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OH, YOU BEAST!

By Barbara Olson © Classicanadian Crosswords

ACROSS

1 ___ the lily (adorns unnecessarily)

6 La ___, Bolivia

9 “Take a hike!”

14 France’s longest river 15 Big British record label 16 19th c. author Virginia 17 “We’re ___ own now”: 2 wds.

18 Stupidly stubborn

20 Flies by the seat of one’s pants: 2 wds.

22 Go-getter’s feeling 23 Principal bldgs.? 24 Metallic blue

26 Past its shelf life 29 Engrave a gravestone 31 Mirror-cracking

32 “___ Mine” (George Harrison book): 2 wds.

33 The Honeydrippers’ “___ Love”: 2 wds

35 Halloween prankster’s projectiles

36 Some diag. scans 37 Works by painter Emily 38 “___ willikers!” 39 Mountain’s “backbone” 40 Kitchen extension? 41 Classical guitarist Liona 42 Spam container, perhaps 43 Victoria to Vancouver dir. 44 Bitty bit 45 Mouth-puckering 46 Mountain in B.C.’S Sun Peaks Ski Resort

47 In the centre of

49 Room in “una casa” 52 Seeing things, in poetry? 53 G’day sayers

55 Moving very stealthily 59 Language from which “pyjamas” is derived 60 Canadian pasta sauce brand

61 Not well

62 “Can ___ little help over here?”: 3 wds.

63 Put back in the sty 64 Strategically shy

65 Off ___ (sporadically): 2 wds.

DOWN

1 Shines, like Rudolf’s nose 2 Neither Doric nor Corinthian, architecturally

3 Highly courageous 4 Pharmacist’s workplace 5 Talks for the flocks: Abbr. 6 ___-Bismol

7 Boucherville buddy 8 Followed a slalom course 9 Perspiring heavily 10 Barbeque briquette 11 Fishing pole

12 Alexander Keith’s quaff 13 Produced in a plant: Abbr. 19 Reality TV’S “___ Kitchen” 21 First person in Düsseldorf?

25 Visibly alarmed 26 Mentally vacuous 27 Pamplona pal

28 Neuter

30 Some baseball fly-catchers: Abbr.

33 Bloodhound’s lead

34 “... his wife could ___ lean...”: 2 wds. 35 Self-centered and vain 36 Subtraction symbol: 2 wds.

39 ___ de Janeiro, Brazil 41 The-lights-are-on-butnobody’s home type 44 Moron, to Bugs Bunny 45 R-V lineup?

48 “Sorry to say...” 50 Precipitated

51 Like David Suzuki, ancestrally

52 Steve Martin/lily Tomlin film “All ___”

54 Sunni rival sect

55 Subj. of “The Last Spike” 56 “___ you kidding?” 57 Change in a coffee shop jar

58 “Xanadu” band, for short

GAMES

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