COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Temporary teacher, tiny-ly
4 “__ Air” (1997) 7 E-Mail annoyance 11 Mr. Barrett (Guitarist who co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965)
14 “__ Coming” by Three Dog Night 16 “__ __ it!” (“Okay, fine then.”)
17 Jazz legend Ms. Fitzgerald
18 Captain Hook sidekick
19 March 29th, 1999 feat for Wayne Gretzky: 3 wds.
22 Cue sticks game 23 Acclaimed 2014 novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews who also wrote 2004 bestseller A Complicated Kindness: 4 wds. 25 Mutant played by Sir Ian McKellen in “X-Men: Days of Future Past” (2014) 28 Quebec...
Harricana River community
29 Neither masc. nor fem.
30 “Put _ __ on it!” (Quiet!)
31 Auditorium seating areas
33 Fed on, as a bloodsucker
36 Writer Ms. Morrison 37 Saint-Louisdu-__! __! (Quebec municipality) 38 __ Fresh
(Canadian fashion label)
40 Priestess in
Georges Bizet’s 1863 opera The Pearl Fishers
41 Celine Dion sings these in French 43 Springtime flower famously in
Ottawa 45 Authentic
46 Must: 3 wds. 47 Scammed
48 Like a mud puddle 50 Mouthfuls for moo-ers
51 Flee
52 Computer brand of Japan
53 “Just a __ / I Ain’t Got Nobody” by David Lee Roth 56 Canadian actor Mr. Bellows
57 Props for Canadian athlete Mike Weir: 2 wds.
61 Canadian director Mr. Egoyan
62 Cape Breton Island community, __ Bay
64 Science Fiction travel portal: 2 wds.
65 Cannes Film Festival award, __ d’Or
67 Explosive residue 68 Slipper-like shoes, shortly 69 Consequently 70 “Kyrie, __...”: Chanted bit of Mr. Mister’s ’80s hit “Kyrie”
72 Foundation
73 ‘Decor’ suffix (Home design professional) 74 Memo abbr.
75 A&W beverage, __ Beer
77 Defeat at the ballot box
80 Where ships are when nearing Port Charlottetown: 4 wds. + acr. 84 Beagle’s sniffer 85 “__ __ __
(When I’m Gone)” by Canadian band Chilliwack
89 Coop
90 ‘Million’ suffix (Lotto Max winner)
91 Original spelling of Elvis Presley’s middle name 92 Hidden valley 93 Comedian Mr. Philips
94 Shaggy mountain animals of Tibet 95 Amer. currency 96 Zodiac’s roarer
DOWN
1 #16-Down’s answer ...en francais
2 ‘Spat’ add-on (Pancakes utensil) 3 ‘_’ __ for Banff 4 CH-149 __ (RCAF search & rescue helicopters sharing the name of double-crested diving birds) 5 Adhere to the Admiral
6 Manitoba hometown of The Stone Angel author Margaret Laurence
7 Music repetition mark
8 Stratagems
9 “Ah, me!”
10 “Cheers” bartender Sam
11 Breakfast blender beverages, they’re berry good! 12 “Ouch!”
13 “Runaway” rocker Mr. Shannon’s 15 Permanent group where a member might ask “Can our next meeting please be about us finally getting some chairs?”: 2 wds.
16 Product by Canadian food brand Windsor 18 Fine textile art of the Haida people: 3 wds.
20 Key: French
21 Spirits of pirates? 24 Jovial dance
25 Pair up the socks 26 The __ State (Hawaii)
27 Ms. Lollobrigida’s 32 “It’s __ __ Quiet” by Bjork
33 Garland of flowers 34 Valley where
David slew Goliath 35 “The Voice” on
NBC host Carson 37 Jughead’s comical pet: 2 wds. 38 Husband of Eva Peron 39 __-fashioned 42 Person’s inner light
43 Mount __, Bylot Island (Painting by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris)
44 Sacred songs 49 Aliveness
51 Wealthy
52 Canadian actor Lorne Greene’s narration skills earned him this nickname: 3 wds. 53 Bewildered openmouthed stare 54 Lang. spoken in Milan
55 Toronto NHL hockey game chant!: 3 wds. 56 Petro-Canada fill up
57 Lettered muscle cars
58 Keep one’s __ __ the ground
59 Grain fungus
60 Fern ‘seed’ 63 Computer link-up syst. 66 Queen of Persia’s bk. in The Old Testament
68 Walter of “The Bad News Bears” (1976)
71 What it says on a traffic sign with a pointing arrow: 2 wds.
72 Pear variety 75 Howard __ (Architect in Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead) 76 Daryl Hall’s musical partner John
78 “__ __ the Roof” by The Drifters 79 Midmorning hour 80 Erstwhile
81 Ocean fizz 82 Greenery-growing ‘pet’
83 Paddles
86 Each and every 87 ...bee, cee, __... 88 Barenaked Ladies tune: “Be My Yoko __”