National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS 1. Drove too fast 5. Young eel 10. Tube-shaped vegetable 14. Plateau high in the Andes 15. Unpleasant sound 16. Letters and packages

collective­ly 17. Belonging to the same family 18. Roadside restaurant 19. Having two parts 20. Having little importance 22. Regard as the same as 24. Seabird in the auk family 25. Like a lizard 26. Contractio­n of two adjacent

vowels into one 28. Darken 29. Spoil 30. Distribute­d 32. Seventh Hebrew letter 36. Without a warranty 38. Down-filled comforter 40. “99 Luftballon­s” singer 41. Brightly coloured parrot 43. Famous Yankees catcher 45. ___ Lanka 46. Thin porridge 48. Powerful explosive 50. Keeps possession of 53. Cutting tool 54. Votes for 55. An untidy condition 58. Unless, in Latin 59. White poplar 61. Unemployed 62. Nincompoop 63. Former monetary unit of Belgium 64. Spanish sparkling wine 65. Continue to be 66. Austrian physicist Mach 67. Nursemaid in India DOWN 1. Distance between two bridge supports 2. African antelope 3. Mysterious 4. King of Argos 5. Signed on the back 6. Frances’s longest river 7. Overgrown with grape plants 8. Compass reading 9. Peruse again 10. Largest city of Sudan 11. One of the Hawaiian Islands 12. Lariat 13. Kind of wrench 21. Cut down to the required size 23. Test of knowledge 25. Passover meal 26. Pack ‘em in 27. Highest mountain

in the Pennine Alps 28. Carpentry tool 31. Toothpaste containers 33. 24 hours ago 34. Obi accessory 35. It’s hit with a hammer 37. Wisdom 39. Cut across 42. Legal document 44. Bowfin genus 47. Life-threatenin­g 49. Second largest continent 50. Tears into pieces 51. “Adam Bede” author 52. Unit of magnetic flux density 53. Furnaces for firing pottery 55. College head 56. Edison’s middle name 57. Informal assent 60. “It’s cold!”

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