National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Not at work 4. Homeless child 8. Regrettabl­y 12. Kicked the bucket 14. One who poses as a satisfied customer 15. The Kinks song 16. Former capital of the Mogul empire 17. Without planning 19. Big party 21. Give help to 22. Understood 23. Uses profane language 26. Keyboard key 27. Hockey penalty 29. Dana Carvey character on “Saturday Night Live” (with The) 33. Cruel behaviour 34. Number of years 35. Rigmarole 36. Upon prefix 37. Make a mess of 39. Comes to a climax 43. Branch of metaphysic­s 45. In no way 46. Take apart from 47. Clean with a broom 50. Exclamatio­n of disgust 51. Enzyme found in saliva 53. Former country of southeaste­rn Europe 58. Not deranged 59. In a little while 60. He played Inspector Shiller on “Baretta” 61. Active volcano in Sicily 62. Cookware 63. Agricultur­al labourer bound by the feudal system 64. Have a meal

DOWN

1. Harem rooms 2. Punch each other 3. Weekday that is not a feast day 4. Tory opposer 5. Be the matter with 6. Not well 7. Difficult to keep tidy, as hair 8. Surveying instrument 9. Abbreviati­on used in text messages 10. Apiece, in scores of games 11. For example 13. One of Santa Claus’s reindeer 14. On/off device 18. To deny: Fr. 20. Piece of cartilage which separates the bones in your back 23. Gomorrah’s neighbouri­ng city 24. Short metal pin 25. Marsh bird 27. Very much 28. Edible dormouse genus 29. Spanish mackerel 30. Persistent­ly harass 31. Become one 32. Enjoy a joke 38. Needles, buttons and thread 39. Molluscs with strong ribbed shells 40. Stage of an insect between moults 41. Having a convex curvature near the middle, in heraldry 42. Able to talk to people without feeling nervous 44. Resinous substances 48. Make very happy 49. External ear, in anatomy 51. Singer known as “the Little Sparrow” 52. With everything in the correct place 53. Slang for the mouth 54. Numero ___ 55. Came into possession of 56. Fermented drink 57. DVD forerunner

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