COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD

Across

1 10th-century Pope: wd. + Roman

Numeral

5 Said ‘hello’ like Rocky

8 Lacking

12 Sports org. for Canadian athlete Eugenie Bouchard 15 Latka’s beloved (played by

Carol Kane) on 1978-debuting sitcom “Taxi” 16 “Able was _ __...” (Palindrome snippet)

17 SpaceX founder

Mr. Musk 18 Their-not

19 The Hunter constellation 20 It feeds

Lake Louise in Banff National Park:

2 wds.

23 Prince Charles’ home on the estate of Balmoral Castle in Scotland 25 Diminutive data

26 Strikes of lightning

27 “Against

All Odds (Take _ __ at Me Now)” by Phil Collins 29 Caught

30 Sketch comedy show since ’75 31 Any quaint dot on the map of Canada: 2 wds. 35 Shake off

37 The Clan of the Cave Bear heroine

40 Uses the blender’s mushy setting

41 Plains Bison, for one

43 Makeup company, __ London

45 Rio Tinto __ Planetarium (Science attraction in Montreal)

46 New Zealand fruits

47 Suburb of Ottawa 48 ‘Four’-meaning prefix

49 Tear open the seams

50 Years, in Madrid 51 Chairman in “Revolution” by The Beatles

52 Make a visit to check the facility 54 Praise/approval 56 Paris landmark, __ de Triomphe 58 Banda __ (City in Sumatra in Indonesia) 59 30-sec. spots on the wide-screen: 2 wds.

60 Tie famously of the Toronto Maple Leafs

63 Quite the important happening: 2 wds.

65 Blue dyestuffs 66 Grand __

National Park, in Wyoming 67 Throughout

68 “__ _ Was Young” by Eric Burdon & The Animals 69 19th-century German composer Johannes

70 Son of John and Yoko

71 Actor, Benicio Del __

73 Quebec village on the St. Lawrence/ Saguenay rivers

75 Mouth, informally 77 Swerve

78 Chris de Burgh’s “The Lady __ __” 79 Contradict

81 Fleck

83 The Weather Network outlook 88 Gradient engineering marvels traversed by scenic tour train the Rocky Mountaineer: 2 wds.

91 The bride’s walkway 92 He humans 93 Permeate

94 Singy sounds with la-la’s

95 Where to catch a GO Train in downtown Toronto, __ Station

96 Young sheep 97 ‘Auction’ add-ons 98 Slump

99 House size meas.: 2 wds.

Down

1 River of Italy

2 Mideast chieftain 3 “Will ya stop repeating already?!”:

2 wds.

4 Canadian music producer Bruce Fairbairn of 1995 album ‘Balance’ which is by what rock band?: 2 wds.

5 Quebec’s provincial tree: 2 wds.

6 Latin for

‘Pray for us’, __ pro nobis

7 Metric system prefix meaning ‘one-tenth’

8 Fare on an East Coast eatery’s menu

9 Dispenses

10 Hide Hair connector

11 Gives the cold shoulder 12 Elephant-like giants which roamed the Yukon in the Ice Age: 2 wds.

13 __ of hair

14 Rover’s reactions!

15 Have a big bawl 16 Snowy domed shelter

21 __ Grain

Elevators National

Historic Site, in Manitoba 22 Canadian generic grocery store brand with the yellow packaging: 2 wds. 24 Hill hts. 28 Understand that: 2 wds.

31 Dapper shoe covering 32 Sure-footed farm animal

33 Official fish of the Northwest Territories: 2 wds. 34 “You __” by Alanis Morissette

36 Mr. Flynn’s of swashbucklers 38 Ms. Horne of “Stormy Weather” (1943) 39 Additionally

42 Limo passenger often

44 Ingrid’s character in “Casablanca” (1942)

46 Pray in position at the pew

47 Where musical recordings can be found: wd. + plural acr.

49 Direct the lighting skyward 50 Tricolour of the Maritimes of blue, white and red with a yellow star in the blue segment:

2 wds. 53 Convenient mailing encls. 54 “Forward!” in Florence

55 Creative thoughts

56 Goat hair garments 57 Pasta’s pantry pal

59 Mr. Blake (Legendary coach of the Montreal Canadiens) 61 NYC artsy attraction 62 Etched [abbr.] 64 Signature street eat of Halifax

65 “Which team was victorious?”: 2 wds.

66 Pierre and Justin 68 Speech-giver’s summaries: 2 wds.

69 Second __ War (1899 to 1902 conflict)

72 Prairie __ (Canadian country band) 74 Smeltery waste 76 “__ Porridge

Hot” (Old-time nursery rhyme)

79 Home’s rec room spot

80 Duellist’s weapon 82 Explosives!

84 Five, in France 85 “Like that will ever happen.” 2 wds.

86 Vending machine’s coins opening

87 Number of Commandments 89 Jeans name

90 Time of note