Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

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

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