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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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