National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Kitchen suffix

5. Heart chambers

10. Kind of rubber

14. Use gentle persuasion

15. Hired hoodlums

16. Cut out for

17. A camel has one

18. One’s original environmen­t

19. Winter garment

20. Threatenin­g words (2 words)

22. Served in lightly browned butter

24. Account entry

26. Race track fence

27. Alligator pears

31. Metamorphi­c rock

35. Canary relative

36. Point ___ National Park (it’s in Ontario)

38. Main component of chromosome­s

39. Thin, narrow strip of wood

40. Persian fairies

41. Loud ringing of bells

42. Corrode

43. Plant that grows in wet places

44. Sound loud and harsh

45. Stereo knob

47. Chinese-style snacks (2 words)

49. Common male name in Scandinavi­an countries

51. Divisions of geological time

52. Piece of jewellery with a sunken design

56. Hostility

60. Actress Cameron

61. Advances slowly

63. Passport endorsemen­t

64. Capital of Norway

65. Hypnotist’s command

66. Adam and Eve’s garden

67. Legal claim on property

68. Hunts for

69. Male parent of a horse

DOWN

1. Reflected sound

2. Series of gigs

3. No longer wild

4. Easily understand­able

5. Came to an understand­ing

6. As well

7. Available space

8. Lay to rest

9. Males less severe

10. Easy to do

11. Woodwind instrument

12. Having wings

13. Apportion out

21. Canadian songwriter Meissner

23. Number of lives a cat has

25. Motorized bicycle

27. Item of value

28. Of the soft palate

29. Speak pompously

30. Strong woollen cloth

32. Just as one would wish

33. Speak threatenin­gly

34. Company department

37. City in the valley of the Meuse

40. Without equal

41. What the sounds k, p, and t are

43. Scoria from a volcano

44. Source of dietary fibre

46. Coat of arms

48. Comprehend­s

50. Move sideways

52. Object of adoration

53. Not yet final, in law

54. Narrative

55. S-shaped moulding

57. Calf-length skirt

58. One who takes drugs

59. Having a sound, healthy mind

62. “A mouse!”

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