Times Colonist

NORTH OF 49 CROSSWORD

- By Kathleen Hamilton

ACROSS

1 Canyon edge 4 Highway lead-ins 9 Suture 12 Ease off 14 Tied down 16 Cheese-making phase 19 Traverse 20 Mainly 21 Where seal oil lamps are used 22 Big weight, pre-metric 23 Playground equipment 25 Assassinat­e 27 Heir, often 28 Sink or ___ 30 Chills 31 Dandy 32 Loan homophone 33 You ride it standing up 35 Butter substitute 37 Road surfacing 38 Cabin by a pond in Nfld. 40 Don’t call an officer this 41 Golfer’s tally 45 Most populous prov. 46 Have 50 Tresses 51 Fedora 53 Where Chris Hadfield was the first Canadian to walk 55 Consumed 56 Finish 57 Wrinkly dog: ___-pei 59 Solicits 60 Pistol 61 Look at 62 Aspiration­s 64 Aardvark’s tidbit 65 Darn it 66 Thoroughfa­re 68 Greek letter 70 Struggles 73 Work of Carr and Colville 74 Paint layers 76 Alta. city: ___ Deer 77 Not permanent 80 They offer to swap 84 Skeleton part 85 Cried 86 Tailor’s line 87 Running behind 89 No-goodnik 90 Patella’s place 91 On the couch 93 Fido’s foot 94 Comment to the audience 96 When the sun shines 98 Pie fruit 100 Take off 101 Cold symptoms 102 Flip side? 103 Montreal summer hrs. 104 Specified 105 Juin, juillet et août

DOWN

1 Tennis star: Milos ___ 2 Part of TGIF 3 Officers’ dining room 4 Lovers of literature 5 Lots of lots 6 Chunky cups 7 Post’s opposite 8 He started the Red River Colony for destitute Scots 9 Go yachting 10 Poultry product 11 First female Supreme Court judge: Bertha ___ (1923-2007) 12 Pretends 13 Facial hair 14 Piece of cake 15 Expiring 17 Not a soul 18 ___ but not forgotten 24 Milk carton size 26 “Sunshine Sketches” author 29 Engine 31 Establishe­d truths 32 Smilers 34 N.S. island with legends of treasure 35 Father or uncle 36 Slow down! Stop and smell the ___ 39 Like Toronto summers 41 They follow blindly 42 Inuit singer Tagaq 43 Midway attraction­s 44 Fit: in good ___ 46 Glue 47 Zealous 48 Inhibit growth 49 Transmits 52 Live and breathe 54 Give thumbs down 57 Brainy 58 Toronto nickname of old 63 Good clean fun (you hope) 64 Small island 65 Runway strutter 67 Identical 69 For example 71 Basic structure 72 Not prov. 74 Maritimer’s rain hat (2 wds.) 75 Furious 77 Drink to someone’s health 78 Whole 79 Marsh plants 81 Mortgage seeker’s concern 82 Acadian “pie” with grated potato 83 Market stand 84 Cape Breton’s inland sea: ___ d’Or 86 Take by force 88 Lamb producers 90 Retained 91 Flower stalk 92 The Medjool, e.g. 95 Pulled off 97 Vote of support 99 Refuse to budge: stand ___

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