NORTH OF 49 CROSSWORD

Across

1 With speed

6 Kings in Nigeria

10 The Caspian or the Baltic 13 It’s red in a bureaucracy 17 Kind of energy

18 Persian language

19 Avian symbol of wisdom 20 Genuine

21 Without a date 22 Corporate web

24 Ring in the eye

25 Outer skin

26 Drug of the 60’s

27 Young ones, briefly

28 Of mountains

30 Copycat

33 Sires

34 Alpinist’s metal spike 36 Nope!

37 “___ gets in your eyes ...” 39 Bro’s sib

40 Stay

42 Sound quality

43 To be announced

46 B.C.’S “spirit bear” 48 Expression of grief 50 Elegant

51 Our first black Chief Justice: Julius ___

52 Boat that pulls another 54 Bank acc. entry

55 Doggy

56 And so on, in short 57 When to expect the flight, briefly

58 Negative conjunction 59 Go wrong

60 Crippling disease

62 Where you can get stuck 63 Put to work

64 Quartz variety

67 Principal

68 Nonstop

70 Like our earliest ancestors 72 Where surgeons work 73 A Scandinavian 74 Walkways for shoppers 76 Electrocardiogram, short

77 Percussion instruments of Indonesia

78 Scavenging rodent 79 Breakfast slice

81 Nova Scotia’s “Hub” 83 Showing contempt 85 Podiums

86 Rotter

87 Holiday ending Ramadan 88 Part of a locking closure 92 Lofty

93 Aquarium necessities 96 Waltz

97 Malarial fever

98 Inuit knife

99 Music genre

100 Pianist Peterson of jazz (1925-2007)

101 Drinks like a cat

102 Communist of yore 103 Adversaries

104 It keeps an artery open

Down

1 “Pronto!”

2 Warsaw citizen

3 Soothing gel

4 Canadian books, in brief 5 Bard’s “before”

6 Poet

7 Scarf for a dog’s neck 8 Painting or sculpture

9 Our first P.M.

10 Heirs, often

11 Wooly mom

12 Gabriel Roy work: “The

Road Past ___”

13 Threefold

14 Eagle’s perch

15 Aches and ___

16 “If all ___ fails ...”

23 When your plane lands, shortly

26 Like notebook paper 29 Louise or Waskesiu 31 Casablanca’s country 32 Follow too closely

34 They may be filled with berries

35 Tel Aviv citizens

37 They transcribe court proceedings

38 Where Leonard Cohen grew up

39 Do a slalom

41 Measuring the use of (electricity, e.g.)

43 Plural of thorax 44 Ballpoint brand

45 “Oh” in Oberhausen 47 Morning (Fr.)

49 Trivial details 50 Small Welsh dog 53 About-faces

55 Toronto airport

60 Prime Minister’s office 61 Boating blade 65 Diplomat’s asset

66 Widely spoken lang. 68 Extinct giant

69 Town in SE corner of Sask. 71 Foul-smelling

73 Golfer’s warning

75 Spire on a church 77 Emotes

80 Shocked

81 Boreal forest zone

82 Make ready for use (2 wds.) 83 Idiot

84 Takes a chance

85 Indian lentil dish

86 Gunk

89 Suffix with utter

90 Read quickly

91 Jaunty

94 Isle (Fr.)

95 Bossie’s bellow 96 Operating system, once: MS-___

Copyright 2017 Kathleen Hamilton

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