CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Blood does it 5 Is contiguous with 10 Bowling surface 14 Wing-related 15 Popular Japanese food
16 Eerie recording effect 17 Azerbaijan’s capital
18 Pilfer
19 Very low pH substance 20 Fine, in France 22 Important parts of a curling shot 24 Some cavalry soldiers 26 Much-watched loch 27 Soccer striker’s coup 30 Where to sweat it out? 33 Painter’s tripod 36 Night gown topper 37 Major component of Earth’s crust 38 Ladies’ men, often 41 Pivoted quickly 42 Ad infinitum 43 Con game 44 Hamilton’s winter hrs. 45 Prejudiced
47 Big pile 49 Halifax, for one
53 Split up 57 Low-budget flick 58 Stop up 59 Centre to rim measurements 61 Coke nut
62 Not inept 63 Ontario-Huron canal
64 Some Tetris shapes 65 Oktoberfest staple 66 Pulls sharply 67 Valentine’s Day bloom
DOWN
1 Secret plotter group 2 Vicuna’s cousin 3 Like Cognac casks 4 Billystick 5 State strongly 6 Although 7 Puts into service 8 Soften up
9 Hit man’s attachment 10 Springs 11 Formal acceptance, as of an international accord 12 Blender’s sound 13 Starts to drop off 21 Meted out some cards 23 Cartoon-like shriek
25 Tried mightily 28 Rigging, mostly 29 Candytuft plant 31 Urban green area 32 “And another thing...” 33 Infinitive to Cicero
34 “Kiss” uses them 35 Roald Amundsen’s 1911 destination 37 5- or 7-card game
39 Girls’ gettogether 40 90 degrees to the ship’s keel 45 Thing sticking out of your galley 46 Red ledger entries 48 Enthusiastic 50 Convex moulding 51 Small brooks 52 Tantalize 53 Union foe 54 Czech-German river to the North Sea 55 Notable plantation of the movies 56 Paradise
60 Bic’s interior