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    « Weekly Set Puzzle Challenge: August 23 | Main | Sunday Salon and the secret of life »

    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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