COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
Across
1 __-In (John
Lennon and Yoko
Ono’s hippie happening at the Queen
Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal from May 26th to June 2nd, 1969) 4 ‘Assist’ add-on (Aid) 8 Lac Saint-Jean/ Saguenay River city in Quebec 12 Detail 16 Tiny Tim’s instr. 17 Wine bottle topper 18 Arctic, Pacific or Atlantic
19 De __, Robert (Profession: Actor) 20 Hazard in the harbour be it not for the beaming beacon: 2 wds. 22 As per #1-Across... Symbols flashed to protest war: 2 wds.
24 “That was a close one!”
25 Motor scooter company
26 Cultural standards 27 12th-century Medieval poet of Roman de Brut 30 Geological ridge 32 Dusky
34 “__ __ Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969) 36 Screenplay writer Ms. Ephron’s 38 Bobby __
(Hockey Hall of Famer born in Flin Flon, Manitoba in 1949)
41 Touches up the manuscript 42 Charlottetown sports/ conventions venue, __ Centre 45 Lengthy
46 Frigid river obstructions broken up by the Canadian Coast Guard: 2 wds. 48 Wearing a suit without the usual neckwear
50 1990s fad game disc
51 Chesterfield 52 “Harper Valley _._._.” by Jeannie C. Riley
54 Ron Howard role early on
55 Helps the robber 57 Aardvarks nosh on them
59 “Herbie Goes to __ Carlo” (1977) 61 “Well, my feeling on that is this...” 62 Misplaces 64 Pourboires
65 God, in Rome 67 Tabula __ (Clean slate)
70 Computer keyboard key 71 ‘Loud’ rum of Newfoundland! 74 Pine tree’s ‘leaves’
76 Seas: French 78 British Columbia community on the Fraser River called ‘Guaranteed Rugged’
80 Awry
81 Sniff, sniff... 83 Slumber ‘sound’ly 84 Whitney Houston hit bit: “Give __ _ sense of pride...” 85 1978: “You __ Me” by Anne Murray 88 Arctic __ (Northern seabirds)
90 Wraths
91 Clipped
93 Arctic explorer, Robert __ (b.1856 - d.1920) ...his surname is also the name of a variety of Caribou in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago 95 Bargain
97 Island where President Franklin D. Roosevelt summered in New Brunswick 99 Was Labrador known to Norse seafarer Leif Ericsson by this name?
103 __ iacta est (The die is cast)
104 Tier
105 Teri Garr’s “Young Frankenstein” (1974) role
106 Joey __ & The Starliters (‘60s band)
107 Partners of ‘neithers’ in sentences 108 Expends
109 Paths [abbr.] 110 Play-__
Down
1 Sign of Spring 2 Just manage, __ out
3 Hideaway 4 Banda __ (City in Sumatra in Indonesia) 5 Costless: 2 wds. 6 Land Ho!... __ Pass (Historic municipality in The Rockies of southwestern Alberta)
7 Hosp. readout 8 Hotshots 9 Jumped 10 Brilliantlyplumed parrot 11 E-T-O-B-I-C-OK-E cheer starter, “Gimme __ ‘_’!” 12 ‘J.’ of Michael J. Fox
13 Daredevil Nik Wallenda over Niagara Falls on June 15th, 2012: 2 wds.
14 Mr. Rubik (Rubik’s Cube inventor)
15 Stone’s green ‘carpet’
18 OCC = __ __ Centre (It keeps track of VIA Rail’s trains across Canada)
21 Hit for Canadian band Cowboy Junkies written by rock music icon Lou Reed: 2 wds.
23 Achieve as a realtor
25 Russian distance measure of yore 27 “O, __ __ me!” 28 Bus. name ending for partners: 2 wds. 29 Stargazing surveyor William Frederick King (b.1854 - d.1916) who in 1890 was appointed by the Department of the Interior as Canada’s first what?: 2 wds. 31 Hawaiian tree 33 Yucks!
35 Pretoria’s land [acronym] 37 Snoozed
39 Nautical mile 40 Chicks’ prehatched containers
43 “My story wasn’t true, haha!”: 2 wds.
44 Born, in the society pages 47 House of Commons pols.
49 Cut wood
53 Conrad Black’s journalist wife Barbara
56 Chirp, chirp! __ __ Provincial Park, in Manitoba
58 Poet Mr. Eliot, et al.
60 Germanmanufactured cars
61 Antagonist 62 Ewe’s offspring 63 Margarine
64 Uni, bi, __... 66 Administrative role held by
Jean Talon in the colony of New France
68 “Can you __ __?” (Am I in view?) 69 No surprises there, __ __ expected
72 Oaf
73 Poppycock 75 Erode 77 Himalayas mountaineers 79 Flub
82 Vintner’s prefix
86 Fencing swords 87 Investigatively inquire
89 The Red __ (RCMP dress uniform)
91 Skim
92 Angel’s aura
94 Tavern drinks
96 Aliases indicators
98 __-ray player 99 Deorbited space station of Russia
100 Find 2+2’s sum
101 Modern
102 __ Cho Bridge
(It crosses the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories)