National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Sudden, loud noise
5. Women’s shoes
10. Short story writer
Cohen from Ontario
14. Patron saint of goldsmiths,
in French
15. Poet Nelligan from Montréal 16. An Expo’s manager
17. Black: Fr.
18. “The Beachcombers” character 19. Happening often
20. Stops along the way
22. Rock debris
24. Fencing sword
26. Terrible fate
27. Mixed up mentally
31. Red-breasted birds
35. French girlfriend
36. Make weary
38. Unusual fondness
39. Brian Mulroney’s son
40. Mouth of a river
42. Close to the earth
43. Ancient Greek market place 45. Box for bees
46. French word for baby
47. Woolly
49. Without inhabitants
51. Town in Poland
53. Plant of the lily family
54. Pioneer broadcast
executive from Ontario
58. Related on the father’s side 62. ___ jacta est (Caesar’s words) 63. Easy to see through
65. Cipher 66. Leg joint
67. Cod-liver oil
68. Ireland
69. Husband of a countess 70. Put away for safekeeping 71. British arctic explorer
DOWN
1. Be crooked
2. Lily relative
3. Short textile fibres 4. African animal 5. Sticks to it
6. River in Sweden
7. Not strong tasting 8. Worked with
9. Circle part 10. Instrument somewhat like an xylophone
11. Dismounted
12. Bean curd
13. Calendar abbreviation 21. Person spoken to
23. Spacious
25. Town on the Firth of Forth 27. Group of secret plotters 28. Greek vowel
29. Curtain fabric
30. Celtic priest
32. Rankin ___, Nunavut
33. One of the first two ships of
the Royal Canadian Navy 34. Cut wood
37. Lower edge of a roof
40. Dine at home
41. Hunting for facts
about a subject
44. Healing angel
46. Tanning lotion
48. Chooses by voting
50. Baking ingredient
52. Give out in shares
54. Make cakes
55. Forearm bone
56. Prophet
57. Russian river
59. Of flying
60. Coffin of westerns
61. Many thousands of years 64. Three toed sloths