OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS

1. Penny pincher 7. Signal code 12. Islands dish 15. Highway dividers 17. “Dang!” 18. Cried 19. Certain exams 20. Devout 22. Canonical hour 23. Handel oratorio 25. Advanced degree? 27. Galley tool 29. Uralic language 32. Family dog, for short 34. Puget Sound city 36. “The Catcher in the ___” 37. Carpenter’s machine 38. Biology lab supply 39. Pepsi, e.g. 42. ___-tzu 44. Derisive cry 45. Good examples 48. With freedom of tempo 50. Land on Lake Victoria 51. Songs 53. Off-white shade 55. Simmered 58. Howard of “Happy Days”

59. Toni Morrison’s “___ Baby” 61. Crude group? 62. Bind 63. Less cordial 64. Dolly, for one 66. Prayer 68. Murmur 69. Diplomat 73. Kind of shot 75. “Absolutely!” 76. “I had no ___!” 79. ‘94 Beck hit 80. Musical triad 82. Block 85. “___ do” 86. Gulf war missile 87. Befitting 89. Ottoman governor 90. Lathered 91. Porridges in a nursery rhyme

DOWN

1. “Follow me!” 2. “And I Love ___” 3. ___ cheese 4. Be bedridden 5. Footnote word in Latin 6. ___ or about 8. Altar avowal 9. Dilapidated 10. Squanderer 11. Word before large 12. Penalty boxes 13. Collapsible topper 14. “___ De-Lovely” 16. Fabricated 18. Court 21. 1969 Peace Prize grp. 24. Boa 26. Greeting 28. Kind of palm 29. Relinquish 30. Caspian feeder 31. Storm warnings 33. Obligated 34. ___ acid (baking powder ingredient) 35. Slanderously 40. “That’s ___ ...” 41. Book part 43. Three before seven 46. “Om,” e.g. 47. Berth place 49. Rouse 52. “Rocks” 54. Move on 56. Some deer 57. Epic poem 60. “Cheers” character 65. Do the dishes 67. Band aid? 70. Sinatra’s ‘__ Way’ 71. “Dear” one 72. Annexes 74. Do goo 77. Singer Redding 78. Units of work 79. Ballot abbr. 81. Poem of praise 83. Capt.’s prediction 84. GPS reading 86. “Who cares?” 88. Astir