Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 Painted Desert flattops

6 Knitting or

crochet, e.g. 11 Matched

collection

14 Jigsaw

puzzle bit

15 Swiss calculus pioneer Leonhard ___ 16 Landing info,

for short

17 Pain you feel when you swallow something freezing cold and it hits the back of your oat?

19 Tiny Eur.

nation

20 Olden days,

quaintly

21 Lends

a hand

22 The mob 24 Common hieroglyph­ic deity

26 Plasma

particles

27 Time of day to get up to work on your secale cereale crops?

32 C6H13

group

33 Social genres 34 Just get by

(with “out”) 36 Back on a

barge

37 Number of Ali’s thieves

39 Follett who wrote “World Without End” 40 Raptor’s home, for short

41 Military

assistant

42 Down the

road a bit 44 Farmers’ search site that’s absolutely a-maize-ing? 48 Windsock

alternativ­e 49 “In Flanders

Fields”, e.g. 50 As a result of 52 Boer’s African journey

54 Lamb’s ma 57 4th cal. page,

for short

58 The experiment­al kelp beds tended by a specialize­d US military branch?

62 “Hey, ___ so

fast!”

63 Creme de la

creme

64 Turn to pap

65 Half of nine 66 Burkina Faso

neighbour

67 Take over by

force

DOWN

1 Iowa fuel efficiency fig. 2 Colleen’s

country

3 Flippered

animal

4 Turn sour, in a

way

5 Change in

Japan, once

6 Cherry red

7 Regretted

royally 8 Buys down at

“the local”

9 Shriner’s hat 10 Aftershock­s 11 Narcissist­ic

opportunis­t 12 Lady’s fancy knickknack case

13 Biological

groupings

18 So-so

23 Unspecifie­d

amount

25 The sun, in

sci-fi lingo

26 Pitch black 27 Make

obscure 28 Outgoing

folk

29 Fathered

30 The previous

mo.

31 Scottish

dagger

32 Toque, for

one

35 Come to a

halt

37 Manicurist’s

tool

38 Long, flowery piece of poetry

41 Nickname,

put fancily 42 Popular bandage brand

43 Ball game crowd pleaser

45 Nosebag

tidbit

46 Handy kitchen gizmo

47 Puff on

a joint

50 German’s

neighbour 51 On top of 52 High school math topic (abbr.) 53 Sacred

ceremony 55 Weatherbea­ten

56 One of the Olympic fencing events

59 Greatest heavyweigh­t boxer, some say

60 T4A expert, e.g.

61 Ultrasound

deduction

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