CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS

1. Short pencil 5. Matting fibre 10. Move, like the wind 14. Something to whistle 15. Extreme 16. Theatre box 17. “The Mikado” attire 18. Rather fat 19. Big garden size 20. Of small size 22. Separate from others 24. College building 26. Socially inept person 27. Fatherly 31. Rotten and foul-smelling 35. Metric measure 36. Done in silence 38. Largest deer 39. Change for a fifty 41. After a while 43. One’s earlier life 44. Be a busybody 46. Piece of game equipment 48. Guiding suggestion 49. Community near Chilliwack 51. Convert into code 53. Air-conditioned 55. Unspecified amount 56. City councillor 60. Straight muscle 64. Loud laugh 65. Staple food 67. Silly talk 68. Man, for one 69. Century plant 70. Main thing you are thinking

about 71. Bambi’s family 72. Carried with difficulty

By Walter D. Feener

73. Benchmark

DOWN

1. No longer move 2. Toothpaste container 3. Standard measure of a quantity 4. Next to 5. Pertaining to heaven 6. Down with something 7. Breeding horse 8. Carrying a weapon 9. Portable computer 10. Asphalt 11. ___ Ness Monster 12. Fairy tale monster 13. Uncultivated plant 21. Wrongful act 23. Jack-in-the-pulpit, for one 25. Tropical parrot 27. One easily taken advantage of 28. Sphere of activity 29. Actual wording of a document,

in law 30. Pliant 32. Butt of a marijuana cigarette 33. Important topic to be discussed 34. Talk out of 37. High school students 40. Wizard 42. Put on wax 45. Truly needy 47. Greenish yellow 50. Australian marsupial 52. It makes jam set 54. Slow and dignified, in music 56. Like a desert 57. To not have any longer 58. Cartoon chipmunk 59. Without anything mixed in it 61. Busy person’s list heading 62. ___-friendly 63. Pretense 66. Caesar’s salutation