LAUGH LINES
ACROSS
1 Strategic move
7 Military centre, as at Petawawa: Abbr.
10 Brylcreem quantity 13 Emotional shock
14 Talk like thish
15 First lady?
16 Noisy pooch
17 Edible tropical root
18 U.S. gun group: Abbr. 19 Papal city
21 Take responsibility for (3,2) 23 ___ & Span (cleanser) 25 Brian Mulroney’s boy 26 Modern inbox accumulations
27 Evidence of a tropical vacation
28 Ratted (on)
29 The thing right here 30 Landing guesstimate: Abbr. 31 Alternative to Netflix 32 Child, pet or house tender 35 Cycle before spin
37 Sign up, with “in”
39 “Well, ___ dah!” (3,2) 40 Drift into dreamland (3,3) 42 Grimy gunk
44 Early bird?
45 ___ dome (warm weather phenomenon)
46 Chaplin of “Game of Thrones”
47 “Coulda been better”
48 Uses steel wool on, maybe 50 Up-to-date, in the ‘60s 51 Cleary’s Ramona, for one 52 Short words, for short 53 Conveys, as elevator music (5,2)
55 Spider’s creation 56 Computer that came in “flavours” 58 Fast food clown ___ Mcdonald
61 Anger
62 Aykroyd and Hill
63 Online business (3,3) 64 Astronaut’s living quarters, at times: Abbr.
65 It’s really something to see? 66 Kickoffs
DOWN
1 With “L,” a texter’s sign-off (1,1,1)
2 “___ you for real?”
3 Strip featuring a boy/tiger duo (6,3,6)
4 Rapper Shakur
5 TV’S “How ___ Your Mother” (1,3)
6 Canadian quarter beast 7 Scottish family group
8 It gets swept up at the vet 9 Strip featuring a witch (5,5) 10 Strip featuring a pesky neighbour kid (6,3,6) 11 Belleville-born singer Lavigne
12 There are four per bar in
4/4 time
14 “Yuk Yuk’s” performers ... or the vertically-positioned strips in this puzzle? (5,2,6)
20 String played sitting down 22 “___ minute!” (“Whoa!”) (4,1)
23 Rear admiral’s rear
24 Kim Mitchell’s “___ Lanterns”
26 UFO pilots: Abbr.
28 Strip featuring talking cows, maybe (3,3,4)
33 Rough around the ___ (unrefined)
34 Opposite of left 36 Girl of “la famille”
38 Boy scout group 41 Alberta’s Macleod and Mcmurray: Abbr.
43 Not grill well enough 48 2005 sequel involving a power tool (3,2)
49 Semi radio users
51 Stout amounts
53 French door section 54 “Write ___!” (pen pal’s urging)
57 Mother’s Day month 59 Real estate parcel
60 Private Twitter chats, for short