National Post (National Edition)

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

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!

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