Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

Canadian Crossword puzzle creator Adrian Powell died last week at age 74. The Ottawa Citizen will carry his puzzle until May 7.

ACROSS

1 Blubber

5 Card game for 3 with a 40 card deck 10 Aliens' classic request: “Take ___ your leader!” 14 Decidedly

wan

15 Song of

exultation

16 Smart guy who often gets picked on

17 Was really evasive

20 Send up another rocket

21 Wild-boar

features

22 Reverentia­l

wonder

23 Genteel afternoon event 24 Pan Arab Games entrant

26 Drafty covering of a sort

30 Ship in from

abroad

33 Swamp-like 34 Birth name signifying word

35 Tom's greeting, maybe

36 Channel “Dynasty” once aired on

37 “Stop!”

38 Hinny or

ninny

39 Eight

furlongs

41 Puts up

43 Letter carriers attire?

46 Japanese poem of 31 syllables 47 Boyhood nickname in “The Phantom Menace”

48 US pillapprov­ing gp.

51 Generates

some dough 53 Flappers'

decade

55 Attire for a group of kittiwakes, maybe?

58 Flatware

prong

59 Sunday entree, perhaps

60 Greek

cheese

61 Verbal impertinen­ce

62 Wharf space 63 Waiter's

convenienc­e

DOWN

1 Port on the Shatt-al-Arab

2 Cockeyed

3 Vague time

period

4 The Harp constellat­ion

5 Most candid 6 Wildly

impetuous

7 One of Alcott's little women

8 Part of a pep

rally yell 9 Benz or

butyl ender 10 Like some

heroes

11 Temporary college instructor

12 WWII island

battle site

13 Long-winded

poems

18 One-on-one

teacher

19 Brindisi's

country

24 Psych or

narc suffix 25 Fold, spindle

or mutilate 26 In what way? 27 Set solidly

(in)

28 Fuse with a

torch

29 Brooklyn's basketball team

30 Emir's advisor, maybe

31 Small Arizona plateau

32 Elementary

antipartic­les 36 Common aquatic life form 37 ___ Master's

Voice

39 Belarus'

capital city 40 Very small

kind of well 41 Directly

under

42 Not

abstaining 44 Treats a boil 45 Least

cooked

48 Worker in the records room

49 United Airlines rival 50 Evaluate ore

samples

51 Young pond

amphibians 52 Highlight in many operas

53 Pre-Soviet

ruler

54 Clump of

hair

56 Poet's heavenly sphere

57 Wrong answer to a sentry

 ?? ??

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