National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Cask dregs

5. Smelting waste

9. Software program that runs in the background

11. Paper clip alternativ­e

13. Refuse politely

14. Coarsely woven fabric

16. Frequently, in poetry

17. Destructiv­e behaviour

19. Antonym of woman

20. Remarkable achievemen­t

22. Fiddler’s tune

23. Cuban dance

25. Doomed to destructio­n

27. Auctioneer’s shout

29. Attack, as with snowballs

30. Topography

32. Know what’s what

34. Make messy

35. Grace’s end

36. Chicken piece

38. Accelerate

41. Furnace output

42. Birthday-to-birthday span

44. Provide with lodgings

46. Kind of circle or tube

48. Smooth-talking

50. Sponge opening

51. Pet rocks, once

52. Circle of brightness

55. ATM user’s need

56. Fill with wrath

58. Dreamer’s opposite

60. Clay pigeon, for one

61. Pants measure

62. Hollow-stemmed plant

63. Campus bigwig

DOWN

1. Make milk

2. Aquarium denizen

3. Arab chieftain

4. Aid in finding sunken ships

5. For men only

6. In a while

7. Suitable

8. Shine faintly

9. Win a victory over

10. Opponent who cannot be defeated

11. Of less than normal size

12. Make possible

13. Tip, as one’s hat

15. Buzzing pest

18. One who does menial work

21. Insect that eats wood

24. On the ___ (legitimate)

26. Illegal substance

28. Title equivalent to Sir

31. Like a fireplace floor

33. What to do after you “read ‘em”

35. Based on hypothesis

36. Apartment dweller

37. Light railroad vehicle

38. Half-off event

39. Idealistic

40. Early 20th-century art movement

41. Stereo system

43. White wading bird

45. Confined, with “up”

47. Line of mountains

49. Combine into one

53. Took advantage of

54. Shift very carefully

57. Before, to a bard

59. Grassy field

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