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1 Use elbow grease on 6 Ran away 10 Stride 14 Satisfied 17 Four-legged furniture 18 Annoy 19 Toll 20 Exist 21 Not appropriate 23 What’s more 24 U.S. intelligence org. 25 Nfld. summer time 26 Pleasing 27 Of various colours 29 Tiny toiler 30 Wed. preceder 32 Great Lakes threat: Asian ___ 34 Whopper 35 Organ of hearing 37 Peak 39 Norm 42 Round (Fr.) 45 Pre-burial covering 48 Canada Post rival 49 Season’s first game 51 Contaminated 53 Before: prefix 54 Dishwasher, e.g., in a rental 55 List ender 56 Bullet with visible tail 58 Balkans river 59 Left on the map 61 Worshipful state 63 Put (flour, e.g.) through a sieve 67 Within reach 69 Airport runway 71 New: prefix 72 Big problem with peanuts, e.g. 75 Guaranteed Investment Certificate 76 One more 78 Make a hole in 79 Indolence 81 NAFTA, e.g. 82 Verge 83 Sovereignty over a territory 86 Sidekick 87 Stubborn one 89 Cool! 90 Scottish family 92 Measles symptom 95 Quebec’s bird: snowy ___ 97 Rented 100 Urban haze 102 Duo number 103 Life (Fr.) 104 Writer, for short 105 Tailor’s task 108 Newspaper bosses, briefly 109 Wild plum 110 Stagger 111 Beach 112 Wedding page word 113 As ___ as nails 114 Not 115 Former small coin
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1 Impede growth 2 Our nuclear reactor 3 Medical specialty in maternity 4 Inuit knife 5 This pulls a bit 6 Set-to 7 Franco-Manitoban weekly 8 Right angle 9 Judge 10 Dimensional 11 Bank clerk 12 Comfort 13 Acadian buckwheat pancake 14 With cheese, it comforts 15 Amalgamated town of S Ontario 16 Suckling spot 22 Nervous twitch 28 Once-popular song 31 In a moment 33 Mollycoddle 36 Hockey venues 38 Short stroke on the green 40 Storytelling 41 Most powerful 43 Butterfly catcher 44 Thirsty 45 Meat with vegetables 46 Detest 47 Mentally ill 50 Enclosure 52 Father, affectionately 54 Good smell 57 Playfully shy 58 N or S, e.g. 60 Theirs homophone 62 Method for winning 64 Breathing in 65 They bear you all your life 66 Conservative 68 Semicircle 70 Big business, for short 72 Orangutan 73 Cap 74 Lawyer’s language 75 Skate 77 Sign of sorrow 79 Head-___-in Buffalo Jump, Alta. 80 Gun holder 84 Speaker 85 That is to say 88 Cut 91 Swe. neighbour 93 Like much testimony 94 Sweetener from hives 95 Baking chamber 96 Far off the mark 98 End-user license agreement, for short 99 Mend 101 Quick intake of breath 106 Grassland 107 Definite article