CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS 1. Slightly chilly 5. Expert 9. Lie relaxed in mud, as pigs do 11. Genus of bee- eaters 13. Distance from side to side of 14. Fork or knife, e. g. 16. Three- toed sloths 17. Ready resource 19. Ship involved in the Halifax

explosion 20. Very short pencil 22. Abrasive mineral 23. On- line journal 24. Sans ___ 26. Genus of soft- shell clams 27. Showy flower 28. Weekly wage 30. Very thin 32. False statement 33. Province west of Que. 34. Wooden legs 37. Not more than 40. Chases away birds 41. Dashboard letters 43. Painful places 45. Mountain pool 46. He was known for his show of

“Hints” on TV 48. Dried up 49. Adam’s wife 50. Genus of hazel trees 52. Meadow 53. Do 55. Win the victory 57. Unimportant person 58. Run aground 59. Location 60. Tiny grains of worn down

rocks

DOWN 1. Pause in a verse 2. Wave in Spanish 3. Alberta town 4. Monkfish 5. Make ends meet 6. Deuterium discoverer 7. MacLean of “Hockey Night in

Canada” 8. Greek vowel 9. Is an author 10. Jinx or the evil eye 11. Symbolic finger gestures in

the dances of India 12. The buying and selling of

sacraments 13. Spiny- finned fish 15. Sluggish from overeating 18. One of Napoleon’s marshals 21. A thousand millions 23. Flora and fauna at the bottom

of the ocean 25. Gives a non- passing grade to 27. Pub orders 29. Soak flax 31. Japanese carp 34. Beardless 35. Bullfighters 36. Overly flattering 37. Puppies 38. Hibernia 39. Moon of Neptune 40. Place for the foot 42. Work with 44. Special kind of stamp 46. Swarm 47. Mongol tents 50. Aquatic bird 51. Antitoxins 54. It gives a warning on DVDs 56. Delivery vehicle