Ottawa Citizen

COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD

- KELLY ANN BUCHANAN

Across

1.

“__ it goin’, eh?” (What Bob & Doug McKenzie might ask)

5. “Beth” ballad

band

9. Singing cowboy

Mr. Autry

13. Persia now

17. Wing-shaped

18. ‘Ici __ __’ (‘Here and there’, in Montreal)

19. Apple tablet

20. Pizza __ (Canadian franchise restaurant chain since 1963)

21. Elton’s “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” duettist

22. Sitcoms producer

Norman

23. Doug __

(Premier of Ontario)

24. Ms. Spelling

25. Three-lettered

supermarke­t 26. __ Mountains National Park, ‘Place of Spirits’ in Newfoundla­nd & Labrador

28. Saskatchew­an

hamlet

30. “Papa-Oom-__-__”

by The Rivingtons 32. Highway’s coat

33. “__ __ is human ...” 34. River of Florence 36. Robertson __ (Canadian invention in a tool kit)

38. WWI: Canadian battlegrou­nd in Belgium

42. Song by Canadian band 54-40: 2 wds.

45. Subway’s passswipin­g gateway 46. Correspond

47. “Walk Like _ __” by

The Four Seasons 48. Unflappabl­e

50. Wilted

52. “__ __ Land”

(2016) starring

Canadian actor Ryan Gosling

53. “Isn’t __ _ bit

...” - The Beatles, “Nowhere Man” 54. Web address

ending often

56. Caesar’s 155

57. “__ __ __ __ About Glenn Gould” (1993 biopic about the legendary Canadian concert pianist)

64. Rival of a Rep. in

US politics

65. Monday’s wee

follower

66. Winged ancient

Greek goddess

67. Bible boat bigwig 68. __ des Neiges (Snowy Owl, in Quebec)

72. Lion’s coat colour

characteri­stic

74. Aria in Verdi’s opera Rigoletto: “__ Nome”

75. Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics silver medallist figure skater

Brian

76. Set-in-California reality series for Lisa Rinna and Kathy Hilton [acronym]

78. Condense,

literature-style

81. __-Canada (Famous gas station)

82. Colony of ancient

Greece

83. 1977 sci-fi movie

Princess

84. Wedding wears

86. Lefts opp.

88. Music producer Lou, and surnamesak­es 92. Viscous substance found in the oil sands of Alberta 95. L’ile-du-Prince-__

(PEI, en francais) 97. Creative creation 98. “Hmmm, it seems that one of __ __ missing ...” (Observatio­n after a head count when all heads haven’t been counted)

99. Skin doctor, cutestyle

101. Mayor of

Hamilton, Mr. Eisenberge­r

102. “__ _ miracle!!!” 103. DIY home project 104. ‘70s music genre,

__ Rock

105. “Able was _

__...” (Famous palindrome starter)

106. __-Iles, Quebec 107. Former Canadian

PM Mr. Chretien 108. Mr. Yost (Canadian movies lover, b.1925 - d.2011) 109. Trudged

110. Grande-__ (New

Brunswick village)

Down

1. __ Optical (Canadian eyewear chain)

2. ‘Few’-meaning

prefix

3. Saskatchew­an town south of Prince Albert

4. __ Lanka

5. Okanagan Valley city in British Columbia

6. Roman road

7. Angle

8. Bermuda Triangle body of water, __ Sea

9. One is decorative­ly concealed with wrapping paper 10. Prefix to ‘pee’ (Epically grand poem) 11. Became

constricte­d 12. Toronto Maple Leafs great Mr. Shack (b.1937 d.2020) 13. AlbertaSas­katchewan ... Cypress Hills __

Park

14. Tooth-to-gums

attachment

15. Historic Canadiande­veloped aircraft, 16. __ Town Arrow in Nunatsiavu­t in northern Labrador 26. Pressure unit 27. The ‘Skua’ is a predatory what?: 2 wds. 29. Something to ‘Never’ do as per Canadian author Farley Mowat’s 1963 book: 2 wds. 31. Trumpeter (b.1928 - d.2006) who is a Canadian jazz music legend: 2 wds. 33. 35. __ Commenceme­nt... Aviv, Israel 37. Tokyoheadq­uartered maker of office equipment

39. Split in the fabric

40. Season before

‘Automne’

41. But, Latin-style

42. Edgar Allan Poe died in this

Maryland city in 1849 [abbr.]

43. Nursemaid

44. “__ Hai”: “South Pacific” (1958) song 49. “I __ I taw a puddy

tat!” - Tweety Bird 51. Purchaser’s proofs-ofpurchase­s, punyly

53. Song for #95-Across: “The Island __”

55. Faucets company 58. Victoria,‘The __ Capital of British Columbia’

59. Go __ __ a limb

60. ‘R’ of HRH

61. Top-__ washer 62. Ms. Helgenberg­er of “CSI:

Crime Scene Investigat­ion”

63. Bata __ Museum,

in Toronto

68. Lightly jump

69. “We __ the Champions” by Queen

70. Q-thru-U

connection

71. Sylvia __ Territoria­l

Park, in Nunavut 73. “Yeah, so?”: 3 wds. 77. Laughs heard in

the North Pole! 79. __ Seals (Pinnipeds found in northern Canada)

80. John __ (Lorna Doone’s literature beloved)

85. One causes division within a family

87. Less

uncertain

89. Devoured

90. Cdn. financial investment­s for the future

91. Express 92. __ Khalifa (World’s tallest building in Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

93. “Suddenly _ __” by

KT Tunstall

94. Daughter of Frank

Sinatra

95. Television award 96. Prefix with ‘nautic’

or ‘drome’

100. Uncooked

102. Old Testament book before Jeremiah [abbr.]

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