National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Speaker’s platform in ancient Greece 5. River in France 9. Australian tennis player 13. Mountain on Vancouver Island 14. Enjoy oneself with drinking and dancing 16. A single time 17. Large, heavy book 18. In reserve 19. Excessive amount 20. Garlic bulb sections 22. Tolerate 24. Spicy North African sauce 26. Concentrat­e on 27. Insect living in a colony 28. Sea bird 30. Steal from 32. Dutch cheese 34. Off the right path 38. Flat plinth 40. Eye socket 42. Covered with stars, in heraldry 43. Battlement opening 45. Where Adam and Eve lived 47. In the capacity of 48. Go through 50. Australian bird 52. Black tourmaline 54. Ankle injuries 58. Fruit with hairy shells 60. Canadian actor or conductor 61. Muslim ruler 62. New ___, Nova Scotia 64. Pet pests 65. Former Portuguese money 66. Artist’s garment 67. Abbreviati­on used after a list of names 68. Great Lake 69. Comply with 70. Small tree-covered valley

DOWN

1. Quantity baked at one time 2. Severe, and often fatal virus 3. Never to be forgotten 4. Newly spawned salmon 5. Emblem of Christiani­ty 6. Female bird 7. Black-hearted 8. City in Brazil 9. Fictional school of magic for students aged 11-18 10. Not burning yet 11. Bony plate on a turtle’s shell 12. Adam’s third son 15. Grind into a fine powder 21. Noble family of Italy 23. Letter kisses 25. Slightly open 29. Traffic light colour 30. Big bird in Arabian legend 31. Canadian who played for the Bruins 33. Equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean 35. Absolutely essential 36. ___ Darya 37. Affirmativ­e vote 39. Kind of town 41. Middle of the month in the ancient Roman calendar 44. Community on Cape Breton Island 46. One only interested in computers and technical things 49. Of last month 51. Sent in a stamped envelope 52. Composer Avo 53. Roman numeral for 203 55. Annoying 56. For dieters 57. Short piece of fishing line 58. Waxy fleshy covering on a beak 59. One who thinks they are better than someone else 63. Get a hole-in-one

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