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Crossword: Come Fly With Me

Here are the theme-related clues to this week's (very clever!) Sunday New York Times crossword.

ACROSS

5. U.K. counterespionage agcy.
13 July holiday, with "the"
30 Start of instructions for what to do when this puzzle is done
48 With 67- and 97-Across, second part of the instructions
67 See 48-Across
78 Need for the winner of a Wimbledon men's match
83 It follows the initial part of a procedure
97 See 48-Across
109 Staples of early education
113 How one must win in Ping-Pong
127 Common hockey power play
138 Final part of instructions
149 Slay somebody

DOWN
7 Costing a nickel
10 "Cyclops" feature
13 Structure of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard"
66 File on an iPod
73 1940s conflict: Abbr.
109 N.Y.C. time when it's midnight in L.A.
114 Like a team that's ahead by a safety
127 Highest-rated, as a hotel
128 Like the majority of interestate highways
141 In accord (with)

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i like this part of the blog:".under its thin veneer of toga-and-sandal skin-flick is a work of first-rate scholarship." is very good




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