TWO-BY-TWO
Matthew Stock works for a math-education nonprofit in East St. Louis, Ill. Chandi Deitmer, of Cambridge, Mass., is a social worker in the fields of psychiatry and geriatrics. Matthew was making a themeless puzzle a few years ago, and his constructing soft
ACROSS
1 Some old PCs
5 Experience
financial ruin
11 Many files in a
Downloads folder 15 Talk ____
19 1990s sitcom starring Tia and Tamera Mowry
22 Beethoven’s “Ah!
perfido,” for one 23 Southwest people known for their dry farming 24 Grand Prix city
25 Fulminate
26 Portent
27 Start a web
session
28 Tribute
30 Many zoomers
31 Gush (over)
33 Red lightsaber
wielder
36 Singular praise
37 ____ Xtra (soft
drink)
38 Soul: Sp.
39 Make it so there’s
snow way out?
41 1963 hit for the
Kingsmen
45 It gets the show
on the road
48 Nothing but a
number, it’s said 49 Call from an oldtime paperboy
50 Essayist Susan
51 Attraction, so to
speak, with “the” 53 Org. often
impersonated by phone scammers 54 Time for a visit from Ong Tao, the “Kitchen God”
55 Slip up
56 Yellowstone sight 58 [Gulp!]
59 House of
Commons reps 61 ____ gratia (in all
kindness: Lat.)
62 Rush order
64 Like some
questions
66 Romanov V.I.P.,
once
68 Charlotte N.B.A.
player 70 “... you get the
point”
74 “Well, lookie
here!”
75 Quaint exclamation of
dismay
78 Fee payer, often 79 Thin pancakes in
Indian cuisine
80 Laborer of old
84 Dan of “Schitt’s
Creek”
85 To the ____
power
86 Time for March
madness?
88 Ultimate fighting
inits.
90 Certain summer
baby
91 “There you ____!” 92 Big tower, for
short?
94 Years and years 95 Shock
97 Sings, in a way 101 When you should
leave, for short 103 Piece of rollerderby equipment Classic-joke start High five at the Olympics? Unchanged
Yea or nay
Power source Barfly’s flier Added to a thread, say
El ____ of the Spanish Renaissance “Amscray!” Egomaniac’s thought
Noted character with objectsubject-verb syntax
Dangerous part of a road on which to pass Extroverts
Tie down
Best-picture winner of 2012 Basketball feat suggested by this puzzle’s pairs of theme answers, informally 104 105
107 108 109 111 112
113
115 117
119
120
121 127
128
129 130 1040 figs. 131 Love of
languages? 132 In on
133 Add (on)
DOWN 1 Philosophy
2 H.S. class in the same department as chem
3 Yahoo
alternative
4 Trusty to the end 5 Pirate’s booze
6 One way to learn 7 Like the Six
Million Dollar Man 8 “Anchors
Aweigh” grp.
9 Amtrak stop:
Abbr.
10 Lab worker
11 Logical
conundrum
12 Prolong
13 Numismatic
grade
14 Plopped (down) 15 Setting for many
a diorama
16 Shortcut missing from newer smartphones
17 Lead
18 Affixes
20 Subject of
interest, in brief
21 Chess piece whose name is derived from the Persian for “chariot”
29 Cocktails made
with ginger beer, informally
30 Pieces in the game Bananagrams
31 Flights connect
them
32 All-encompassing
Egyptian deity
34 Aromatic
beverage
35 Perch for the selfimportant
37 Gemstone cut
named for a fruit 38 Baffled
40 Very bright
42 Eye piece 43 Nobelist JoliotCurie
44 Really get to
46 Sweetie
47 Weep in an unflattering way, in modern lingo 52 Lugs
57 Hold on to
58 Lunchtime
estimate
59 Computer
shortcuts
60 Slices and dices,
say
61 Scottish hillsides 63 Annoying
65 Walk with
swagger
67 It might get swiped in a college dining hall 68 Football trophy
name
69 Where some replacements take place, in brief
71 Third column on
a calendar: Abbr. 72 Eaglet’s hatching
spot
73 Certain public
transport
75 Sound from a
jalopy
76 Played again
77 Words from an
ex-lover
81 Go by
82 Put down again 83 Origami steps
85 Bread in Indian
cuisine
87 One taking action 89 Certain close
relative
92 Invite out for
93 1990s tennis star
Huber
94 Off-kilter
96 “Later!”
98 Green vehicles
99 Fried plantain dish of Puerto Rico
100 Country named for its geographic location
102 It makes you you 103 Lobbyists’ area in
D.C.
No. 0515
106 Radiator cover 110 “Die Hard”
squad, in brief 112 Miss ____, famed dial-apsychic
113 Businesses that see an uptick after New Year’s 114 Aussie hoppers 115 Kernel of an idea 116 “Ouch, ouch,
ouch!”
118 High style
120 Barnyard bleat 122 “Mais ____!” (“But
of course!”)
123 “Cyberchase”
channel
124 Org. whose
members stay in their lanes
125 Business name
ender
126 “Yipe!”
Answer To Last Week’s Puzzle: