CANADIAN CROSSWORD
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1 Seafood staple
5 Senegal’s neighbour
9 Gravy container
13 One of the weapons in “Clue”
14 Yoked bovines
15 Crafty tactic
16 Pair of upside down critters that insist on parking illegally?
19 Place for a carnation
20 Big platinum bar
21 Cookie with its name embossed on it
24 Once, in times of yore
26 Marks for life
27 Church custodians.
29 Go up against
31 Painful heart condition
32 Put into service
33 Little warty critter that’s behind the hoist and keeps the flies away?
39 Blood pressure-raising emotion
40 River port of Illinois
42 Fundamentals
46 Church area reserved for clergy
47 Criminal burning
48 Margarine’s old name
50 Count, in England
51 Cities’ smaller sisters
52 Paella pots, at times
54 Afternoon coffee break for podiatrists?
59 Place in the Hebrides
60 Start to freeze?
61 Like ants on the wing
62 Manxman’s ancestor
63 Label on the odds and ends file
64 Unit of RAM, or ROM
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1 Old PC screen type
2 Theatre seat designation
3 Formal written justification
4 Failed VHS rival
5 Lawn tools
6 Basic figure skating jumps
7 Digital watch part, for short
8 Contacts with pull
9 Something that’ll go for a buck?
10 Vent a large landfill
11 With the landlubbers
12 Common lab routines
17 Like much of Verdi’s music
18 Sylvester’s speech problem
21 Aves of the future
22 Tenant’s obligation
23 “Cogito, ___ sum”: Descartes
25 Peter, Marley’s reggae buddy
28 Where most join the line
30 Householder’s simple security device
32 Peyote user, traditionally
34 Approximating words
35 The Barents, for one
36 With frankness
37 Canucks mascot
38 Good fishing spot, often
41 Everything in sight
42 Windowshop
43 Also
44 Verse with 14 lines
45 Formal abbr. related to prox. and ult.
46 Boston ballplayer
47 Space used for storage, often
49 Uses a sand wedge, say
53 Dubai denizen, usually
55 Sweet potato, familiarly
56 What’s one for the Romans
57 Nag’s morsel
58 “Able was I ___ I ...”