National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Unit of weight in the metric system

5. Head of the CBC during World War II

10. Ancient marketplac­es

14. Genus of frogs

15. Dispatch boat

16. Holm oak

17. Am not

18. Hexahedron­s

19. Enthusiasm

20. Rubbish floating on the sea

22. Undergroun­d stem

24. Poetic contractio­n

25. Freeman of the lowest rank in Anglo-Saxon England

26. Small flute

29. Feeling very sad

33. Police informer

34. Small cut

36. City in Zambia

37. Added to

38. Tree of the walnut family

40. So far

41. Decorative mat of lacelike paper

43. Bent piece of wood used as a brace

44. Dotted, as with stars, in heraldry

45. Order to a helmsman

47. Clytemnest­ra’s daughter

49. English victory site in 1346

51. To be allowed to

52. Hard fibre used in making twine

55. Japanese dish

59. Exchange rate

60. Prisoner who will never be released

62. British gardening basket

63. Piece of connecting tissue, in anatomy

64. Sealing gasket

65. Shakespear­ean villain

66. S-shaped moulding

67. More ill than before

68. Big family

DOWN

1. German tennis player 2. Wading bird

3. ___ Domini

4. Digging tool 5. Elbow-shaped pasta

6. Egg

7. Bone attached to the spinal column

8. River in France

9. One who makes a reservatio­n but fails to cancel it

10. Died out, after a promising start

11. Imitation butter

12. 500 sheets of paper

13. Wheel shaft

21. Dry, like wine

23. Sarcasm

25. One born within the sound of Bow Bells

26. Wine grape

27. Not belonging to a major record company

28. Pass the tongue over

30. Entrance hall

31. Muslim scholars

32. Near the end of a day

33. Short-lived fashions

35. Cuckoo of Australia

38. Monster slain by Hercules

39. Appear again

42. Milk sugar

44. Stopping bleeding

46. Colour between green and orange

48. Machine piece

50. Capital of Egypt

52. Device fastened over a fingerboar­d

53. Excited about

54. IX

55. Addition column

56. River in Russia

57. Anatomical wrinkle

58. Ancient Greek contest

61. Tree with leaves shaped like needles

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