OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER
ACROSS
1. Ancient Egyptian embalmed body 5. Tree that yields a chocolate substitute 10. Assignments 15. Allowing connection 16. Go off course nautically 18. Monkees’ singer, _____ Jones 19. Apply, as pressure 20. Saturn’s wife, in myth 22. Is no longer 24. You and I 25. Bell or Barker 26. Bread in many deli sandwiches 27. Catch a few Z’s 28. Christie’s “Death on the ___” 30. Knotted-pile Scandinavian rug 32. Jewel “You Were Meant for __” 33. When repeated, a 1997 Jim Carrey comedy 35. One learning the ropes 37. “Green Gables” girl 39. Otherwise 40. Ego counterpart 41. Barely make, with “out” 43. “The Hobbit: __ Unexpected Journey”; 2012 film 44. Diamond 46. Blender sound 47. “Who cares?” 48. “__ as I say …” 49. Margarine, basically 52. ___ moss 53. Exist 54. Gloomy atmosphere 55. It makes a splashy entrance 56. Gardener’s purchase 57. Honolulu locale 58. Reduce, as expenses 59. Things worn 60. Start and end of the Three Musketeers’ motto 61. “I” affliction? 62. Plenty of sites for builders 63. ___ bat; ready to swing 65. Bachelor’s last words 66. “Men always hate most what they ___ most”: Mencken 67. “The coast __ clear” 68. Value-added service, abbr. 70. “The very ___!” 72. Lays down the lawn
DOWN
1. Like a romantic evening, maybe 2. Pro bono 3. Belonging to me 4. Sign of boredom 6. Zoologist Fossey 7. ___ talent (natural skill) 8. Walkie-talkie word 9. Next to 10. Low-tech missile 11. Domestic bovine 12. Bone-dry 13. Give it a whirl 14. Animal in a roundup 17. One taking orders 21. Masseur’s workplace, maybe 23. Mr. Stallone, for short 25. Drain cover 29. Clear, as a disk 31. Rigging support 32. Kind of pad 34. Kind of center 36. “Walking on Thin Ice” singer 38. “Forget it!” 42. Do-it-yourselfer’s purchase 45. Become waterlogged 46. Having the benefit of careful counsel 50. Canal sites 51. Venus or Mars 52. Afghan coin 53. Famous 54. ___ de deux 56. Good, in the ‘hood 57. That man 58. Thomas Magnum was this 59. ‘Monopoly’ square 64. 1992 Robin Williams movie 65. A kind of crowd 66. First name of singers Costello and Presley 69. Brouhaha 71. “Life ___ We Know It”