MONDAY'S PUZZLES CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tries to get

the lowdown 5 Type of acid linked to kidney stones

9 Hindu

ascetic

14 What to call

a dame

15 Dixie-style

bread

16 Timothy, mail-order catalogue pioneer of the 1880s

17 Glowing halo

of light

18 Chicken

dealer

20 Frightened by the number of old wounds one has?

22 Longhaired

hunting dog 23 Second sight, for short

24 Austrian skyline feature

27 Pouches,

biologically 29 Zagreb

native

31 “The

Altar” star group

34 Heap kudos

on

36 Sherlock Holmes, notably

37 Zombie involved in a car crash? 40 Cut away

41 Fava or pinto 42 Mark on a peacock’s tail

43 Spacious

44 Beelzebub’s

sphere 46 Newspaper skill of yore, briefly

47 Old Linotype

units

50 One type of

paint

54 The ISS or

the moon

57 Intensifying

one’s efforts 60 Eternity

61 Bakery requirements

62 In a previous

era

63 Bright green 64 Kind of jumpy, maybe

65 The sun

66 Word in many cruise ships’ names

DOWN

1 Aggregate

2 Hollandaise,

for one

3 Gold purity

unit

4 Know-how,

slangily

5 Letters like

THIS

6 Quarter of

an acre

7 Public loo sign 8 Boston’s NBA team, briefly 9 Medieval flunky 10 Traveller on

foot

11 Item you can easily withdraw from?

12 Giant New Zealander, long ago

13 Comfy, rural place to stay

19 Word of

advice

21 Supposedly unscripted TV genre 25 Jeweller’s magnifying glass.

26 Con man’s

victim

28 Early

7th c. Chinese dynasty

29 Making exact copies

30 What you

used to be 31 Dollar Rent

___

32 R2-D2, for

one 33 Brass or

bronze

35 Driver’s license info (abbr.)

36 Vulture, for

example. 38 Satirizes 39 Word in a dowager’s bio

45 They’re on

cans

47 Slacken

48 Where the statue of Venus was found 49 Work shift

51 Big screen

production 52 Fluid bloat 53 Turtle shell instruments, once

55 Cunning ploy 56 One of Cuzco’s founders

57 “Hogwash!” 58 After dusk,

poetically

59 Wolves’

hang-out