CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

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1. Mountain lion 5. Culinary herb 10. Corridor 14. Periods of history 15. Ancient manuscript marks 16. Sandwich cookie 17. Hit with the open hand 18. Combat vehicles 19. Rehan and Lovelace 20. How crabs usually move 22. Careful management of one’s money 24. Frog genus 25. Soup vegetables 26. Mutual courtesy 29. Plugs into an electrical circuit 33. Middle distance runner from England 34. Cold 35. Cereal grass 36. Trumpet-shaped flower 37. Make oneself sleek 38. Code word for Z 39. Demons of Japanese folklore 40. Having the right foot forward, in skateboarding 41. Struggled through 42. Narrowly averted collision 44. Highly polished 45. Become smaller 46. Place for poultry 47. Pour out 50. Minimal meaningful language unit 54. Privy to a plan 55. Giving the once-over 57. 365 days 58. Having an eager desire for 59. Right-hand page 60. Group of three 61. Constellation Vega is in 62. Variety of white grape grown in South Africa 63. 1 billion years

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1. Be barely acceptable 2. Caribbean citrus fruit 3. Alcoholic drink made of honey, spices, and water 4. Harshness of temper 5. Scientific study of plants 6. Robe worn by Muslim women 7. Ottawa’s hockey team, for short 8. Sort 9. Eavesdrop 10. Having a rough, husky voice 11. Nickname of a skeleton of a fossil hominid found in Ethiopia in 1994 12. Hinged part of a table 13. Going around in circles 21. Unit of measurement of electrical power 23. It has four fingers and a thumb 25. Unemployment insurance 26. The punctuation mark: 27. Of sheep 28. Genus of flowering trees in the mahogany family 29. Staff signs 30. Brilliantly executed stratagems 31. People added to a jury 32. Hit the books 34. Came into being 37. Two stars of the Big Dipper in Ursa Major (with The) 38. Any animal resembling a plant 40. FBI agent 41. Hoof sound 43. Country in Africa 44. Woman with snakes for hair 46. Hard crayon used as a medium for artwork 47. Clock face 48. Be jealous of 49. Coconut husk fibre 50. Small furry animals with long tails 51. Architect Saarinen 52. Most important part 53. God of love 56. Up to now