OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS 1. Enthusiastic enjoyment 5. Buccaneers’ home 10. Big commotions 15. Word before large 16. Stick in the water 18. Put in stitches 19. Right on the money 20. ___ Clemente 22. Café alternative 24. “When pigs fly!” 25. “Let it __” 26. Fold, spindle or mutilate 27. “___ will be done” 28. Mass number 30. Cone bearer 32. Batting 33. 15-ball cluster 35. Boris Godunov, for one 37. “___ as good a time as any” 39. Messaging format 40. Linear unit 41. Baseball bat wood 43. “__ as I say ...” 44. Steve Urkel type 46. Be itinerant 47. Tagged player 48. Connected 49. Hilariously funny thing 52. Advance 53. Operating room 54. A little lamb 55. “To Autumn,” e.g. 56. Parts of a min. 57. Pa’s partner 58. Aesop’s also-ran 59. “Absolutely!” 60. Barely get, with “out” 61. High standards 62. A Swiss army knife has lots of them 63. Solfa syllable 65. Something to believe in 66. Mother of Horus 67. Expression of agreement 68. Masefield play “The Tragedy of ___” 70. Midterm, for one 72. Bank (on) DOWN 1. Type of bypass surgery 2. Butch Cassidy, for one 3. __ and fro 4. It may be minced 6. Year of our Lord 7. Word before and after “oh” 8. Head of the class 9. “This is __ outrage!” 10. Course requirement? 11. Bos taurus 12. Like many a cellar 13. Wood sorrel 14. Play, in a way 17. Drummer’s beat 21. Big Apple inits. 23. Germany’s Dortmund-___ Canal 25. Kodak camera introduced in 1900 29. Low point 31. Like games in the dome 32. Mouse manipulator 34. Unstable particles 36. Fail to keep 38. Two of us 42. Bummed 45. Ecological community 46. Closing hymn 50. Horace volume 51. Big ___ Conference 52. 100 qintars 53. ___ grass 54. Anita Brookner’s “Hotel du ___” 56. Caribbean, e.g. 57. Yours truly 58. Hello, breezily 59. Symbol for arsenic 64. Trans-Siberian Railroad city 65. Constitutes 66. ___ tube 69. Fire truck equipment 71. Uttering amazement