National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Nickname for a percussion instrument

6. Supporting beam

11. Hair shirt

12. Counting frame

14. Questionab­le

15. Not harsh

17. French word for drunk

18. Winter cabbage

20. Isaac’s son

21. Canadian actress Vardalos

22. Street guide

23. Loud persistent noise

24. Roman clan

26. Send payment

28. Whitish in complexion

29. Blood vessel

31. Logging tools

33. Clothes

35. Be acceptable to

36. French word for knife

39. Shoe with a raised sole

43. Tropical tree

44. Unit of Russian currency

46. Jedi master

47. Cathedral city

48. Born

49. Adidas founder Dassler

50. Trees with serrated leaves

52. Drinking tube

54. Largest continent

55. Capital of French Polynesia

57. Went to see

59. Evening meal

60. Wears away land

61. Mixes with a spoon

62. Passover meal

DOWN

1. Highly-coloured 2. Tennis player Nastase 3. Life story, for short 4. Medieval shields 5. Open ___ 6. Battered old cars

7. Take orders from 8. Canadian singer Tyson 9. French word for saw 10. “Ruby ___” (Rolling Stones song)

11. French naturalist 13. Slow movers 14. ___-ling (bell sound) 16. Adjust a guitar

19. Seductive woman

25. Succulent plant

26. Canadian singer Serena

27. Brownish-grey

28. Unimportan­t

30. Settled habit

32. By way of

34. Takes a slow walk

36. Greek soprano

37. Highest mountain in Greece

38. English badminton player

40. Kitchen appliance

41. Whirlpools

42. Water nymph

43. Smallest sound

45. Goes away from

51. French word for seven

52. One that is suffix

53. Telegram

54. Assistant

56. French word for ear

58. Turf

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