National Post (National Edition)

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

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

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