National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Speaker’s platform in ancient Greece

5. River in France

9. Australian tennis player

13. Mountain on Vancouver Island

14. Enjoy oneself with drinking and dancing

16. A single time

17. Large, heavy book

18. In reserve

19. Excessive amount

20. Garlic bulb sections

22. Tolerate

24. Spicy North African sauce

26. Concentrat­e on

27. Insect living in a colony

28. Sea bird

30. Steal from

32. Dutch cheese

34. Off the right path

38. Flat plinth

40. Eye socket

42. Covered with stars, in heraldry

43. Battlement opening

45. Where Adam and Eve lived

47. In the capacity of

48. Go through

50. Australian bird

52. Black tourmaline

54. Ankle injuries

58. Fruit with hairy shells

60. Canadian actor or conductor

61. Muslim ruler

62. New ___, Nova Scotia

64. Pet pests

65. Former Portuguese money

66. Artist’s garment

67. Abbreviati­on used after a list of names

68. Great Lake

69. Comply with

70. Small tree-covered valley

DOWN

1. Quantity baked at one time

2. Severe, and often fatal virus

3. Never to be forgotten

4. Newly spawned salmon

5. Emblem of Christiani­ty

6. Female bird

7. Black-hearted

8. City in Brazil

9. Fictional school of magic for students aged 11-18

10. Not burning yet

11. Bony plate on a turtle’s shell

12. Adam’s third son

15. Grind into a fine powder

21. Noble family of Italy

23. Letter kisses

25. Slightly open

29. Traffic light colour

30. Big bird in Arabian legend

31. Canadian who played for the Bruins

33. Equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean

35. Absolutely essential

36. ___ Darya

37. Affirmativ­e vote

39. Kind of town

41. Middle of the month in the ancient Roman calendar

44. Community on Cape Breton Island

46. One only interested in computers and technical things

49. Of last month

51. Sent in a stamped envelope

52. Composer Avo

53. Roman numeral for 203

55. Annoying

56. For dieters

57. Short piece of fishing line

58. Waxy fleshy covering on a beak

59. One who thinks they are better than someone else

63. Get a hole-in-one

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