COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Police alert on a TV crime show
4. Scholastic stats like 4.0
8. Low choir voice
12. Disney’s drawn fawn
17. The Herald’s reporter, Mr. Fries
18. Church area
19. Rachael Ray’s cooking initialism
20. Repenters
21. Woof!
22. Informal hot drink serving, Cup _’ __
23. Jets gang leader in “West Side Story” (1961)
24. The New Yorker cartoonist Peter and also a River of Florence
25. Alberta... Sulphur Mountain __ __ __ National Historic Site of Canada, in Banff National Park
29. Conceals
30. Low ship deck
31. Skillful
34. Unlock
35. Human’s heel hurters
37. Bitumen deposits which lay in northern Alberta: 2 wds.
39. Those of Hummingbirds are supremely swift
41. Ring fighters sports org. founded in 1963
42. Stead
43. U2 music producer Brian
44. River in Normandy
45. Crunchy salad root
48. Sigma’s follower
49. Business-wear purchase: wds.
51. Sugary shapes
52. ‘West’ of Montreal?
54. Grand __ Opry
55. “__ __ Away” by Carole King
56. Goo-gooing Grizzly
57. Yellow: French
60. Mark below C Minus: letter + wd.
61. Concept derived from senses
65. Winnipeg-born hockey player Colton
66. Fern ‘seeds’
68. Think over
69. Hosp. injury scan
70. Soapbox
72. Australian coat of arms animal
73. Captain __ __ (b.1916 - d.2009 ...Canadian who became, in 1939, the first woman in North America to attain the certification of ‘Master of a Cargo Steamship in the Home-Trade’)
75. Dad of Canadian racehorse legend Northern Dancer
77. Sao __ (Largest city of Brazil)
78. “Are you mad __ __?” ...wondered the cold-shoulder-ee
79. Outranking
80. Nets
82. Best of Seven, in sports
84. Did You Know? Canadian physician Dr. Norman Bethune (b.1890 - d.1939) organized a mobile __ __ service for the wounded when he was a volunteer during the Spanish Civil War
87. Profiteer the concert tickets
89. Frosty
90. Shipping tycoon Mr. Onassis, et al.
91. Posh thumbs down
93. Hawk’s high home
94. “En garde!” sword
95. Wife of Prince William
96. Brouhaha
97. Teutonic thunder god
98. Subj. for Carl Sagan 99. ‘Travelers Cheques’ co. for which Karl
Malden was a TV spokesman
100. __ Zeppelin
DOWN
1. Steely Dan’s 1977 album
2. Yukon/Alaska river sharing the name of a quilled rodent
3. Prior to this moment: 2 wds.
4. Pink Flamingo’s garden friend
5. Montreal bakeshop
6. With: French
7. The Northwest Passage is a famous one in Canadian history: 2 wds.
8. Gems like aquamarines and emeralds
9. Spanish ‘notice’
10. Ski slopes snow sort: 2 wds.
11. Chesterfield
12. Twisty-turned tresses
13. Of the Northern Lights
14. Manitoba... __ Heritage Village (Cultural attraction in Steinbach)
15. Tony to Phil Esposito, for short
16. Chatelaine or Maclean’s no.
26. Perform at the Junos
27. Airport sched. data
28. Powders
29. “Modern Family” star Julie
32. Notions
33. __’ina (Indigenous language in Alberta which is extremely rare but is being preserved and revived)
36. Dog’s ‘I’m hot and tired’ signal
38. Nile wader
40. Ball-rolling games such as Bocce and Petanque
45. Canadian musician Mr. Wainwright
46. Camel hair garments
47. Like many pay rates
50. “__ of the Mask” (2005)
51. “This Will Be” singer Natalie
53. Vancouver sch.
55. Tree delicacies of Coniferous cuisine: 2 wds.
56. One of six by Johann Sebastian Bach: 2 wds.
57. Rocker Ms. Jett’s
58. The Canadian Army = L’__ Canadienne
59. Canadian furniture store chain:
2 wds.
60. Winnipeg-born hockey player Max whose dad is Tie
61. Clout
62. “So __” by Whitney Houston
63. “Friday Dance __” by k.d. lang
64. Hallway floor squares
67. Gas station name, __Canada
68. Eggplant casserole of Greek cuisine
71. The ‘Sunshine City’ in Ontario
73. Port __ Bridge (It links Surrey and Coquitlam in British Columbia)
74. Ms. Matchett, Spalding-Saskatchewanborn actress
76. Barrel-making occupational surname
77. “The __” by Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli
81. Medieval helmet
83. “Rock On” by British singer David
85. Ms. de Matteo of “The Sopranos”
86. Name of the ship for Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen
87. “__ Eyes” by Robert John
88. Corp. bigwig
92. 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet