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1. Emphatic font type: Abbr.
5. Very large people
11. High points in a mountain range
16. Prefix indicating ten of something
17. Doing a job without any guarantee of being paid, in the hope of winning future business
18. The first pope of the Catholic Church to have been called "the Great". He is perhaps best known for having met Attila the Hun in 452, persuading him to turn back from his invasion of Italy.
19. Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (abbr.)
20. Members of the large western branch of Sioux people
22. Italian term of affection
23. Unnaturally strange
25. ___ Philips (born 1956), American stand-up comedian
26. The first part of the Bible (abbr.)
27. Send to a specialist for treatment
28. Employ
31. The standard score by which golfers measure their level of ability
33. Spanish for "yes"
34. Long-haul truckers are often members of this radio fraternity
35. A simple wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together
37. Observe
38. Tiny
39. By oneself
40. Profits
42. Segment (abbr.)
43. Classic Pontiac muscle car
44. Unit of energy
46. Map within a map
47. A whole lot
50. Perplexed
53. "Man's best friend". Wives might argue with this description.
54. Historic period
55. The familiar name of Art's youngest sister, married to Willie. We along with other family travelled to the home of their daughter, Janis, and her husband, Vannis, in Burnaby to celebrate her and Willis' 50th wedding anniversary in August. It was a great celebration and especially nice to have their children and grandchildren there for it.
58. Famous
59. Centennial United Church, where Alanna is the minister, was fortunate ealier this year to obtain the services of Dorothy Froese to direct the choir and play the ___. The music at Centennial's Sunday service would be reason enough to attend, even without the inspirational preaching of the church's beloved minister!
61. "___ we there yet?"
62. "___ Maria"
63. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm
66. Gives off
68. "The City of Angels" (abbr.)
69. Box office sign that means you can get in but you won't get a seat (abbr.)
70. In the month of ___Alanna travelled to Belleville, Ontario where she met with her sisters Colleen and Brigid to join in the 50th anniversary of Nicholson Catholic College, the high school Alanna attended when her family lived in Belleville. Although Colleen and Brigid did not attend the school they knew people who did, so it was a good time for them too. And Alanna and her sisters always have a good time when they get together. I stayed home. Alanna phoned every night and told me how her day had gone, which eased the emptiness I feel around home when Alanna is away.
71. Descartes and others
72. The time it takes the earth to make one orbit around the sun (abbr.)
73. French for "friend" (male)
75. Breakfast, lunch and dinner
76. A place where one might build a home
79. Eye make-up
83. My brother Ed's wife, Carolyn's, family name.
85. A quick and inexpensive alternative to sending a greeting card by mail
87. Brain cell
88. Jacob's brother whom Jacob cheated out of his birthright (see Genesis 25 for the story)
89. River of Lyon, France
90. Most weekends I attend mass at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church on Saturday evening and atttend the service at St. John's United Church on Sunday morning. Over the course of the year I am called upon to fill in for the ministers at St. John's when they are away about six or seven times a year. I enjoy it but find it takes a good chunk of time to prepare a ___. People in the United Church expect good preaching, and the people of St. John's get it from the regular ministers, Bev Tracy and Janet Silman. They set a high standard for a substitute like me.
91. The letters appended to the written name of a School Sister of Notre Dame

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1. What young people may have to show to get served in pubs (abbr.)
2. Raised in Montreal, an Expos fan, now like me a Jays fan, he and Alanna's sister, Brigid, have been together almost as long as Alanna and me have been married. When we make our biennial visit to Ontario, I always pick a week when the Jays are playing at home, so he and I along with Alanna and Brigid can catch a Jays' game. We didn't visit Ontario this year, so didn't have this pleasure. For those of you who don't know his name, and need a clue: his first name is the same as John F. Kennedy's youngest brother, and his last name is the same as that of a well-known barbecue manufacturer.
3. Volumes of water that would cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot
4. What a fancier bridal dress might be
5. At the end of May we took a two-week driving vacation through the Cariboo region of B.C. The highlight was the day we spent in Barkerville, a boom town in one of the ____ Rushes that took place in B.C. In 1861, a miner named Billy Barker arrived in the region, along with a wave of prospectors from all over North America and the world.  While here, Barker struck a fabulously rich pay streak.  As a result, in 1862, Barkerville was born, helping set the stage for the settlement of British Columbia and its eventual confederation with Canada.  Many old buildings remain and others have been superbly restored or reconstructed. Actors play roles of people who would have lived and worked in Barkerville at its height. There is a small Anglican church that is staffed each summer by an Anglican seminarian who celebrates morning and evening prayer every day. We attended evening prayer and the seminarian asked us to read the scripture passages of the day. We should have scheduled two days to take it all in instead of only the one day we had. We will return and recommend all of you to visit this marvellous exhibition of Canadian history.
6. As far as I am concerned, Alanna is one __ __ million!
7. Inquire
8. Greenpeace or Oxfam, for example (abbr.)
9. French for "head"
10. A seafood dish
11. Something you might add at the bottom of a letter (abbr.)
12. And so forth (abbr.)
13. Pie __ __ mode: pie with ice cream
14. Cook stove fuel
15. Describing the chimney most in need of cleaning
21. This will help you come clean!
24. Railways (abbr.)
27. Abbreviation of an organization mostly of women who claim  to be validly ordained Roman Catholic Women Priests. The initial ordinations were performed in secret by some Roman Catholic bishops who disagreed with the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church that women are incapable of receiving the sacrament of Holy Orders. The organization approached Alanna in her capacity as the minister of Centennial United Church in Victoria to ask if they could use the church to celebrate the ordination of two women to the priesthood. With the consent of the church board, the ordinations took place on 17 April of this year. The ordaining bishop was Bishop Patricia Fresen. Alanna was among the ordained ministers from different churches who participated in the laying-on-of-hands part of the ordination ritual. I provided technical assistance with the church's sound system. You can read an account of the ordination in The Journal, which can be read online at <http://www.corpuscanada.org/pdf journal/2010/2010 No. 2 Apr-Jun.pdf>. I also write a regular column in The Journal that I call the "Theological Soapbox" (a reference to the people who stand on soapboxes in Hyde Park, London and give speeches on whatever topic they fancy).
28. The opposite of "download"
29. ___ Paulo, Brazil
30. A system for classifying people into nine different personality types. Alanna and I were introduced to this system in the early 1980s and have found it very helpful for understanding ourselves and others. Alanna has done a lot of reading about it, so when the hospital chaplains with whom I work in my job as Advanced Practice Leader for Spiritual Health in the Vancouver Island Health Authority, needed someone to make a presentation at their retreat on 16 November, I suggested that they ask Alanna to make a presentation on the ____. She did and the participants gave her high marks. I recommend the ____ system to anyone who wants to grow in self-knowledge.
32. Home town of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Every year for the past three years I have made a bet with Brenda Nestegaard-Paul, the minister at Grace Lutheran Church in Victoria that the B.C. Lions would beat the Roughriders when they met in the playoffs. Brenda is from Saskatchewan, and like most who move here from there she bleeds Roughrider green. I'll admit there are no better fans in the world. She won again this year but I'm sure the Lions gave her a scare when they forced the game into double overtime. I owe her and her husband a restaurant meal. But the Lions are going to be a lot better next year. I'm already thinking about which restaurant I will ask Brenda to invite me to!
36. It will keep curls in your hair
37. Bro's sibling
39. Dined
41. Insect hero in one of Aesop's fables
43. They go from K to twelve in most Canadian schools
45. Be less demanding of someone than you could be
47. "Gosh!"
48. What a good carpenter doesn't blame
49. Big coffee percolator
50. One who breaks a thing down into components or essential features
51. Russian word for "comrade"
52. Sault ___ Marie
55. What you hope your dental surgery will be after you get the novocaine
56. Like some wells
57. "___ of the D'Urbervilles" or ___  Trueheart of "Dick Tracy"
60. A measure of academic success (abbr.)
64. The biblical name for ancient Syria from which the language that Jesus spoke takes its name
65. The most theologically complex letter of St. Paul in the New Testament
66. Before, in poetry
67. ____ Island, is one of the many islands surrounding the Village of Tofino, British Columbia
74. Words indicating you understand what someone is saying (but don't necessarily agree)
75. Thomas ___German 19th century author of "Death in Venice" and "Buddenbrooks"
77. Concept embodying yin and yang
78. Suffix that turns the name of a direction (a noun like "west") into an adjective
80. Something you might call a dog (or a person) you don't like
81. The first three letters of Alanna's and my website "www.xxxcam.net". Hint: "cam" are Alanna's initials. So the letters xxx stand for must be...
82. Short name for an Australian animal with a pouch
84. The opposite of a success
86. Delaware (abbr.)