COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
Across
1. “__ Congeniality” (2000)
5. Prime Minister __ _. Pearson (b.1897 d.1972)
12. John of “Full House”
18. Centimetre’s American friend
19. Air Canada professional
20. __ boosters (They lift spirits)
21. Travelling music gig
22. Canada Geese: 2 wds.
24. “La Bittt a __” by Canadian singer Raoul Duguay
25. Performed
26. Something to go fly?: 2 wds.
27. ‘Violin’ suffix
28. Abruptly shut the door
29. Depend upon
30. __-savvy
31. Saxophone sort
32. “Growing __” (1985 to 1992 sitcom starring Canada’s Alan Thicke)
34. Poetic nightfalls
35. Tissue type, 2-__
36. Langley or Edwards, in The US
39. Industrial lettered material
40. ‘Antiquity’ in times of antiquity
41. Demons
44. __ __ for music
46. Tea type, __ Grey
48. __ Nuna (Inuit name for #34-Down meaning ‘Land of Muskoxen’)
50. Cod au __ (Traditional Newfoundland dish)
52. Game cube
53. Sort of songbird
54. ‘Pepper’ suffix (Pizza topping)
55. CTV’s filmed in Nova Scotia original drama series based on the books of American author Robyn Carr: two words
59. Celebrated tomb King, familiarly
60. Hoax
61. Gladiator’s 1002
62. “And Then __ Maude” (1970s sitcom theme song)
64. Canadian producer Daniel Lanois’ British co-producer when producing the albums of Irish band U2: two words
66. Classic toy, __ A Sketch
68. Southwestern Ontario gorge village
69. Not switched off: two words
70. Attempt
71. NBA’s Magic team, on scoreboards
73. “C’__ la vie!”
74. T-thru-X alphabet trio
75. “What’s Hecuba to him __ __ to Hecuba...” - Hamlet
77. Ruffle
79. Mil. ranks
81. Fictional frugivores
82. Regina, __.
83. Killer Whale flick
87. Somehow flawed as a product [abbr.]
88. Pre-AD time example, __ _ _
89. ‘Three’ in Turin
90. Close
91. Current 2024 exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, ‘__ __ and Henry Moore: Giants of Modern Art’
95. ‘Great’ dog
96. Made amends
97. Spill the entire story in a book: 2 wds.
98. Norse deity
99. Variantly-spelled Pharaoh of Egypt
100. Southwestern Ont. home of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame: two words 101. To-the-Moon 1969
org.
Down
1. Glove-wear on the diamond
2. The way canned sardines are often packed: two words
3. __ diving
4. The Spot Prawn in British Columbia, for example
5. Getaway
6. Material collected on CBC’s “Murdoch Mysteries”
7. Seals
8. Late
9. 7th Greek letter
10. Went around
11. Canadian band, __ Social Scene
12. Patty who sings the 1984 hit “The Warrior”
13. Steppenwolf’s “Born __ __ Wild”
14. Tycoon Mr. ‘O’
15. Star of 1953 filmed-in-Canada movie “Niagara”: two words
16. Historic part of Winnipeg, __ __. Boniface
17. ‘Sixth’ in Rome
23. The Cars guitarist Mr. Ocasek, and namesakes
29. Fraser or St. Lawrence, for short
31. Shake _ __ (Hurry)
33. Snippet of “The Twelfth of Never” by Johnny Mathis: “Hold me close, melt my heart like __ __...”
34. Large island off of Greenland which is part of Nunavut
35. Painting by the artist who is the answer to #91-Across, __ __ with Seaweed
36. Mr. Lee, “Hulk” (2003) director
37. “Absolutely!”: 2 wds.
38. Ottawa... Nickname of The Library of Parliament, ‘Canada’s Most __ __’
40. “__ Brockovich” (2000)
41. Toronto skyscraper, __ Canadian Place
42. Hazards
43. Slalom
45. Nfld.’s Ocean
47. Canadian actor Mr. Ruggiero
48. Gaspe Peninsula municipality in Quebec, Saint-__
49. Psychedelic suit jacket worn by The Beatles
51. Clairol __’_ Easy (Hair dye brand)
56. Delivery truck
57. Victoria or Calgary or Moncton
58. ‘Nathan’ suffix (19th-century American author Mr. Hawthorne)
59. Important piece in a dinette set, for short
63. Used the chair
65. Rugged off-road rides, commonly
67. British Columbia community sharing the name of an equine insect
70. Dense growth of bushes
72. Legendary Toronto-born musician Mr. Emmett
75. Olive genus
76. Man-made replacements of man
77. “Star Wars” (1977) opening... “A long time ago in a galaxy __, __ away .... ”
78. The ‘Forest City’ in Ontario
79. Prop for legendary stand-up comedian George Burns
80. __-_-porter
81. National Velvet novelist Ms. Bagnold, and namesakes
82. Inscribed ancient pillar
84. Experience literature, __ _ book
85. ‘Dog’ in Latin
86. Sphere
88. S-shaped moulding
92. Hospital professionals
93. Popular tree variety
94. Chicago trains
LOS ANGELES — Barbara Rush, a popular leading actor in the 1950 and 1960s who co-starred with Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and other top film performers and later had a thriving TV career, has died. She was 97.
Rush’s death was announced by her daughter, Fox News reporter Claudia Cowan, who posted on Instagram that her mother died on Easter Sunday. Additional details were not immediately available.
Cowan praised her mother as “among the last of “Old Hollywood Royalty” and called herself her mother’s “biggest fan.”
Spotted in a play at the Pasadena Playhouse, Rush was given a contract at Paramount Studios in 1950 and made her film debut that same year with a small role in “The Goldbergs,” based on the radio and TV series of the same name.
She would leave Paramount soon after, however, going to work for Universal International
and later 20th Century Fox.
“Paramount wasn’t geared for developing new talent,” she recalled in 1954. “Every time a good role came along, they tried to borrow Elizabeth Taylor.”
Rush went on to appear in a wide range of films. She starred opposite Rock Hudson in “Captain Lightfoot” and in Douglas Sirk’s acclaimed remake of “Magnificent Obsession,” Audie Murphy in “World in My Corner” and Richard Carlson in the 3-D science-fiction classic “It Came From Outer Space,” for which she received a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer.
Other film credits included the Nicholas Ray classic “Bigger Than Life”; “The Young Lions,” with Marlon Brando, Dean Martin and Montgomery Clift and “The Young Philadelphians” with Newman. She made two films with Sinatra, “Come
Blow Your Horn” and the Rat Pack spoof “Robin and the Seven Hoods,” which also featured Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Rush, who had made TV guest appearances for years, recalled fully making the transition as she approached middle age.
“There used to be this terrible Sahara Desert between 40 and 60 when you went from ingenue to old lady,” she remarked in 1962. “You either didn’t work or you pretended you were 20.”
Instead, Rush took on roles in such series as “Peyton Place,” “All My Children,” “The New Dick Van Dyke Show,” “7th Heaven,” “Baman!” and “The Bionic Woman,”the latter where she played Jaime Somers long-lost mother.
“I’m one of those kinds of people who will perform the minute you open the refrigerator door and the light goes on,” she cracked in a 1997 interview.
Barbara Rush
Her first play was the road company version of “Forty Carats,” a comedy that had been a hit in New York. The director, Abe Burrows, helped her with comedic acting.
“It was very, very difficult for me to learn timing at first, especially the business of waiting for a laugh,” she remarked in 1970. But she learned, and the show lasted a year in Chicago and months more on the road.
She went on to appear in such tours as “Same Time, Next Year,” “Father’s Day,” “Steel Magnolias” and her solo show, “A Woman of Independent Means.”
Born in Denver, Rush spent her first 10 years on the move while her father, a mining company lawyer, was assigned from town to town.
The family finally settled in Santa Barbara, California, where young Barbara played a mythical dryad in a school play and fell in love with acting.
Rush was married and divorced three times and had two children, one who now works for FOX news.
NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors suggested Friday that Donald Trump violated a gag order in his hush-money criminal case this week by assailing the judge’s daughter and making a false claim about her on social media.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office asked Judge Juan M. Merchan to “clarify or confirm” the scope of the gag order, which he issued Tuesday, and to direct the former president and presumptive Republican nominee to “immediately desist from attacks on family members.”
In a letter to Merchan, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass argued that the gag order’s ban on statements meant to interfere with or harass the court’s staff or their families makes the judge’s daughter off-limits from Trump’s rhetoric. He said Trump should be punished for further violations.
Trump’s lawyers contended the D.A.’s office is misinterpreting the order and said it doesn’t prohibit him from commenting about Loren Merchan, a political consultant whose firm has worked on campaigns for Trump’s rival. President Joe Biden, and other Democrats.
“The Court cannot ‘direct’ President Trump to do something that the gag order does not require,” Trump’s lawyers
Todd Blanche and Susan Necheles wrote to Merchan in a response to the prosecution’s letter. “To ‘clarify or confirm’ the meaning of the gag order in the way the People suggest would be to expand it.”
The trial, which involves allegations Trump falsified payment records in a scheme to cover up negative stories during his 2016 presidential campaign, is scheduled to begin April 15. Trump denies wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
In his posts last Wednesday on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote that Loren Merchan “makes money by working to ‘Get Trump,”’ and he wrongly accused her of posting a social media photo showing him behind bars.
A spokesperson for New York’s state court system said Trump’s claim was false and that the social media account Trump was referencing no longer belonged to Loren Merchan.
The account on X, formerly known as Twitter, “is not linked to her email address, nor has she posted under that screenname since she deleted the account. Rather, it represents the reconstitution, last April, and manipulation of an account she long ago abandoned,” court spokesperson Al Baker said.
In the same Truth Social posts, Trump complained that his gag order was “illegal, un-American, unConstitutional.”