Toronto Star

COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD

- BY KELLY ANN BUCHANAN

ACROSS

1 Winnipeg airport

code

4 Nuke of many

warheads

8 G'ooey t'reats

14 Height and weight

fitness stat.

17 Laval Rocket org.

18 __ _'clock

19 “From __ __

Eternity” (1953)

20 Yellowknif­e Airport

code

21 Northweste­rn Ontario... Provincial Park near Red Lake named for the antlered animal that lives in the boreal forest there: 2 wds.

24 High elev.

25 Tags

26 Queen Elizabeth's father: wd. + wd. + Roman Numeral

28 Rita Hayworth's royal husband, __ Khan

29 Country singer Ms.

Fricke

30 Liz Taylor's ancient

role in `63

31 Cover covering coverable curios: 2 wds.

34 Effortless

36 Kingdom in Middle-earth (More at #29-Down)

40 Planes' flight tower

serv.

41 King Ahab's

biblical father

43 __ Darya (River of

central Asia)

46 Canned fruits giant

47 Stanley Cup

49 Canadian ice

cream brand

54 Apprehend

55 Mortise's

carpentry adjunct

56 Pattie Boyd's song

57 Bay St. George town in western Newfoundla­nd

59 Morden, Manitoba... Visitors really `dig' the prehistori­c marine vertebrate­s at the Canadian __ __ Centre

62 Fluffy head supports 64 US college military groups

65 Le __ de MonteCrist­o

68 Character in Leon Uris' 1958 novel Exodus, __ Ben Canaan

69 __ Hockey League

71 British Columbia city on the Alaska Highway, Fort __. __

72 Fault find

74 Butterfly logo co.

75 Competitor

77 Feedbag tidbit

78 Impede, in law

80 Wetlands

84 Corny joke

86 Leaf sheaths

veggie

89 Nile River city

91 Theatrical

monogram

92 Canadian coffee/ doughnuts chain since 1963: 2 wds.

96 Mountain of North

Vancouver

99 Globe

100 The scientific instrument at #53-Down is capable of observing __ __

102 Ruby or Sandra

103 Ecuador's water, __

PacÌfico

104 “__ __ at bats!” (Now's my home run chance!)

105 Skin `sketch'

shortly

106 Hearer

107 London-Ontariobor­n star Victor

108 Banda __ (City in Sumatra in Indonesia)

109 Dorothy's Auntie in Kansas, and namesakes

DOWN

1 Fore-and-aft

sailing boat

2 `__, Nelly!': Nelly Furtado's first album

3 The Great War, 1914 to 1918: 2 wds. 4 Acclaimed Canadian jazz vocalist of Junowinnin­g album `Lucky': 2 wds.

5 `Tsar' suffixes (Russian empresses)

6 Kylo __, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” (2019) role

7 Smirnoff liquor

8 “Up!” by __ Twain

9 Unites

10 First edition, briefly

11 Medieval bowed musical instrument

12 _-__ (Internet

calculator, e.g.)

13 More tart

14 Ben E. King's

“Stand __ __”

15 Media legend Moses Znaimer's lettered Museum of Television, in Toronto

16 Sidi __, Morocco

22 Big name in

computers

23 Film at Cannes

27 Fine

29 LOTR creator Mr.

Tolkien

31 Sheet of matted

cotton

32 French class verb

33 “Judging __”

35 Root vegetable

37 “Stay in the Light”

Niagara Falls rock band: 2 wds.

38 Mr. Arkin of “Argo”

(2012)

39 Beaks

42 `Poet' ending

(Idyllic)

44 Sharks sorts

45 Concordia in Mtl.

48 Office lottery

tickets group

50 __ One, Ontario electricit­y provider

51 Canadian author Michael Ondaatje's novel of 1987, In the Skin of _ __

52 Serving at Canadian restaurant chain East

Side Mario's 53 NIRISS = NearInfrar­ed Imager and Slitless __ (Canada's contributi­on to the James Webb Space Telescope)

56 Itemizes

58 Office assignment,

e.g.

60 Did splashy laps

61 Gladiator's 255

62 Toronto subway station between Chester and Donlands

63 “Stanley & __”

(1990)

66 Those, to poet

Robert Burns

67 Intermissi­on,

__'acte

70 Dmitri Shostakovi­ch's “Symphony No. 6 __ _ Minor, Op. 54”

71 Sun. service

delivery

73 City of Cologne, in

Germany

76 Billy Joel's “_ __ to

Extremes”

79 Farley in Canadian comic strip For Better or For Worse: 2 wds.

81 High-__ fuel

82 “I Will Survive”

singer Gloria

83 Sediment

85 “...like _ __ of chocolates...” Forrest Gump

87 Ms. Durance, Canadian portrayer of Lois Lane on “Smallville”

88 American

bandleader Kay

90 Aqua __ (Golddissol­ving mixture)

92 Postal __, Canadian address info

93 Mo'__ (French

Polynesia island)

94 Takeout delivery

service, __ Eats

95 Pierce

96 Stick

97 Tailor's line

98 Abbr.

approximat­ions

101 Jeep manufactur­er

once

 ?? ??

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