NORTH OF 49 CROSSWORD

Across 1 Halt 5 Half: comb. form 9 Like some French nouns: abbr. 13 Mother (Fr.) 17 Successor 18 Spoken 19 Aisle homophone 20 Angle between stem and leaf (bot.) 21 Our northernmost island 23 One of over 350 around Sable Island 25 Nervous system disease, briefly 26 Twitches 27 Symbol of redness 28 Ascends 29 Bridge (Fr.) 30 Showing signs of wear 31 Life (Fr.) 32 Vancouver Island whalewatching town 35 Thunder ___, Ont. 36 Enjoy Mom’s cooking 37 Fawn’s mother 40 Similar 41 What Mount Blackstrap (near Saskatoon) is made of 44 Tiny rodent 45 Long ( for) 46 Symbol of goodness 47 Usher’s offering 48 Ravager of S Ontario in 1954: Hurricane ___ 49 Night before 50 Red Deer’s prov. 51 Expert 52 Playfully bashful 53 Ship of Arctic explorer Franklin 55 Toronto summer hrs. 56 Early documentary on Inuit: “___ of the North” 59 Beer 60 Works by Colville and Carr 61 Wear a long face 62 Pecan 64 Actor Czerny 67 Medics 68 Ready to harvest 69 Takes the cup 70 Ireland 71 It marks the tundra’s edge 73 Nature painters: ___ of Seven 74 Pound sound 75 Author Vanderhaeghe 76 Poem 77 Fake bullets 78 Irish dance 79 Horse’s hair 81 Beseech 82 Vanquished one 85 Singer k.d. 86 GaspÈ mountains: les ___Chocs 87 Timid 90 Dismaying 92 Nfld. town on Avalon Peninsula 94 Sharp 95 Shut tightly 96 Wadena’s prov. 97 Alert 98 Wraps up 99 Buggy terrain 100 Time to beware 101 Rigorous trip Down 1 Butter from an African tree 2 Spill a secret 3 They may be essential 4 Opposite of post5 Dotted, rectangular game tile 6 Upright 7 Red planet 8 Island (Fr.) 9 Scrooge 10 Very pale 11 Skirt feature 12 Porcino mushroom 13 Sault Ste. ___, Ont. 14 Former spouses 15 Basmati 16 Moose cousins 22 “The ___ Angel” (Margaret Laurence) 24 It’s dropped to call an election 27 Guitarist Liona 29 Long freshwater fish 30 Magic stick of fairy tales 31 Que. city: ___ d’Or 32 It can be red or sticky 33 Shade of green 34 Superior 35 Ontario “cranberry capital” 36 Shade tree 37 Six, for short 38 Corrida cheer 39 Long fish 41 Land parcels 42 Truth 43 Wrath 44 BLT sauce 46 Adhesive 48 Sharpen 50 With skill 51 Wolfville summer hrs. 52 ___ Tormentine, N.B. 54 Merit 55 Gaelic 56 Nah! 57 Famed French soup 58 Inuit filmmaker (“Atanarjuat”) 60 “All the things you ___” 61 Dig out ore 63 Recipe amts. 64 Informal greeting 65 Age 66 Tuck’s partner 67 Dehydrate 68 Tease 69 “King Kong” star 71 Yank 72 Like northern winters 73 Ice (Fr.) 75 Miss 77 Building blocks 78 Saturday pants 79 N.B. island: Grand ___ 80 Reporter’s slant 81 Period 82 Huron or Winnipeg 83 Not locked 84 Zipped 85 Stead 86 Wrapped up 87 Wish receiver 88 Put on the payroll 89 Jerk 91 Sixties drug 92 Greek letter 93 Its capital is Yellowknife