National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Queen of Sparta
5. Envelope sticker
10. Bad habit
14. Nerve cell extension
15. Faulty play in baseball
16. Well enough
17. Having fewer calories
18. Protective coloration
20. Layer
22. Watered down
23. Raises unnecessary objections 25. ___ de plume
26. Cherry in French
29. Possessions collectively
34. ___-France
35. Soup veggies
36. Tender
37. Actress Carrere
38. Hits a tennis ball back and forth 41. Great Big ___ (Newfoundland
band)
42. Engrave
44. Fish’s respiratory organ
45. Not the way it should be
47. Prisoner
49. Man of the cloth
50. Bride’s words
51. Put your feet up
53. Govern harshly
57. With no appointed date
61. Keep from being forgotten
63. Symbol of peace 64. Jai ___
65. Greek gods’ blood
66. River flowing to the Caspian Sea 67. Lake in Welsh
68. Protective leather leggings
69. Writing implements
DOWN
1. Young men
2. Quit a program
3. Canada’s ambassador to the
United States
4. Baking soda, for one 5. Protected against criminal
activity
6. Foot traveller
7. Equip with weapons
8. State of mind
9. Frosted in appearance
10. Speak ___
11. Technique of patterning fabric 12. Place for a canary
13. Gazed at
19. Miserable failure
21. Stun gun
24. Elementary textbook
26. Repeated a passage from
27. Size of typewriter type
28. Respond to
30. Wading bird
31. “Coming Up ___” (former
Canadian sitcom)
32. Ringlet of hair 33. Bread ingredient
35. Ballet movement
39. One who is unsure God exists 40. Plastic wrap
43. Sharp turn in a road
46. Suffering from psychological
problems
48. ___ fixe
49. Hand tool
52. Bar legally
53. Iridescent gem
54. ___-mell
55. Hope greatly
56. Of this kind
58. Walleye, in Canada
59. Canadian producer and director
Reitman
60. Congers
62. I figured it out!