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SCI-FI SHOWDOWN
Stephen McCarthy/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 19
ACROSS
1 Goal for many a T.A.
4 There’s a Winter one in St.
Petersburg and a Summer
one in Beijing
10 Confront
16 QVC alternative
19 Grande preceder
20 Many a video-game player
has one
21 Hebrew name of God
22 Major N.Y.S.E. events
24 Vainglory
25 Good side in 70-Across
27 Reid of ‘‘Sharknado’’
28 Grade-school basics
30 Scoundrel
31 Points all around?
32 Celsius of the Celsius scale
33 Director Nicolas
35 Good cheer
37 People to pick from
38 Major role in 70-Across
41 Smartphone forerunners, in
brief
42 ‘‘____ kingdom come ... ’’
43 Big stretch
44 Bluish-gray shade
46 Mobile ____
48 Time might be shown on the
side of one
50 Score of 8, in golf slang
52 Events where one person’s
trash may be another per-
son’s treasure
56 Pull back (in)
59 Capital-B Belief
61 Family name on TV’s ‘‘Suc-
cession’’
62 Vote in favor
63 Prefi x with futurism
64 Outback off ering
65 Locale of the 2002 and 2022
World Cups
67 Long-term damage
68 Some copywriting awards
69 The volcano Emi Koussi is its
highest point
70 The better of two major sci-fi
fi lm franchises?
72 Climb (up)
73 Gives a bad hand?
74 ‘‘But ____ counting?’’
75 Gentle hill
76 Grams, by another name
77 Voice heard by 500 million
people
78 ____ Majesty
79 Not for moi?
80 Pump choice
82 Spot for a patch, perhaps
83 Begins to like
86 Regular at Citi Field
89 Small spot for a castaway
91 Ian McKellen, e.g.
92 Skin-care brand with an
accent over its last letter
94 Mens ____
95 Sends a Telegram, in brief?
97 Not looking good
99 Major role in 70-Across
102 Stop at the liquor store?
103 Comforting phrase
106 Newton of the Black Pan-
ther Party
107 ‘‘____ Darko’’ (2001 cult
fi lm)
109 Distend
110 Who wrote ‘‘April is the
cruellest month’’
113 Scratch-and-sniff page, e.g.
114 Dramatic accusation
115 Good side in 70-Across
118 Misfortune
119 Cousin of a skimmer
120 ____ One
121 ‘‘Do you mind?’’
122 Brown of HBO Max’s ‘‘Gossip
Girl’’ reboot
123 WaPo competitor
124 ‘‘There’s not much hope’’
125 Bumper attachments
126 Sazerac cocktail ingre-
dient
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1 Records in advance
2 Time for a shootout
3 Memorable quote from
70-Across
4 Apple device
5 Affi rms
6 Some college classes
7 ‘‘Thanks, but I already
____’’
8 Diet Coke doesn’t have a
single one: Abbr.
9 Wipes out
10 ‘‘The Clan of the Cave Bear’’
heroine
11 What’s raised in a ruckus
12 Waste of an election?
13 Confesses
14 Bad thing to be stuck in
15 On-line connection?
16 Arrive at, as a solution
17 Memorable quote from
70-Across
18 ‘‘Take your time’’
23 Audacious
26 A target for Target, say
29 It might be a shocker
31 ‘‘The Simpsons’’ character
33 Social media star Addison
34 Partner of one
36 French skin-care and cosmet-
ics giant
38 ____ teeth (proverbial
rarity)
39 Noble title
40 Follower of black or special
44 Slanders
45 Director Waititi
47 Ones involved in a transac-
tion
49 Nutty confections
51 So-called Breakfast of
Champions
53 They might end on a high
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54 Sound of a jaguar
55 Let out, in a way
57 Some contents of golf bags
58 Needing to butt out
60 Potato or pea preparer
64 Albert who developed a polio
vaccine
66 Leaves in a huff , with ‘‘off ’’
67 Body part that precedes
‘‘band’’
68 Innocent
69 One of the Prairie provinces:
Abbr.
71 ‘‘It’s a ____!’’
72 Show of scorn
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74 Question of confusion or
disgust
79 Sound of a Jaguar
81 Reassuring words
83 ‘‘____ Hiring’’ (business
sign)
84 Kind of card
85 The ‘‘quail’’ in Beethoven’s
‘‘Pastoral’’ Symphony
87 By plane, say
88 Obvious untruth
90 Q preceder?
93 Aloof
95 ‘‘Seems so’’
96 Like the inside of a lava cake
98 Devices in atomic clocks
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100 Converse, e.g.
101 Rank
102 Common waiting-room
viewing
104 Jeer
105 Shock treatment, for short
107 Slobber
108 Noises that come from pens
111 ‘‘Girls’’ creator Dunham
112 Carded, informally
113 Tabbouleh go-with
115 ‘‘Enough already!’’
116 Suffi x in organic chemistry
117 Quirk
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