OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER
ACROSS
1. It’s in your jeans 5. Indian honorific 10. Theater name that means “jewel” 15. __ Software, makers of Quake 16. Stocking stuffer? 18. Not occurring naturally 19. Rulers of Qatar and Kuwait 20. Tip for a calligrapher 22. Blinking light, maybe 24. Social enterprise Me to __ 25. Objective male pronoun 26. Flying geese formation 27. U.S. Fed. construction overseer 28. Small amphibians 30. Simple rhyme scheme 32. Yours truly 33. Young man, in Dublin 35. Soul singer Redding 37. More than suggest 39. Canada’s closest neighbour, abbr. 40. Used before a vowel 41. Word said with a salute 43. “Out of the question” 44. “This Is Spinal Tap,” e.g. 46. Like some statues 47. Pixar film about Carl Fredricksen 48. “And I should care ... why?” 49. “Batman” star Adam 52. Old-fashioned showdown 53. “The coast __ clear” 54. Put in the overhead bin 55. Density symbol 56. Prince, e.g. 57. Completes ‘either’ 58. It’s quite a stretch 59. Big game-show prize 60. Aardvark’s morsel 61. Ballroom dance 62. Bean used to make miso 63. Word in a simile 65. Rub the wrong way 66. “__ Thee I Sing” 67. On good terms with 68. Getting on in years 70. Neuter, as a horse 72. It comes easily to hand
DOWN
1. Text-embellishing symbol 2. Inventor of the stock ticker 3. “A River Runs Through __”; 1992 Brad Pitt film 4. Sour expression 6. “I __ Legend”; 2007 Will Smith movie 7. TV variety show “Hee ___” 8. Matter for the gray matter 9. “Who Wants to __ a Millionaire” 10. Worker in a garden 11. “__ Not There”; 2007 Christian Bale movie 12. “___ Talkin’” (Bee Gees #1 hit) 13. It needs refinement 14. Computer operators 17. Determined attempt 21. Aircraft compartment 23. His “4” was retired 25. Whale-hunting spear 29. Hole in the head 31. 1956 Marilyn Monroe movie 32. Persian’s pronouncement 34. Twig or branch of a willow tree 36. Absorb, with “up” 38. Opposite of stop 42. Under the weather 45. Cross-channel vessel 46. Chet Atkins’ instrument 50. LaBeouf of “Transformers” 51. Blouse, e.g. 52. Room with an easy chair 53. It makes one hot 54. Word before “I told you so!”
56. W.W. II general ___ Arnold 57. “The Last Man __ Earth” 58. Word before large 59. Toronto, for short 64. It’s got you covered 65. Word before only 66. Branch of knowledge (suffix) 67. How some people chatter 69. “Seinfeld” uncle 71. Accomplish or execute