COLOSSAL CANADA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. __-made millionaire

5. 1975 shark blockbuster

9. PC key next to F1

12. Literary sleuth Mr. Wolfe's

17. Botanical casing

18. Spoken

19. __ rata

20. Commander __ (Canadian star Lorne Greene's role on late'70s series “Battlestar Galactica”)

21. Canadian driving distance

23. The Bay of Fundy is world famous for what?: 2 wds.

25. Gateway

26. Reflection

28. Grooms-to-be maybe

29. 911 respondents

31. Cape Canaveral org.

33. Jersey's call!

34. “__ Symphony” (Other name of Beethoven's “Symphony No. 6”)

38. __ instinct

39. Put on one's Judge's frock

43. Cigarette danglee

44. Prongs

46. The __ (Sault Ste. Marie's nickname)

48. Equally in shape: 2 wds.

49. Ontario village on Owen Sound Bay where Canadian painter Tom Thomson (b.1877 - b.1917) grew up

51. Plated dinosaur, e.g.

53. Gladiator's 2550

55. US broadcasting watchdog

56. “American Idol” alum Katharine married to Canadian music producer David Foster

58. Give _ __ (Show approval)

60. Web browser button that looks like a circular arrow

62. World hurdling champion and Olympian born in Oshawa, Ontario who is a broadcaster and motivational speaker: 2 wds . ... More at #22-Down!

65. Celine Dion ‘song'

67. Spanish appetizer

68. “Ha! That's a good one ...yeah, sure that happened!”: 2 wds.

71. Don't share one's share

72. Music key: letter + abbr.

74. David Lee of Van Halen

76. 2016 Disney movie set in Polynesia

77. “_ __ _ Teenage Werewolf” (1957)

79. “Mazel __!”

81. Tom of folklore

83. _ _ _ Pounder, star of 2002 to 2008 police drama “The Shield”

84. Stifled

86. As written

88. Less lumpy

90. In times past

91. Canadian country singer Mr. Snow

93. Word once part of the Russian news agency now simply known as TASS

94. Vancouver-headquartered mining company

98. Sole pattern

100. Did some gardening 104. Geology... The ‘Pinchi' in British Columbia is a what?: 2 wds.

106. The Parliament __, in Ottawa

108. Road Runner schemer, __ _. Coyote

109. Street directive, __ _ Turn 110. Commedia dell'__ (Improvised comedy of Italy)

111. Bluish-green

112. Bitter-__ (Diehard) 113. Make a spelling mistake 114. Hudson and James, in Canada

115. Ott. hockey players

DOWN

1. Objective/purpose

2. “__ Brockovich” (2000)

3. Cheerful song

4. Broccoli bloom

5. Canadian fashion line, __ Fresh

6. Crafts people

7. Rather hot

8. From-pickering-ontario composer/singer/actress/poet/ painter Sarah

9. Setting of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

10. __ Lanka

11. Sprockets

12. The ‘NFB' of Canada: 3 wds.

13. Newspaper bigwigs

14. James __ (Co-writer of Broadway musical Hair)

15. Saint-__, Quebec

16. Cheek

22. __ __ __: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph (2021 bestseller by the Canadian debut author at #62-Across)

24. Canadian actor Mr. Cronyn

27. Practical joke

30. Numerical prefix meaning ‘Three'

32. “Creature with the __ Brain” (1955)

34. Hand part

35. “Hold on _ __!” (Will ya wait please!)

36. Acadian Peninsula town in New Brunswick

37. _'__ (The state, in French)

40. “Caline de Doux Blues” blues-rock band from Montreal

41. Brand name pens

42. Inscribe

45. Ottawa... La Chambre Rouge occupant, __ du Canada

47. Mr. Katz of early-'90s TV series “Eerie, Indiana”

50. Subsequently

52. Succeed in life: 2 wd.

54. Numerical prefix meaning ‘one-tenth'

57. Ancient Dead Sea land

59. The Home __

61. Informally ‘move' to a real estate agent

63. Take __ __ the waist (Do some alterations)

64. Latticework strips

65. Blue-__ stock

66. Gordie of The Hockey Hall of Fame

69. ‘Persist' suffix (Tenacity)

70. Goat-like animal of the Himalayas

73. Mr. Hartnett of Hollywood

75. Muggy day reason

78. Creator of the web-shooting hero (voiced by Canadian actor Paul Soles) on 1960s cartoon “Spider-man”: 2 wds.

80. St-__ Bagel, in Montreal

82. Bon __ (Witticism)

85. Mansion must-have

87. Train co. headquartered in Montreal

89. Characteristics

92. Shish __ (BBQ fave)

94. Snippet of Barbra Streisand's famous movie love song: “__ __ had the chance to do it all again...”

95. Carly Simon's mystery person of song is ‘so' this

96. Old, to Robert Burns

97. Mozart's “__ Kleine Nachtmusik”

99. Halo

101. __ socks

102. Richard of “A Summer Place” (1959)

103. Hi-speed PC connections 105. __'easter

107. Guitar innovator Mr. Paul