National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Speed-of-sound ratio
5. Golf shoe feature
10. Facial expression (slang)
14. Invisible emanation
15. Rather frightening crowd
16. Having a lot of healthy grass 17. Social climber
18. Praise highly
19. Genus of freshwater mussels 20. When one wishes
22. Italian dessert
24. Drinking spree
26. Soothing ointment
27. General agreement
31. Sawlike part, in zoology
35. Colour
36. Line sewn diagonally
across fabric
37. Skin cream
38. French heavenly being
40. Mountain ridge
42. Powdery starch
43. “Top Gun” character
45. Kind of acid
47. Shake out and loosen hay to dry 48. Under no circumstances
49. Make guesses about
51. Widespread
53. Withered
54. Share of profits paid
to a stockholder
58. Race on skis
62. Mine entrance
63. Breakfast bread
65. Put into the hands of 66. Cordon ___
67. Oil container
68. Eye part
69. Fastens with stitches 70. Canadian soccer player 71. Be worthy of
DOWN
1. Tortilla dough
2. Family member
3. Bird with a raucous voice 4. They’re hard to break
5. Of a turtle
6. Smoked salmon
7. Part of QED
8. Makes it up as one goes along 9. Aquarium fish
10. Falls straight down at full speed 11. Ancient Egyptian king
12. Egyptian goddess of fertility 13. Chinese dynasty
21. Heco-wrote“TeenWolf”
23. Likewise
25. Russian emperor 27. Number of restaurants
owned by one company 28. Unit of weight
29. Desert in southern Israel 30. Go through
32. Lariat
33. Thesaurus compiler 34. Battery terminal
37. City on the River Soar 39. In retirement
41. French word for very 44. Parched with heat
46. Ringlet
49. Married Spanish woman 50. Part of NHL
52. Sell for
54. Pats lightly
55. Not working
56. One’s range of sight 57. Smear with paint
59. Hot melted rock
60. More than
61. Have in mind
64. Wind direction