COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Val and Aleta’s royal son in comics
4. Canadian __ cheddar cheese
8. __ Ark
13. Fashionably draped attire
17. Grassland
18. It means ’One-tenth’
19. Take _ __ of faith
20. Barge __ __ (Intrude)
21. Fiji’s __ Islands
22. Sulawesi buffalo
23. Queen Elizabeth’s grandmum (her father King George VI’s mum) who was England’s Queen Consort from 1910 to 1936: 3 wds.
25. Concoction in Macbeth: 2 wds.
28. Walker’s path
29. Mr. Jannings of early Hollywood
30. ’T’ in MTM
31. Welsh woofer
32. Fare city ride
34. Cry
35. Prot. or Cath.
36. Beginning
40. Bloor __ (Truss arch bridge of Toronto)
43. Paperback with no paper pages
45. Trait carrier
46. Prince Edw. in The Maritimes
47. The __ __ (Ghost who wanders the Halifax Citadel)
49. Canada’s current Ambassador to The United Nations: 2 wds.
51. Former
53. World Golf Hall of Famer, Mark __
54. Chug-_-__
55. Largest island of the Sporades archipelago of Greece
57. Happen as a result
59. Showbiz skill
62. Gaping mouths of hungry critters
63. Community between Sudbury and Timmins
65. Hideaway
66. River or Lake in British Columbia sharing this name
68. __ __ Lake (Northern Ontario body of water)
70. ’Noncommissioned Officer’, in short form
71. Desktop symbol
72. Mea __! (My bad!)
73. Aardvark, a long-__ nocturnal mammal
75. Tanya Tucker’s “__ Dawn”
77. Honest __ (Toronto’s famous old store)
78. Shooting marble
80. TV chef Ms. Garten
81. “__ __ Them” by Pink Floyd
83. Parishioner’s payment
85. “Am _ __ late?” (Has the deadline passed?)
88. Sincere
91. Bright respites during April showers: 2 wds.
93. Nanaimo-born jazz pianist and singer: 2 wds.
95. “Don’t make __ __ complicated.” (Simplicity is the key)
96. Choo choo transit systs.
97. “If I Knew You Were Comin’ __ Baked a Cake”
98. Taj __
99. Require
100. __ Tai (Tiki bar cocktail)
101. Kite adornment
102. Former downtown Penticton restaurant
fondly remembered for its giant sign 103. Anglo-Saxon labourer
104. NNW’s opposite
DOWN
1. “__ __ are saying is give peace a chance...” John Lennon
2. Point the arrow better
3. The anchor on the Royal Canadian Navy’s ensign, as an example: 2 wds.
4. __ Isaacs Menken (American actress of 1860s theatrical fame)
5. The Balcony dramatist, Jean __ (b.1910 d.1986)
6. Interdependent community in nature
7. The Cisco Kid’s horse
8. Moniker manufacturer
9. Lake _’__ (Provincial Park on the Cabot Trail on Cape Breton Island)
10. Embroidered liturgical veil which ethereally covers the Chalice and Diskos
11. Worker’s farming tool
12. Trail left by wildlife
13. After the 1876 victory over General Custer in the Montana territory at The Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sioux Chief who crossed the border into Canada with 5000 Lakota people and took refuge until 1881 in the Wood Mountain area of present-day southern Saskatchewan: 2 wds.
14. From square one
15. Cabo da __, Portugal
16. Pac-Man’s blue ghost
24. Newfoundland’s tourist attraction Island
26. Clothed
27. 1981 novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies, The __ __
31. Bok __ (Oven-roasted veggies fave)
33. Insect
35. Traditional dish of Newfoundland with a French flair: 3 wds.
37. Chamber of the House of Commons securityand-ceremonial head on Parliament Hill
38. River in the Northwest Territories
39. Top worn with jeans
40. A-listers
41. __ Dinesen (Pen name of Danish writer Karen Blixen)
42. Player’s stick in Canada’s national Summer sport
44. Irish Spring or Dove: 2 wds.
48. “__-haw!”
49. WWII: 1942 battleground in the Philippines
50. Rock-__ (Classic jukebox)
52. Blasted passage as in the Canadian Rockies: 2 wds.
56. Be the title holder
58. Deplete
60. Pleasant
61. Beat a path with heavy steps
64. Cdn. pickles brand:
2 wds.
66. VRaise the auction paddle
67. High card
68. Billy __, Herman Melville’s ’handsome sailor’
69. Luau dish
72. Fundamental
74. United: French
76. On the Atlantic
79. When primetime shows often start: 2 wds.
82. “Don’t __ __ Why” by Billy Joel
83. Bridal designer’s stock
84. Buddy of “The Beverly Hillbillies”
86. Some soup veggies
87. Mr. Davis of “The Client” (1994)
88. Go over the writer’s submission
89. Egypt-set opera
90. Sitarist Mr. Shankar
91. Window blinds strip
92. Travelled as a cowboy
94. Hawaiian fish