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1 Social blunder 6 Navigator’s guide 9 Our southern uncle 12 The way things are going 17 Negatively charged ion 18 Get older 19 Eggs 20 Loathed 21 Romance or mystery 22 Debt letters 23 N.S. fishing town 25 Doing the crawl 27 Hawaiian garland 28 Acid in proteins 29 Ireland 30 Small dam 31 Drug, briefly 32 Rocky debris below a cliff 34 Quebec’s bird: snowy ___ 35 Self-propelled weapon 39 Ponds 40 Castrate 42 Heavy wood 43 Past of do 44 Partner 45 Sprite 46 Conifer 47 Piece of paper 49 Lake (Fr.) 50 Went down 52 Belief system 54 Acadian meat and potato pie
BY KATHLEEN HAMILTON 56 Help 57 Well-mannered 59 SNO: Sudbury ___ Observatory 61 Toy on a string 62 Asks for driver’s license 64 Dog or coyote 66 Prov. with Bruce Trail 67 That man’s 68 Rabbit’s tail 69 A long time ___ 70 Funk Island bird, once: Great ___ 71 ___ Lisa 72 ___ and quiet 73 Perils 76 Salesperson 77 Room (Fr.) 78 Prepare to fire 79 Curse 80 Cathedral part 81 Get rid of 83 Like: suffix 84 Grabbed 88 Party occasions 90 Winnipeg: The ___ 91 Boot-shaped country 92 Start 93 French island 94 Salt (Fr.) 95 Club for high IQs 96 Grizzlies 97 Blushing 98 Brief boxing verdict 99 Sidled
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1 Comical bits 2 Once again 3 Finished (Fr.) 4 At one time 5 Foes 6 State bordering N.B. 7 Wide-eyed 8 Not much (Fr.) 9 Cirque du ___ 10 To have in Nice 11 Scottish name starter 12 Topics 13 Where water runs fast and furious 14 English “public school” 15 Roman emperor 16 Old pesticide 24 Inuit boot 26 Anger 27 Obscene 30 Dog ancestor 32 Of the sun 33 Traditional potato and cabbage dish (Nfld., Ireland) 35 Leacock’s fictional small town 36 Exactly the same 37 Be prone 38 Hamilton summer time 39 Buddy 40 Giving freely 41 Moose cousin 42 Alberta resource 46 Nourished 47 Tall farm building 48 ___ polloi 50 Potato 51 Small island 52 Sugar Loaf city 53 Comedian Luba 55 Charlottetown’s prov. 56 Hill insect 58 Infer 60 Pen fluid 61 ___ and yang 63 ___ Adele, Que. 64 Bounder 65 Philanthropist ___ Khan 67 Where there’s life, there’s ___. 68 Chosen 70 Having weapons 71 Repair a tear 72 Leisure activity 74 Type of snake 75 Octets 76 Lifted up 77 Place to take the waters 79 N.S.-born physicist, 2009 Nobel 80 Franco’s opposite (Que.) 81 Conifer 82 Bear in the sky 84 Hunt for 85 Put up on the wall 86 Threat ender 87 Pair 88 Robert, to pals 89 Broadcast 90 Vancouver time zone