CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS

1. Speak imperfectly 5. First French news agency 10. Animal feet 14. Countertenor 15. Defendant’s defence 16. Somewhat 17. Layer 18. Canadian singer Sarah 19. Tactical manoeuvre 20. Detective 22. Attach to 24. Nothing: Fr. 25. Give out sparingly 26. Gets worked up 29. Card game using a 48-card deck 33. Straps for controlling a horse 34. Prima ___ 35. Be unwell 36. Taken advantage of 37. Door: It. 38. Japanese forest-dwelling deer 39. Physician, for short 40. Capital of Bangladesh 41. Weighed down with a load 42. Membrane lining the ventricles of the brain 44. Canadian who created the M1 rifle 45. Not hard to get 46. Eldest of the Pleiades 47. I understand and will obey (nautical) 50. Marked with tiny spots 54. Stand on the hind legs, as a horse 55. Poke fun at 57. Difficult task 58. Clothing style 59. Genus of razor clams 60. Special ability 61. Airport near Paris 62. Make efforts to throw up 63. ___ Pinakothek (museum in Munich)

DOWN

1. Thin narrow strip of wood 2. Hipbone sections 3. Boil slowly 4. A scrunchion in Newfoundland 5. Corned beef dishes 6. Scottish-Canadian shipping magnate 7. Picture of a place 8. Garment worn in the Middle East 9. Type of overture, as to an opera 10. Unit of distance in astronomy 11. Side by side with 12. Showing great knowledge 13. British submachine gun 21. Sets a dog on 23. Succulent plant 25. Formal pronouncements 26. Mrs. Grundy 27. Greek storyteller 28. Family member 29. Winter coat 30. ___ Islands (archipelago of British Columbia) 31. Compare 32. African antelope 34. Like surf 37. Sperm whale genus 38. Film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow 40. June 6, 1944 41. Secular 43. Not far away 44. Elephant-headed deity 46. Work of art that can be played or sung 47. Jason’s ship 48. Twelve months 49. British nobleman 50. Former time in one’s life 51. Indigo 52. Clump of grass 53. Noble family of Italy 56. Opposite of WSW