A crossword by Cassandra Morton
The answer key is posted at centretownbuzz.ca/Nov-23-crossword-key
ACROSS
1. A Greek god
5. Slight
9. Young’un
14. Work like Cindy or Kendall
15. Obsessively detail-oriented
16. Blind god of Norse myth
17. Leader more accustomed to writing a lede?
19. Ottawa’s best on Canada’s Top 100 Restaurants
20. Fly off the handle
21. Call it when you need a lift
23. Hour in Italia
24. One with a habit
25. Leader who’d rather you didn’t call the police?
27. Leader who wants to ride his bicycle?
30. Same
31. The sign of the ram
32. Tottenham toilets
33. Leader who wants more, more, more…roads?
37. Source of much conflict
38. _____ owl
39. Like the Fates, or the Powerpuff Girls
40. Following Tyl, a common OTC medicine
41. Writers Lambert and Patchett
42. Wintery danger in Gatineau
43. When you don’t hit the target
45. Sidewalk artists’ media
46. Accessory for an accessory
49. Creature on a Canadian coin
50. Taiwanese airline
51. Endearing suffix for Juan or Miguel
52. Leader who could have really rocked the vote…system?
56. Power, maybe
58. Shop’s enticement for the overburdened?
60. Designer known for the body-con dress
61. Early 20th century radiation “discovery”
62. Sushi ingredient
63. Leader who’d rather be in Toronto?
64. Loads of time
65. Rhymes with 32 Across
DOWN
1. Church feature
2. First step in making gravy
3. Myers-Briggs’ entrepreneurial type
4. Hideout for Blofeld and others
5. Head start?
6. Hell in Hull
7. WWII service org. of Roald Dahl and Christoper Lee, among others
8. Politicians’ preoccupations
9. Senators’ second in command
10. Like Xmas or NYD
11. Dostoyevsky’s The _____
12. Dirty money
13. Poetically miserable
18. Doesn’t win
22. Like those heading to Miami or Basel
26. Bank of Canada’s difficult manoeuvre
27. Healthy
28. Irish origin of the fisherman’s sweater
29. When the American right thinks you’re not right?
30. Eats quickly
32. Contentious Glebe terminus
34. A kind of examination
35. Start of a roll?
36. Forest dwellers
38. Contaminate
42. Flesh-eating demon
44. Tiki bar staple
45. Sports’ Perry and Seager
46. “Comic”ally strong guy
47. UNESCO-protected walled Spanish city
48. Polaris-winning Inuk musician Tanya _____
49. Forrest Gump’s first mate
53. Greek Kitchen in Little Italy
54. Bubbly chocolate bar
55. Exodus author Leon
57. AIDS cause
59. Conjugation for a Latin pupil