CANADIAN CROSSWORD
ACROSS
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Sultan’s chum, perhaps
5 Kettle output 10 Fixes broken
bones
14 Long extinct
Mauritian
15 Skydiver’s
need, briefly 16 Cover with
foil, say
17 “___ be a cold
day in Hell...” 18 Red deer
stags
19 Like unwashed hair
20 Jazz pianist given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in ‘93
23 Tax prep expert, (abbr.)
24 Light gas? 25 Noted UK heavy metal band who released “Firepower” 2018
30 Great big
hubbub
33 Like
Freddy Kreuger
34 Danseuse’
step
35 Big downy
duck
37 Not phony 38 Roman legionnaires’ defences
41 Tear into
pieces
42 Limestone
cave area
44 One type of Buddhism 45 Area at the east end of the church, usually
46 Sneaky 47 South Korean family member?
51 Woodland
deity
52 Oft-used expression in “The King and I” (abbr.)
53 French director of “Bel Ami” (‘83)
60 Ramadan
ritual
61 Sultan Qaboos bin Said was one 62 Fierce, cold
Adriatic wind 63 Giant Jamaican citrus
64 Nonbeliever 65 Cause of a
drip
66 Riverbank
growth
67 Anoint, in
bygone days 68 Wittenberg’s
river
DOWN
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2
Vet text Former silkworm
3 Twiddling
one’s thumbs 4 Attendancechecking routines
5 Distilled fruit
brandy
6 Baht spender,
usually
7 Finnish
financial unit 8 Make
harmonious
9 Like hoarders’ homes, usually
10 Theatrical
faint
11 Emerald Isle 12 Spill the
beans
13 Act like a
mole
21 The CIA does some covert ones
22 Dust
bunny
25 Sudden
yanks 26 Eye layer between the retina and sclera
27 Personal
journal
28 Brit’s version
of the CAA 29 Japanese
Mazda rival 30 Extremely
talented
31 Tightly
packed
32 What your
server takes 36 Cantankerous 39 No. on your letterhead, usually
40 Gooselike
43 Role Godunov was good enough for
48 King Minos of Crete’s mother (myth)
49 Small type of
band
50 “___ make a big difference!” 51 Rotting with quite a stench 53 Ellen of
“Flatliners” 54 Pirate’s
hiding place 55 Tweety’s
home
56 Really, really
fussy
57 Mel Blanc’s
son
58 Moroccan,
often
59 Superior, for
one
60 Muskrat or
mouton