CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sound boosting gizmo 4 Manic periods

7 Wet naps 12 Lady, to a waiter 14 Electrical connector 16 Totally unreactive 17 Region where Martini vermouth is made 18 Popular cat food flavouring 19 Line in a ledger

20 Lenten fare 23 Octavia’s emperorhusband 24 Something you’d be proud to get a hole in

25 Where to get clams

28 Good name for a bake shop that sells jewellery? 33 Castle’s centre

34 Crosby and Stills onetime partner 35 “Fat chance!”

39 Old Greek story teller 42 Toe the line 43 Rudolph’s

pride

44 Move very

gingerly

46 Garlic butter topped bakery items you mix your coffee with? 52 Influential connections 53 Chariot or auction follower 54 UFO photo, maybe 56 Bread that’s often baked in Toulon 61 Baffin abode, maybe

64 Sour bluish-black fruit 65 Bowling locale

66 Orleans’ river 67 Faucets

68 Not long from now 69 Ran with an easy stride

70 More than just damp 71 Cognac, cointreau, absinthe cocktail

DOWN

1 Asian governess 2 Burr TV role 3 Sound of little feet 4 “I’ve had it ___ here!” 5 Much used calculator key

6 Phoenix hoopsters 7 Hot dog, essentially 8 Spots for the locals, often 9 Teacher’s fave

10 Mishandle a grounder 11 Snorter’s quarters 13 It means little

15 Where Libreville is 21 Curling stone

22 And, in Aachen 25 Large piece of marble

26 “So, what ___ is new?” 27 Decidedly wan

29 Hawaii’s Mauna ___ 30 Gloater’s shout

31 Where many altars are 32 Famed resident of The Dakota 35 One on the con side 36 Scattered seeds

37 Valley of the Kings deity 38 City NE of Casablanca 40 Feedbag

tidbit

41 Telekinesis, for short 45 Distracting audio glitch 47 ___ in on: aimed at

48 Bruce of

kung fu films 49 ‘80s Holocaust denier Zundel

50 Aussie eucalyptus lover

51 Erudite one 55 Arc-lamp gas

56 Golfer’s “heads-up” 57 Crab feature 58 Optimist’s attribute

59 For fear that 60 Told to go

61 Down with some infection 62 Baby’s first utterance, maybe

63 Bit of back talk