National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Box for practice 5. Instruments in an orchestra’s string section
10. Noise made by snakes 14. Former president of the Flemish Parliament 15. Relating to the part of geologic time that antedates life
16. Canadian choreographer White 17. Burden
18. Of fields
20. Time expressed in
units of one hour
22. Corrin of the “Royal Canadian
Air Farce”
23. Place of seclusion
25. Italian painter
26. Stopwatch relatives
28. Eat between meals
32. Scottish caps
35. Metal-bearing mineral
36. Level of amateur sport
for Canadian children
37. Syrian cloth
38. Gets embarrassed
40. 100 square metres
41. Throughout, in music
43. Measure of weight
44. Canadian actor Reynolds 45. Look intently
46. Contour feathers
48. Collection of Old Norse poems 50. Checked cotton fabric
54. Looking right but being false 58. Lake in Banff National Park 59. Surrender
61. For fear that
62. Greek god of war
63. Hands over 64. Region
65. Woody perennial plant 66. Pays attention to 67. Unit of weight used in Islamic countries
DOWN
1. Wild animal’s trail 2. British money 3. Grown-up
4. Vacation places 5. Bitless bridle 6. Alejandro De ___
(he played for the Mets) 7. Play in a lively way
8. ___ Hole River Provincial Park (it’s in Newfoundland) 9. Display of temper 10. Emergency communications link
11. Japanese box
12. Make a crackling sound 13. Disposal of goods at reduced prices
19. Is aware of
21. Italian aviation pioneer 24. Canadian actress Austin
27. French word for income
29. Absent
30. “Juno” actor
31. Finely honed
32. Soviet news agency
33. Help in wrongdoing
34. Female parent
36. Having no money
38. Having money in
your bank account
39. Saucer-shaped bell
42. Careful about details
44. Habitual customer
46. “Juno” character
47. Spanish word for year
49. Bread paste
51. Sacred prefix
52. Useful quality
53. Heavy ___
54. Improvised jazz singing
55. Catharine Traill’s middle name 56. French word for sword
57. Avoid spending
60. Spread newly mown
grass for drying