National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Big bell sound

5. Ecclesiast­ical vestment

9. Code word for P

13. Seed covering

14. Wide awake

16. Implausibl­e story

17. Mackerel shark

18. Twilled woollen fabric

19. Move fairly fast

20. Network of blood vessels

22. Smallest unit of meaning in a language

24. Goddess of the rainbow

26. Group of three

27. Season of heavy rain

30. Playing period in baseball

34. Russian tennis player Sharapova

35. “R.U.R” author

37. Automobile

38. Earthen pot

39. Young eel

40. Grape plant

41. Ear prefix

42. Control the direction of a vehicle

43. Female donkey

44. Nymph who was changed into a laurel tree

46. Form of religious service

48. Tent used by Mongolian nomads

50. Young sheep

51. Moss genus

55. Dominant city in ancient Greece

59. Easily heard

60. False name used to hide one’s real name

62. Layer

63. A queen of England

64. Metric unit of capacity

65. Piece of news

66. Asks for alms

67. Partly decayed plant matter

68. ___ rea

DOWN

1. Wet from steam

2. Not written

3. Goddess of victory

4. Houseplant with bell-shaped flowers

5. “Othello” character

6. Spanish exclamatio­n of encouragem­ent

7. A hairstyle, for short

8. Disease of cereal grasses

9. Programmin­g language

10. River in Switzerlan­d

11. High school dance

12. ___ meridiem

15. Small dog

21. ___ major

23. Colour made by mixing red with white

25. Base for a sculpture

27. Island in the Mediterran­ean

28. Lowest deck of a ship

29. Round part in the middle of the stomach

31. Frosting

32. Female goat

33. Colour made by mixing black and white

34. Way someone feels

36. Great danger

39. Lasting forever

40. In exactly the same words

42. Warmly comfortabl­e

43. Leap into the air

45. Cluster of stars in Taurus

47. Piece of thigh armour

49. Spring flower

51. Thick slice of cake

52. Cornbread

53. Unable to agree on a verdict

54. Tiny creature

56. Religious ceremony

57. Adolescent

58. They go in sleeves

61. Altar constellat­ion

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