COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Particular pollutant, puny-ly
4 Prefix with ‘dextrous’ 8 “P-r-o-n-t-o!” 12 “Fiddlesticks!”
17 Hero in Leon Uris’ 1958 novel Exodus, __ Ben Canaan 18 Filmmaker brothers Joel or Ethan
19 Eldest sister in Chekhov’s play Three Sisters
20 “If _ __ Your Woman” by Gladys Knight & The Pips 21 Some gym machine exercises: 2 wds. 23 Nancy __
(Miss Hathaway’s portrayer on “The Beverly Hillbillies”) 24 Jobs for Canadian contractor
Mike Holmes, commonly 25 __ Perpetua (Idaho’s motto)
26 The French __ 28 __ _ movie (Catches the latest flick) 30 Alphabetic trio 31 Banff Springs Hotel nickname: 4 wds. 35 Initials-sharers of Judy Garland’s famous daughter
36 Rusty wit?
37 __ River (Inuit hamlet on Baffin Island in Nunavut) 38 “__ Wee Wee”: Pigskin Pete’s chant at Hamilton Tiger-Cats games 40 Mends mittens maybe
41 __ generis (Unique, in Latin) 42 Proofreader’s
‘let it stand’ 45 Country star
Mr. Atkins 46 Antiquities 47 ‘Seven’-meaning prefix
49 Sample
50 Ear
52 Riot 54 Partial in the court
56 Common web address ending 57 Falcon-headed Egyptian deity 58 Ski-__ (Winter trails vehicle) 59 Character in Shakespeare’s Othello
62 Brit. reference works in libraries 63 Settle the dispute 67 The Altar constellation 68 Customer purchase slips [abbr.] 70 Shakespearean suffixes
72 “How ya __’?” (Casual “What’s new?”)
73 1994 song by Canadian band Moist
75 “You’ve Got Mail.” ISP
76 Mexican composer,
Alfonso Esparza __ 77 Mysteries novelist Dame Christie, to pals
78 Austrian painter Gustav of The Kiss 80 “_ __...”
(Prayer starter) 81 Mozart’s
“Dalla __ Pace”
82 Not just for vegans anymore, they’re promoted in the newly-revamped 2019 publication at #55-Down from Health Canada: 2 wds.
87 Consume
88 Jean __ (Pharmacy chain in Quebec) 89 Mens __ in corpore sano (Healthy mind/body) 90 Quick web connections 92 Engagement promise of yore 94 Best-liked, cute-style
96 The Walleye is commonly misnamed as what freshwater fish of the Pike family? 98 Conjure up
99 “Just you wait,
‘__ ‘iggins...”
- Eliza Doolittle 100 ‘Arthr’add-on 101 Vegetable of Japan 102 Didn’t stop, sentence-style: 2 wds.
103 Someone being conned
104 Clears
105 Australian state, e.g.
DOWN
1 Pallid
2 Moon shape, e.g. 3 Boaster: 2 wds. 4 Prefix to ‘puncture’ 5 Aesop’s Fable lesson 6 Strait of __ __ (Body of water between Labrador and the island of Newfoundland) 7 Bestirred to grandness
8 Perfect,
NASA-style
9 White fluffy Winter stuff ’s warm day state
10 Jubilant, in poetry
11 “Love a guy who holds the world in a __ __...” Bit of “Danny’s Song” covered by
Anne Murray 12 Blackbeard’s realm of work on the high seas 13 Gothenburg’s li’l land
14 Women’s rights activist, one of Canada’s ‘Famous Five’, __ Muir Edwards
(b.1849 - d.1931) 15 Came into being 16 Kanye, Dottie and Mae
22 Beauty products by Canadian company Lise Watier
27 Winter trekker’s gear
29 Two __ (1945 book by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan) 32 Bloodsucking fly, when doubled 33 Heavy weights, e.g. 34 Edmonton-born singer ms. lang, et al.
38 L’__ del Cairo (Mozart opera) 39 Egyptian mythology’s air god 41 Filming locales 43 Verdi aria: “__ Tu” 44 Old Norse ‘Tuesday’ god
46 Palm-tree-sign Toronto concert venue where
The Rolling Stones played: 2 wds.
47 __ in the Ward (Wintry urban neighbourhood painting by Canada’s
A.J. Casson)
48 Years, in
Barcelona
51 Coconut fibre 53 Sequence, for short
55 As per #82-Across... Canada’s __ __ 57 The __ _
Baltimore (1973 Off-Broadway play) 59 Pen’s topper 60 Indonesia’s __ Islands
61 It’s called ‘Paris of the Prairies’
63 Pink mineral
(that can have black veins running though it) used for jewellery and carving 64 Futuristic series on which Canadian actress Heather Menzies’ character searched for Sanctuary: 2 wds. 65 Gladiator’s lucky number
66 Mariner’s dir. 69 Traditional-Frenchstew 71 Diamondback __ (Turtle species that likes brackish marshes)
74 CNN’s sister station 76 Previous
77 Peer Gynt’s mother 79 Kitchen-rhyming Lake in Nunavut 80 Body of work
82 __, Paul and Mary 83 Caterpillar, for example
84 Laurel and Lee 85 Unspoken but implied
86 Wintry hill rides 91 Sluggish
93 Boxing match stat. 95 Behold
97 Sunshine Band singer, et al.