Times Colonist

COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD

- Kelly Ann Buchanan

ACROSS

1 ‘__ Wanted’

(Classified­s section) 5 Game show Canada’s Monty Hall hosted, “Let’s Make a __” 9 Food Network

Canada profession­al 13 “Reach for the __” (Classic quiz show for Canadian students) 16 Ancient Rome’s

love god 17 Sicily’s volcano 18 Four _ __ (Toronto’s

busy highway) 19 Building doorway

sign 21 Labour Day football rival ry, Argonauts vs __-__ 23 Marbled __ (Threatened seabirds ...more at #52-Across) 25 Quebec City’s grand hotel overlookin­g the St. Lawrence River: 2 wds. 27 __ Lederer aka Ann Landers, advice columnist 30 Pouty 31 Poet’s ‘willingly’ 32 Legume/’shell’

combo: 2 wds. 34 Canadian actor Conrad who is a former kickboxer 35 Adam’s __ (Water) 36 “Yuck!” 39 “It __ _.” (‘It’s me

here’ very formally) 40 Self-styled,

__-disant 42 Feudal labourers 44 Ordinarily

ornamentat­ed 46 “__ Craving”

by k.d. lang 49 Winged dawn

goddess 50 Canadian band,

__ Plan ...it’s easy! 51 __-la-la 52 Pacific __ (Where #23-Across are found in Canada) 54 “My Gal __” (1942) 55 She, in Lisbon 56 Wallet item: 2 wds. 59 Cadbury Canada treat with a Viking helmet on its wrapper 62 Medit. Sea country 63 Cyclades island 64 ‘Hippo’ suffix

(Chariot racing

stadium) 66 Poet’s ‘atop’ 67 House ceiling finish 69 Small bit, in French 70 Dr. Wilder __ (Rhodes Scholar who founded the Montreal Neurologic­al Institute, in 1934) 74 War-beginning

reason, __ belli 75 Nets 77 Steal 78 Figure skater

Ms. Babilonia 79 Stock unit, for short 80 Gremlin 81 Bachelor of Science,

e.g. 83 General __ of Canada (Car company) 85 Driveway-tomoving-van connection 87 Angle 89 Grandmas 90 In 1851, it became Canada’s first postage stamp: 3 wds. 95 Visiting Kingston’s

province: 2 wds. 96 The geological ‘Hill’ part of Parliament Hill 100 Gladiator’s 1700 101 Flip-to-the-next

page abbr .... 102 __-friendly 103 Canadian singer

Mr. Kim 104 Earth’s ethereal

expanse 105 Jog 106 Existence 107 “Uh-uh.”

DOWN

1 Fedora or

bowler 2 Brit. record label 3 Ship captain’s

journal 4 Rain, e.g. 5 ‘Ten’-meaning

prefix 6 Les __-Unis (Quebec’s southern border neighbour) 7 Pay, as a poker

player: 2 wds. 8 Montreal riding former Prime Minister Paul Martin represente­d, __-Emard 9 Snug 10 CBC’s “This __

Has 22 Minutes” 11 Signs up

for classes 12 Elk River mountain city in British Columbia 13 __ Canada, cinematic Crown Corporatio­n 14 Field’s cart-pullers 15 Pocket bread 20 Cdn. purchasing­goods-from-a-sofa network 22 Canadian indie rock band noted for early-1990s albums ‘Melville’ and ‘Whale Music’ 24 Summer: French 26 Tsar’s decrees 27 Legendary 28 Mexico monetary

unit 29 Tool for Emily Carr’s

creations 33 1988 Meg Ryan

m.o.v.i.e. 35 Bronze Roman

money 37 Island destinatio­n in

Nova Scotia: 2 wds. 38 “To __ _ Mockingbir­d” (1962) 41 Andes people

historical­ly 43 There’s __ __ ways

about it 44 What Regina was called in early Canadian history, stemming from hunted bison skeletal remains that were stacked high: 3 wds. 45 Within

earshot 47 __ Lanka 48 CN Tower’s

li’l locale 50 Down 53 Puff __

(Sort of viper) 54 Smile like

a villain 56 ‘D’ of CD 57 “Como __?” (Spanish for ‘How are you?’) 58 Pigeon’s

murmur 60 Blue Jays game

authority, for short 61 ‘__ Momo’: David

Byrne album 65 Mount in Banff; or, a Park in Edmonton 68 Canada’s is

the Dollar 69 Celebs photos-taker 71 __ de plume 72 Actress Ms. Flynn

Boyle 73 Thesis, tiny-ly 75 Tiberius or

Napoleon 76 Aquamarine:

2 wds. 80 Name of Montreal’s profession­al soccer team 82 Metamorphi­c

rock kind 84 Maple Leaf __ (Fashionabl­e symbol of Canada, since 2011) 86 Latin abbr. for

‘at the age of’ 87 The __ Brothers (Canadian twins Drew and Jonathan of home reno TV shows) 88 ‘Trains’ tangly

tresses 90 Country singer

Mr. McGraw 91 100s,

for short 92 “My Own Way to __” by Burton Cummings 93 1963... “Deep Purple” by __ Tempo & April Stevens 94 Captain __ (Character in Billy Budd, Sailor) 97 John Lennon’s wife Yoko 98 Canadian politics group, e.g. 99 Blinker

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