COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Birthday present toppers
5. 1987 to 1994 ‘Star Trek’ series, to Trekkies
8. Christopher Plummer’s “The Sound of Music” (1965) role
13. Sad droplet
17. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” recounts one: 2 wds.
20. 9:00_ _ __ 5:00pm (Working hours)
21. __-__-__ Provincial Park (Alberta’s prehistoric rock art attraction)
22. __ facto (By the fact itself, in Latin)
23. Lots
24. Silver salmons
25. Really painful reactions!
27. Vancouver-based telecommunications giant
29. Oscar-winner Sophia
30. Use profanities towards: 2 wds.
31. Aid and __
32. Old alphabetic symbols
33. The __ Quintuplets
34. “Gangnam Style” rapper
35. Divides
36. Canadian star, Yvonne De __ (b.1922 - d.2007)
37. Brit. ship letters
40. Antelope kind
41. Stawamus __ (Granite monolith in Squamish, British Columbia)
42. __ table
43. Island of Montreal waterway, __ Canal
46. Wish for wistfully
47. Montreal subway
48. Somebody unspecified
49. __ Sound, Ontario
50. Title song lady for Canadian singer Roch Voisine
51. Single-named Canadian country singer/songwriter
52. Shaped with an axe
53. Kitchen whistlers
54. Nautical ropes
55. “__ Bells” by AC/DC
56. “__ Club” (Classic game show)
57. Always, to a poet
58. Strides
59. “Royals” songstress from New Zealand
60. Randy Bachman’s musical son
63. __ and bass (Stereo knobs)
65. Grand __ of Newfoundland
66. Tortoise’s fabled competitor
67. “Boards on the window / Mail by the door...” is from what song by The Band?
69. Avant-__
70. Canadian band, Coney __
71. Objective
72. Super __ Bros. (Nintendo video game)
73. British car, __ Cooper
74. Bark-and-branches forest fixture
75. Grand-Pre in Nova Scotia is a historic one: 2 wds.
80. Canadian broadcaster Mr. Solomon
81. Lake Ontario chain across from Canada’s largest city: 2 wds.
82. “Round and Round” rodent rock band in 1984
83. Big Band era music
84. Goalie’s area to tend
85. Short snoozes
DOWN
1. Poshly lettered auto
2. Rowboat steerer
3. Where legendary Canadian pitcher Fergie Jenkins played home games when he played for the Chicago Cubs, __ Field
4. Don’t participate: 2 wds.
5. Some wallet bills
6. Neighbourhood of Montreal known commonly by these three letters
7. La __ (Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as she is also known)
8. Large skin rips
9. Town in western Saskatchewan
10. Valencia municipality in Spain
11. Stimpy’s co-star
12. ‘Canis Lupus’ is the scientific name of this animal found in Canada: 2 wds.
13. Its capital city is Taipei
14. In Joni Mitchell’s “Raised on Robbery” ‘He was sitting in the lounge’ of the what?: 2 wds.
15. Sailor’s splashy status: 2 wds.
16. Henhouse
18. Writer’s tips?
19. Sleeps sans soundly
26. ‘Wine’-meaning prefix
27. Intercept information
28. Stuart Little/Charlotte’s Web author Mr. White, et al.
29. Thrust
30. Ambulance signal!
32. Marie Antoinette, par exemple
33. Gay Lea’s food realm
35. “__ Day People” by Gordon Lightfoot
36. Swiss __ (Green leafy veggie)
38. Newfoundland’s Gros __ National Park
39. Blackthorn fruits
40. Merchandise at Canadian chain store Aldo
41. Goddess of agriculture in ancient Rome
42. Beavers had theirs taken from them in early Canadian history
43. Frothy-topped hot beverage order
44. Keep __ __ on (Watch out for)
45. Tech-world security concern: 2 wds.
46. Two-masted boats
47. Yard’s Canadian friend
49. Ontario... Point __ (The most southerly point of Canada’s mainland)
50. Cabbage units
52. __/Grindstone Provincial Park, in Manitoba
53. Sir David __ (17th-century first Governor of Newfoundland)
55. Environment environs
56. Cdn. city + Cdn. province combo here
58. Single-named soccer legend
59. Cowboy’s capturer
60. Regina-born star Ms. Maslany of “Orphan Black”
61. Curve
62. 1973 Lynyrd Skynyrd album: (Pronounced ‘__-’nerd ‘skin-’nerd)
64. The one who rules when the monarch cannot
65. Revealing, as one’s soul
66. Canadian rowing great, Ned __ (b.1855 - d.1908)
67. Cute furry aquatic mammal
68. Prince Edward Island’s motto, __ Sub Ingenti (The Small Under the Protection of the Great)
69. Canadian star Sarah of 2017 miniseries “Alias Grace”
70. Parliament __
72. “__-Mac” by Great Big Sea
73. Maid of the __ (Niagara Falls boat for tourists)
76. One would rather be left grazing than to be eaten itself
77. Compete
78. Economy stat.
79. ‘Lion’ tail?
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