SUNDAY CROSSWORD RE PAIRS: The game is afoot
1 Gas-pedal neighbor 6 Tablet downloads 10 Explosive sound 13 Make up (for) 18 Suez Canal ship 19 Fully stretched 20 Leave speechless 21 Packaging strings 22 Southeastern vipers 25 Least common 26 Overflow (over) 27 Whole number 28 “__ my case” 29 2014 film about Dr. King 31 Rejections 33 Flow slowly 34 Long, narrow apartments 39 Four Corners state 43 Oscar winner as Loretta 46 Escalates 47 Tomato, technically 48 City near Phoenix 49 Ceremonial vow 50 Brazilian dances 53 Ignore the “Keep Out” sign 55 Scrammed 57 Young lady 58 Mexican money 61 Spot of land 62 Sushi bar order 64 Subtle glow 65 Shade tree 67 Home for hogs 68 Campaigners’ changes of
mind 72 Minister to 75 Wine descriptor 76 Subside 77 Honey mustard alternative 80 Field of vision 82 Whittle down 83 Give up formally 84 Pretext 86 Flea, to a dog 89 Brit’s farewell 91 Crude metal 92 Bana of 93 Christmas carols 96 __ de toilette 97 Magnate 99 Thin part of a violin 100By-products of short
circuits 104 Bills in a box 106 “Steady as __ goes” 107 Train terminal 109 Full-grown 111 Immune-system stimulus 115 Herbal drinks 118 Decorative grating 119 Political convention
creations 122 “You’ve got a deal!” 123 MPG monitor 124 Artist Cézanne 125 Big name in printers 126 The art of 128 Across 127 Home for hogs 128 Verse forms 129 Calendar rows DOWN 1 Gift-box toppers 2 Iranian money 3 Choir voices 4 Things worth saving 5 Botch it 6 Discordant-sounding 7 Summit goal 8 Brownish purple 9 Doe’s mate 10 Form twosomes 11 Have title to 12 Director Anderson 13 On top of things 14 Bicyclists’ accessories 15 Small bills 16 Home for hawks 17 DC clock setting 21 Adriatic port 23 Rent character 24 Put in the mail 30 Sets (down) 32 Camera type, for short 33 Rouse to action 35 Explanatory heading 36 October birthstone 37 Wild equine 38 Prefix for focus 40 Blue-winged ducks 41 Useful quality 42 Impetuous 43 Part of RSVP 44 Midmonth day 45 Den furniture 51 Mentally quick 52 Closely resemble 54 Foolish ones 56 Fraction of a fl. oz. 58 Vital sign 59 Niagara Falls feeder 60 Deplete 63 Gardening gear 64 Way out there 65 Shake off 66 Ne’er-do-well 69 Roll-call vote 70 Make available 71 Soup sample 72 Rockies resort 73 Words of comfort 74 Greek column style 78 Oodles 79 Romance novelist Roberts 81 Grand Canyon beasts 82 Orange exterior 83 Cartoonist Addams 85 Cash on Honshu 87 On the guest list 88 Implement 89 Mediocre mark 90 Ladder rung 94 PD officers 95 Dry as a desert 98 Tritium, to hydrogen 101 Classy guy 102 Lofty goals 103 Canterbury’s county 105 Backstreet 108 Briefly stated 109 Affleck film of 2012 110 Very urgent 112 Editorial erratum 113 Galaxy Tab alternative 114 Scrapbooking supply 116 Unrestrainedly 117 Payroll IDs 118 Disruption 119 Get-up-and-go 120 Large primate 121 Scarcely any
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