Times Colonist

COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORDB­y

- Kelly Ann Buchanan

ACROSS

1 Birthday present

toppers

5 1987 to 1994 ‘Star Trek’ series, to Trekkies 8 Christophe­r Plummer’s “The Sound of Music” (1965) role

13 Sad droplet :( 17 “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” recounts one: 2 wds. 20 9:00_ _ __ 5:00pm

(Working hours) 21 __-__-__ Provincial Park (Alberta’s prehistori­c rock art attraction)

22 __ facto (By the fact

itself, in Latin) 23 Lots

24 Silver salmons 25 Really painful

reactions! 27 Vancouver-based telecommun­ications giant 29 Oscar-winner Sophia 30 Use profanitie­s

towards: 2 wds. 31 Aid and __

32 Old alphabetic

symbols

33 The __ Quintuplet­s 34 “Gangnam Style”

rapper

35 Divides

36 Canadian star, Yvonne De __ (b.1922 - d.2007) 37 Brit. ship letters 40 Antelope kind 41 Stawamus __ (Granite monolith in Squamish, British Columbia)

42 __ table

43 Island of Montreal

waterway, __ Canal 46 Wish for wistfully 47 Montreal subway 48 Somebody

unspecifie­d

49 __ Sound, Ontario 50 Title song lady for Canadian singer Roch Voisine 51 Single-named Canadian country singer/songwriter 52 Shaped with an axe 53 Kitchen whistlers 54 Nautical ropes 55 “__ Bells” by AC/DC 56 “__ Club” (Classic

game show) 57 Always, to a poet 58 Strides

59 “Royals” songstress

from New Zealand 60 Randy Bachman’s

musical son

63 __ and bass (Stereo

knobs)

65 Grand __ of

Newfoundla­nd 66 Tortoise’s fabled

competitor 67 “Boards on the window / Mail by the door...” is from what song by The Band?

69 Avant-__ 70 Canadian band,

Coney __ 71 Objective

72 Super __ Bros. (Nintendo video game)

73 British car, __

Cooper 74 Bark-and-branches

forest fixture 75 Grand-Pre in Nova Scotia is a historic one: 2 wds. 80 Canadian broadcaste­r Mr. Solomon

81 Lake Ontario chain across from Canada’s largest city: 2 wds. 82 “Round and Round” rodent rock band in 1984

83 Big Band era music 84 Goalie’s area to tend 85 Short snoozes

DOWN

1 Poshly lettered auto 2 Rowboat steerer 3 Where legendary Canadian pitcher Fergie Jenkins played home games when he played for the Chicago Cubs, __ Field

4 Don’t participat­e: 2

wds.

5 Some wallet bills 6 Neighbourh­ood of Montreal known commonly by these three letters

7 La __ (Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as she is also known)

8 Large skin rips 9 Town in western

Saskatchew­an 10 Valencia

municipali­ty in Spain 11 Stimpy’s co-star 12 ‘Canis Lupus’ is the scientific name of this animal found in Canada: 2 wds.

13 Its capital city is

Taipei

14 In Joni Mitchell’s “Raised on Robbery” ‘He was sitting in the lounge’ of the what?: 2 wds. 15 Sailor’s splashy

status: 2 wds. 16 Henhouse

18 Writer’s tips? 19 Sleeps sans soundly 26 ‘Wine’-meaning

prefix

27 Intercept

informatio­n 28 Charlotte’s Web author Mr. White, et al.

29 Thrust

30 Ambulance signal! 32 Marie Antoinette,

par exemple

33 Gay Lea’s food realm 35 “__ Day People” by

Gordon Lightfoot 36 Swiss __ (Green

leafy veggie) 38 Newfoundla­nd’s Gros __ National Park

39 Blackthorn

fruits

40 Merchandis­e at Canadian chain store Aldo 41 Goddess of agricultur­e in ancient Rome 42 Beavers had theirs taken from them in early Canadian history 43 Frothy-topped hot

beverage order 44 Keep __ __ on

(Watch out for) 45 Tech-world security

concern: 2 wds. 46 Two-masted boats 47 Yard’s Canadian

friend

49 Ontario... Point __ (The most southerly point of Canada’s mainland) 50 Cabbage units 52 __/Grindstone Provincial Park, in Manitoba

53 Sir David __ (17th-century first Governor of Newfoundla­nd) 55 Environmen­t

environs

56 Cdn. city + Cdn.

province combo here 58 Single-named soccer

legend

59 Cowboy’s capturer 60 Regina-born star Ms. Maslany of “Orphan Black”

61 Curve

62 1973 Lynyrd Skynyrd album: (Pronounced ‘__-’nerd ‘skin-’nerd) 64 The one who rules when the monarch cannot

65 Revealing, as one’s

soul 66 Canadian rowing great, Ned __ (b.1855 - d.1908) 67 Cute furry aquatic

mammal

68 Prince Edward

Island’s motto, __

Sub Ingenti (The Small Under the Protection of the Great)

69 Canadian star Sarah of 2017 miniseries “Alias Grace” 70 Parliament __ 72 “__-Mac” by Great

Big Sea

73 Maid of the __ (Niagara Falls boat for tourists) 76 One would rather be left grazing than to be eaten itself

77 Compete

78 Economy stat. 79 ‘Lion’ tail?

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