NORTH OF 49 CROSSWORD
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1 Baby cereal invented in Canada 7 Refrain from 12 Mono’s successor 18 Discomfort 19 Tehran native 20 Author of “Saskatoon Pie” 21 Kids’ hockey league 22 Relating to the unborn 23 Lifted 24 Troublemaker 25 Editor’s “leave as is” 27 Heroic runner Fox 29 Old Roman greeting 30 Reclines 32 Test scent 35 Deer 36 French islands 37 Impromptu press conference 39 Passed out 41 Digression 43 Vichy water 45 Skedaddle 47 Laughing out loud online 48 Cruel ritual initiation 51 Silly, annoying person 53 Prize to P.M. Pearson after 31D 57 She wrote “Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid” 58 Gossip 60 Bunch of insects 62 Charlie Chaplin’s wife: ___ O’Neill 63 Unusual 64 Rude look 66 Use elbow grease on 68 Impersonal possessive 69 Sulk 71 Triangular traffic sign 73 Ripped 74 Home, shortly 75 Blizzard 77 Author Elaine Kalman ___ (“Journey to Vaja”) 79 B.C. river 81 Debt chit 83 B.C. falls, highest in Canada 85 Building addition 86 Fishing 90 Postage 92 Middle 96 Material to burn 97 Trendy 99 Once more 101 Bistro offering 102 Wasn’t colourfast 103 New Zealand native 105 Golfer’s pegs 107 Convertible 108 Snare 110 Excessive 113 Yarn from Angora goats 115 Be overly frugal 116 Muddle 117 Noggin 118 The best of times 119 Henry VIII’s dynasty 120 Swallow
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1 School kids 2 Lacking hemoglobin 3 Doctor’s alerter 4 Statute 5 Employs 6 Track events 7 Rock-and-roll decade 8 Mineral-bearing rock 9 Ship deserter 10 Pesky little insect 11 Lubricated 12 Hallucinatory 13 Platter 14 Author Edugyan (“Half-Blood Blues”) 15 Second time on the market 16 Almost a dozen 17 Most mature 26 Finish 28 Twaddle 31 Crisis brokered by P.M. Pearson (1956) 33 It’s true 34 Runs 36 Arctic shelter 38 Hotel employees 40 She wrote “All My Puny Sorrows” 42 French refusal 44 Togetherness 46 Stretch of land 48 Didn’t have 49 Sound 50 Unit of wheat 52 Evidence 54 To drink in Dijon 55 Go in 56 Scottish girl 57 Red ink amount 59 Tire pattern 61 Nfld. bird 65 Santa’s helpers 67 Ruler’s domain 70 Canary song 72 River mouth 76 Me (Fr.) 78 Smelter refuse 80 Slender 82 In a low mood 84 Not professional 86 Over again 87 Subtlety 88 U.K. upper classes 89 Sticky stuff 91 Banana cream ___ 93 Ten years 94 Escargots 95 Small tower 98 Believe in 100 Author of Trudeau biography 103 Baby’s first word, often 104 Labrador people 106 In a minute or two 109 Relieve (of ) 111 Father 112 Unearthly object in the sky 114 Pig