Toronto Star

SUNDAY CROSSWORD

TWO’S COMPANY: Featuring pairwise wordplay

- BY GAIL GRABOWSKI

ACROSS 1 The two of them 5 Pedometer button 10 Purchases 14 Stacks of stuff 19 Cadabra preceder 20 Prefix meaning “culture” 21 “Understood!” 22 Battery terminal 23 One way to get an etail

discount 25 Ag school 27 Maintain the same pace 28 Mauna __ (Hawaiian

peak) 30 Cardinals’ home: Abbr. 31 Water pitcher 32 Right, on a map 33 Physics Nobelist Niels 34 High-tech ID 36 Gas holder 38 Product hawked by Juan

Valdez 46 Cantina condiments 48 Tops of tubes 49 Crow (over) 50 Jacket part 51 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

architect 52 When Romeo meets Juliet 54 More devious 55 Tarzan transporta­tion 56 Recedes 58 Garbanzo, for one 59 Thread holder 60 Russian Revolution leader 61 Numismatic hobby 64 Stopped marching 65 Loopholes 66 Opposite of ‘neath 67 Uttered 68 Posh residences 71 Polite behavior 78 Fill with wonder 79 Makes angry 80 Vocalized 81 All the __ (neverthele­ss) 82 Started to sag 83 Out of practice 84 “Gotta turn you down” 85 Freight measure 86 State bordering BC 87 Ninny 88 Weather Channel

displays 90 Ledger entries 93 Perilous path 97 Source of coal 98 CPR expert 99 “Do __ others . . .” 100Big wheels, for short 102 Fishing-line mishap 105 Henri’s “here” 108 Boxing ref’s call 109 Paragraph portion 113 What a judge might order

repaid 116 Blarney Stone’s locale 118 Was helpful to 119 Jai __ 120 Cry of concession 121 Arbor Day planting 122 Takes a taste of 123 Smartphone message 124 __ acetate (organic

solvent) 125 Tools that leave dust DOWN 1 Support financiall­y 2 Woodwind instrument 3 Verifiable 4 Takes place 5 Takes a lease 6 “Blah, blah, blah” 7 Compare prices 8 Cutoff point 9 Figure-skating maneuver 10 Tummy soother 11 GI morale booster 12 Some evergreens 13 Splinter group 14 Sidekick 15 Covered with foliage 16 ‘20s movie mogul 17 Outer boundary 18 Palmistry practition­er 24 City near Kyoto 26 Junkyard arrival 29 Resistance measures 33 Bogart, in Casablanca 35 “What’s __ to like?” 36 Cardio-boxing regimen 37 Suspect’s story 39 Based on 8 40 Nanook of the North dwelling 41 Brave as __ 42 Christmas song 43 Barely visible 44 Bert’s PBS buddy 45 Edit 46 Risky biz 47 Wooden shoes 53 Cartoon collectibl­es 54 Prefix meaning “coil” 55 South African plains 57 Take a nap 59 Parts of mushrooms 60 Home in the wilderness 62 Restore to health 63 Warm and snug 64 Transporte­d by truck 67 Bubble source 68 Hogwarts curriculum 69 Brazilian novelist 70 Of warships and admirals 71 Computer networking

giant 72 Again and again 73 Amateur 74 Ill-humored 75 Sup wearing slippers 76 Struck down 77 Cravings 79 City bond, for short 83 Backwoodsy 87 Not well-lit 88 Chaucer pilgrim 89 Teleprompt­er 91 Out of ideas 92 Splits in two 94 Stowe villain 95 Makes the grade 96 In equal amounts 101 Spy ops’ acquisitio­n 102 “Shoo!” 103 Pinot __ (red wine) 104 Automaker based in

Bavaria 106 Layer of paint 107 Grand Bahama, for one 109 __ as (for example) 110 Romance novelist Roberts 111 Staff of stagehands 112 __ out a living 114 QB successes 115 Put a strain on 117 Ft. Erie’s locale

 ??  ??
 ??  ?? LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from Canada