Personal Gain
ACROSS
1 Becomes rotted, as a tooth 7 Suitcase contents in crime films 11 Horse’s hindquarters 15 Uses a Pink Pearl 16 Prov. called “Wild Rose Country” 17 Europe’s neighbour 18 Beginning of an apt quip for boomers 19 Treehouse? 21 Register at Ryerson, say 22 Made after taxes 23 Quip, Part 2 28 “Terrible twos” words 29 Birth mo. of many Leos 30 Certain trains 31 Burlesque neckwear 32 Logan and Robson, e.g.: Abbr. 33 Bird once hunted by the Maori 35 Makes flies fly 37 Off-base? 40 Quip, Part 3 43 Biggest post-sec. sch. in Ont. 44 Stressful exam, often 46 Kick back, with “out” 47 Murmur detector, for short 49 Having four sharps 50 “Yada yada” letters 52 Grp. giving tows to members 53 Small recipe meas. 56 Quip, Part 4 61 Make into a toon 62 Blackmore’s
Lorna ___ 63 Off the sauce 66 End of the quip 67 See 64-Down 68 Start to a conclusion, perhaps 69 Pull to the boat, as a fish 70 Have ___ hair day 71 Manuscript encls. 72 Archipelago parts
DOWN
1 Force to grovel, maybe 2 “___ bragh!” 3 Core army groups 4 Formal-sounding “same with me” 5 Gives a tongue-lashing 6 180° from NNW 7 Jim Carrey’s The ___ Guy 8 Out of this world? 9 Furry alley prowler 10 ___ Collider (machine in 2012 physics news) 11 Abbreviated holiday goal 12 Don’t just leave in the box 13 Sue Grafton’s ___ For Malice 14 Vanna’s game show partner 20 “A person’s a person no matter how small” writer 22 Visa transaction: Abbr. 24 Bruiser’s unlikey challenger 25 Play peek-___ 26 Need a Pink Pearl, say 27 It’s right on the map? 32 Prov. riding rep in most of Canada 33 Witty West of film 34 The “O” of NATO: Abbr. 36 O, in some letters 37 Have ___ (freak out) 38 Skidrow “brown bagger” 39 Stick figures? 41 What a news anchor faces 42 Canadian comedian Cullen 45 Spanglish actress Téa 48 Wood’s woods carriers 51 Packaging strings 52 Pool tool 53 “___-oo!” (“Ta ta!”) 54 Like an atrium on a bright day 55 Fusses in front of a mirror 57 Couldn’t bear 58 Place with peaks and valleys 59 Preminger and von Bismarck 60 Sing from the mountaintops 63 Lightbulbmoment cry 64 With 67-Across, speaker of the quip 65 Health retreat 66 CT scan cousin