National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Be short of
5. Easy victim
10. Violin’s relative
11. Mackerel relatives
13. Military plane
14. Contestant who finishes second 16. River flowing into the Danube 17. Bright spot on the sun
19. Mackerel relative
20. Become active
22. Informal letter
23. On the contrary
24. Fertile place in a desert
26. Tapping golf stroke
28. Signal for lights out
29. Small distinctions
31. Make a mistake
33. Strong silky fabrics
34. Sounds frogs make
37. Slate-cutting tool
38. Vestments worn
during Mass
40. Highest mountain in Japan 43. Tasting like lemon juice
45. Sierra ___
46. Poetic word for visible
47. Discrete part
49. Sound of scissors closing
50. Italian noble family
52. Make glass less brittle by
heating then cooling
54. Multiplication symbol
55. Ancient Roman coin 57. Animals with an elongated
snout
59. “Alice in Wonderland” illustrator 60. Satie and Bruhn
61. Old Chinese currency
62. Uncontrolled anger
DOWN
1. Bundles of nerve fibres 2. Vestment worn by a priest 3. Staff symbol
4. Sacred book of Islam 5. French word for chicken 6. Canadian actress Paquin 7. Main metal in pewter 8. Proofreader’s direction 9. People found in Nigeria 10. Have within 11. Canadian rock band active in the seventies
12. Break of day
13. Animal with a humped back 15. Regina’s junior hockey team 18. Struggles successfully
21. Wagner opera
25. Ancient Greek covered walk 27. Bird with a forked tail
28. Remaining signs
30. Band J.D. Fortune was the lead
singer for
32. Stir up sediment
34. Unit of radioactivity
35. Tributary of the Yukon River 36. Elderly people
38. Underground passage
39. Scottish clans
40. Enemies
41. Unexpected defeat
42. Rich international travellers 44. There are 16 of them in a pound 48. Potato
51. Volcano in Sicily
52. Seed covering
53. Canadian violinist St. John 56. Compass point
58. Farm animal