CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS

1. Study hastily 5. Flat-topped elevation 9. Quick-growing tree

11. Swordfish relative

13. Vivid crimson colour

14. Guaranteed against loss 16. Attila follower

17. Beauty pageant prize

19. Variety show host

20. I very much doubt it!

22. Surgical instrument

24. Kind of cracker

25. Further shorten a board 27. Greek epic poem

29. Having lived long

30. Network (var.)

32. Blue-blooded

34. Sea eagle

35. Brainchild

36. Screwdriver ingredient 38. Serving dish

41. Monetary unit

of Romania

42. Rope fibre

44. Nettle rash

46. Opposite prefix

48. One with thick skin

50. Bit of marijuana

51. Talks with one’s hands 53. Very able

55. Nothing 56. 23rd Lieutenant Governor of

Manitoba

58. Hot wind from the Sahara

Desert

60. Group of sports teams

61. Napped leathers

62. Songbird

63. Reward (arch.)

DOWN

1. Extinct Celtic language 2. Measure of engine speed: abbr. 3. Came down

4. Excessively excited

5. Board game piece

6. Irish Gaelic

7. Overcrowded, squalid

neighbourhoods

8. Use a fan on

9. Short stops

10. Understand clearly

11. Home of the Heat

12. Tailor’s tool

13. Burn a bit

15. In need of charging, like a cell

phone

18. Abnormal respiratory sound 21. Much spoken of

23. Animal found in China

26. Has a job

28. “A merry heart ___ good like a

medicine…” (Proverbs 17:22) 31. Broadcasting

33. Hand-dyed fabric

35. Complaint

36. Forgivable

37. Got too big for

38. Took care of a bill

39. Showed clearly

40. Objects of historic interest 41. Secure with rope

43. Slightly different colour 45. One person

performance

47. Iron and nickel alloy

49. Poppy drug

52. Wise one

54. Weeping willow

is one

57. Baseball score

59. Lyric poem