NORTH OF 49 CROSSWORD

Across

1 Fuzzy fruit

5 High school equivalency test

8 N.B. fish in 32A

12 Vets’ concerns

16 Symbol

17 Big brass

18 Husband in Le Havre 19 Hurt

20 Till stack

21 The Montreal Canadiens 23 Unfreeze

24 Drunken state 26 Persuaded

27 Cook’s protection

29 Last stop for city garbage 31 Threesome

32 Fiddlehead season in N.B. 35 Won

36 Unthinking

40 Dollar bird

41 Used to be

42 Kind of energy

43 Seal baby

44 Everyone

45 Water under the bridge 47 Country with Capri

48 Fan sound

49 Foot in the door, sort of 51 Like most fish 52 Devoutness

53 Emotional state

54 Heats until bubbling 55 Skipper’s place

56 Queen topper

58 Torso

59 Like the Maritimes 62 Seek’s partner, in fun 63 Leaving

64 Vanderhaeghe novel: “The ___ Crossing”

65 Caviar

66 Anger

67 Lacking enthusiasm 68 Debt letters

69 Created

70 Kind of phone

72 Genetic letters

73 Chilled

75 Child without siblings 76 GG during the Pacific scandal (1873)

78 Sault Ste. Marie (2 wds.) 81 Foot part

82 Sausage 85 Unornamented

86 Most winsome

89 Work over

91 Ado

92 River of NW France 93 Harold Johnson or Tomson Highway

94 Most northerly Yukon town: Old ___

95 Female swans

96 Dear homophone

97 Part of GST

98 Hades

Down

1 The whole ___ and caboodle

2 Chills

3 Will not

4 Discovery of Banting and Best

5 Sentinel

6 Flow back to the sea

7 “He loves me, he loves me not” flowers

8 The S in SML

9 What you’re dealt

10 Kind of gallery

11 State of confusion

12 Keep watch over

13 B.C. Park: ___ Lake

14 Part of a comparison 15 Use needle and thread 17 Very brief briefs 22 Recounted

25 Wok, e.g.

28 Waterfront walk

30 U.K. apartment

31 Count up

32 Blind part

33 Sport on horseback

34 One to emulate (2 wds.) 36 Scold: rake over the ___ 37 Fleeting

38 Business attire

39 Aged but agile

41 Walletful

42 Flower holder

45 Earth’s satellite

46 Ancient

47 Cake coating

48 Lose firmness 50 Important N.S. politician (1804-73)

51 In good shape 52 Annoyance

54 Men’s curling championship

55 Undergoes

56 Elegant

57 To laugh in Rimouski 58 Now

59 Water (Fr.)

60 Went on horseback 61 Must-have

63 Ran full-tilt

64 Chunk of bread or meat 67 Canadian music award 68 Impose (something painful)

69 Big orange butterfly 71 Also-rans

72 Piece for two

73 Box (of fruit, e.g.) 74 Lubricate

76 Dissuade

77 Southernmost Ont. county 78 Recipe amt.

79 Kind of crime

80 Ireland, poetically 81 Present

83 Vuillard’s mother

84 One who’s worshipped 87 Regret

88 Age

90 Avian symbol of wisdom

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