CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 From the flock

5 Sucks in 10 Leader from Lhasa

14 This destroyed Mascali in 1928 15 Newton who saw the apple fall 16 Cricket segment 17 Tender hearted

18 Mad person’s weekly routine?

20 Important amateur sports need 22 “Patriot Games” org. 23 Early cyberspace giant 24 Religious fanatic

26 Gift preparation parties, perhaps? 32 Six-gun’s location 33 Common conjunction 34 Nova Scotia island 38 Pizzeria fixture

40 Something you can dunk your naan in 41 Stage production 42 Reason for a raise

44 Get moving, old style! 45 Early afternoon

46 Item that haunts the Three Bears’ house? 51 Diagonally moving chess piece 54 Autumnal chill

55 Eight (pref.) 56 Spelunker’s sightings

63 Put all the pieces back together at the first try? 65 Without ice, to the barman 66 Ames area 67 Small change, until 2013 68 “Anything ___ ?” 69 “While” prefix

70 Like baklava 71 Triple Crown’s Seattle ___

DOWN

1 Subtraction word

2 In peak position? 3 News, briefly 4 Doze

5 Two-rod antenna

6 “Evil Empire” of the ‘80s 7 Coughs up, so to speak 8 For every one

9 Psych ward patient, slangily

10 Shot from Venus?

11 Take advantage of

12 One way to get around Paris

13 One who’s attained nirvana

19 Pops the top off

21 Urgent Morse message 25 “Make it snappy!” inits.

26 To ___ it may concern 27 Split asunder, quaintly

28 One who does quite good copies? 29 Indian holy man

30 Slug’s kin 31 Did nothing much

35 ___ Quebecois 36 Thin and angular 37 Baby blues, e.g.

39 Near, quaintly

43 The ones

over there

47 Study of light and vision

48 One of the themes of “Oedipus Rex”

49 Long way beyond tipsy, slangily

50 States one’s views

51 Ziggy Stardust’s alter ego 52 Blood of the gods

53 Stacks in the hold

57 From the top 58 Like Tonto’s masked friend

59 ___ meridiem

60 Pour one’s guts out 61 Laid-back quality

62 Make tomatoes for canning, perhaps

64 Est.

neighbour