NORTH OF 49

ACROSS

1 Bit of smoke 5 Vessel 9 Where cruises go 13 Lack of focus 17 Tool for a duel 18 Prefix for legal or

chute 19 Take the lead role 20 Comfort 21 Large suburb S of

Montreal 23 Allowed 25 Banned pesticide 26 Trawling equip

ment 27 Ghomeshi of “Q” 28 Tournament

favourites 29 P.M.’s helper 30 Hockey object 31 Everyone 32 Teens’ parents 35 Little white lie 36 Before: prefix 37 S. American carni

val city 40 Off-colour 41 Narita native 44 Merganser or

mallard 45 Quechua speaker 46 Yield 47 Halifax summer

time 48 Nfld. comic Ron

___ 49 Whiz 50 Woman’s voice 51 On 52 Piglet’s mother 53 Arctic explorer Franklin’s ship, finally found 55 Offspring 56 Kaput 59 French island 60 Prov. with over 800 km of beaches 61 “Non, je ne regrette ___” (Piaf) 62 Table part 64 Old fort in

Kingston, Ont. 67 Sandwich filler 68 Fiddle (around) 69 Thickener from

seaweed 70 War of 1812 battle

site: Lake ___ 71 Gabrielle Roy’s

home province 73 Photographer’s

request 74 Badly (Fr.) 75 Ballpark item 76 Kind of wire 77 More than enough 78 X rating? 79 Successor 81 Person, place or

thing 82 Lots of lots 85 Prairie shrub: ___

willow 86 Everything from

soup to ___ 87 Formal require

ment for men 90 Wayne Gretzky’s

birthplace 92 Part of N.W.T. 94 Retired coin 95 Wine choice 96 S. African fox 97 Pelvic bones 98 Six in Spain 99 River to the Baltic 100 Ale 101 Twiggy digs

DOWN

1 Join metals 2 It comes with ear

buds 3 Mailed 4 Winnipeg’s nick

name: The ___ 5 Goes over the

limit 6 Kind of cuisine or

couture 7 Bearded spring

flower 8 Friend 9 Jellied meat 10 Hunk of beef 11 Take in 12 Usher’s offering 13 Areca palm nut 14 Not punctual 15 Second-hand 16 Some wines 22 Cohesion 24 Island 27 Longtime

Winnipeg mayor 29 Sask. neighbour 30 “Put that in your ___ and smoke it!: 31 “All the things you ___” 32 Where to find the

Gobi desert 33 Tango 34 Stomach problem,

from worry? 35 Portuguese music

genre 36 Whistler winter

hrs. 37 Cuban export 38 Finish a cake 39 Some nods 41 Winnipeg hockey

team 42 Labrador town 43 Toronto summer

hrs. 44 Bird chorus time 46 Whodunit hint 48 Sign up for 50 With skill 51 Law, in Lyon 52 Middle East

canal 54 Cork’s country 55 Tractor-trailer 56 MacNeil from Big

Pond (1924-2013) 57 Governor General

1847-54 58 Passed out 60 Give a thumbs

down 61 Scarlet gem 63 Football finale: ___

Cup 64 Skirt’s edge 65 Epoch 66 Zero in some U.K.

sports 67 At the drop of a

___ 68 Number of provinces in Canada, 1867 69 Word of hearty

agreement 71 Y-chromosome

carrier 72 Pre-weekend

shout 73 Kind of fund 75 Winner 77 Maker of ceramics 78 Campground

sights 79 Percheron or

Lipizzan 80 Source of sea

soned advice 81 Bedside caregiver 82 The basics 83 Prairie natives 84 Sari-clad royal 85 Source of pulp and

paper 86 Proboscis 87 Start of phone or

vision 88 Sister of Osiris 89 Coup d’___ 91 To’s partner 92 Catch 93 Victory