National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Former money of Portugal and Brazil 5. Make things easier for 9. Like a sponge 11. MLB team 13. March out into the open 14. Raise aloft 16. 13th or 15th of the month 17. Informal greeting 19. Genus of maples 20. Different spelling, in crosswords: abbr. 21. Fish eggs 22. You can cook with it 23. One quintillio­nth prefix 25. Toxic alkaloid obtained from nux vomica 29. It might be out on a limb 30. Early arcade space shooter game 31. Canadian sports channel, for short 33. Lyric poem 34. Any living things that are not plants 39. Plumbing problem 43. They attract customers with tricks 44. Get an income 45. Auction item 46. Being between 47. ___ mater (cranial membrane) 48. Allied by nature 50. Large pill 52. Meat- and- potatoes concoction 53. Roundabout ways 55. Thinks that something is true 57. Decline politely 58. Apart from 59. Auctioneer’s last word 60. Part of a waitress’s income

DOWN

1. Model Rachel from British

Columbia 2. Cupid’s counterpar­t 3. Promissory note 4. Of the kind mentioned 5. Belonging to God 6. A patch may cover one 7. Volcano output 8. Of the tooth- like scales of

sharks 9. Having feet 10. Summer clothes 11. Unwanted photograph­ic

effect 12. Beer mugs 13. Sofa without a back or arms 15. ___ Stanley Gardner 18. Ending of some plant names 24. Fish- eating animal 25. North Pole resident 26. Archbishop’s sign of authority 27. Coal scuttle 28. Daughter of one’s sister 32. Actor Mineo 34. Close- fitting necklace 35. Ostriches and emus 36. Of the greatest possible

degree 37. Wading bird 38. Last and be usable 40. Portable computers 41. The countries of Asia 42. Chews like a beaver 43. Wearing a particular kind of

clothing 49. Cancelled rocket launch, e. g. 50. Produced offspring 51. Fourth of the canonical hours 52. Straw beehive 54. Internet address 56. Roman numeral for 201

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