National Post (National Edition)

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

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

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