National Post (National Edition)

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

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

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