CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Slavic grandmas, slangily

6 NS’s Chedabucto, e.g.

9 Lily-like border plant 14 Hirsch, star of “Milk” 15 Have outstanding bills

16 Dodge 17 Company that excels at coffee deliveries? 20 Olden times, poetically 21 Top card, often 22 Showery mo.., traditionally 23 Get prone 24 Twists one’s arm

27 Gucci’s fashion rival 31 Jazz group composed of players with overbites? 35 Piratical agreement 36 Stewed legume Indian dish 37 Taro preparation 38 Lecherous deity 41 Flip-chart stand

43 “___ you insane?!” 44 Flash of inspiration 48 Crow call

49 Big, personal touch you can add to your cabin in the woods, perhaps? 55 Thai appetizer 56 Ease off 57 Sales agt. 58 Part of a pep-rally yell 60 Item between game and match 62 Faucet

63 Sign above a Mexican 24hour cafe’s ATM?

69 More than treat badly 70 Preceding, quaintly 71 Theatregoers’ private boxes 72 Melonlike tropical fruit 73 Psychedelic drug, for short

74 Dance around, in a way

DOWN

1 Happened to 2 Missing aviatrix Earhart 3 eBay user, perhaps

4 Yard contents 5 IV additives, at times 6 Ravel classic 7 Inspire wonderment 8 “Certainly!” 9 Dwell (on) 10 Take a bit too far

11 Plea from the sea 12 “___ a pity.” 13 “Without further ___ ...”

18 Extreme, as pain

19 Old Turkish title

25 Geb, Nut or Isis 26 Obsolete English letter 28 Satan’s minions

29 Sad sounding woodwind 30 Make turbid 32 “Little Boy” carrier “Enola ___” 33 Big, cliff-top nest (var.) 34 Gridiron gripping aid 38 Back talk impudently 39 “Figaro” highlight, say 40 iPhone message, perhaps 42 Boring tool

45 Indian capital 46 But or benz follower 47 Back on a ship 48 Handled the situation 50 Singer Stratas 51 Turfed out of office

52 Daniel of Nicaragua 53 Like most bicycles, these days 54 Speak out against 59 Again from square one 61 Mah Jongg piece

63 Once round the track 64 Desert nomad’s garb

65 Young ram, in Derby 66 Come together, in a sense 67 Time sheet abbr. 68 US Thanksgiving mo.