Observer Crossword
NAME TRICKS
ACROSS
1 Theda of the
silents
5 Not live
10 A cluster
15 Med. course 19 Iowa State locale 20 Nicholas Gage
memoir 21 “Foreign Affairs”
author Alison 22 Hawaiian port 23 Actor’s building
grounder 26 Number of epic-theme poems 27 Queen before
Sophia 28 Leftovers dish 29 Call a halt
30 Ankle
32 Out of debt 34 Chisel, e.g. 35 Islamic sect 36 Sum tpta;: abbr. 37 She made pigs of
men
38 Augur
40 Moral slip 43 Director’s police
weapons? 45 Golfer’s gadget 47 Part of Q.E.D. 48 Quote
49 Times around 50 Letters from
Greece
51 Trait carrier 52 Suffragist’s
revolving tray? 56 Brittany port
57 Jet Blue or United 59 Praying figure 60 Take a deep one 61 Grain-related term 62 Union unit 63 Corporate ladder
action 64 Corroborate 66 Actor/WW II
veteran Murphy 67 Incipient American
Beauty
70 18th century
patriot Silas 71 Singer’s free-for-all?
74 Sash for Cio-Cio-San
75 River at Rennes 76 Byzantine town 77 Before trip or
house
78 Anna who played
Nana
79 Sesame in Hindi 80 Flimsily
constructed actor? 84 Rocket stage 85 Speech problem 87 Man-made fabric 88 Fair grade 89 Having mystical
inscription 90 Percussion
instruments 91 “Dark ___”: occult
TV series
95 Mite or tick 97 Cherubini opera 98 Leave out
99 One way to stand 100 Extinct big bird 101 Recently arrived
singer?
105 Fulda feeder 106 Concur
107 South African
village
108 Turgenev’s
birthplace
109 Space acronym 110 Stiff wind, old
style
111 Unimpressive 112 Facility
DOWN
1 Cotton units
2 Acid type
3 Courtly
4 ___ Wednesday 5 Leaseholder 6 Heeling
7 Phnom ___,
Cambodia
8 MIT grad
9 Reject 10 Butcher’s tool 11 Academy Award
winner Rainer 12 Impel
13 Gustav ___: German physicist, 1869–1957 14 Makes uneasy 15 1924–1967 Actor
Brian 16 Checks-at-the-start comedian? 17 Matty, Felipe, or
Moises
18 Turn’s partner 24 Kind of song or
park
25 Third csanonical
hour
31 Aardvark’s diet 33 Immense
34 Clls with lashing
movement 35 Comic Sales 37 Part of NYC 38 Factory
39 18th cent.
religious system 40 Swan lady
41 Wild water buffalo 42 Handy talk-show
host?
43 Shrivel
44 Genetic replica 46 “OT” heroine: abr. 48 “Cave ___”: L. 50 ___ de menthe 52 Petrol measure 53 Will ___: won’t
work
54 Educate 55 Despised
56 Lively 58 1937–2005 singer
Frankie
60 “___ sweat and
tears”
62 1900’s singer Yma 63 Zagreb native 64 Miner’s way in 65 Cat genus
66 “___ Is Born” 68 Over, in Bonn 69 DeLaurentis 71 Spherical 72 Ceertain soft
cheeses
73 Rock’s partner 76 “. . . and thy want as an ___”: Proverbs
78 Source of growth 80 It’s before bus 81 More robust 82 Scottish hillsides 83 Empties the
suitcase
84 Ranch in “Giant”
(1956)
86 Roman Eos
88 Fall forecast
90 A giggle
91 Slander
92 Met offering 93 Zeta-Jones’
birthplace 94 Manner
95 Indian Ocean gulf 96 Musical finale 97 Engs.
98 “House” actor
Epps
102 In the past
103 Spanish pelf 104 ___ the line