National Post (National Edition)
CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. Big tanks
5. Begin to be day
9. Tour de France vehicle
13. Shortly
14. In a normal voice
16. Maple genus
17. Car driven by a chauffeur
18. Italian operatic composer
19. Units of luminance
20. Blood clots
22. Space between two points
24. Protective covering used by ancient Roman soldiers
26. What pigs eat out of
27. Son of Odin
28. Leaders of a town
30. Lennon’s wife
32. Very sharp
34. What some chimneys are made of
38. Reasonably happy
40. Point of view
42. Indian spiced tea
43. Limb-bending muscle
45. One of two opposing groups
47. Port on the Firth of Clyde
48. Priest’s assistant
50. Barley beard
52. Neighbour of Uruguay
54. Square dancing figures
58. They form a base for some yellow dyes
60. City in Switzerland
61. Kind of bean
62. Excessive desire
64. Modelling material
65. Give off
66. Upright stone slab
67. French for she
68. Fencing sword
69. Make a web
70. Prophet
DOWN
1. Gentleman’s gentleman
2. Varnish resin
3. Grave marker
4. Inclined to turn up one’s nose
5. Patron saint of Wales
6. Ginger ___
7. It has a space on either side of it when it is written
8. Reason for an R rating
9. Merely mechanical
10. Frosting
11. Two-masted sailboat
12. Another name for Irish Gaelic
15. Got naked
21. Lie on wait
23. Unit of atmospheric pressure
25. Forewarning
29. Feeling of anxiety and worry
30. Abstaining from
31. Zero
33. Pieces of jewellery
35. Airplane manoeuvre
36. King Arthur’s foster brother
37. How a shop assistant might address a male customer
39. Dig out
41. German art song
44. Greek anise-flavoured liqueur
46. Relief from discomfort
49. Puts on one’s guard
51. Makes a facial expression of pain
52. Aircraft without wings
53. Cordage fibre
55. Fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia
56. Shape of an oeuf
57. “You Make me Feel Like Dancing” singer
58. Run away from
59. Ooze
63. Samuel’s teacher