OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

1. Postulates 8. Lead, e.g. 17. Kind of industry 18. Disruptions 19. Extraction process 20. Swopped 21. Slaw or fries 23. Least interesting 24. Sow again 26. Flanders of Springfield 27. Bring to bear 30. Be sorry 33. Cardinal 35. Garbage 37. Frigid 38. Swap magazines 41. Need a bath badly 42. “Ain’t ___ Sweet” 43. Diminish 45. Bumpkin 47. “South Park” setting 49. Score book 53. Pastrami purveyor 54. Corkwood 55. “It Must Be ___” 56. Bust 59. Cat cries 61. Locale 62. Decree 64. Farm pen 65. Reddish brown 67. Cap 68. Car ad abbr. 71. Final transport 73. Bondsman 76. Yacht races 80. Close follower 83. Non-Jewish 84. Personified 85. Burn up 86. Tapes 87. Sound systems 1. Air force heroes 2. Arias, usually 3. Fastener 4. Pronounced 5. Iron ___ 6. Selfish one 7. Brains 8. Sticker 9. Acted like 10. Cut off 11. Chilling 12. Got by 13. Brinks 14. Molière play 15. Bass, for one 16. “Acid” 22. Till now 25. Expunge 28. Ed.’s request 29. Wapiti 30. Computer architecture acronym 31. Canyon sound 32. Zest 34. Coif 36. At liberty 38. Spokes 39. Seed coverings 40. Records 43. “___ you nuts?” 44. Bee ___ 46. Kind of strap 48. Chances 49. Attorney 50. Drive-___ 51. Class 52. Oil source 54. Not just one 56. Furrow 57. Alias 58. Poetic beats 60. Word in a simile 61. Cohort 63. Asylum seeker 65. Silvery 66. Shylock’s interest 69. Nursery item 70. Reached 72. Patronage 74. “Ah, me!” 75. Network 77. Food sticker 78. ___-ran 79. Attends 80. Behavioral quirk 81. Santa ___ 82. Low-___