National Post (National Edition)

CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

- By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Ear-piercing

5. Not friendly

10. Kind of cracker

14. East end part of a church

15. Ruth’s mother-in-law

16. Towards the mouth

17. Words written at the end of a letter

19. Capital of the Maldives

20. Utter a piercing cry

21. Hunger hormone

23. Wooden shoe sound

25. Nurse maid in India

26. Makes a stand

30. Japanese sandals

34. Farm bird

35. Upper layer of the earth’s crust

36. Keep your eyes open

37. Collection of memorable sayings

38. Northernmo­st region of the world, according to the ancients

40. Sound a sheep makes

41. Spending as little as possible

44. Skin spot

46. Money machine, for short

47. Spookish

48. Contaminat­es, as water

50. Colt’s mother

53. Oven used to bake pottery

54. Senior naval officer

57. Hair shirt

61. Become pale

62. Meant to be thrown out after use

65. Do some cutting and pasting

66. Spanish farewell

67. French for sky

68. Having undulating curves

69. Fasten again

70. Nervous

DOWN

1. Where chemists work

2. Oil cartel

3. “Back in the ___”

4. Pick up on

5. Bad blood

6. ___ Cruces

7. Sound made to imitate a ghost

8. Last Greek letter

9. Suspicious

10. In one way or another

11. By word of mouth

12. Spanish surrealist painter

13. Seaport of Yemen

18. Its capital is Cardiff

22. Tear down

24. God of Egyptian Memphis

26. Stage of developmen­t

27. Annual income, in France

28. Transmitti­ng live

29. Period of poor performanc­e

31. Capital of Morocco

32. Extremely angry

33. Lines of stitches

36. Willing to fight

39. Try to see

42. Overabunda­nce

43. Toothed wheel

45. He played for the Maple Leafs

49. Loosen, as skates

51. Navigation­al aid

52. Slur over a syllable

54. Hardly any

55. Father, to a baby

56. Roman numeral for 1504

58. In the same place: abbr.

59. British horsefly

60. Hard to hold

63. Canine command

64. Luau food

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