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ACROSS
1 Insurer’s calculation 5 Take steps 8 Artist’s inspiration 12 Fragment 17 Enjoying leisure 18 Neither’s partner 19 Anti homophone 20 Ring 21 Dread 22 Opposite of suspicious 24 Fend off 25 Grabs 27 Hold in custody 28 Soften 29 Duds 31 Que. neighbour 32 Poultry 33 Merino mother 34 Before: prefix 35 Have a bawl 36 Atlantic food fish 39 N.S. town in Lunenburg County (2 wds.) 43 Whisper sweet nothings 44 Genetic reproduction 46 Auspices 47 Broom partner 49 For this reason 50 Windows forerunner: MS-___ 51 Halfway through a pregnancy 52 Like a leopard 54 Flip-flop 56 Rim 57 Spring up 58 Affliction 60 Crayfish cousin 62 Me for Matisse 65 Get rid of 66 One who denies dogma 67 Large-scale 68 Sharon of Israel 69 Ireland’s ___ Lingus 70 Permissively 72 Letters of concern 73 That guy 74 Stately tree 75 Was in session 76 Muslim leader 78 Edit out 79 Peel off 82 Athletic headwear 85 Conditional release 87 Pry 89 It should be airtight 90 Tranquillity 92 Stick together 93 Give off 94 Pinnacle 95 Lawyer’s charge 96 Yearn 97 One with Hansen’s disease 98 Wild rose prov. 99 Seabird 100 Winds up
DOWN
1 African valley 6000 km long: the Great ___ 2 Perfect 3 Satisfy (thirst) 4 Hub town of Similkameen Valley, B.C. 5 Picnic crasher 6 Vocal or extension ___ 7 Set straight 8 Town on Gaspe peninsula 9 Ill-suited 10 Render speechless 11 Wriggly fish 12 Canadian Robertson’s invention: squarehead ___ 13 Calgary bartender, inventor of bloody Caesar: Walter ___ 14 Ready to be picked 15 Word of agreement 16 Hide 23 Novelist 26 Planted 28 Manitoba author Gabrielle (“The Tin Flute”) 30 Short of 32 To and ___ 34 Time gone by 35 Swindle 36 Disdain 37 First word in a fairy tale 38 Exploit 39 Interns’ school 40 Long, long ___ 41 Momentous 42 Move 43 N.B. birthplace of Rene Levesque 44 Choral ensemble 45 Answer to “Shall we?” 48 Former 51 Mushroom with honeycomb appearance 52 Lustrous fabric 53 Exact 55 Whopping 58 Tiff 59 Throw rocks across the hog line 61 Pipe part 63 It brought prosperity to Nfld. 64 Frigid 66 Be indecisive: ___ and haw 67 Embroil 69 Sharpshooter’s asset 71 Vittles 73 Tuque 74 Nunavut site of lowest tide in Canada 76 Permeate 77 Canadian designer of popular video games: Sid ___ 78 Diamond weight 79 Dissuade 80 Two dots 81 Pester 82 Hearty hello 83 Otherwise 84 Say worth for worse 85 Rind 86 Biography 88 Clothesline fasteners 90 Hydromassage facility 91 Strong desire