CROSSWORD PUZZLE: LABOR CONTRACT(ION)S
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 GI’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’
____ 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-,
109- and 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-to-please
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” in 5x = x ÷ 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 as a), 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”