COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ballpark fig.
4 Canada _ _ _ ‘The Great White North’
7 Beautiful flowing
garment
11 E-to-I link
14 Dutch for ‘city’
16 Towards, in France
18 __ __ first you
don’t succeed try...
19 Flowery necklace
20 Historic undergarments giving skirts of yore the very hooped look: 2 wds.
24 Can still offer, as the still-to-be-filled slots on the schedule: 2 wds.
25 Church deliveries on Sundays, for short
26 St. __, Ontario
27 Record label Clive Davis founded in 1974
28 Rather like an amphibian marsh creature
30 Athabaskan speaking people of the Northwest Territories
31 VIPs in the House
of Commons
32 Smoke, in Italy
34 Prince Michael of __ (Queen Elizabeth’s first cousin)
35 Garth __, “Wayne’s World” (1992) friend played by Dana Carvey
36 Town on the south coast of the Burin Peninsula in Newfoundland, __ __-__
39 Academy Award
42 Hershey’s chocolate/toffee treat
43 Las Vegas
illuminator: 2 wds.
46 “Help Me, __” by
The Beach Boys
48 Frequently:
2 wds.
50 Hrs. in Halifax
51 Untruth 52 Phoenix __ (NBA
team)
53 The Phantom’s request of Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s famous musical: 3 wds.
56 River for Hamburg
57 Li’l flying saucer
passengers
58 Graduate’s degree,
e.g.
59 “__ boy!” (Well
done, fellow!)
60 Concurred
62 Marked the manuscript in red pen again
65 Female octopi
67 G. Gordon __
(Watergate figure)
68 Enjoy Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, as an example: 4 wds.
71 Keeps
73 David __ (Husband portrayer on ’70s sitcom “Rhoda”)
74 Pharaoh’s snakes
75 Crisis site in
Quebec in 1990
78 Start to ‘sack’
(Backpack)
79 Eliminate/cull: 2
wds.
81 Wobble
83 Consumed
quantity
85 Ancient land conquered by Caesar
86 Much more posh
87 Preparation details on the pasta package: 2 wds.
90 River of Scotland
91 Port of Yemen
92 Lake __ (It’s one of
the ‘Great’ ones)
93 ‘Susp’ add-on
(Movie genre)
94 Rapper of
“Gangnam Style”
95 Athena’s walkway
96 Porridge-eating
hrs.
97 Nightfall, in the
poem
DOWN
1
F’s musical equivalent: note + word 2 State of inactivity
3 Giant bronze guardian of Crete in ancient Greek mythology
4 Sold-via-booklets
makeup company
5 Canadiens goalie
great Mr. Dryden
6 “You __ __ Beautiful” by Joe Cocker
7 Observes the
meeting: 3 wds.
8 Morn’s follower
9 Ontario community northwest of Thunder Bay
10 “The Seven Year
__” (1955)
11 __-__ burgers (Specialty at since1959 Canadian fast food chain Harvey’s)
12 Do well on the
exam, __ __ ‘_’
13 Snake when
making sounds
15 The __ Trilogy (Canadian author Robertson Davies’ novels series)
17 Job on Parliament
Hill: 4 wds.
20 1983: “Club Tropicana” Brit pop duo!
21 Musee des __-arts
de Montreal
22 Montreal-born fashion designer Mr. Moralioglu
23 Bunches and
bunches
28 __ __ interest
(Showed curiosity)
29 Broadcast like
Netflix Canada
33 Hammer and
Young of rap music
35 Shania Twain’s “I
__ No Quitter”
36 Sports team
rooters!
37 Russian river
38 Go __ __
(Set sail)
39 Canadian figure skating great Brian
40 A Town Like Alice author, Nevil __ (b.1899 - d.1960) 41 The Royal __ (Canadian music education institution since 1886)
44 Wisecracked
45 Wanting
47 Helped, for short
49 Songbook standard: “When I Take My Sugar __ __”
54 Pleistocene’s frigid
happening: 2 wds.
55 Berate: 2 wds.
56 The Phantom’s name in Gaston Leroux’s classic novel The Phantom of the Opera
58 Prejudice
61 Canadian brand of chocolate-covered raisins
63 Well-being expert
Mr. Chopra
64 ‘_._. __’ (It means ‘By the Grace of God, Queen’ on Canadian coins)
66 Initials-sharers of Keanu Reeves’ co-star in “Speed” (1994)
69 Dermatologists who created skincare brand Proactiv, __ + Fields
70 Eyeball attachment, __ nerve
71 Tuque: 2 wds.
72 Bugs
75 Futile
76 American filmmaker/ comedian, __ Ivory Wayans
77 Coming-in-planes,
for short
79 George of
“Cheers”
80 Ne plus __
(Perfection)
82 Web publication
84 Cars of South
Korea
86 ‘Streets’ of Quebec
City
88 Nat __ WILD
(Cable network)
89 The Pacific __