National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Rum-flavoured sponge cake

5. Cries noisily

9. TV marine Gomer

13. Forewarnin­g

14. Intended to be sung

16. Sum of money that you borrow

17. Puerto ___

18. Muse of love poetry

19. New money

20. Paint that has a shiny finish

22. Protective covers

24. Creamy sauce of garlic and hot red pepper

26. Amount a container falls short of being full

27. Ocean

28. Felt sympathy for

30. Inuit community leader Okpik

32. Get to know

34. Uses bad language

38. French fashion designer

40. Maple Leafs and Senators

42. Indecent language

43. Unmanly

45. Sediment settling during fermentati­on

47. Use a crowbar

48. Dry gully

50. Exclaim with delight

52. System of Chinese meditation­al breathing exercises

54. Marriage ceremony

58. Christmas period

60. Part of NHL

61. Town in Switzerlan­d

62. Damage a car beyond repair

64. Fleshy fruit

65. Long ago (archaic)

66. Greek musician

67. French for very

68. Soaks flax

69. Calendar squares

70. Auld lang ___

DOWN

1. Tool for drilling

2. Kind of acid

3. Thanks to

4. Lack of social standards in a society

5. Detect the scent of

6. Poetic contractio­n

7. Lacking interest

8. Not take part in, as a dance

9. Cluster of stars in Taurus

10. In an early stage

11. Slang for a thousand dollars

12. Son of Seth

15. Wing flat

21. Ancient kingdom east of the River Tigris

23. Large amount

25. Fencing sword

29. 2006 World Cup Champions

30. Fruit drink

31. ___ Naked (Canadian singer)

33. Time without an end

35. Nonsense verse

36. Capek play

37. Place for pigs

39. Chemically active substances

41. What kitty says

44. Horse’s gait

46. “Smooth Operator” singer

49. Group of eight

51. Changes for a particular use

52. Twentieth part of a ream

53. “___ on Jeopardy” (Weird Al song)

55. Canadian who is an alternate captain of the Predators

56. Spiritual force

57. Birds with long necks

58. River flowing into the North Sea

59. Volcano in Sicily

63. No matter how much

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