National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Clean with soap and water

5. Short thick even grass

9. Under the influence of drugs

13. A sound you hear again after a loud noise

14. Thin crisp biscuit

15. 4,047 square metres

16. Behave coldly toward

17. Distinctiv­e pleasant odour

18. Unpleasant person

19. Canadian banknote dominantly purple in colour

21. Have an effect on

23. Bird with big eyes

24. Use energetica­lly

25. Commoner in ancient Rome

29. Place for your private thoughts

32. Rowing need

33. Canadian comedian Elvira

35. Cut of beef

37. Health resort

38. Great courage

40. Word used before many titles

41. Wanton woman

43. Mother’s sister

44. Fish eggs

45. Bible book

47. Measuremen­t in cookery

50. Resin used in making varnish

52. Jersey sound

53. Medley

56. Me in person

60. Stolen goods

61. Cunning intelligen­ce

64. Group of 3

65. Contribute to a gambling pot

66. Organic compound

67. Gelatinous substance

68. Be partially visible

69. Put your feet up

70. Member of the aristocrac­y

DOWN

1. Direction in which the sun sets

2. Skin condition

3. Avoid deliberate­ly

4. Mix socially

5. Thick black liquid

6. Alien spacecraft

7. Different version of the same song

8. Made an innocent person appear guilty

9. Home environmen­t

10. Screen symbol

11. Rum and water drink

12. In this place

14. Hostile

20. Lamb’s mom

22. Rock band originally from Vancouver

24. On the way

25. Nickname for Victoria Beckham

26. Drink with the tongue

27. Remove writing from paper

28. Distinctiv­e air

30. Associated with the past

31. Exclamatio­n of joy

34. Pointed part of a fork

36. Enthusiast­ic

38. Animal that makes a sound like a laugh

39. Speak haltingly

42. First course of a meal

46. Square-___ (sailing ship)

48. Kind of sauce used in Chinese cooking

49. Relating to the system of delivering mail

51. Black eye

53. What flags do in the wind

54. Top-notch

55. Memorizati­on by repetition

57. Therefore

58. One who says things which are not true

59. Cross a river where it’s shallow

62. ___ a bird,...

63. Give permission

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