National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Behave coldly toward

5. Make a nosy inquiry

8. In comparison with

12. Tropical tuber

13. Condiment bottle

15. Uncommon

16. Not covered

17. Like undercooke­d eggs

18. Player’s stake in poker

19. One who has no strength

21. What Saturn has

23. Lighten up on

24. Makes a run for it

25. Dog with a foxlike head

27. Musical instrument­s made of reeds

31. Almanac pages

32. Hardly enough

34. Ripped

35. Quite likely

36. Rainbow shape

37. Varnish ingredient

38. Waste piece of wool

40. Seductive woman

42. Word used in telling time, sometimes

43. Lineage

45. Burning

47. Hired thug

48. Be acceptable to

49. Baby grand, for example

51. Annoyingly authoritat­ive one

55. Needing straighten­ing

56. Valley between hills

58. Group of typists, for example

59. Determine the speed of

60. Buildup of excess fluid

61. Charitable donations

62. Succulent plant

63. Carrier of genetic informatio­n

64. Video cassette

DOWN

1. Put away

2. Back of the neck

3. Carbamide

4. Crazy

5. Dried plum

6. Ladder step

7. Yearning

8. Surveying instrument

9. Display a painting

10. ___ and crafts

11. Born as

13. Turning point

14. Absolute ruler

20. Fall behind

22. Little troublemak­er

24. Surgeon’s knife

25. Poultry purchase

26. Of the eyes

27. ___ Sound, Ontario

28. Utterly unlike

29. Wipe away

30. Nonmainstr­eam religious group

31. Supernatur­al force

33. Pile of stones used as a marker

39. Recipient of a bequest made in a will

40. Comic loser

41. Unsettling feeling in the stomach

42. Rhythmic sound

44. Second person in the Trinity

46. For shame!

48. Greek consonant

49. Noisy outburst

50. Division word

51. Small songbird

52. Fizzy drink

53. Frolic actively

54. Otherwise

55. Bikini part

57. Peculiar

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