National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Zoo attraction­s 5. Gunshot sound 9. Give the opportunit­y to 11. Blur, in printing 13. All finished 14. It’s used as a solvent in paints 16. Follower of boo, woo, and yoo 17. Becomes smaller 19. Weep 20. Priestly garments 22. Anklebone 23. Fashionabl­e 24. Call at a coin toss 26. Physical comedy 28. Type of whisky 30. 12th Hebrew letter 31. Chinese “way” 32. Be permitted to 33. Muhammad’s daughter 36. Lawbreaker­s 39. Nova Scotia community 41. Football team in British

Columbia 43. Barenaked Ladies song 44. Skywalker and Perry 46. Pass slowly 47. Military commander in the

ottoman empire 48. Canadian who was a Lord Mayor of London in 1979 and 1980 50. Letters after 33 or 45 51. Funnel-shaped flower 53. Icy 55. Plump 56. Firstborn 57. Become corroded 58. Waist band

DOWN

1. Requiring oxygen 2. Paid athlete 3. Australian birds 4. Power of seeing 5. Keyboard key 6. High cards 7. Hard-shelled dry fruit 8. Barbed bristle, as on a cactus 9. Genus of bivalve molluscs 10. Beat badly 11. Transmissi­on type 12. Add nutrients to 13. Pointer’s pronoun 15. Painter Jan van ___ 18. Indisposed 21. Kind of spoon 23. Comb-like in shape 25. Step 27. Not fully grown 29. A reason for dissatisfa­ction 33. One near the thumb 34. Kind of glasses 35. Barbary sheep 36. Become fully plumed 37. ___ Creek (Fraser River

tributary) 38. Answer sharply 39. Move like a frog 40. Approves of 42. Filename extension used on the

Internet 45. Deals in 48. Wildebeest­s 49. Nothing 52. Sumerian sun god 54. These, in French

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