THIS ONE’S A CAKEWALK

ACROSS

1. Hit the slopes

4. Seized quickly, as an opportunity (5,2)

11. Banned crop spray

14. Biblical place with no room 15. “You can come out now” (3,4)

16. Poetic “above”

17. Furniture near a couch (6,5) 19. “Are ___ pair?” (“Send in the Clowns” lyric) (2,1)

20. Seat beside a milk bucket

21. “___ most certainly did not!” (2,1)

22. “No ifs, ___ or buts”

23. Shylock’s revenge in “The Merchant of Venice” (5,2,5)

27. Clairvoyance, for short

30. Send flowers and chocolates to, say

31. ___ way around (knows how to avoid) (4,1)

32. Eliza Doolittle’s creator

34. “Casual” work day: Abbr

36. “Café” cup

39. Desert plant that flowers in winter (9,6)

43. Commandment verb

44. “Z’okay, I guess”

45. Snaky swimmers

46. Latches (onto)

49. Dipstick user’s item

51. Word on the street, in Québec?

52. Pit yielding statue stone (6,6)

56. “Dies ___” (“Requiem” hymn)

57. Hose wearer’s woe

58. Board named for the French/german words for 69-Across

62. Pouter’s protrusion

63. Cone peddler ... and pedaller, at times (3,5,3)

66. Driving speed meas. 67. Gives a hand (5,2)

68. Rand who wrote “Atlas Shrugged”

69. “You called?”

70. Joan of Arc’s home city

71. ___ Approved (safe to buy)

DOWN

1. Commands to attack, with “on”

2. Macramé cluster

3. News brief?

4. Stay off the radar (3,3) 5. “Saison” in the sun

6. Halifax clock setting: Abbr. 7. “Mind your ___ Qs” (2,3) 8. Verboten acts

9. Words after spice or slice (2,4)

10. Maiden name lead-in

11. Maritime dweller, informally (4,6)

12. Good ones merit Boy Scout badges

13. Email to empty

18. Fashion-obsessed fellow

22. ___-Lorraine (French region)

24. Hogtown campus, for short (1,2,1)

25. “Cheers” regular

26. Greek pizza cheese

27. Exit-large-screen keys

28. “Keep it down!!”

29. New ones are indented, often

33. Doris Day refrain after “whatever” (4,2)

35. “___ Canadian!” (Molson slogan, once) (1,2)

37. Helmsman of “Star Trek” 38. “To be,” to Brutus

40. Small runway plane acronym

41. Doris Day refrain after “que”

42. Start to broil? 47. Comedian Rick who ranted 48. Sound like a pig

50. Reacts to a bad pun

52. Galaxy word with “Way” 53. Live to ___ old age (1,4)

54. Fiction’s Buck, Tom or Remus

55. “Delicious!”

59. Computer that comes in colours

60. Canada’s baseball pros, casually

61. Tolstoy’s Karenina

63. Bachelor’s last words (1,2) 64. Cape Town’s country: Abbr.

65. Hamburger’s article