Times Colonist

NORTH OF 49 CROSSWORD

- By Kathleen Hamilton

ACROSS

1 Tense 5 Quickly! 9 Wholly

absorbed 13 Honk 17 Scrabble piece 18 Canada in 1867:

___ provinces 19 Teen fave 20 Teen party 21 Shooting from

two directions 23 Buyer 25 Hack, offline 26 Soft drink 27 Touched 28 Ward off 29 Fights 30 Highest Alp:

___ Blanc 31 Duo number 32 N.S. founder

of shipping line 35 Hound 36 Acorn producer 37 Sheep’s cry 40 Shade of green 41 Pierre Trudeau

loved doing it 44 Hurt 45 Pimples 46 Canadian

music award 47 Blaster 48 Vancouver-Victoria link 49 Rent 50 Flat fish 51 Big coffee

container 52 Colour 53 Beat 55 Where many Irish immigrants died of typhus, 1847: Grosse ___, Que. 56 B.C. waterfall in Tweedsmuir South Park 59 Pale 60 Second person,

grammatica­lly 61 Stopper that

floats 62 Promise 64 Patch of land 67 Tuque 68 Chickens 69 Part of N.W.T. 70 Scotch’s partner 71 Quebec meat pie 73 Military gang

in power 74 Favourite 75 Boiled down,

it’s syrupy 76 Wedding page

word 77 Meritoriou­s 78 Piece of corn 79 Nuisance 81 Put on weight 82 Hawaiian

welcome 85 Wise advisor 86 Brought into

existence 87 Prov. tax 90 Hamilton

footballer­s 92 Vancouver

bridge 94 Gumbo

vegetable 95 Voice like Anne

Murray’s 96 “Will there be

anything ___?” 97 Finishes a

birthday cake 98 Gather in the

boardroom 99 Changeable (and

changing) person 100 Action 101 Colourful

salamander

DOWN

1 Carve into glass 2 In ___ straits 3 Soft light 4 Enthusiast­ic

consent 5 Have enough

money for 6 Farming concerns 7 Sort of halo 8 Before: prefix 9 Get rosy 10 Ticket category 11 Prince Rupert

or Halifax 12 Mother’s forte 13 “Well done!” 14 Little Heart’s

___, Nfld. 15 “All I ___

wanted...” 16 Saucy 22 Frighten 24 Raptor 27 Nfld. island with

Joe Batt’s Arm 29 Farewell gesture 30 Pre-stereo 31 Price ___ 32 Fossil fuel 33 Worrying

problem 34 Last inning 35 The Little

Mermaid, e.g. 36 Moonbeam’s

prov. 37 Where you drink

on a stool 38 Ventilate 39 Whichever 41 Hollow

grass stem 42 To be in

Bordeaux 43 Lodge 44 Strip 46 N.B. city:

Saint ___ 48 Nfld. island once home to Great Auk 50 Synonym for 5A 51 Inuit knife 52 Throw hard 54 Gym place 55 None: not

one ___ 56 Important N.S. politician Joseph (1804-73) 57 What’s

happening 58 Sask. city with early Assyrian immigratio­n: ___ Battleford 60 Canine comment 61 ___ slaw 63 “King Kong” star born on an Alta. ranch: Fay ___ 64 Teaspoon 65 Fish eggs 66 Lunenburg

summer hrs. 67 With it 68 Turn tail 69 Zig or zag 71 Taxi 72 People of

Sheshatshi­u 73 Unites 75 Sore homophone 77 Alerted 78 Put aces

up a sleeve 79 Lookout spot for Butch Cassidy, once: Castle ___, Sask. 80 Fiery felony 81 “Silly” bird 82 Filmmaker

Egoyan 83 Akin to 84 Monster 85 Destructiv­e

wind 86 Liver fluid 87 Walk back

and forth 88 Cook slowly 89 Quiz 91 Kitty 92 Lead

homophone 93 Juniper-flavoured

alcohol

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