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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2022-05-18T07:00:00.0000000Z
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