COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. PIN-entering place for $20 bills
4. Honour for Shania Twain, e.g.
8. Bulk-carrying barge
12. Nimble
16. Attempt to communicate by phone or e-mail, for instance: 2 wds.
18. Stringed instrument of Japan
19. Mr. Onassis, et al.
20. __ District (Historic area of downtown Winnipeg)
21. Canadian Her-Story... Suffragist group behind the ‘Persons Case’ to give women the right to sit on The Senate: 2 wds.
23. Capt. James _. __ (Canadian star William Shatner’s iconic scifi role)
24. French Sudan, now
25. More incisive or interested
26. Swindle
27. District of __ (Vancouver Island municipality)
30. PC keyboard key
31. Mr. Estrada of “CHiPs”
32. Mixes the mixture
33. Acorns abodes
35. __ Island National Park, in Alberta
38. Great dancer Mr. Kelly (b.1912 - d.1996)
39. ‘Formerly’ fancily
40. Ship spar sort for a sail
41. “Yoo-__!” (Hello there!)
42. Bus. letters on Wall St. in The Big Apple
44. “I reeeeaally love that ...not!”: 2 wds.
46. WWII-era servicewomen
47. Twin-crystal
50. Less sleepy
52. “Whoopee!”
54. Assuage
55. Three-pronged fishing spear of the Arctic
57. Strong suit
58. Royal’s jewelled headdress
60. Nobel-winning ‘Mother’ in 1979
61. More thick, as tissues
62. “What _ __!” (That’s quite the bargain)
63. Hockey-playing venues
65. Drummer/singer Mr. Collins
67. __-Atlantic Ridge
68. Blatant/obvious
69. Table d’__ (Fixed price restaurant menu)
71. “O Canada” part in French... “Car ton bras sait porter l’__ / Il sait porter la croix!”
75. Peer Gynt’s mother
76. ‘Donkey’ in Hamburg
77. “Wake Up Little __” by The Everly Brothers
78. Jodie Foster movie
79. Some Cdn. politicians
81. Constrict
83. Express indirectly
84. Short-tailed weasels
87. Milk: French
88. 1053 to a Gladiator
89. Metro Toronto __ Centre (Where there is currently an immersive 2021 exhibit featuring the works of the artist at #49Down)
91. __-__ boots (Worksite footwear)
94. Ship’s sheltered side
95. Pitching great Mr. Hershiser
96. Low tide tracts in the Bay of Fundy
97. NY baseball players
98. Sea __ (Sporting fish)
99. Hold up
100. Canonized Mlle.
DOWN
1. “__ you kidding me?”
2. The feel of fabrics
3. ‘Home of the World Bunnock Championship’ town in western Saskatchewan
4. Get a song on Billboard
5. __ out (Stop running as a car)
6. Comfy coffee cup
7. Depleted
8. _._. __ (Canadian author of current 2021 book Misfit in Love)
9. 1878: Stage productions such as “H.M.S. Pinafore” by Gilbert & Sullivan: 2 wds.
10. ‘Ear’-meaning prefix
11. Herman who won the Pulitzer for his 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny
12. Vaults
13. British royal born September 15th, 1984: 2 wds.
14. Tear apart
15. River of Flanders
17. Feathery character for
Ottawa-born comedian Mark McKinney on Canadian sketch show classic “The Kids in the Hall”: 2 wds.
21. Sports rooters
22. Biblically ‘view’
24. Earth mother of Canadian cocreated character Superman: 2 wds.
26. Rom-Coms star Ms. Ryan
27. Smudge on the window
28. Three-toed sloths
29. Famous spy Mata
32. The Outsiders author Ms. Hinton, et al.
34. __ and kin (Friends and family)
36. Find
37. Recipe seasoning, __ Salt
40. Montreal Canadiens great whose number was 22: 2 wds.
43. 1960s French pop music style
45. Filmmaker Mr. Kurosawa
46. 19th-century textiles site in Almonte, an Ontario town on the Mississippi River: 2 wds.
47. Puccini production, __ Butterfly
48. Cover stories in the courtroom
49. French Impressionism painter (b.1840 - d.1926): 2 wds.
51. Masterpiece paintings series by #49-Down: 2 wds.
53. 2001 Yann Martel novel, Life __ __
56. “Take Me to the __” by Canadian band Prism
59. Dallas MBA players
64. “__ Petite” by Jackie Wilson
66. Tee-__ (Cute chuckle)
68. ‘West’ in Barcelona
70. ‘Verb’ suffix (Wordy)
72. Squash seeds
73. Prime Minister Pierre __ Trudeau
74. English cathedral town
77. Hockey gear, __ pads
80. Does work on the roads
82. British slammers
83. “_ __ My Heart in San Francisco” by Tony Bennett
84. __ artist
85. Lacquered metalware
86. Highbrow human
88. Pharmacy-dispensed products [abbr.]
90. __-la-la!
91. The three T-Shirt size choices
92. Your, in Rome
93. Certain compass pt. SOLUTION:
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