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1 The sun in ancient Egypt 5 Rose stalk 9 Vehicle 12 Clever black bird 16 Take the bait 17 Painted tin-plate 18 Sept. follower 19 Flora and ___ 20 Site of CPR’s official finish (1885) 23 Building addition 24 Colonized 25 Tool building 26 B.C. football team 27 Author Niedzviecki (“The Peep Diaries”) 28 Scottish valley 29 Quebec: “La ___ Province” 30 Carrying a weapon 33 Killed, biblically 34 Manchester meal 35 Art (Ital.) 38 Den 39 Stops working 40 Prov. with artificial mountain 41 Pierre’s please: ___ vous plait 42 Semicircle 43 Fabled tortoise opponent 44 Being together 45 Quiet period 46 Beach 48 Yukon site with record cold (-64 C) 49 Flag leaf 50 Language learner’s challenge 54 Suffuse 57 Gloomy atmosphere 58 Official pardon 62 Temperate 63 Long nail 65 Whack 66 Try to win 67 Friend (Fr.) 68 Walk back and forth 69 Canadian wildcat 70 The ___ and file 71 Darn 73 Lode load 74 Say it isn’t true 75 Wound up 76 Beginning 78 Like some French nouns: abbr. 79 Baby bear 80 Rankin ___, Nunavut 81 Kitty 82 Valuable pod from an orchid 86 Israeli-Canadian novelist Ravel (“A Wall of Light”) 87 Tyrannical 89 Tries 90 Early fur-trading co. 91 Perfumer’s asset 92 Circus canvas 93 Make comfortable 94 Campfire leavings 95 Scorch 96 Whopping

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1 The basics 2 Make weary 3 Coup d’___ 4 Negative word 5 Iron-carbon alloy 6 Spilled the beans 7 Right-angle addition 8 Childhood disease 9 “Suzanne” songwriter 10 Like vinegar 11 Hwy. 12 Cooking oil from Prairie crop 13 Also-rans 14 Loonies 15 Car-wash option 19 Get less than 50% 21 Joyous 22 Masticate 26 Not waterproof 28 Kind of musical club 29 Insulin discoverers: Banting and ___ 30 Ah, me! 31 Unusual 32 Sheet silicate mineral 33 “Make way!” sound 34 Boreal forest zone 36 Cash register 37 She (Fr.) 39 Woodworking groove 40 Symbol of slowness 43 Employ 44 Sam of the U.S.A. 45 Back alley 47 P.E.I.: “___ Island” 48 Rattler 49 Highest Alp: ___ Blanc 51 Toward the opponents’ net 52 Sandy brown 53 Large-screen cinema technology 54 Mosque prayer leader 55 Act wordlessly 56 Lack of vision 59 Ugly duckling, when adult 60 Oodles 61 Yolk homophone 63 Nozzle 64 Actor’s role 65 Mouth the words: lip-___ 69 Teaching units 70 Revival 72 Take out 74 Short run 75 Albacore 77 Wagers 78 Canadian author of “Know the Night” 79 Provide the food 80 Concept 81 U.K. bars 82 Permission to enter a country 83 Stead 84 Singer kd 85 Poker stake 86 Summer on the Somme 87 Cry of discovery 88 Fish eggs