CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS 1. Work hard 5. Run like a horse 9. Excessive weight 13. ___ breve 14. Figure of speech 15. First- rate 16. Is placed 17. Cook in an oven 18. Without others 19. Helmsman of a lifeboat 21. Skilled computer user 23. Fleur- de- lis 24. Open space in a net 25. Intimidatory remark 28. Operational 31. Shade of a colour 32. Baffling question 34. Flies upward 36. So be it 38. V- shaped parapet 40. Largest coral island 41. Married women 43. Shoelace end 45. Roman numeral for 5 46. Use up supplies 48. Switchboard sections 50. Actors who overact 51. Steadying rope 52. Restore power in a battery 55. Calvaria 59. Cereal grass 60. European mountain ash 62. Earthen water jar 63. Smell ___ 64. Framework of iron bars 65. Pen points 66. Unit of distance 67. Sea eagle 68. Gaiter

DOWN 1. Soft mineral 2. Hodgepodge 3. Holm oak 4. Fictional collie dog character 5. French word for three 6. Having a reddish- brown coat

speckled with white hairs 7. Roman goddess of abundance 8. Tie a dog to a post 9. Medieval sword 10. Try to see 11. Queen of England 12. Drink brewed from malt 14. Person guilty of treason 20. Finish filming 22. Invites 24. Lesson taught by a fable 25. Make no longer frozen 26. Warm and damp 27. Canadian town council

president 28. Golf club 29. Like a child 30. Thin porridge 33. Stools and benches 35. Calls on 37. Variety of jade 39. Eighth planet from the sun 42. Smelting waste 44. Afrikaans 47. Come into view 49. Women’s stockings 51. Bottom- dwelling fish 52. Fill too full 53. Mata ___ 54. Arab man’s headband 55. Long- necked bird 56. Film extract 57. Provençal song 58. Time before 61. Bobby or Marion