Hidden tradition: ringing in the New Year
(Answers with the February puzzle)
ACROSS
1. Annual music festival at Downsview Park
5. Emblem bearer, sometimes
9. One keen on Xbox, for example
14. Garfield’s dog pal
15. Verdi opera
16. Former Nunavut MP Aglukkaq
17. Notion
18. Chickpea dish
19. Stage whisper
20. Canadian killer who’s book was recently pulled by Amazon
23. Two can come via this route
24. Fire, slangily
25. Window glass
29. Eminem’s genre
32. Impossible dir.
34. Pearson initials
36. May celebre
37. Dutch cheese
39. One ___ time
41. “Kevin” was this at Home
43. Avoid touching
47. Spaces
48. ___ la la
49. Golf trap type
50. Little green ___
51. What your bill for 60-Down is measured in
54. Time
56. Start to some city names
57. Spanish 101 word
59. ___ la la
61. Toronto attraction with a weeklong Mars exhibit over the holidays
63. “Flying Frenchman” who scored the first ever goal for the Montreal Canadiens
69. Must
72. Hogtown nickname
73. Greenish blue
74. Negative-charged atom
75. Sea eagle
76. Like most villains
77. Author of this puzzle’s hidden answer
78. Lumberjack stairs?
79. Minus
DOWN
1. Tech. used by Skype
2. Poetic or Prose
3. Instead
4. Real steals
5. Stones’ Buddy Holly cover hit “Not ___”
6. His pants are on fire
7. Turkish city
8. It was a long time ago, and in one of these far, far away…
9. Happy
10. Famed fabler
11. Me, when in Paris
12. Finish
13. Carly ___ Jepsen
21. One that bumbles?
22. Star Wars heroine
26. Having no sense of good or evil
27. Santa’s greeting to naughty kids?
28. Alters for improvement
29. Dub again
30. Just loves
31. It’s often pending
33. Airport letters
35. Second part of a wild turn
38. Academic style guide
40. Not fore
42. ___ Miserables
44. Search site that dropped Jeeves
45. Anger
46. Tells the story
52. Holy cow!
53. Popular stop for backpacking youth
55. Early Internet giant bought by Verizon in 2015
58. American speedskater Apolo ___ Ohno
60. Toronto has its own separate from Ontario
62. Hotel’s quainter sibling
64. Ages and ages
65. ___ in the tooth
66. Canadian actress Campbell
67. Speaker’s platform
68. Golfer Ernie
69. 63-Across was one
70. Sumerian “King of the Gods”
71. Elton John title
