COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Happy July 1st! Canada’s flag hues, __ and white
4 ‘Very very softly’ music directive, in the plural here 8 Blue/green
12 __ Island, near Vancouver in British Columbia
17 Canadian broadcaster Mr. Lewis
18 Joy of Cooking author, __ S. Rombauer
19 Prefix to ‘potent’ (Allpowerful)
20 Cherish
21 Canada Day as it used to be known, __ Day 23 Prong
24 Planet’s satellites 25 __ __ the door (Escorts one out)
26 Hair styling goo 27 Particular PC port 29 Tomates en __
(Diced tomatoes in a French restaurant) 30 Canada’s federal government location: 2 wds.
35 Coca-Cola competitor 38 Omelette ovoids
39 Shoe width size 40 Porridge-like 43 Completely
44 British Columbia footballers
46 Athabasca __ __ (It’s not the Sahara but rather a Provincial Park in remote northwest Saskatchewan)
48 “That __ __ it should be.” (It’s perfect how things turned out)
50 Airport screening gr. in The States
51 “You’ve __ _ Way” by Shania Twain 52 Befuddle
53 Private mountain estate in “Citizen Kane” (1941) 55 Canadian actor Michael of “Juno” (2007) 57 Intercommunications ‘yes’ 59 35mm camera, e.g. 60 Charlottetown, ‘The Birthplace of __’ 64 Great Expectations character
67 “The Year of the __” (Basketball documentary of 2004)
68 Archaically ‘imagine’ 69 Lake __, in Banff National Park
73 The __ (Regular’s order at the diner) 75 Ken of “thirtysomething” 77 Foot finial
79 Really fun time 80 Village in British Columbia north of Whistler
82 Then, in Tadoussac 84 ‘Neat’ suffix (Tidy type)
85 Italian harp
86 For instances [abbr.] 87 “__ So High” by Tal Bachman
88 Baking amts. 90 1534-in-Canada explorer from France: 2 wds.
94 Above __ Level
96 Mr. Gray of Botany 97 __ Gratia Artis (MGM’s motto)
98 Frank __ (Leslie Nielsen’s role in ‘Naked Gun’ comedies) 102 ‘Night’-meaning prefix
104 Halifax-born designer of Canada’s iconic fishing and racing schooner the Bluenose, William J. __ (b.1879 - d.1970) 106 Canada’s is rich 108 Northern territory of Canada
109 Use the pool’s bouncy board
110 Figure Skater’s jump 111 ‘Froms’ friends 112 Mother in Eugene O’Neill’s 1933 play
Ah, Wilderness!
113 Plant, pre-being a plant
114 Canadian hockey legend Gordie
115 Emily Carr output Down
1 “Gnarlies!”
2 “Hurray!”, ancientstyle
3 The Bluenose coin 4 Northern __ (Migratory duck) 5 Previous
6 Base of operations of Canada’s leader [acronym]
7 NHL team, __ Jose Sharks
8 Pacific Northwest Coast high-standing monuments
9 __ “The Cat” Francis (Goalie-turned-Coach in the Hockey Hall of Fame born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan) 10 “Barbara __” by The Beach Boys
11 Provincial representative of The Queen, __ Governor 12 Disney deer
13 Mileage tip to ‘meter’ 14 Rural municipality in Manitoba called ‘A Place to Put Down Roots’
15 White-tailed sea bird 16 Scotland’s famed Loch 22 Web connectors [abbr.]
26 “Just for Laughs __” 28 Backyard building 31 Writer Mr. Tolstoy’s 32 Township in northwestern Ontario on Agimak Lake
33 Tidy
34 Noisy
35 Peace: French
36 Lioness in “Born
Free” (1966)
37 Agenda
41 Recount
42 Flanders river 45 Saskatchewan agriculture town 46 “...sugar is sweet and __ __ you.”
47 “__ __ Ron Ron” by The Crystals 49 Cul-de-__
51 Prince Edward
Island, ‘Canada’s __ Province’
54 “Republic of __”
(CBC show from
2010 to 2014)
56 “Hang Ten” singlenamed Canadian singer
58 Wayne Gretzky when an Edmonton player 61 GGFG = Governor General’s __ __
62 One of a Caribou’s set
63 Worn-down pencil 64 Insect stage
65 ‘Advert’ add-on (Promotional sponsor of a page in a magazine)
66 Oilfield sights in Alberta nicknamed ‘nodding donkeys’ 70 ‘Edmonton’ enders 71 Faux pas
72 Banff National Park animals 74 Rhyme scheme, e.g. 76 Misplace
78 Jacob van __ the Elder (17th-century Flemish painter) 81 Mandatory courses, for short
82 Gotchas!
83 Very clean and sanitary 87 Tedious speech or writing
89 Poison rocker Mr. Michaels
91 “The __ Mutiny” (1954)
92 Jeanne __
(Governor General of Canada from 1984 to 1990) 93 “_ __ a map of Canada...” - Joni Mitchell, “A Case of You”
94 __ River, in Fort McMurray
95 ‘Right’ suffix (Mightily moral) 99 The __ Shoe Museum, in Toronto 100 Composer Mr. Stravinsky
101 Lofty lair amongst the leaves
103 Not moi in Montreal 105 Goose: French 106 “That’s reaaally hilarious.” 107 ‘Outer’-meaning prefix