OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS

1. Cook, as clams 5. Bar offering 10. Hullabaloo 15. Letter in Greek alphabet 16. Band performance 18. ___ Piper 19. Sing the praises of 20. Freddy Krueger’s street 22. ___ sauce 24. Pa’s partner 25. Radio band 26. Losing come-out roll in craps 27. Old name for Tokyo 28. “Up, up, and ___!” 30. Engine speed, for short 32. ‘Monopoly’ square 33. Like Beethoven 35. “Indeed!” 37. Big laugh 39. Word before only 40. United states of america 41. Be off base 43. Gift-tag word 44. Court call 46. Bit of sweat 47. “Step on __!” 48. “Who cares?” 49. Chinese dollar 52. Comrade in arms 53. Part of the verb “to be” 54. Unfair? 55. Country club figure 56. Pairs 57. __ or about 58. Boosts 59. Dampens 60. Bigheadedness 61. Type of pine 62. Charges 63. Coif 65. Guy Fawkes Day mo. 66. Handed-down history 67. “Touched by __ Angel” 68. A Bobbsey twin 70. Descartes’s “therefore” 72. Big game

DOWN

1. Step on the gas 2. Marks in Spanish class 3. “Life ___ We Know It” 4. ___ Boogie 6. On a higher level 7. Actor Alastair 8. Try, as a case 9. Ego counterpart 10. Alter, in a way 11. Plow puller 12. “Beetle Bailey” pooch 13. “___ do you do?” 14. Detached 17. Facing 21. Bygone bird 23. Sweet potato 25. In the mood 29. Abominable snowmen 31. Study of verses 32. Colored like a certain hound 34. Senses 36. “___ so fast!” 38. Flyer 42. Bit of sunshine 45. Indian coin 46. Citrus with dark flesh 50. ___ and sciences 51. Votes against 52. Calendar abbr. 53. B& B 54. In shape 56. Cozy room 57. I approve, for short 58. Word before large 59. You and I 64. Beehive, e.g. 65. 007’s doctor foe 66. Like composition paper 69. “___ you kidding?” 71. Completes either