The Standard (St. Catharines)

Saturday crossword

Plush Material

- BY MATT MCKINLEY

Across

1 “I’m waiting ... “

7 “Volunteers?”

13 Bobbing refuse

20 Word with man or dope

21 Like typical laundromat­s

22 Affluent San Diego community

23 Tolerate shrubland?

25 Crowd-drawing bars

26 Ancient queen, familiarly

27 Pot for paella

28 Sicilian six

29 Sports figure

30 Sewer needs

34 Hates

37 MLB set a season record for them in 2017

38 Times to call, in ads 39 Markers

41 Submerged threat 42 Office supply quantity 44 Term in wrestling or bowling

45 .3 rings?

48 Doctor’s orders 51 Receiver of many letters 53 Actress Kathryn 54 Pocket breads

56 BCS org.

57 Franklin’s 1936 opponent

59 Spanish coin

61 Local pic shower

62 Distress signal?

63 One who’s learned

67 Pres. after USG

68 Langley org.

69 Online exchange, briefly

70 Troon turndowns

71 Texas team’s fair exhibit?

75 Basie’s “__’Clock Jump” 76 Director DuVernay 77 Actor Vigoda

78 Bard’s dusk

79 Lumber mill workers 81 BOLO target

83 It can be hammered out 85 Runway adornment 87 “__ me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire”: Burns

88 London’s __ Modern 89 Some Deco works

91 Sea, with “the” 93 Maestro Georg 97 Different

99 Loyalty from a farm bird?

102 Overtake in a race, in a way

103 Grammy winner Jason

105 Schoolmarm­ish

106 One given to forward looks

107 Similar

108 East Lansing sch.

110 “How clever of you!”

113 Office supplies, or, minus a letter, a supplier of them

115 Nashville attraction

117 Spanish 116-Down

118 Howard’s wife, to the Fonz

120 Letters before a view

121 Half of nothing new?

123 Successful religious conversion?

128 Peru neighbor

129 “The Wind in the Willows” croaker

130 Shamed

131 Saw-toothed

132 Blouse partners

133 Already-seen fare

Down

1 “’__ some visitor,’ I muttered ... “: Poe

2 __ farm

3 TV awareness-raiser 4 Colors

5 Confuse

6 Teenage Russian emperor (1727-1730)

7 Pitching staff leader 8 Acronymic NYC neighborho­od

9 Give in

10 Ready

11 “Shh!”

12 N.T. book

13 Paper under a wiper 14 Man-made Georgia lake 15 Screwdrive­r parts, for short

16 Best

17 Apparatus that breeds laziness?

18 Union setting

19 Spinnaker holders

24 Writer __ de Balzac

28 Tortilla treat

30 Livens (up)

31 Nike competitor

32 N.C. neighbor

33 Bolivian capital

35 Red Square honoree

36 __ roles

40 Literally, “under city”

43 Ponte Vecchio’s river

45 See the bet

46 __-Croatian

47 They’re hard to break

49 Whine

50 Decision makers have them

52 New Mexico art hub

55 Witch enemy of Popeye

58 False front

60 “Without a doubt”

63 Acknowledg­e the brass

64 Admonition 65 Sound from a dying fire? 66 Stack seen on-screen 72 Approached 73 Small and glittering, like eyes 74 Beginnings 75 Court cry 80 Something made on a star? 82 Jury member 84 Country singer Gibbs 86 Glass-raised word 90 Accident investigat­ion clue 92 __ license 94 Sommer of “The Prize” 95 Animal house

96 Hosp. personnel 98 Headed up 100 Academic retirees 101 Ore carrier 104 Gung-ho type 107 10-time Gold Glove winner Roberto

108 Early receiver of tablets 109 __ bar 111 Netman Agassi 112 Fur tycoon 114 Suffix with xeno116 English 117-Across 119 Series of 69-Across 122 “Ghost” psychic __ Mae Brown 123 Radio settings

124 Reasons for some sportscast split screens 125 Big Ten sch.

126 Novelist Deighton 127 Picks out of a mug book

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