Times Colonist

COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD

- Kelly Ann Buchanan

ACROSS

1 Chemin de __ (‘Railroad’ in French)

4 Cracked open a bit 8 Oscar Wilde poem, The Ballad of Reading __ 12 Lightly applies the

under eye cream 16 Newspaper piece 18 River and same-named-municipali­ty in the area of

Lac Saint-Jean in Quebec

20 __ __ to one’s neck 21 Oil on wood painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson (b.1877 - d.1917): 2 wds. 23 __ a soul 24 Kleenexes

25 Poet buried in Baltimore in Maryland, his monogram

26 Helps in hockey 28 Juno-winning singer

of “Wavin’ Flag” 30 One-eighty slangy

turn

32 Pertinent

33 Kennedy Stewart’s

job in Vancouver 36 Slices in vegetarian submarine sandwiches: 2 wds. 42 Bruce of “Dragons’

Den” famously 44 Napoleonic Wars

marshal Michel 45 Sugar-apple 46 Puppy’s fun fake

out

47 It’s the end of __ __ 49 __ Aviv, Israel 50 Canadian __ (National chain store)

51 Exalt enormously 53 Ye olde lodging 55 __ and Harold

= The Nicholas Brothers (Legendary tap dancing duo) 57 Feldspar which is Newfoundla­nd’s aptly-named provincial mineral 60 Kitchen gadget for

the roast 64 Mountain hgts. 65 Sun’s closest

planet 70 “At Last” singer Ms.

James

71 Canadian songstress Ms. Gryner

73 URL starters 75 Prefix that means

‘Mars’

76 Liqueur of Italy 78 Leandro’s operatic

beloved 79 Preserved, as per pantry packaging 81 Canadian fashion company Nella Bella’s cruelty-free accessorie­s: 2 wds. 84 “Enough!” in Italy 85 Compass dir. 86 Shoe width size 87 Timetable, tiny-ly 89 ‘Theatres’ of Spain 93 Hollywood’s Mr.

Mineo

95 Fit for employment 99 Aleutian island 100 Toronto-born actress Heather Menzies’ character in “The Sound of Music” (1965): 3 wds.

103 Weight unit of

China

104 Barenaked Ladies’

“The Old __” 105 Illusionis­t,

archaicall­y

106 Alan of

“M*A*S*H” 107 “This is a fun ride!” 108 Hive’s striped

denizens

109 Mailing encl.

DOWN

1 Italian automaker 2 Decorative case 3 Soaks flax 4 Sleeping problem 5 Ship cargo thrown

overboard

6 __ Vos Prec (1920 T.S. Eliot volume of poetry) 7 Ready-to-eat status in the Produce Department 8 Preacher’s honest

truth

9 Emmet

10 Pod in Cajun

cooking

11 Potato chips

brand 12 The original host of Canadian lifestyles show “Cityline” (Trivia! Early in her career she piloted a helicopter as a traffic reporter in Toronto): 2 wds. 13 Mysterious daughter of Nicholas II of Russia 14 Mr. Ward (Robin on

“Batman”) 15 Donald Sutherland espionage spoof flick co-starring Elliott Gould, “_*_*_*_” (1974) 17 Canadian Arctic

animals: 2 wds. 19 Celine Dion’s movie love ballad duet with Peabo Bryson: 4 wds.

22 John C. __ Hamilton

Internatio­nal Airport 27 Unaltered

29 Reality star Ms.

Leakes

31 Day before today,

poetically 33 Caesar’s 1450 34 “Whose woods these __ _ think...” - Robert Frost

35 “Be My __ Ono” by

Barenaked Ladies 37 Antenna 38 Stockholm is its cap. 39 Administer the diagnostic at home: 2 wds. 40 Unit of pressure 41 Motored with much

mass motion 43 Scottish band that rocked Joni Mitchell’s “This Flight Tonight” 48 Bird beak

52 ‘Duct’ suffix

(Malleable)

54 Cosa __ (Crime

syndicate)

56 Ireland airline, __

Lingus

58 Shared surname of the punk rockers of “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School” 59 Rapscallio­n

60 The __ (Wally Cleaver’s classic TV brother, for short) 61 “When My Baby Smiles __ __” (1948) starring Betty Grable 62 Stood idle

63 Fuzzy fanged

frightener

66 Our robotic outer

space icon 67 Samovars

68 “__ Petite” by

Jackie Wilson 69 Luke Skywalker’s

mentor

72 Kingston Trio lettered h.i.t. of 1959

74 Clothes

77 Vitality,

in brief 80 French composer of the opera Angelique, Jacques __ (b.1890 - d.1962) 82 Hankering hope 83 Franz Schubert work, “Die __ Mullerin”

88 Clues

89 TTFN! = __-__-for

now! 90 And others,

commonly: 2 wds. 91 Cape Breton... Lake

_’__ Provincial Park 92 Second-year

student [abbr.] 94 Ewe’s baby 96 #94-Down’s sounds 97 Sports org. 98 Fencer’s weapon 101 Where Abu Dhabi is

the cap.

102 “Rubber Ball”

singer Bobby

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