National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Block of type metal used for
spacing
5. Be concerned
10. Use offensive language
11. Region of Central Europe
13. Snail-like creatures
14. Computer output devices 16. English pianist
17. Quick-and-dirty solution
19. Roman numeral for 52
20. Poetic contraction
21. Fish hawk
22. Dutch cheese
23. Tartan trousers
25. Pen for pigs
26. Fully attended meetings
27. Slow-moving animal
29. Fencing position
31. Overwhelming defeat
33. South American monkey 34. Breakfast cereal
37. Work table
40. Like some eyebrows
41. ___ Fáil (Stone of Destiny) 43. Acting parts
45. Black
46. Knows by intuition
48. Samuel’s teacher
49. Wood sorrel
50. Group of nine
51. Sodium chloride
52. Unmarried Spanish woman 54. Canadian who played ten years
with the Rangers
56. Tool for removing old paint 57. Anxious to get
58. Made less unpleasant 59. Asterisk
DOWN
1. City in British Columbia
2. Web page addresses
3. Inquire about
4. Some school furniture
5. Stampeders song
6. Branch of knowledge 7. Anatomical network
8. Letters after Q
9. Let another driver have the right of way
10. Drinking toast
11. Sudden bursts of energy
12. Massenet opera
13. Put an edge on
15. Rock forming the Earth’s lower crust
18. Records
21. Surgically created opening 22. Change in Pacific currents 24. Good enough
26. Rods for stirring fires 28. Shade of a colour
30. Front part of a truck
32. Having a natural ability 34. Units of weight
35. Suspiciously
36. Having one dimension 38. Butcher’s knife
39. Canadian tank destroying rocket of the 1950s
40. Life stories, for short 42. ___ rule
44. Is in session
46. Shoot from
a concealed place
47. Moves gradually
50. Historical periods
51. Story of heroic
deeds
53. Mouths
55. Disloyal one