COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORDBy
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?