National Post

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. ___ noire

5. Move from side to side

8. Good at doing something

12. Neighbour of Afghanista­n

13. Sunday singers

15. Unmannerly one

16. Painting medium

17. Hair dye

18. Piece of living room furniture

19. Lift up

21. Overcomes with fear

23. Celebratio­n of the Eucharist

24. Coffin stand

25. ___ Island (shipwreck site)

27. One who is legally responsibl­e for another’s child

31. Set of steps for passing over a fence

32. Glazier’s need

33. Recent prefix

34. Pigeon coop

35. Several rooms that are connected

36. Moves slowly

37. Circle segment

38. Veil material

39. Canadian equivalent of the Oscar

40. Practice for a performanc­e

42. Poker stakes

43. Come-on

44. Disruptive e-mail

45. Having good manners

48. Winter wear

51. African antelope

52. Ring-shaped island

54. Place to sit

56. Persian fairy

57. Tall, thin, and awkward

58. Apiece

59. Fly at a great height

60. Plaything

61. Irish Gaelic

DOWN

1. Life prefix

2. One of the Great Lakes 3. Of considerab­le height

4. Set of clothes designed to be worn together

5. Sharpens

6. Excellent

7. ___ rummy

8. Impossible to believe

9. Timely blessing

10. Room under the roof of a barn

11. Time periods

13. Go in pursuit

14. Spread out in many directions from a centre

20. Valley

22. Eagle’s nest (Var.)

24. Flat-topped hill

25. Put away for future use

26. Letter after gee

27. Skillful deceit

28. Senseless

29. Sponsorshi­p

30. Organ of smell

31. Mark left by a healed cut

32. Regular beating in the arteries

35. Dreamlike

36. “I’m trying to remember” (3 words)

38. Pulled tight

39. Biting fly

41. Magical cure

42. In a way that is fitting

44. Kind of terrier

45. Makes a bursting sound

46. Sandwich cookie

47. Constellat­ion Vega is in

48. One prefix

49. Within a short distance

50. Plant pouches

53. Tit for ___

55. Definite article

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