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 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-,

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 = 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 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 116Down

123 Inits. before many state names 124 Jesus Christ, with “the”