Times Colonist

NORTH OF 49 CROSSWORD

- By Kathleen Hamilton

ACROSS

1 Scottish loch

with cryptoid 5 Display 9 Pool hall stick 12 Mouse-like hare

cousin 16 Bug bite result 17 Mr. Hockey 18 Prov. with “Golden Horseshoe” 19 Gin and ___ 20 Site of CPR’s official finish (1885) 23 Go fish 24 “Spirit bear” of

B.C. 25 Creator of odes 26 Disdain 27 Mr.’s spouse 28 Poetic dawn 29 Tall B.C. spruce 30 Stationed 33 Swim’s alternativ­e 34 Prom wear 35 Melodies 38 Druggie 39 Prohibits 40 Sharpen 41 Velvet

feature 42 Blend 43 Taunt 44 Foggy and warm

in Nfld. 45 Author of “O Canada” in English 46 Total paid to company’s employees 48 School

signal 49 Dizzy 50 B.C. river called “Big Water” by First Nation 54 Loon (Fr.) 57 Hill insects 58 Stretchy 62 Before: prefix 63 Salad bar grabbers 65 Behind 66 Lulu: ___ of a

kind 67 Gander summer

hrs. 68 Merry-go-round 69 Lightning ___ 70 Enough water for

a duck 71 Fawns’ mothers 73 Inuit knife 74 Moms’ challenge,

often 75 Put great store

on 76 Gallantly 78 Sask.’s flower:

western red ___ 79 Porker 80 Like a lost animal 81 Toronto’s ___

Shoe Museum 82 It starts as the

puck is dropped 86 Is idle 87 Like old family

photos 89 Little people of

myth 90 Table part 91 Done for 92 Tidy 93 Cold drink 94 Dolly, first cloned

animal 95 Omelette ingredient­s 96 Youngster

DOWN

1 Small cut 2 To be, along the

Saguenay 3 Leave a mark 4 Quivering glow 5 Loses 6 Part of a golf

course 7 Avian head

swiveller 8 Arms 9 He wrote “Hallelujah” 10 Single part of a

complex 11 Middle of the

year in Ypres 12 Alta. town with

“Thinking Tree” 13 Deeply embedded 14 Potter’s oven 15 King topper 19 Tacked homophone 21 Downie of The

Tragically Hip 22 Stopper 26 CBC series:

“North of ___” 28 Dig for diamonds 29 Canal, crisis of

1956 30 Things that go

___ in the night 31 Largest continent 32 Desirable 33 Expensive fur 34 People between

Dorset and Inuit 36 Surprise assault 37 Agile for an

oldster 39 Invoice 40 The Berlin and

others 43 As good as ___ 44 Goes all soft 45 Mental keenness 47 To laugh (Fr.) 48 Alcoholic’s

downfall 49 Equipment 51 Canadian reactor, electricit­y generator 52 Russian thistle

and crabgrass 53 Word of woe 54 Farm employee 55 Revert to previous version 56 Opposite of

neglectful 59 Drill or saw 60 People of

Sheshatshi­u 61 Give over 63 “No kidding!” 64 Like mackerel

and sardines 65 Hopeful 69 Recurrence of

illness 70 Show with tiaras

and sashes 72 Canadian invention: mail ___ 74 Tiny thing 75 Immoral habit 77 Opera voice 78 Small, medium,

or ___? 79 Fills a suitcase 80 January

event 81 Make beer 82 Cobra’s tooth 83 Toe the line 84 Criticism 85 Lavish party 86 Part of WWW 87 Isle (Fr.) 88 Tote

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