The Standard (St. Catharines)

Saturday crossword

- By Don Gagliardo and C.C. Burnikel

First Things First Across

1 Pocket for falafel

5 Crossing sign?

9 Some old notebooks

13 Came up short

17 USNA part: Abbr.

18 Snuck

19 Eponymous store founder

20 Gulf State native 21 Willie Mays won 12 in 12 consecutiv­e years

24 Brake components 25 “More!”

26 Left hanging

27 John Wayne types

28 In the offing

30 “99 Luftballon­s” singer 31 Org. created in a 1949 sports merger

33 Lyft offer

34 German exclamatio­n 37 Pitt of “The Big Short” 39 “Mad Men” actress 42 Glasgow’s river 44 Vineyard grape 46 Decorative metalwork 47 “And there you have it!” 48 “No worries”

49 Kept out of sight 50 Brewery named for a Dutch river

53 Stonehenge worshiper 55 Brahms’ “Variations on a __ of Paganini”

57 Putin’s former org. 58 Wish Tree artist 59 Canada’s most populous province

61 Pot growth from overwateri­ng

64 Sonata finale, perhaps 66 “I __ differ”

68 Certain group leader 70 Hunter with a belt

71 Von Trapp girl who sings “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” with Rolf

72 Eye twinkle

73 Enable

75 Subject for Keats

76 “__ Kapital”

78 Capri or Elba, locally 80 Jack in the deck 82 Settles, as a debt

84 GI bill?

86 Stout quantities

88 Enter the pool, in a way 90 Exotic vacation, maybe 92 Praline nut

93 Ed with Emmys

94 Early ‘60s group that included John Glenn

97 Cherry-pick

99 Sound near a “Beware of Dog” sign

100 Dog attractor

101 East, to Goethe

102 Shelter chorus

104 Kite trailer

106 Philly cagers

108 Hotel convenienc­e

111 Heir and heiress

115 Way to step

116 1990 movie with a muscular teacher

118 Like acid in some disinfecta­nts

119 Fascinated by

120 Citrus hybrids

121 James of jazz

122 Tech gadget review site 123 Trade org.

124 Island in a computer game

125 Roulette bet

Down

1 Printer output

2 Tapped image

3 It’s 1 on the Mohs scale 4 Accessory

5 Expert

6 Big name in denim 7 Home to the first collegiate business sch.

8 Groan elicitor

9 1967 Spencer Davis Group hit

10 Stinging rebuke

11 Pioneering fast food name

12 Part of TBS: Abbr.

13 Fraternity O’s

14 “Rip Van Winkle” author

15 Protect from hackers, hopefully

16 Insults

18 Golf-friendly forecast 20 __ Mae: Whoopi’s “Ghost” role

22 Diving bird

23 Succeed in

27 Whirlpool brand

29 Totally absorbed

32 Push-up top

34 Take the stage

35 Garbed

36 Component of hair bleach

38 Purify, as whiskey 40 Reuters rival

41 Fullback on the NFL’s 1960s All-Decade Team 43 Unnerves

45 Pessimist’s words 48 Wyo. neighbor 49 Captain’s post

51 Inner: Pref. 52 Minnesota’s state bird 54 “See?!”

56 Polite addresses 57 Stay fresh

60 Cleaning cloths 62 Language that gave us “galore”

63 Annual fact book 65 Daphnis and Echo, e.g. 66 Fuzzy image

67 Its legislatur­e is the Oireachtas

69 Hard rain?

74 Signs off on

77 Colt .45s, since 1965

79 Venue for free discussion

81 Constantly

83 Sanction, as a college 84 London trash cans 85 Prospector’s target 87 Letter-shaped bolt holder 89 __ on the side of caution 91 Cries of dismay

92 As such

93 Tea party attendee 94 Inlaid design

95 Rival of Tesla

96 __ Trophy: annual PGA honor for lowest scoring average 98 Doesn’t fade

103 Yielding to gravity 105 Tablecloth material 107 DVR button

109 Farm swarm 110 Besties 112 Numerical prefix 113 “Moi?” 114 Go toe-to-toe 116 Korean carmaker 117 Slowing, to an orch.

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