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CANADIAN CRISSCROSS

By Walter D. Feener

ACROSS

1. Confidence game 5. Cafeteria supply 10. Redness of the cheeks 14. ___ breve 15. Dangerous elephant 16. City in Alaska

17. Indian bread

18. Exactly right for a particular situation

19. Racetrack shape

20. ___ one’s thumbs

22. Being born

24. Automaton

26. Dry, said of wines

27. Pleasantly windy

30. One who is appreciative of beauty, in the arts

35. Cotton thread

36. South American monkey

37. Knowledgeable about

38. Having a tendency

39. Subtle distinctions

42. Overwhelming wonder

43. A new plant grows from it

45. Adding and subtracting

46. Kind of pole

48. Group of performers

50. Beyond question

51. Tree of the pine family

52. Do mechanical drawing

54. Ancient capital of Assyria

58. Becomes known, as a story

62. After a while

63. Mountain on Vancouver Island

65. Round shape

66. Small round earring

67. Tejada who was the first female president of Bolivia

68. Opposed to

69. One of the Cartwright’s on “Bonanza”

70. Great pain

71. Place for some baby birds

DOWN

1. Gus Van ___ (film director)

2. Crab’s pincer

3. Jai ___

4. Lathe shaft

5. Felt hat

6. Show of cowboy skills

7. Period of history

8. Monetary unit of China

9. Emperor of Ethiopia

10. Italian dumplings

11. Score of zero, in tennis

12. Arabian sultanate

13. Raised red mark

21. Group of twelve

23. Go below the horizon

25. No longer pure

27. Bored through familiarity

28. Become ready to eat

29. “Silk Stalkings” actor

31. Cut into a hard surface

32. Related on one’s mother’s side

33. It is needed after a bath

34. One who hates another

36. Volcano in the Philippines

40. Brolly

41. Personal belongings

44. Wards off an attack on

47. Bird eaten as a delicacy

49. Roman numeral for 1014

50. Volcano in Ecuador

53. Altercation

54. “___ Bridges” (former police show)

55. Division word

56. Entre ___

57. Settlement in British Columbia

59. Being the only one

60. Punctuation marks

61. Briefly rain

64. Wedding words

DIVERSIONS

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