CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS 1. Big tanks 5. Begin to be day 9. Tour de France vehicle 13. Shortly 14. In a normal voice 16. Maple genus 17. Car driven by a chauffeur 18. Italian operatic composer 19. Units of luminance 20. Blood clots 22. Space between two points 24. Protective covering used by

ancient Roman soldiers 26. What pigs eat out of 27. Son of Odin 28. Leaders of a town 30. Lennon’s wife 32. Very sharp 34. What some chimneys

are made of 38. Reasonably happy 40. Point of view 42. Indian spiced tea 43. Limb-bending muscle 45. One of two opposing groups 47. Port on the Firth of Clyde 48. Priest’s assistant 50. Barley beard 52. Neighbour of Uruguay 54. Square dancing figures 58. They form a base for

some yellow dyes 60. City in Switzerland 61. Kind of bean 62. Excessive desire 64. Modelling material 65. Give off 66. Upright stone slab 67. French for she 68. Fencing sword 69. Make a web 70. Prophet

DOWN 1. Gentleman’s gentleman 2. Varnish resin 3. Grave marker 4. Inclined to turn up one’s nose 5. Patron saint of Wales 6. Ginger ___ 7. It has a space on either side of it when it is written 8. Reason for an R rating 9. Merely mechanical 10. Frosting 11. Two-masted sailboat 12. Another name for Irish Gaelic 15. Got naked 21. Lie on wait 23. Unit of atmospheric pressure 25. Forewarning 29. Feeling of anxiety and worry 30. Abstaining from 31. Zero 33. Pieces of jewellery 35. Airplane manoeuvre 36. King Arthur’s foster brother 37. How a shop assistant might

address a male customer 39. Dig out 41. German art song 44. Greek anise-flavoured liqueur 46. Relief from discomfort 49. Puts on one’s guard 51. Makes a facial

expression of pain 52. Aircraft without wings 53. Cordage fibre 55. Fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia 56. Shape of an oeuf 57. “You Make me Feel Like

Dancing” singer 58. Run away from 59. Ooze 63. Samuel’s teacher