National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Connives with

6. Abdominal muscles

9. Face card

13. Island in the Bay of Naples

14. ___ d’état

16. Water, in Spanish

17. Small singing groups

18. Six-sided shape

19. Modern phone

20. Neighbour of Peru

22. Piece of pasta

24. Promotiona­l descriptio­n on a book jacket

25. Portable firearm

26. Keffiyeh cord

29. Tokyo, once

30. Wombs

33. Slang for a thief

35. Not allowing refusal

38. Upon prefix

39. Before now

41. Nautical direction

42. 23rd Greek letter

43. Crescent-shaped

46. Like many kitchens

48. Gave out cards

49. Archer’s widow in “The Maltese Falcon”

51. Computer memory unit

52. Clay combining form

53. Ransack and rob

55. Greek moon goddess

58. Cleanse

61. Newspaper item, for short

62. Alphabetiz­e

64. Quays

66. German woman

67. Edinburgh native

68. Code name for T

69. High rocky hills

70. Primate

71. Impatient and tired of waiting

DOWN

1. Play a part

2. Having nothing on

3. Heroic poem

4. Serious difficulty

5. Plant fibre used for making rope

6. Instrument played by Harry Hibbs

7. Kind of whisky

8. Long sandwich

9. Lightweigh­t cotton cloth

10. Old-looking

11. Obtain from a variety of sources

12. Hardy cabbage

15. Flightless seabird

21. Scheduled to arrive

23. Starting point

26. Years and years

27. Stared in wonder

28. Varnish resin

31. Answer back

32. Map within a map

34. Down on the ground

36. Table napkin

37. Rise and fall of the ocean

40. Cowardly

44. Satellite of Saturn

45. Delivery via parachute

47. ___ Peninsula

50. Toward the stern

54. Old Greek monetary units

55. Easy to mould

56. River in Spain

57. False witness

59. Lady’s man

60. Units of work

63. Wood sorrel

65. Kind of sauce

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