National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Measure of capacity for liquids
5. Not at ease with other people
8. Spicy sauce often containing chocolate
12. Islamic chief
13. Derisive smile
15. Uppermost point
16. Section of a sheet of stamps
17. Describe grammatically
18. Icelandic narrative
19. Bar of music
21. Ski race on a zigzag course
23. Unspecified amount
24. Fencing sword
25. Unfertilized seed
27. Save from a shipwreck
30. Pointed part of a steeple
31. Give up claim to
32. Major division of geological time
34. Long-eared animal
35. Sloping trough
36. Put your hands together for
37. Before
38. Hunt illegally
39. Force onto another
40. 100 percent
42. Ride on a toboggan
43. Get on one’s nerves
44. Green veggie
45. For some time
48. Part of a train, sometimes
51. Abrupt transition
52. Take as the rightful owner
54. Fleur-de-lis
56. Saddle sore
57. Lacking resonance
58. By ___ of
59. Lotion additive
60. One is used to make meringue
61. Jittery
DOWN
1. Liveliness
2. Leader of prayers in a mosque
3. Shoe size
4. Hold dear
5. Kind of drum
6. This place
7. What do you want?
8. Mixture of Indian spices
9. Iridescent gem
10. Child’s construction set
11. Test
13. Froth on the sea
14. Find a solution for
20. Without another
22. In real time
24. Religious belief
25. Style of abstract painting
26. Insect-eating bird
27. Rude
28. Extremely cold
29. Expunge
30. Feminine personal pronoun
31. Source of blubber
33. Likely
35. Take in donations
36. Happen simultaneously
38. Bucket
39. Emptied of air
41. Three times as much
42. Disreputable
44. Flashy, ostentatious jewellery
45. Tiny pond plant
46. Good fortune (literary)
47. Saintly symbol
48. Canine tooth
49. Lacking sufficient rainfall
50. Toroidal shape
53. Tell an untruth
55. Pen for swine