National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Kind of sheet 5. Largest island of the Philippine­s 10. Title of respect for a French clergyman 14. 38th prime minister of Italy 15. Kind of acid 16. Hit on the head with a baseball 17. Mountain in the Massif Écrins in the French Alps 18. Race of Norse gods 19. Garment worn draped around the body 20. Sudden unforeseen problem 22. Make worse 24. Fashion items, to some 26. It gets hammered 27. Illicit lover 31. Countries bordering on the Eastern Mediterran­ean (with The) 35. King: Fr. 36. Cereal disease 38. Show reluctance 39. First man 41. Mandarin’s residence 43. Spanish lady 44. Landed estate 46. Moving quickly 48. Spread out for drying 49. Decline to dance 51. Addictive substance in tobacco 53. Gas used in illuminate­d signs 55. Half prefix 56. Kid’s winter garment 60. Tough, strong cord that joins a muscle to a bone 64. Exploding star 65. Welsh breed of dog 67. Military cap 68. Keffiyeh headband 69. Die down 70. Welsh national emblem 71. He played Gabriel the Angel in “The Green Pastures” 72. Roman biographer 73. Sea eagle

DOWN

1. Air pollution 2. Game played with a wooden ball 3. Part of QED 4. Shell-shaped structure 5. Bathroom 6. Actress Thurman 7. Bluish-white metal 8. Alliaceous plant 9. In your right mind 10. Was forgiven for one’s sins 11. Courter of a girl 12. Farm building 13. Geraint’s wife 21. Horse’s collar part 23. Patchy in colour 25. Ingredient in cookies 27. Baby carriages 28. Tradition costume of Vietnamese women 29. Laughing 30. Not italic 32. Italian violin maker 33. Presiding divinity 34. Line of business 37. Barely warm 40. Michael Jackson dance 42. Very small difference­s 45. Feels badly about 47. Rounded roof 50. Brightly coloured tropical bird 52. Small bell sound 54. Daughter of Tantalus 56. Bark out irritable retorts 57. Astronaut’s jargon 58. Egg-shaped 59. U-shaped bend in a pipe 61. Animal with antlers 62. Without a top 63. Greek goddess of victory 66. Old muscle car

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