Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

LABOR CONTRACT(ION)S

- edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 English guy

5 Partner in indecision with 5-Down 8 Alternativ­e to pavement 14 What leads many people to say, “Let’s face it”? 19 Spanish greeting

20 G.I.’s address 21 California’s motto

22 Like a truck descending a steep hill

23 Sources of Manchego cheese 24 How polka bands get their start?

27 Org. with an annual Help a Horse Day

29 Big suit

30 Harvard University Press’s ____ Classical Library 31 Hundredths: Abbr. 32 Pontiff’s gold treasure? 37 Performed creditably 39 Word with store or sign 40 Value

43 Like powwows 46 Register things

48 Star bursts

49 Summer hat 50 Enthrones

53 Query about the Freedom Caucus or Berniecrat­s? 56 Noted beauty-contest loser 57 Most remote of the Near Islands

59 Irish port, county or bay 60 “Shame!”

61 Sushi eel 63 Improvised

67 Some refuges

69 Figure in Jewish folklore 70 Like some factories … or, in a different sense, like 90-, 109and 119-Across (but not 24-, 32- and 53-Across)? 73 Potentiall­y unhelpful answer to “Who’s there?” 77 Speed

79 The 21st Amendment, e.g. 80 Biblical spy

81 Wonder

84 Dutch cheese

87 Pas sans 89 Awestruck 90 Nickname for a hard-toplease girl? 95 Room to maneuver

97 Certifiabl­e, so to speak

98 Bygone office position

99 Unctuousne­ss

101 White part of pearly whites

102 Offshore sight, maybe

104 Vexes

107 Arabic name that sounds like

a polite affirmativ­e

109 Data maintained by

competitiv­e dentists?

112 Envelope abbr.

114 That’s right!

117 Italian article

118 Intentiona­lly lost

119 Speakers’ searches for just

the right words?

125 Halliburto­n of the Halliburto­n

Company

126 Buckwheat cereal

127 Restroom sign

128 Antidiscri­minatory abbr.

129 Iago or Othello

130 It notably has two bridges

131 Bleachers

132 “x”in5x=x2÷2

133 Tit for tat?

DOWN

1 Shoddy

2 “Alas!”

3 War-torn Syrian city

4 Philosophi­cal argument for belief in God

5 Partner in indecision with 5-Across

6 Connoisseu­r of food and drink

7 One might be found near a cloverleaf

8 Modern prefix with tag

9 Series

10 Word with you but not me

11 Main ingredient in Wiener schnitzel 12 Kitchenwar­e brand

13 Like corsets

14 Russian “peace” 15 Terminus

16 Online enticement 17 Codger

18 Botanical bristles 25 Evidence left by a moth 26 Dead reckoning?

28 ____ Alcorn, creator of Pong 33 Wood for a raft 34 “And who ____?”

35 Texter’s transition

36 St. Petersburg’s river

38 Unduly harsh

41 Has a 42-Down

42 See 41-Down

44 ____ Lee, singer with the 2011

No. 1 album “Mission Bell”

45 All limbs

47 Audit a class, say

50 Move slowly (along)

51 City near the Sierras

52 What comes before “B”?

54 Islamic mystic

55 Tinker (with)

58 Align

62 Doesn’t really see

64 Gift-tag word

65 Lansing-to-Flint dir. 66 Brief swim

68 Protective sorts in showbiz

71 Fervor

72 Some runoff sites

74 BBQ side

75 What can go before watt

76 Rare success story from the

dot-com bubble

78 More pulchritud­inous

81 Beau’s girl

82 ____-Dixie (grocery chain)

83 It’s not as simple asa),b),c)

85 “Go ahead!”

86 Italian wine city

88 Trolley sound

91 Bee, e.g.

92 Introvert’s focus

93 Cross inscriptio­n

94 Seethe 96 Max at the MoMA

100 Sea cow

103 Need for a model

105 Flowering herb also known as

devil’s nettle

106 Woman’s name that means

“star”

108 Banisters

110 Not loose, as a diamond

111 4-0 series, say

112 Some refuges

113 Like panang curry

115 “Git!”

116 “I did it!”

120 It fits in a lock

121 Architect Maya

122 Mathematic­ian’s 116-Down

123 Inits. before many state

names

124 Jesus Christ, with “the”

 ?? PUZZLE BY DAVID ALFRED BYWATERS 12/30/2018 ??
PUZZLE BY DAVID ALFRED BYWATERS 12/30/2018

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