National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Signal for lights out

5. Mild oath

9. Ingredient in some Creole dishes

13. Make a legal decision

14. Silly

15. Genuine

16. By word of mouth

17. Wall painting

18. Vigour

19. Bicycle-built-for-two

21. Inclined to laugh

23. Have a loan from

24. Take the edge off

25. Trade in goods and services

29. Available money

32. Primate

33. Card that starts faro

35. Having close resemblanc­e

37. Dye container

38. Green about the gills

40. Its symbol is Sn

41. Popped up

43. Ocean movement

44. Increase engine rpms suddenly

45. Subject for discussion

47. Part of COD

50. Herb of the parsley family

52. Adam’s wife

53. Strict in morals

56. Orderly way of getting things done

60. It makes a bite that itches

61. Zagreb native

64. Hemingway’s nickname

65. Slight advantage

66. Fleshy pendant at the back of the soft palate

67. Stage direction

68. Take-charge type

69. Like a desert

70. Full of calories

DOWN

1. Slow running pace

2. Eerie glow

3. Make preparatio­ns

4. Not very often

5. African antelope

6. Pole with a blade

7. Growl viciously

8. Lifting gas for balloons

9. Pertaining to the eye socket

10. Edging on a British sidewalk

11. Marsh bird

12. Hand cream ingredient

14. Throw into

20. Farm female

22. Underhande­d one

24. Next to

25. Vena ___

26. Dizzying designs

27. Copycat’s words

28. Layer of paint

30. Saltpetre

31. Winter Olympics participan­t

34. Assistant

36. One of the deadly sins

38. Large fishing net

39. Keyboard instrument

42. Rain gently

46. Travelling show

48. Climbing plant

49. Venus as the evening star

51. Tennis shot

53. Old

54. Word processing command

55. Wise man

57. Prepare for takeoff

58. Heroic poem

59. School subject, for short

62. Belonging to us

63. Type of beer

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