CANADIAN CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sporty British car, for short 4 Very young shepherd 7 Makes it to the finish 12 “... ___ home and native...” 13 Colour of a cloudless sky 15 MC’s specialty 16 Dingle Bay’s land (abbr.) 17 Screamed “So long!” from the other side of the Seine? 19 Lustrous bed linen fabric 21 Arch-rival 22 Wagon pulling group 23 Like the tissue pierced by a nipple ring 27 One of Senegal’s Southern neighbours 31 In the style of, fancily 33 Blue Grotto’s isle 34 Once, in olden times 36 Strong-arms 38 Verbal give and take 40 Big piece of brass? 41 Songwriter Paul ___ 44 Newly hatched salmon 45 Obvious pickup line 49 Trifling 50 Musical pitch indicator 53 Xi Jinping’s country 55 Spainís WWII leader 57 Item Hawaiian ladies wear on March 17? 61 Two-sided letter 62 Telegraphy pioneer 63 One of a Biblical 150 64 Mule that haul’d some barges “filled with lumber, coal, and hay” 65 Robert the Bruce’s men 66 Predetermined 67 Pig pen

DOWN

1 Floor support beam 2 Omens of a migraine 3 Star of “Ninotchka” (‘39) 4 Kandahar dough 5 Web page addy 6 Party leader? 7 Tropical jungle vines 8 Hans Christian ___ 9 “Upper” street drug, slangily 10 Card with its pips in one row 11 Long gone small French coin 13 Sailor’s “Sure!” 14 Womenís areas of houses in India 18 Supermarket section 20 Critter that can weigh 60kg, run faster than you and dad looks after the kids 24 Sales agent, for short 25 Good place for a stud 26 Samurai’s sash 28 Polar material 29 Cunning, in a way 30 Junkie 31 Back on the barge 32 Deafening 35 Make an attempt 37 Most shrewd 38 Usual amount of porridge 39 “Don’t get ___ ideas.” 41 Slalom or schuss 42 Quaint overnight stop 43 Long extinct NZ bird 46 Metric heavy weights 47 Islamic authority 48 Spud’s South American alternate 51 Panache 52 Unwise undertaking 53 Hook’s ticking menace 54 White knight, say 56 Captain Morgan’s drink 57 Sports team execs. 58 Intl. shipping giant 59 Slyly manipulate, in a way 60 Tatami, e.g.