National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS 1. Ear-piercing 5. Not friendly 10. Kind of cracker 14. East end part of a church 15. Ruth’s mother-in-law 16. Towards the mouth 17. Words written at

the end of a letter 19. Capital of the Maldives 20. Utter a piercing cry 21. Hunger hormone 23. Wooden shoe sound 25. Nurse maid in India 26. Makes a stand 30. Japanese sandals 34. Farm bird 35. Upper layer of the earth’s crust 36. Keep your eyes open 37. Collection of memorable

sayings 38. Northernmo­st region of the

world, according to the ancients 40. Sound a sheep makes 41. Spending as little as possible 44. Skin spot 46. Money machine, for short 47. Spookish 48. Contaminat­es, as water 50. Colt’s mother 53. Oven used to bake pottery 54. Senior naval officer 57. Hair shirt 61. Become pale 62. Meant to be thrown

out after use 65. Do some cutting and pasting 66. Spanish farewell 67. French for sky 68. Having undulating curves 69. Fasten again 70. Nervous DOWN 1. Where chemists work 2. Oil cartel 3. “Back in the ___” 4. Pick up on 5. Bad blood 6. ___ Cruces 7. Sound made to imitate a ghost 8. Last Greek letter 9. Suspicious 10. In one way or another 11. By word of mouth 12. Spanish surrealist painter 13. Seaport of Yemen 18. Its capital is Cardiff 22. Tear down 24. God of Egyptian Memphis 26. Stage of developmen­t 27. Annual income, in France 28. Transmitti­ng live 29. Period of poor performanc­e 31. Capital of Morocco 32. Extremely angry 33. Lines of stitches 36. Willing to fight 39. Try to see 42. Overabunda­nce 43. Toothed wheel 45. He played for the

Maple Leafs 49. Loosen, as skates 51. Navigation­al aid 52. Slur over a syllable 54. Hardly any 55. Father, to a baby 56. Roman numeral for 1504 58. In the same place: abbr. 59. British horsefly 60. Hard to hold 63. Canine command 64. Luau food

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