Ottawa Citizen

CANADIAN CROSSWORD

- ADRIAN POWELL

ACROSS

1 What to keep jam in

5 Desert-like

9 Weather balloons, to some folk

13 Indy 500, for one

14 Relative of the crawl

17 Hairdresse­r’s favourite bug?

19 Curl up one’s lip

20 Old fashioned ant

21 Change colour

22 Chop off 24 Large pelvic bones

26 Bugs that spread slowly and overwhelm hillside villages?

32 Barbecued morsel

33 CAT, for one

34 Manicurist’s focus

36 Dozens and dozens

38 Formally bequeath 41 Boring

42 Beg for mercy

44 Violent melee

46 Poetic prepositio­n

47 Bug often called the eri, in India

51 Granny, for one

52 Spanish ayes?

53 1960’s jacket style

56 Quaint collectibl­e

59 Police academy student

63 Hamlet’s remark when he found what was eating his clothes?

66 Bawdy Roman festival

67 Hares have big ones

68 Attempt on goal

69 Where soldiers eat

70 “Cut it out!”

DOWN

1 Faculty where you can study Latin

2 Ancient Indian adherent

3 Common adolescent problem

4 Explain once more

5 Al Jolson’s birth name: ___ Yoelson

6 Sacred ceremony

7 Footnote “ditto”

8 Skin-related

9 Home page’s ID

10 Origami instructio­n

11 “That’ll do!”

12 Dry and withered

15 Wizard’s incantatio­n

16 Venetian old master

18 Long aquatic beasts, for short

23 Act nervously

25 Caravan participan­t, often

26 Mexican revolution­ary, Pancho ___

27 Double reed winds

28 Actress Martin of “Thicker Than Water” 29 Endangered lemur

30 More obnoxious

31 Antitheft device

32 Knock on the door

35 Feminine pronoun

37 To-do list item

39 Big Alberta resource

40 Chinese cook’s needs

43 Baryshniko­v, for one

45 Smart way to think?

48 Wear black, perhaps

49 Creek

50 Bittertast­ing oranges

53 One of Einstein’s variables

54 Indian nanny from The Raj

55 Preminger of “Exodus”

57 Land in the river?

58 Vertical transporta­tion giant

60 “Doggone it!”

61 Item that’s worth something to the Vatican

62 240 minims, briefly 64 Hermit’s abode, maybe 65 “Rumour ___ it ...”

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