COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
Across
1. Day of the Full Moon... Springtime festival commemorating the birth, enlightenment and passing of The Buddha
6. __-med student 9. Spanish actress Ms. Pataky 13. ‘Method’ suffix (Step-by-step in procedure) 17. Foot-to-leg connection 18. L’Anse __ Meadows (Newfoundland attraction) 19. KD serving from the box, __ ‘_’ Cheese
20. Author Ms. Morrison of 1987 novel Beloved 21. “Republic of __” (St. John’s set TV series of 2010 to 2014)
22. Public transit service in St. John’s
24. Trim
25. Super __ (Canadian French-language specialty channel)
26. Ms. Falco’s of “The Sopranos”
27. Large birchbark canoe historically used in Quebec for travelling with cargo 29. 17th Greek letter 30. Non-noisy
32. Conrad of “Casablanca” (1942)
33. Cutlass __ (Former Oldsmobile model)
35. Patsy Cline hit
38. Rowed the boat
41. Guitar legend Chet 43. Story, in a house, in Quebec 44. Savvy
45. “O __ __ me!” (Wah!) 46. __ bread
47. Coinage
48. Dress code faux pas in the boardroom perhaps: 2 wds. 49. Much/frequently: 2 wds. 50. Cain and Abel’s brother 52. Old films TV network 53. Northwestern Ontario town on Pelican Lake, __ Lookout 55. Capture
57. Rome’s coins-tossing Fountain
59. Tub
61. Escape
63. Adhere
65. Brazilian city, __ __ Janeiro 68. Lacrosse stick
70. Walkie-__
72. Singer, Tennessee __ Ford
73. Job applicant’s submission
74. Slippery as __ __
75. Footprints
76. French composer/pianist Erik
77. Aware
78. ‘Sky’ in Spain
79. Book of maps
81. Variantly-spelled Blackbirds
83. Trophy-receiving athlete, e.g.
86. Linwood __ (Canadian novelist of Take Your Breath Away)
88. Keanu Reeves movie, “47 __” (2013) 89. City in Finland 91. “Right Round” by Flo __ 92. Name of Nova Scotia’s provincial Lichen which grows on broad-leaved trees: 2 wds.
94. Monetary units in Oman
95. Brouhahas
96. __ on a log
97. Kiev’s country [abbr.]
98. Barn toppers
99. “Auntie __” (1958) 100. Rocker’s sound boosters 101. Canadian lyricist Mr. Dubois 102. Meredith’s “Family Ties” character
Down
1. Darth __, “Star Wars” (1977) villain
2. 1864 Tennyson poem about a shipwrecked sailor, __ Arden
3. It’s 1995 and Shania Twain releases ‘The Woman in Me’ ...and because of the album’s phenomenal success, she does this: 3 wds.
4. Milan opera house, Teatro __ Scala aka La Scala
5. Polar Bear’s trait for detecting its meal the Seal: 4 wds. 6. Canadian actress/activist Ms. Anderson
7. Montreal thoroughfare known in English as Mountain Street, __ __ la Montagne 8. Consequence of the overhunting of flightless seabird the Great Auk on Newfoundland’s Funk Island 9. Goth/rock music fans 10. Chem. research room 11. It afflicted French-explorer-in-Canada Jacques Cartier’s 1535 expedition crew
12. Vase’s looped handles 13. “Perfect! I’ll see you then!”: 3 wds.
14. Bridges, tunnels, buildings... Aecon Group Inc. is a Canadian one: 2 wds. 15. Canadian satellites name 16. “Be the One” by British pop singer Dua __ 23. Stadium feature on #78Down: 2 wds. 28. UNESCO-designated nature area for sustainable development and learning such as Riding Mountain (Manitoba) or Clayoquot Sound (British Columbia): 2 wds. 31. US collection agcy. 34. What a road’s dashed middle line looks like, Crosswords-style
36. Birthday number 37. Canada’s last alphabet letters 39. ‘Synth’ suffix (Artificially made)
40. Judge
41. Barley bristle
42. Also
43. Lindsay __, Host of “Canada’s Got Talent” 44. Galaxies sci.
46. Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert of __-Coburg and Gotha 51. Academie Canadienne du Cinema __ __ la Television 54. 1997 Peter Fonda beekeeper role 56. Maintenance service for a cyclist: 2 wds.
58. YouTube hit, __ video 59. Pre-DVD machines 60. Milieu
62. And others, commonly: 2 wds. 64. Zippo
66. Hagar The Horrible creator Mr. Browne 67. poet mr. cummings, and others
69. Traveller’s item
71. ‘Prop’ suffix (Fuel) 75. Poetic contraction 77. Refuge
78. Rogers __, in Toronto 80. Limerick’s rhyming scheme 82. Satin-like 84. Mouse-like field critters 85. Sheriff-organized search party in a Western 86. Sharon, Lois & __ (Canadian music trio)
87. Verdi opera 88. Gym-goer’s counted curls 90. Earth crust’s upper layer 93. T.O. Blue Jays game official