National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Troughs for carrying bricks

5. Platform for honoured guests

9. Lack of light

13. Help in wrongdoing

14. Casual meal

15. Vivacity

16. Laugh loudly

17. Twig of a willow tree

18. Textile stiffener

19. Wins a victory over

21. Throw overboard

23. One who steals

25. Seek to marry

26. Bad habit

28. Actress Ullmann

30. Wall recess

34. In many different places

37. Unoccupied space

38. Internet address

39. Pair of performers

40. Romaine

42. “___ Lay Dying”

43. Czech composer Janacek

45. Sea wall

48. Attractive personal appearance

50. The ___ Four

(Beatles nickname)

51. Old mining town in the Yukon

52. Exclamatio­n of elation

54. Of the countrysid­e

56. Comfortabl­e train car

60. Luba song

64. Jai ___

65. Varnish resin

67. Window ledge

68. Excessivel­y proud

69. Hirsute

70. Toward the mouth

71. In the past

72. People in general

73. Sparks and Landry

DOWN

1. Rocklike 2. Instrument similar to a bassoon

3. In need of a hearing aid 4. Limousine type 5. Heinrich Heine’s birthplace 6. Black cuckoo 7. Covered a cake

8. “The Taming of the ___” 9. Bay ___, Newfoundla­nd 10. Exclamatio­n of regret 11. East Indian cereal grass 12. Canadian track and field athlete

14. French novelist

20. In front

22. Many thousands of years

24. Thread in French

26. songbird

27. Winter home

29. All the words of a language

31. Island that guards the entrance to Hudson Bay

32. Old Testament book

33. Arabian prince

34. City opposite Ottawa

35. Protuberan­ce

36. Pan used for stir-frying

41. Work long and hard

44. Nissan car

46. Spike of corn

47. Former Canadian wrestler Danger

49. Canadian singer Roberts

53. Marina sight

55. Have confidence in

56. Peacock constellat­ion

57. ___ Bator

58. Secular

59. Japheth’s father

61. Make weary

62. Pleased

63. Town in Alberta

66. Type of chart

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