National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Fibres lying across woven cloth
5. He hosted “Country Hoedown”
9. Engine parts
13. Brightly coloured fish
14. White heron
16. Currency exchange premium
17. Have confidence in
18. Mountain ridge
19. Philippine knife
20. Canadian who coached the Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final
22. Chinese zodiac sign
24. Almost perpendicular
26. Electrically charged atom
27. Teapot parts
30. Departure from the normal
34. VCR button
35. German wife
36. Elsewhere
38. Likely
39. Fall back into bad habits
42. Genus of fiddler crabs
43. Agnus ___
44. Bird beaks
45. Unsafe
47. New production of an old play
50. Overnight flight
51. Fruit drink
52. Draw out
54. Employed as a temporary worker
57. Swelling in the shaft of a column, in architecture
61. Israeli airline
62. Mountain nymph
65. Narrow country road
66. River sediment
67. June birthstone
68. Racing toboggan
69. Body art, for short
70. Costing nothing
71. Primordial matter of the universe (in the Big Bang theory)
DOWN
1. Piece of fish bait
2. Fencing sword
3. It comes after summer
4. Staff tipped with a pine cone, in Greek mythology
5. Pokes fun at
6. See eye to eye
7. Before
8. Favourite
9. Beach dressing room
10. In suspense
11. Venus de ___
12. In a little while
15. Boring
21. Playful for aquatic animal
23. Kind of computer memory
25. Story with a moral
27. World War I French fighter plane
28. Alternative to rock and scissors
29. Protruding navel
31. Takes a siesta
32. Bloodsucking insect
33. Disgusting
35. Kind of market
37. Actor Diggs
40. Wrap up
41. Put up
46. In a perfect world
48. Arched roofs
49. Actress Lupino
50. Mountain in Banff National Park
53. “The Wreck of the Mary ___” (1959 film)
54. ___ la vie
55. Inter ___
56. White crystalline substance
58. First king of Israel
59. His nickname was the Gloomy Dean
60. Give the impression of being
63. One with a whistle, for short
64. Corn spike