CANADIAN CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Boarded up 5 Washboard muscles 8 Moroccan prince 14 Benedict XVI, for one 15 Slice up 16 Mother of Calcutta 17 Factories and such 19 Early type of computer 20 Raccoon’s southern cousin 21 Heavy urban haze
23 Item between game and match
24 Done without intervention
26 US Republicans gp., briefly 28 Kidney enzyme effecting blood pressure
29 Due date, for short 31 Hemingway’s nickname 32 Net judge’s cry
34 Wears away 36 It’s not baloney 39 Summer dress fabrics 40 Sternum attachment 41 Globe, poetically
42 Colleen’s
country
43 Spanish
hero El ___
45 Barbershop quartet need 49 Draft in a bar 50 Superpower rivalries, often
53 Google Maps abbr.
55 Philip Kerr’s ‘96 novel 56 Book jacket info
57 Everest climber’s problem 59 Vaguely defined position 61 Many Vail visitors
62 Parry Sound hockey legend
63 One word of advice
64 Zoroastrian in India 65 Society column bio word
66 Warms the
bench
DOWN
1 Virgo’s brightest star
2 Thing the Queen bestows on you
3 Bit of brand new news
4 Old Jutland resident 5 Be a thespian 6 Rupture 7 Thwart 8 Doe’s suitor 9 Feathered layer? 10 Baseball stats, briefly 11 Reduce one’s standing 12 U-235 and C-14
13 “Coronation Street” cig 18 Almost identical
22 6 x 9in. book size
25 Iron-poor
27 Bit of ballet 30 Stops mid countdown 31 Bosom buddy
33 Shin bones 35 Freedom 36 Colombo’s country
37 Parting words, to Parisians 38 Stan who created Spider Man 40 Red Rose
product
44 St. George’s
foe
46 Water nymphs of myth
47 Old European import tax 48 Give some slack
51 Large auk family bird 52 Theatre reservations 54 Former couples
55 “... greatest of ___...” 57 Cobra cousin
58 Blow up cause, maybe
60 Before, of
yore