COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
Across 1. Irish novelist Ms. Binchy of Circle of Friends
6. Prairie cty.
9. Renos/ landscaping cable channel
13. Dugout shelter
17. 2021 = Year of __
__
18. Choler
19. “The Times They __-_ Changin’” by Bob Dylan
20. Basketballs brand 21. Inuk leader who is the first Indigenous person to be Governor General of Canada: 2 wds. 23. “Pilot” Hamiltonborn singer/ songwriter ...the younger brother of Dave of SCTV comedy fame: 2 wds.
25. Ohs partners
26. Calgary CFL-ers 28. Held in check:
2 wds.
29. The __ __: Stories of Flo & Rose (Short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro)
33. 1976 Joni Mitchell album title taken from the Arabic word for Muhammad’s journey from Mecca to Medina 35. “What _ __ from up here!” (CN Tower visitor’s exclamation)
36. Religious book
38. Gives warning
41. Medical-style
‘knee’
42. Receipt: French 43. Belonging to
Elvis’ dad, for short
46. Kildare and Welby,
e.g.
47. Calls from the
stalls
49. Evening party 51. Partiality 52. ’60s-style of protest 55. Do gardening for future growth: 2 wds.
57. “The __ Kid” (‘50s Western series) 60. Fashionable hatmaker
62. Cuts back
63. New Brunswick city
65. Courtier in Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet 67. Marda __ (Calgary’s trendy shopping/ restaurants area) 68. Variant-spelled positive replies 70. Earthy pigments 74. Pen’s ‘liquid’
75. This is how ballerinas dance: 2 wds.
76. ‘_’ __ ‘_’ (Simple choices to pick from)
79. Pop drink 80. Everlasting, in verse
82. Tobacco Museum and Heritage Centre town in Ontario
84. Wee bits
85. Talked back in a cheeky way
88. Smoothies ingredient perhaps: 2 wds. 90. Beatles: “I __ __
Walrus”
92. Name of the coffee hangout on #51-Down, __ Reach
94. Unruly crowd
95. Northern Ontario... La Cloche
Mountains metamorphic rock
97. Mountainous breathed-in-stuff: 2 wds.
102. Donald Duck, to his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie
103. Zeno of __ (Ancient philosopher)
104. Highlander’s ‘no’ 105. Distinguished honour, __ of Canada
106. Cross of ancient
Egypt
107. Roger McGuinn when a ’60s folk rock band member
108. Nunavut’s neigh. 109. Former heads of
Russia Down 1. “Rhoda”
production co.
2. “The Sun Always Shines on T.V.” band
3. ‘Auction’ add-on 4. Soccer trophy in
Canada: 2 wds.
5. Alberta... Rockies hamlet near Canmore on the Bow River
6. “Submergence” (2017) director Mr. Wenders
7. Commonplace
8. Saskatchewan’s motto,‘Multis e __ Vires’ (From Many Peoples Strength)
9. Canadian star Corey of “The Lost Boys” (1987)
10. Light-blue-boxes stationery, __ paper
11. Strained
12. Tub
13. “_ __ sante!” (To your health!, in Quebec) 14. Canadian aircraft manufacturer 15. Music trade org. 16. __-bitsy
22. Medit. Sea country
24. Salutes
27. Civil rights org. founded in 1913 29. Suitcases 30. Fifty-fifty 31. Montreal-born singer Mr. Vannelli 32. British honour [acronym]
34. Wayne Gretzky’s model/actress wife 37. Wickednesses 39. Barter
40. Angry cat soundsssss ..... 42. After-Q trio 44. Lyre-playing
Muse
45. Celine
Dion’s late manager/ husband, and namesakes
48. Common noun
suffix
50. Express one’s
viewpoint
51. Relic was a character on this Canadian television classic set on the British Columbia coast, “The __”
53. “__ __ for life!” ...exclaimed the jackpot winner 54. “Au contraire!”: 2
wds.
56. __ and Span (Household cleanser) 57. Whoopi Goldberg’s starring role in “The Color Purple” (1985) 58. “_ __ Want to
Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith
59. Industrious
chimney
61. Administered, as
per medication 64. Units of force
66. Plunder
69. Salvation Army, colloquially: 2 wds. 71. __ de boeuf (Carnivore’s order in a Montreal restaurant)
72. Airline of Israel: 2
wds.
73. Prince Albert’s
prov.
75. Beginning
77. Electrical principle:
2 wds.
78. Duran Duran hit
song
81. “Cheer! Cheer!”:
2 wds. 83. ‘Arbor’ suffix
(Trees-related)
84. Three words of
denial
86. Ms. Carr of
Canadian art 87. Adorer 89. J.F.K. as J.K or F.D.R as
F.R. instead [acronym] 90. Water’s
blue hue 91. Olivia of “X-Men:
Apocalypse” (2016) 93. 96. Be front the Grandpa on “The up race in Waltons” 98. 15th Prime Canadian Minister’s monogram 99. __, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969 Vladimir Nabokov novel) 100. Comparative suffix 101. B. & O. in Monopoly, et al.