National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Part-time office worker 5. Youngest one in the family 9. Reach 14. Under any circumstances 15. French word for confession 16. Principle of life 17. Spiders’ nests 18. 20 quires 19. Complete and total 20. Some Central Europeans 22. Long vowel marks 24. Get free 25. Dutch astronomer Brahe 26. Thin pancake 28. Fall over 32. South American rodent 35. Parts of fences 37. Exclamation of pain 38. Metal-bearing mineral 39. Ear prefix 40. ___ de Janeiro 41. Repair a sock 43. Cook on a barbecue 45. Fish related to cod 46. French word for boat 48. Part of a room that is walked
on 50. Difficult to see clearly 52. Unsymmetrical ridge 56. Province between British
Columbia and Saskatchewan 59. Hearing distance 60. Scottish estate owner 61. Coffin cloth 63. Garment worn by Hindu
women 64. Broadcasting 65. Source of indigo 66. Jewish month 67. Irritably impatient 68. Steadying rope for a mast 69. Evaluation
DOWN
1. Showing signs of stress 2. Escapees from Pandora’s box 3. Red Bordeaux wine 4. Being away from others 5. Mixologist 6. Class of birds 7. Arthur of “The Golden Girls” 8. Good tasting 9. Pampas cowboy 10. Measure of disorder 11. First president of Yugoslavia 12. Religious exclamation 13. Waterproofs a roof 21. Calendar abbreviation 23. New Testament book 25. Be a witness in court 27. Short of money 29. Country in South America 30. Sharon, ___ & Bram 31. “Endor” inhabitants 32. Make your hair tidy 33. Kind of code 34. Make fumes escape 36. Charge for making a phone
call 42. Bad mark made against one’s
record 43. Sudden strong wind 44. Within a given area 45. It was once used as portable
illumination 47. Hang out on the line 49. Belonging to us 51. Spanish snacks 53. Rock that split easily into
layers 54. Doughnut-shaped figure 55. Like a knight on horseback 56. Fair amount 57. Rural road 58. One-sided 59. Lamb’s pseudonym 62. Social insect