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1 Prude 5 Badly: prefix 8 Gaspe mountains: les ___-Chocs 12 Community still seeking acceptance 16 Bill of fare 17 Manhattan neighbourhood 18 Hoop of the 1950’s 19 Having wings 20 Playing with a full deck 21 Spoiled by termites 23 Hawaiian goose 24 Insect repellent invented by a Nova Scotian 26 Transgresses 27 Sweet or bitter citrus fruit 29 Angels 31 We’re homophone 32 Kleena ___, B.C. 35 Years on end 36 Critical, insulting remark 40 Studious teen 41 Not so many 42 Edge of a steep place 43 Recede 44 Rowing blade 45 Kidney ___ 47 Sound of metal hitting metal 48 Law degrees, in brief 49 Ski resort in Eastern Townships, Que. 51 Just ___ for the ride 52 Bourbon and mint cocktail 53 Colourful salamander 54 Money given for studies 55 Ration (out) 56 Common sense? 58 The way things are going 59 Unleavened flatbreads for Passover 62 Tugboat sound 63 Express gratitude to 64 Coastline indentations 65 Regret 66 Inuit tool 67 Nfld. painter 68 Seek election 69 Weak 70 Like a barren, treeless area 72 Lip 73 Sounds of things dropping 75 Some family vehicles 76 First woman MP (1921- 40): Agnes ___ 78 Slip by 81 Rosy 82 Remove from socket 85 Number of provinces in 1867 86 Toiletry kit in U.K. (2 wds.) 89 Jack-in-the pulpit, e.g. 91 Ripped 92 Horse’s gait 93 Old Conservative 94 Unit of sweat 95 Neuter a female animal 96 National park with Burgess Shale 97 Turf 98 They’re not sweet potatoes
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1 Evenings in brief 2 Quantity of paper 3 People of Labrador 4 Guest homophone 5 Dough 6 Internat’l Health Regs. 7 In an unspecified way 8 Bracelet dangler 9 Beach shelters 10 Isle (Fr.) 11 Water fun (aside from the portaging!) 12 Perth’s county (Ont.) 13 Narrow, secluded valley 14 Sound of a shot 15 Trap aloft 17 Solemnly promised 22 Ireland in poetry 25 Canadian diplomat who resolved 1979 Iran hostage crisis: ___ Taylor 28 Mercer of satire 30 One end of a hammer 31 Squeeze out water 32 Door opener 33 He wrote “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” 34 Wrong 36 Influential Mohawk leader (18th-19th c.) 37 Nfld. village on Fortune Bay (from 1774) 38 French abbot 39 It’s bigger than a tsp. 41 High-calorie ingredient 42 Fair-haired 45 Soup dish 46 Ear, nose, and throat (med. specialty) 47 Sound of metal on metal 48 Figure skating jump 50 Go all mushy 51 Are not 52 Winnipeg hockey team 54 Rub the wrong way 55 Word of possibility 56 Stallion, e.g. 57 Vole’s cousin 58 “___ life!” 59 Father or uncle 60 Camel feature 61 Watches 63 False, distorted representation 64 Hit accidentally 67 And 68 Result of Vitamin D deficiency 69 Bedtime song 71 Official bird of N.S. 72 Tolled 73 Like 27A 74 With it 76 Lacrosse Cup from a GG 77 Loon (Fr.) 78 Juvenile salamanders 79 Skating jump: toe ___ 80 Kind of halo 81 Milne’s teddy bear: Winnie the ___ 83 Organic fertilizer 84 U.S. island in the Pacific 87 Expert 88 Cheer’s opposite 90 Doctors