COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Barcelona ‘bear’ 4 “Well, lah-di-__.” 7 Leo __ Sculpture Garden (Artistic nature attraction at Assiniboine Park, in Winnipeg)

10 Tech IDs, e.g. 13 Gladiator’s 1006 16 Analyze over again 18 Year: Spanish 19 Business’overall growth: 2 wds. 21 Newspaper where #65-Across is a journalist: 2 wds. 23 ‘S.’ of 1948 Nobelwinning poet T.S. Eliot’s name

24 City where #65-Across lives 25 Hippodrome racing carriage

26 Away

27 Elvis Presley’s actress granddaughter

Ms. Keough, for short

28 Podium 29 Pat __ (Toronto Maple Leafs head coach who was nicknamed ‘The

Big Irishman’) 32 Jeanne d’Arc, et al.

33 “When pigs fly!”: 2 wds.

35 Ms. Peeples of “Fame” 38 __-_-daisy!

39 “__ Lap” (1983) 40 Global tech firm which recently announced that downtown Toronto will be the locale of its new Canadian headquarters 42 Marriage vow: 2 wds. 43 Compensates

44 The Swiss Family Robinson writer Johann

45 Loup-__ (Werewolf, in Quebec) 46 Southeast-ofEdmonton town in Alberta 48 Highlander

49 Makes a whirring sound

50 National __ __ (Ottawa-Gatineau) 53 Creaky upper levels 56 Montreal ‘streets’ 57 Expressway entrances

61 “Yes, __, Bob!” (Definitely!)

62 Chums

63 Demeanour

64 Nova Scotia’s water, for short

65 Comic book alter-ego-character Canadian cartoonist Joe Shuster co-created: 2 wds. 67 Succeeds

68 Leaning Tower of __

69 Farm bird

70 U2’s land

71 Crooned

72 Name of

Manitoba’s highest Mountain 73 Purge

75 TV or radio message to inform the community, commonly

76 Soak, in dialect 77 Promo-on-theWeb: 2 wds. 80 Winnipeg Jets mascot: first name + initial + last name

84 She sings “On My Own” in Les Miserables

85 Rodents in Saskatchewan’s Grasslands

National Park, Black-tailed __ __ 87 Root soup ingredient

88 German article 89 Canadian movie comedy, “__ Brew” (1983) ...featuring Bob & Doug McKenzie 90 Elevation/highness [abbr.]

91 Prime meridian std. 92 Southern Ontario metropolitan region [acronym]

93 Suffix to ‘Baron’ 94 Weightlifting site

DOWN

1 Sequence, in brief 2 Line in tailoring 3 Sheriff Taylor’s son in Mayberry 4 Rehearsal: 2 wds. 5 “You missed _ __.” (Dusting observer’s remark)

6 Beatles movie of 1965!

7 More macho maybe 8 “Canadian Idol” Season 3 winner Melissa, and surnamesakes 9 Oodles

10 Etched, for short 11 Something shed, such as by a Shepherd on a sofa: 2 wds.

12 Maritime warning signal invented by Canada’s Robert Foulis (b.1796 d.1866): 2 wds. 13 Aviator who was the first woman to operate a flight school in Canada: 2 wds.

14 Ristorante ‘wine’ 15 Research facility [abbr.]

17 Manitoba town near the North Dakota border 20 Attire

22 Major arteries 29 Cease the chore 30 Beehive, for one, in the 1960s

31 Time __ __ the essence 32 #44-Down’s first bride, to the British press early on: 2 wds.

33 Theatrical laneway

34 Scottish 007 ...his initials-sharers

36 “_, __ one, don’t agree.”

37 “Look __ __ in this one.” (Reminiscence over a photo album) 39 Insect’s feelers

40 Mike __

(Canadian alum of “Saturday Night Live”)

41 Facility at the spa 43 Role for Canadian troops in Mali, as part of the United Nations’current mission in the West African country 44 Prince Charles’ royal domain

47 More frosty

48 Connie __ (Canadian author of noted Saskatchewan-set novel A Beauty) 49 French films

51 Big name in air conditioners 52 Leaving

53 1948: Folkways Records founder, Moses __

54 Hallway flooring choice

55 __ Canada (Ministry headed by Marc Garneau) 58 Canada Post concern 59 After-combat lettered affliction

60 Off, Knight-style 62 __ capita 63 Ontario recreational community north of Kenora 66 __ International (American-based community service group since 1915, which has been in Canada since 1916) 67 Creek, Lake, Park and Centre all sharing this name in Regina 68 Multi-tiered shrine 71 Canadian band, __ of the West 72 Thumbs-down audience members 74 Wordplays 76 Canadian actress Sonja

77 “Shoop” by Salt-n-__ 78 Birthstone for October 79 Supermarket’s ‘Bakery’, e.g. 80 Video file format, e.g.

81 Gaelic

82 Tune

83 Something scrambled-ish 86 School year div.