OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS

1. Hardly the macho type 5. ___ and bounds 10. Play the siren 15. Laugh-a-minute 16. Breakfast staple 17. Bronchial rattle 18. Give the vote to 20. Movement in some Bach suites 21. Attack, with “into” 22. Words said at an altar 23. Flinch or cringe 25. Strip 28. “Beat it!” 30. Barely get, with “out” 31. Working animal 35. Teen affliction 37. Blue Jays mascot 38. Mountain out of a molehill 39. 40 days and 40 nights event 42. Peripherals 45. Stopping point 48. Nigerian language 49. Foreword, for short 50. Donnybrook 52. To charge with a crime 53. Cursing 54. Percussion instrument 56. Big galoots 57. Information technology 58. “This means ___!” 60. Improve, as one’s skills 61. Dog bowl bits 62. Barely gets, with “out”

DOWN

1. “___ Cried” (1962 hit) 2. Charged particles 3. Chesterfield, e.g. 4. Absolute 5. Fond du ___, Wis. 6. High standards 7. In the center of 8. Mexican coins 9. Freelancer’s enc. 11. Ashtabula’s lake 12. Something attractive 13. Bass-playing move 14. Subdued chuckle 16. __ or about 19. Warm welcomes 20. Hot Swedish wine beverage 23. Year-end reward, maybe 24. Superfood 26. A la ___ (dessert choice) 27. Like some humor 29. Make sacred 32. An embarrassing problem to face? 33. Grooves on a coin’s edge 34. Prepare for publication 36. Home for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 40. All ___ 41. Hidden valley 43. Chanteuse 44. It can cause quite a bang 46. Legendary Muhammad 47. Chicken order 50. Pa’s partner 51. Wrinkly fruit 55. Bulwark 59. Something upped, to gamblers 60. Clod chopper