CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS

1. Monetary unit of Bangladesh 5. Defending evidence 10. Beer ingredient 14. Former spouses 15. Gathering of witches 16. Nursemaid in India 17. Covered thinly with gold leaf 18. Cries like a lion 19. Lavish affection on 20. In the previous month 22. Pickling cucumber 24. Tummy muscles 26. Unspecified quantity 27. Samson’s mistress 31. Strap to keep a saddle in place 35. Poetic name for Ireland 36. Close-fitting 38. Earthenware pot 39. Gunshot sound 40. Negative conjunction 41. African cereal grass 42. One who works on a computer 43. Teapot part 45. And others: abbr. 46. Army commander 48. Baby bottles 50. ___ mater 51. Desire for a drink 52. Homo ___ 55. Indian dance performed by

professional dancing girls 60. Continuous dull pain 61. Hostage: Fr. 64. Spring peeper 65. Charles’s ___ (the Plough) 66. Not so many 67. Brilliantly-coloured fish 68. Fine spray 69. Releases from confinement 70. Wax plant

DOWN

1. South American lizard 2. Angle between a leaf and stem 3. Recently spawned salmon 4. Italian town famous for its sparkling wine 5. Circus entertainer 6. Gambling card game 7. Marsh plant 8. Crevasse at the head of a glacier 9. To summarize 10. Stony corals that forms reefs in tropical seas 11. Violently out of control 12. Latvian money 13. Soon afterward 21. ___ de mer 23. Australian bird 25. Old Canadian twenty-five cent

bill 27. Job for a computer programmer 28. Rub out 29. Cloth made from flax 30. One of the parts of a mixture 32. Piece of dishware 33. English composer 34. Steel bars which trains

run on 37. Viscous substance 43. Co-creator of “Alcatraz” 44. Lathes operators 47. Wish undone 49. Scandinavian rug 52. Fasting during Ramadan 53. Berry used to make energy

drinks 54. Greek consonants 56. Self-response to a mistake that

cannot easily be corrected 57. A misspelling 58. Modelling material 59. Laughing sound 62. Overwhelming feeling

of wonder 63. Exclamation of surprise