Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1

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

1

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

 ??  ??

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