National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. 1990s treaty acronym
6. Last name of Ben Stiller’s mother
11. Car fuel
14. Bitter drug
15. Ready for use
16. French word for summer
17. Swell up
18. Raise objections
19. Calendar abbreviation
20. Baseball pitches
22. Personification of peace
24. Chest bone
26. Circle
27. Intelligent
28. Cain’s father
30. Authority to decide
32. Flower container
33. Pick out
35. Patron saint of goldsmiths,
in French
37. Hybrid aquarium fish
39. Literary work of
recognized excellence
43. Indigo plant
44. Threatening words
45. Distance between bridge
supports
48. Loud ringing noise
51. Auctioneer’s word
52. Gave lessons to
54. Greek consonants
56. First letter of British Columbia’s
postal code
57. Travelling by boat
58. Whipping movement
of the leg in ballet 60. Bridle mouthpiece 61. Frosting
63. Wash lightly
66. French word for donkey 67. Sailboat with two masts 68. Name used to hide
one’s identity
69. Mercury’s colour
70. Knock over
71. Serving of food
DOWN
1. Arrest
2. Everything
3. Soccer played on a table 4. Sharks’ colour
5. Moving
6. Pavarotti’s birthplace 7. Power to work
8. Cash machines
9. Former president of Germany 10. ___ Wine (Canadian rock band) 11. Former seat of the League of Nations 12. Makes up for misdeeds 13. Harsh 21. Area
23. Looks over and changes 24. Skin eruption
25. ___ fixe
27. Confer privately
29. French word for mixture 31. French word for dry
34. 100 years: abbr.
36. Rowing implement
38. In poor health
40. Hungary’s neighbour
41. Strait of Belle ___
42. Give up
45. ___ Mater (Latin hymn) 46. Green layer on copper 47. English novelist
49. Immediately
50. Zero
53. Japanese poem
55. What a standing passenger
on a bus holds on to
58. Is the right size
59. Money box
62. Edible mushroom
64. Calendar abbreviation 65. Compass point