ARE YOU COMING?

ACROSS

1. Lowdown lout

4. Apply deep massage

8. Eases off the bottle

13. Blue-bonneted baby, often 14. Letter-shaped support

15. Jughead’s wooer

16. Soon, to Shakespeare

17. “Let ___!” (captive’s cry) (2,2)

18. Like Tums takers’ tummies 19. Type of impromptu party (4,2,3,3)

22. Chicken ___ king (1,2)

23. Ship’s pronoun

24. Jetsam’s partner

28. TV’S sword-wielding Xena, for one (7,8)

31. Spring setting in Flin Flon: Abbr.

32. Curtain holder

33. Lowbrow newspaper

34. One who’s often before the bar?

37. “Ally Mcbeal” costar Lucy 38. One’s tight buds

40. Part of T.G.I.F.

41. “Am ___ the list?”

42. Handyman’s type of job, for short

43. Lyric from Mclean’s “American Pie” (5,2,3,5)

50. More than just casually dating

51. Skinny battery size

52. Word often ending in “ly”: Abbr.

53. 7-Eleven’s jumbo-size “brain freeze” drink (5,7)

56. Writer Nin

59. Salmon-rich river in northern B.C.

60. Prefix meaning “sleep”

61. Elliott or Greene

62. Unattractive-sounding fruit

63. Not “faux”

64. Beat to a pulp in the kitchen

65. Round hammer head 66. Pen pals’ add-ons

DOWN

1. Crop name derived from “Canada” and “oil”

2. Ex-blue Jays champ Roberto 3. Indigenous people of the north

4. Drummer’s “ba-da-bing!”, after a joke

5. Follower of orders

6. Body of “agua”

7. Frivolous frills and fluff 8. Fray, as one’s nerves (4,2) 9. “Yada, yada...” (3,3)

10. Pacific yellowfin tuna

11. Homer’s “neighbourino”

12. Devious

13. Brightly-feathered squawker

20. Actor’s line for the audience only

21. Keep ___ on (stay mum) (1,3)

25. Drought-ravaged

26. “Now!!”

27. Texts, voicemails, e.g.: Abbr.

29. Mounties, informally

30. Write in non-cursive

34. [Not my typo] notations 35. “Top ___ mornin’ to you!” (1,3)

36. Instruction manual reader 37. Become less tense (6,2)

38. Seasoned rice dish: Var.

39. Something to see?

41. Live ___ (celebrate) (2,2) 42. Gives cards to (5,2) 44. Brand that “gets the red out”

45. “Understand?” (3,3)

46. Frustrating process

47. Mists and and steams, in U.S. spelling

48. Plant swellings

49. “Duh! ___ knew that!” (4,1) 54. All the ___ (trendy)

55. Invitation letters suggested by the circled parts of this puzzle

56. Swiss high rise?

57. ___-Turn (intersection sign) (2,1)

58. Trudeau landing datum: Abbr.