pussy foot 9 Rudely ignores 14 Physical therapy, briefly

15 ‘60 Olympic locale

16 Tree with red-purple flowers and a big yellow fruit

17 Office standins

18 Eight after nu

19 Things which are never in the male 20 Financial control

23 Local diner 26 Max degree 27 Celebrator­y poems 28 Walked over 30 All skin and bone 32 Scalding 33 Org. that tries to answer the question “Are we alone?” 35 Muffles, in a way

39 Correct some copy 42 White as a ghost

43 Fall forecast, at times 44 Noodles in many dorm rooms

45 Very small diamond 47 Rap sheet shorthand 48 Dough 50 Red Chamber mbr.

53 Went under 56 Uneaten morsel

58 One of two evils

59 Learn how things are done

62 Less cordial 63 Inflation cause? 64 eHarmony users’ hopes 68 Kenyan tribesman 69 UN’s first leader, ___ Hammarskjo­ld

70 Thick Amazonian vine

71 Big kind of whale 72 Conniving 73 Slip through one’s fingers

DOWN

1 Doodles, to some 2 Capital of Georgia? 3 Impedance unit

4 Sang like Pusha T. 5 Totally ludicrous 6 Small labs 7 Sickly looking 8 Some things a tailor’s used to measuring 9 Branch line 10 Countrywid­e

11 Tip over 12 Tug’s haul, perhaps

13 Like Roger Federer 21 Pumpernick­el cousins 22 Something between toe and line 23 Archaic anaestheti­c 24 Yummy smell

25 Clan symbol 29 Need for a meeting with royalty, maybe

31 Clio contenders 34 Old deck hand, slangily 36 Spam, ham and lamb 37 Oolong alternativ­e 38 “Yellow Submarine” singer

40 Ties and scarves 41 Proof of paternity 46 Shrill bark 49 Fah to lah separator 51 Irk

52 Attack vigorously 53 Glances over the text 54 Open a brewski 55 Cacophony 57 Judge and jury event

60 Svelte 61 Caligula wing-ding 65 Corinthian consonant 66 Curling segment 67 RSVP encl.

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