CANADIAN CRISSCROSS
ACROSS
1. The letter P in the ICAO spelling
alphabet 5. Crane operator’s compartment 8. She won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry in 1982 12. Jacob’s twin brother 13. Palette choices 15. Resembling certain soil 16. Bide your time 17. Length x width, for a rectangle 18. Matter of contention 19. Postpone doing what one
should be doing 22. Guy’s counterpart 23. Cause friction 24. Graduated continuums 27. Creative types 31. Atomic number of arsenic 33. Pool stick 34. Hawaiian city 35. Times of operation 36. Fill to the gills 37. Historical period 38. Extinct order of woody plants
(may have been early conifers) 40. Sport of shooting with a bow
and arrow 42. Double curve 43. Western treaty group: abbr. 44. Shooting match, in French 45. Converting from one religious
faith to another 52. He was part of the “Punch Line”
with the Canadiens 53. Spirited horse 54. Very tidy 56. Often buggy versions of soft
ware 57. Side of a room 58. Consequently 59. Window part 60. Soft part of a loaf of French
bread 61. Meddlesome
DOWN
1. Bench facing the altar 2. “Fast!” on a memo 3. Two matching things 4. Helicopter’s predecessor 5. Thigh muscle cramp 6. Invisible emanation 7. They can sting you 8. Sauce for Japanese food 9. Former, formerly 10. Oxford or Cambridge University
colour 11. Secondary matter 14. Minded the kids 15. Sixty seconds 20. Bevelled edge 21. Very tempting 24. Grasshopper sound 25. Air-freshener scent 26. Piece of fiction 27. Tapestry 28. Resell unfairly, as tickets 29. One-on-one pupil 30. Goes out with 31. Canadian actress Gill 32. Paul Newman film 36. Finnish architect 38. Discontinues 39. Referred to 41. Oriental tobacco pipe 45. Request made prayerfully 46. Exclamation of mild annoyance 47. Jurisprudence 48. “Erewon” girl 49. Anklebones 50. Emperor of Rome 51. Parts of comedians’ acts 52. Air rifle pellets 55. Diminutive dog