CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

ACROSS

1. Beauty contest winner’s title

5. Ocean

8. Lavish attention on

12. Mechanical module

13. Switch on

15. Make money

16. Spot for a snooze

17. Unpleasant

18. Type of earring

19. Desperate plea

21. Hidden supply

23. Use a word processor

24. Method

25. Almost straight up and down

27. Decency

31. Make vague

32. Want very much

34. Go out with

35. Have supper

36. Contend

37. Firearm

38. Molecule part

40. Fail to pay one’s debts

42. Make curved

43. Ridiculously small

45. Not together

47. Like a swamp

48. Turn over

49. Move furtively

51. Wholly engrossing one’s attention

55. Larger-than-life

56. Select few

58. Brief outline

59. Raise children

60. Speedy

61. Shut angrily

62. Off-centre

63. Craving

64. Give out

DOWN

1. Gaze thoughtfully

2. Party to

3. Put through a sieve

4. First course of a meal

5. Say

6. Unproblematic

7. Paintings

8. Go down

9. Swearword

10. Factual

11. Final part

13. Make it ___ (be quick about it)

14. Business bigwig

20. Organ of vision

22. Put in

24. Established customs

25. Layered rock

26. Teacher with one student

27. Happily

28. Itching to get started

29. Dangerous feat

30. E-mail command

31. Drop of sweat

33. Each

39. Imitation

40. Employee

41. Shared equally between two

42. Rite of purification

44. Shameful offence

46. Dessert choice

48. Find time for

49. Disgorge

50. Con artist

51. Ready to harvest

52. Not earning money

53. Orderly

54. Ready and willing

55. Division of Earth’s history

57. Produce eggs