COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
Answer to appear next week
ACROSS
1. East Coast setting in #21-Across, Grand-__ 4. Bow-on-top surprise 8. Mr. MacLauchlan, Premier of Prince Edward Island 12. Stash 17. Cyclades island 18. Garfield’s dog pal 19. Sped up the horse’s gait 20. Fresh breath __ __ (Spring day experience) 21. Evangeline: _ __ __ __ (1847 poem by #22-Down) 24. “Willy __ & The Chocolate Factory” (1971) 25. Hops-drying kiln 26. Product in the pub’s pints 27. Rhetorical understatement as “Not bad!” to mean “Nicely done!” 29. Computer menu clickees 32. Ye olden times 34. Penned 35. Scientific suffix for a branch † of † knowledge 36. Monk titles 37. Cat’s communication 38. Knock at the door 41. Schnauzer’s sound! 42. Zilches 43. “Mighty __”: 1968 Manfred Mann hit 44. Rio’s country, IOC-style 45. LePage Glue, for example 47. Brave 48. Inquiry [abbr.] 49. Sole 50. Opens with a crowbar 51. Towns, colloquial-style 52. Canadian songstress Feist’s first name 55. John the Odist (b.1795 - d.1821) 56. “Later, friend!”: 2 wds. 57. Toronto __ Centre 58. Figure out the puzzle 59. GWTW’s ‘G’ 60. Profess 61. Loose rock at the cliff’s base 62. Folky hit for Canadian band The Original Caste that goes “Me oh my / You collect on the tears we cry.”: 2 wds. 66. Study 67. Li’l laugh 68. __ Nocent Docent (Latin for ‘That which hurts, teaches’) 69. Unaccompanied 70. Compass dir. 71. Canada Goose monument site in northern Ontario 72. Totally total 73. Humboldt __ (West Coast catch)74. “West Side Story” (1961) role 76. Estate owner in Scotland 77. Canadian figure skating star Mr. Browning’s 78. Someone in The Red Chamber in Ottawa 80. Conclude 81. “Howdy!”: 2 wds. 83. Bona fide 84. Legendary Canadian rock group formed in Kingston in 1984: 2 wds. 90. Student: French 91. District 92. Smorgasbord 93. Canadian financial institution, e.g. 94. “Ben-Hur” (1959) director William 95. Takes to the chair 96. “Glengarry __ Ross” (1992) 97. Police officer
Down
1. Ms. Zadora (1980s starlet) 2. Waste 3. That, in Madrid 4. Deal with in a relaxed manner: 2 wds. 5. They’re verbally vowed at wedding ceremonies: 2 wds. 6. Jersey number for Canadian hockey great Larry Murphy who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004 7. Beverage with a cucumber sandwich 8. Narwhals and Belugas 9. Parliament Hill staff 10. Agnus __ (Lamb of God) 11. Canada’s Christopher Plummer famously sings it in “The Sound of Music” (1965) 12. Calgary nickname 13. In progress... 14. 14th-century English poet Chaucer would sure like the name of this village in New Brunswick 15. Trek the trail 16. Epochs 22. Henry Wadsworth __ (American poet, b.1807 - d.1882, who wrote the Expulsion epic at #21-Across) 23. Org. which handles the Juno Awards 28. Satire 29. Hawkeye State 30. Lummox 31. “Sooo amaaazing!!!” 33. Heraldic wreath 37. Turns off the TV sound 39. “All systems __ __!” (Ready!)40. Pari __ (Impartially) 42. Six-and-Three’s sum 43. Very 46. “__ __ conclusion...” (Start of the speech-giver’s final bit) 47. Eternal excavation 48. Street in Toronto’s waterfront area: 2 wds. 50. Island in Lake Erie in very-southern Ontario 51. “There will __ __ gum-chewing in court!” 52. Guides the group 53. Housetop overhangs 54. Margaret Laurence’s famous 1964 novel set in Manitoba, with The: 2 wds. 55. War site in the 1950s 56. A few 58. Montreal deli since 1928 59. Architecturally awe-inspiring area in the Canadian Museum of History: 2 wds. 61. “From __ __ shining...” 62. Alexander __ (b.1830 - d.1906): Composer of “The Maple Leaf Forever” 63. Glum 64. Dismounted 65. 10th Hebrew alphabet letters 67. Social media site 68. __ Vidi Battery (Provincial Historic Site in St. John’s) 72. Alberta’s Sawback and British Columbia’s Purcell 73. Name of the Tower lookout site in Niagara Falls 75. Gullible 76. Resembled the Tower of Pisa’s incline 78. Heap 79. Moray-ish in manner 82. Eurythmics’ “Would _ __ to You?” 85. King: French 86. Gear tooth 87. Cdn. business since 1670 88. “What I think is...”, techie-style 89. Soda