CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS

1. Ringing of bells

5. Opportunity to buy goods at a

discount

9. Copper and zinc alloy

11. Speaks monotonously

13. Old Portuguese coin

14. You may get them if you drink

too much

16. Indian mulberry

17. Drinking sprees

19. Mouth part

20. Dutch painter Mondrian

22. Forbiddingly bare and plain 23. Dessert of choice at a wedding 24. Get on your nerves

26. Top fighter pilot

27. ___’Azur

28. Relieve itching

30. Gives high praise

31. C’est la vie

33. Ladlelike utensil

35. Popular part of baseball

38. Telephone greeting

39. Calendar abbreviation

40. 1986 Calder Trophy winner 42. Surface measure

43. Vocal music

45. French word for worse

46. Canadian actress Vardalos 47. Learns by reading books 49. Roman numeral for 56

50. Not straightforward

52. Custodians of children

54. Straight line cutting a curve 55. Allows to have 56. Grime

57. River in Scotland

DOWN

1. Les Six member

2. River in Germany

3. Rhyme scheme

4. Puts cargo on a ship

5. Avoid work

6. Luminous discharges 7. Robitaille who played for the Kings

8. Try to be like

9. Learns the skills necessary to do a job

10. Get in touch with

11. In that place

12. Variations in voltage

13. War photographer

15. Drove fast

18. Wiener dog

21. Largest of the British Virgin Islands 23. Attempt to conceal

evidence of wrongdoing 25. Enthusiastic cry

27. Coffee shops

29. Write using a computer

keyboard

30. Raised edge

32. Desire

33.TV programs with

a continuing story 34. Split apart

36. Electricity or water 37. Extreme anxiety

38. Player’s cards

39. Fight between knights 41. Old Portuguese

currency

43. Barenaked Ladies CD 44. Browns meat quickly

at a high temperature 47. Fly high

48. Crisp biscuit

51. French word for here 53. Compass point