Across
1. Pride and Prejudice novelist
5. Underwear for the torso
8. To pacify or assuage
10. Forming a semi-circle or curve
11. Napoleon’s first defeat in the Levant (1799)
12. From a clog to a stiletto
13. Tied to stop eggs from reaching the uterus
15. Montreal, abbreviated
16. Record label with an owl
18. Canadian sports channel
20. Singer Yelich-O’Connor
22. Author of BFG and Matilda
24. Inuit word for the innate spirit in all things
25. When advice is unappreciated, these “before swine”
27. Cylindrical Asian oven
28. Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
29. Shinto God of Scholarship and Academics
Down
1. To be kept ready
2. erat scriptum
3. Transcendentalist thinker and essayist
4. A silent “yes”
5. S-class rank-1 hero in One Punch Man
6. Author of Jacob Two-Two
7. Rounded hairdo caused by thick curls
9. “This bitch empty! !”
14. Canadian physician eulogized by Mao Zedong
15. Wrote L’Avare and Le Misanthrope
17. To proofread
21. His book By Chance Alone won Canada Reads 2019
23. A-type personality
25. Weed or kush
26. The British colonial period in India
