NORTH OF 49 KATHLEEN HAMILTON

ACROSS

1 Accumulate 6 Publicity 9 East in l’Estrie 12 Make fun of 17 Prickly plants 18 Enemy 19 Corrida cheer 20 Birch tree 21 N.S. basin off Fundy 22 Night hooter 23 One in the running 25 Time to vote 27 Famous London clock: Big ___ 28 Fragrant resin 29 ___ la vie! 30 Will not 31 Calendar pages, briefly 32 Patient’s file 34 Fish eggs 35 In addition 39 Qualifying races 40 Mop or crowning glory 42 Yukon’s tree: sub-alpine ___ 43 Take drugs 44 Hodgepodge 45 Prov. with Ajax and Atikokan 46 Broadcast 47 Finished 49 Unwell 50 Partner 52 Quebec town with chrysotile mine 54 N.S.’s official bird 56 Mug or demitasse 57 It lets in light 59 N.W.T.’s official tree 61 Salty sheep’s milk cheese 62 New: prefix 64 Notices 66 Not here today 67 Prov. with huge Manicouagan crater 68 Skier’s ride up 69 Organ with a drum 70 Parcel of land 71 Amount of money for a purpose 72 Very serious 73 Fell 76 Provincial rep. 77 Acadian buckwheat pancake 78 Revised, briefly 79 Enjoy a book 80 Pile 81 Get up 83 Creative work 84 Is composed (of) 88 Render into another language 90 Ten-gallon ___ 91 Alarm 92 Metal device on a gate 93 None 94 Open in old odes 95 Zealous 96 Beethoven wrote a piece for her 97 Plaything 98 Hair product 99 Satisfy (thirst)

DOWN

1 Pinnacle 2 Letters 3 Skin problem 4 Detached notes (music) 5 Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill 6 Underway 7 Duvet filler 8 Salt (Fr.) 9 Geological era of most mammals 10 Tilt 11 X 12 Suit maker 13 Most senior 14 First man 15 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 16 Before of yore 24 Raise doubts or objections 26 Adherent’s suffix 27 Uncivilized sort 30 Formal written order 32 Ofra Harnoy’s instrument 33 Farmer’s worst fear 35 Yukon’s floral emblem 36 Our largest body of water (2 wds.) 37 Opposite of WNW 38 Scarlet 39 ___ polloi 40 Town SW of St. John’s, Nfld. 41 Whichever 42 Little white lie 46 Egyptian cobra 47 Italian volcano 48 Wordless consent 50 Sells guns to 51 Meadow 52 Short-necked seabird 53 Take a load off 55 Tap 56 NDP precursor 58 Use a loom 60 Toward the back, on board 61 ___ and games 63 Galena or bauxite 64 Harden 65 French city near Pyrenees 67 Bike with four wheels 68 Of a hot climate 70 Even 71 Like much of Sask. 72 Bifocals 74 Carries in 75 One with a lease 76 Only 77 It’s mightier than the sword 79 Three to one, e.g. 80 Lodgings 81 Mace to nutmeg 82 Royal in a sari 84 ___ Tormentine, N.B. 85 Long, complex tale 86 Arduous trip 87 Dry 88 Definite article 89 Picnic spoiler 90 Pig