National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Thin wire nail

5. Rotating part in machinery

8. School founded by Henry VI

12. Jacob and Leah’s son

13. Angry talk

15. German car

16. Class of birds

17. Not dead

18. British sub-machine gun

19. Almost not at all

21. Surgical stitch

23. Assembly hall, in German

25. Concerning

26. Group organized to fight fires

29. Iris having a fragrant rootstock

32. New Testament book

33. Misfortune­s

35. Goose genus

37. A number of

38. Things fit to eat

40. Utter aloud

41. Country in the Middle East

43. Long fluffy scarfs

44. Very pretty

45. Detect automatica­lly

47. They wear pointed black hats in fairy stories

49. South American game bird

51. Not binding

52. Canadian inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a “Gator Great” in 1997

56. Video game persona

60. Bangkok resident

61. Single thickness

63. Canadian actress and singer Cleary

64. Long periods of time

65. Canadian sportscast­er for the Penguins

66. Male principle in Chinese philosophy

67. Bear down on

68. ___ Fernando Valley

69. Blackthorn

DOWN

1. Ordinary talk

2. Canadian photograph­er Brooks

3. State positively

4. Treat as beneath one’s dignity

5. Mountain pass

6. Seed covering

7. Roman numeral for 1507

8. Part of EST

9. Ballerina’s skirt

10. River in Europe

11. Three hours before midnight

13. Stopped and talked to

14. Sign used at the beginning of a repeat, in music

20. Pull along

22. Wall hanging of tapestry

24. Without preparatio­n

26. Skeleton pieces

27. Short children’s poem, perhaps

28. Middle part of an arm

30. Important problem for discussion

31. Sitting places

32. Bird of the crow family

34. Killed a dragon

36. Cereal grass

38. Follow immediatel­y

39. Wide part of a river where it joins the sea

42. School subject

44. Cloak worn in ancient Greece

46. Golf score

48. Roman numeral for 155

50. Gets close to

52. Dance movement

53. Type of cabbage

54. ___ Christian Andersen

55. Harp constellat­ion

57. Greenish-blue colour

58. ___ Domini

59. Anger that is difficult to control

62. Poetic contractio­n

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