National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Insect with a stinger 5. Sells, by peddling 10. Little animal with pinchers 14. In preference to 15. Provide with what is needed 16. Aviation prefix 17. Mechanical routine 18. It’s marked in centimetre­s 19. Merganser 20. Running from one corner to the

opposite corner of a square 22. Preoccupy completely 24. Relating to the teeth 25. Fabric used in the theatre 26. Feel sick 27. Acknowledg­e applause 30. French for white 33. Lost deliberate­ly 34. Seventh Greek letter 35. Totally absorbed 36. Obsolete English silver coin 37. ___ fixe 38. Unit of electric current,

for short 39. Canadian opera singer 40. Hard to please 41. Young plant 43. Mouse catcher 44. Safe keeping 45. Grinding teeth 48. Expression­s used by a

specific group of people 50. Ingredient­s for marinara sauce 52. Rice-shaped pasta 53. Burning 55. Box hung from a kimono sash 56. Shed tears 57. Anticipate with apprehensi­on 58. Blood vessel 59. Not right 60. Before the appointed time 61. Many thousands of years

DOWN

1. Dictionary entry 2. Keep from happening to you 3. Bristles 4. Having a baby 5. Of spring 6. Evenly balanced 7. Invalid 8. Breathe one’s last 9. Toothed wheel driven by a bicycle chain 10. Source of cinnamon 11. Thinks of again 12. God of war 13. Violins are played with them 21. Relating to the ear 23. Make coffee 25. Thermoplas­tic resin 27. Bikini bottom 28. Elevator inventor 29. Like candles 30. Bikini tops 31. Having an injured leg 32. First course of a meal 33. River in Ontario 36. Gliding ballet step 37. Generally considered to be 39. Broodingly morose 40. “Deck the Halls” syllables 42. Like a basset hound’s ears 43. Funny film 45. Lesson learned from a story 46. Stencil-based duplicatin­g

machine 47. Yellow finch 48. Where Des Moines is 49. Made a picture 50. Group of rows of seats 51. Male children 54. Italian monk’s title

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