MAPLE LEAF
Stephen McCarthy, originally from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is a Ph.D. student studying transportation modeling in Stockholm. He made this puzzle last September, about a month after moving. “I was homesick, and this was a way of connecting to my home,” he said. In his spare time, McCarthy plays Ultimate Frisbee, sings in the Stockholm
Gay Choir and makes and solves crosswords. This is his first published puzzle. — W.S.
ACROSS 65 Leader of the nerf
1 Writer who house? herder!”
created Oz 67 “Love is love,” 112 Dish served on a
5 “Obviously,” in e.g. skewer
slang 70 Pallid 113 Congresswoman
10 First word of “A 71 Outlets, e.g. Omar
Visit From St. 73 Something that 114 Actress Lena
Nicholas” might lengthen a 115 Suppliers of the
14 “... with sentence? milk for Roquefort possibly direr 74 Moneybags cheese consequences” 75 High school 116 Singer Mary
17 ____ Berliner, hurdle whose J. ____ pioneer in first two letters, 117 Moves quickly phonograph phonetically, and lightly records sound like one 118 Not only that
18 Lex Luthor, to of its former 119 Rehearsal, e.g., in
Superman components slang
22 Raised 76 Like all the 120 Approvals
23 Bit of asparagus answers with 121 You can
24 Alternately pairs of circled believe it
25 Lines up letters, punnily 122 “Likewise”
26 Agitated 81 Programming
29 Pricey pioneer Lovelace
30 M.L.B. team with 82 Seasons in
a big “W” in its Québec logo 84 15th birthday
31 Rx order celebration
32 “Revolution,” to 85 Tomtit is another
“Hey Jude” name for it
34 Space-scanning 86 Talks up
org. 88 Classical
35 It may be bitter Icelandic literary
36 Like bees work
37 Not ____ 89 Title letters
(mediocre) chanted in a 2011
39 Clear weeds, in a Katy Perry hit
way 90 Oldsmobile
40 Part “missing” Cutlass model
from p.s.i. 91 Financial org.
41 Mystery writer once deemed
Deighton “too big to fail”
42 Words cried after 93 Newfoundland,
“Go” e.g.: Abbr.
46 Abbr. after a price 94 Serpentine
in a Craigslist ad swimmer
47 Lt.’s inferior 95 Root-beer
48 Decidedly brand
51 Québec’s ____ 96 Veterans
St.-Jean 100 Range within
52 Soft drink since which you can
1905 answer the
54 Young hombre question “Can
56 Biblical verb you hear me
ending now?”
57 Instruments 104 Six-time winner for Israel of the N.H.L.’s
Kamakawiwo’ole Art Ross
60 German auto Trophy, born in
since 1899 Saskatchewan
61 “That’ll teach 108 “24” and “Suits”
you!” actress, born in
62 Pigeon English? Halifax
63 Basketball 111 Princess who champions’ says “Why, you
“trophy” stuck-up, halfwitted,
64 Gillette brand scruffylooking
DOWN
1 Pears with a sweet-spiced flavor
2 Part of B.A.
3 Deploy
4 Alberta city named for an eagle-feather headdress
5 Like some birds
or dolls
6 Excite
7 Rank
8 Stops talking,
with “up”
9 Mettle that may
merit a medal
10 Two-player game invented in Toronto
11 Sardonic
12 ____ of
Parliament
13 Stops talking,
with “up”
14 “Nice burn!”
15 Battle ____
16 Seasonal destination near Quebec City
19 Program introduced by the Trudeau government in 1984, colloquially 20 Approximate weight of the Liberty Bell
21 Spots
27 Advocacy grp. that filed for bankruptcy in 2021 28 Words at an
unveiling?
31 Cry after an award is announced
33 Woman’s short
hairstyle
36 Portrayer of Senator Vinick on
“The West Wing” 38 Level or bevel
43 Like some
outlets
44 Desert planet of
“Star Wars”
45 Be batty, in a
way?
49 Canuck, e.g., for
short
50 Capital of
Qatar
52 Like bells in
carillons
53 Part of L.C.D.
54 Some salon
supplies
55 Like Rochester and Syracuse, but not New York City
58 Novel
convenience?
59 Band whose
1999 hit “Smooth” spent 12 weeks at No.
1
66 Sleep stage
68 Overturns
69 “Very high,” on a
fire-danger scale 70 Iowa Cubs baseball classification
72 Et ____ (footnote
abbr.)
74 Federal
regulatory org.
77 Rose or lilac
78 “Where ____ go
wrong?”
79 Novelist Gaiman 80 Pound sound
83 Thrown
together
85 They might help with changing your locks
87 One with a phony
personality?
90 Snake oil,
purportedly
92 Passes
95 Central route thru
town
96 Leers at
No. 0620
97 Frederick who composed “Camelot”
98 Helps a
dishwasher, say 99 One source
of oil
100 Cheer
101 Shout, informally 102 ____ Wars, conflicts of 183942 and 1856-60 103 It may be perfect or simple, but not both
105 Big elevator
maker
106 $15/hour, e.g.
107 What most spiders have eight of
108 Hitchhiker’s
need
109 International
fashion magazine 110 Climb, as a rope