CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS 1. Be barely acceptable as a substitute 5. Fertile place in a desert 10. Walk with slow heavy steps 14. Noted baseball family 15. Choose by voting 16. Greek vowel 17. Action word 18. Discourage from doing 19. From a specific geologic era 20. Tax on certain goods entering a town 22. Slip by 24. Mild apology 26. Begin to be active 27. Collision between vehicles 30. Sour tasting 34. Genus of tree frogs 35. Transparent 37. Sphere 38. LP successors 39. ___-de-France 40. Dependent upon chance 45. Blackthorn 46. Put one’s sword away 47. Bullfighter 49. Pea: Fr. 50. Came down 51. Not cheerful 54. Christmas tree decoration 58. Wickedness 59. River in France 63. Have the look of being 64. Monetary unit of Georgia 65. ___ a limb 66. Married German woman 67. Spanish custard dessert 68. Nothingness: Fr. 69. Passionate desires

DOWN 1. Peacock: Lat. 2. Canadian cyclist Cowan 3. Group into categories 4. In secret 5. He married his mother 6. Alcoholic drink 7. Become firm, as cement 8. Frozen water 9. Pull to its full length 10. Spanish conqueror of Peru 11. Flight manoeuvre 12. Singer Redding 13. European freshwater fish 21. Exclamation of surprise 23. One who reclines 25. Taxonomic category 26. Variety of Japanese pottery 27. Buys things 28. Incense ingredient 29. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia

Woolf?” playwright 31. Compiled version of a program 32. House built from blocks of snow 33. Encourage with shouts 36. Former name for Tokyo 41. Fish resembling smelt 42. Tiny particle 43. Craniometric point 44. Most important 45. Meet the needs of 48. Muscle twitch 51. One’s own being 52. Egg-shaped 53. Old Italian coin 55. Waxy part at the base of a bird’s

bill 56. With little fat 57. Australian birds 60. Take legal action against 61. Airport abbreviation 62. Director Howard