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1 With speed 6 Kings in Nigeria 10 The Caspian or the Baltic 13 It’s red in a bureaucracy 17 Kind of energy 18 Persian language 19 Avian symbol of wisdom 20 Genuine 21 Without a date 22 Corporate web 24 Ring in the eye 25 Outer skin 26 Drug of the 60’s 27 Young ones, briefly 28 Of mountains 30 Copycat 33 Sires 34 Alpinist’s metal spike 36 Nope! 37 “___ gets in your eyes ...” 39 Bro’s sib 40 Stay 42 Sound quality 43 To be announced 46 B.C.’s “spirit bear” 48 Expression of grief 50 Elegant 51 Our first black Chief Justice: Julius ___ 52 Boat that pulls another 54 Bank acc. entry 55 Doggy 56 And so on, in short 57 When to expect the flight, briefly 58 Negative conjunction 59 Go wrong 60 Crippling disease 62 Where you can get stuck 63 Put to work 64 Quartz variety 67 Principal 68 Nonstop 70 Like our earliest ancestors 72 Where surgeons work 73 A Scandinavian 74 Walkways for shoppers 76 Electrocardiogram, in short 77 Percussion instruments of Indonesia 78 Scavenging rodent 79 Breakfast slice 81 Nova Scotia’s “Hub” 83 Showing contempt 85 Podiums 86 Rotter 87 Holiday ending Ramadan 88 Part of a locking closure 92 Lofty 93 Aquarium necessities 96 Waltz 97 Malarial fever 98 Inuit knife 99 Music genre 100 Pianist Peterson of jazz (1925-2007) 101 Drinks like a cat 102 Communist of yore 103 Adversaries 104 It keeps an artery open
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1 “Pronto!” 2 Warsaw citizen 3 Soothing gel 4 Canadian books, in brief 5 Bard’s “before” 6 Poet 7 Scarf for a dog’s neck 8 Painting or sculpture 9 Our first P.M. 10 Heirs, often 11 Wooly mom 12 Gabriel Roy work: “The Road Past ___” 13 Threefold 14 Eagle’s perch 15 Aches and ___ 16 “If all ___ fails ...” 23 When your plane lands, shortly 26 Like notebook paper 29 Louise or Waskesiu 31 Casablanca’s country 32 Follow too closely 34 They may be filled with berries 35 Tel Aviv citizens 37 They transcribe court proceedings 38 Where Leonard Cohen grew up 39 Do a slalom 41 Measuring the use of (electricity, e.g.) 43 Plural of thorax 44 Ballpoint brand 45 “Oh” in Oberhausen 47 Morning (Fr.) 49 Trivial details 50 Small Welsh dog 53 About-faces 55 Toronto airport 60 Prime Minister’s office 61 Boating blade 65 Diplomat’s asset 66 Widely spoken lang. 68 Extinct giant 69 Town in SE corner of Sask. 71 Foul-smelling 73 Golfer’s warning 75 Spire on a church 77 Emotes 80 Shocked 81 Boreal forest zone 82 Make ready for use (2 wds.) 83 Idiot 84 Takes a chance 85 Indian lentil dish 86 Gunk 89 Suffix with utter 90 Read quickly 91 Jaunty 94 Isle (Fr.) 95 Bossie’s bellow 96 Operating system, once: MS-___