OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS 1. “The Joy Luck Club” author 4. Throwaway band 11. Garbage 16. Clod chopper 17. One that arouses 18. First: Prefix 19. Friar Laurence to Romeo 21. Ward off 22. Son of Ramses I 23. Fourposter, e.g. 24. Beat it 25. Sees the invisible space 31. Serving as guardian and protector 34. “Rocky ___” 35. Half eats 36. Japan’s largest air carrier 37. Victorian, for one 38. Can’t smell this at all 41. Howard Taylor’s bugs 44. “Fancy that!” 45. Ancient colonnade 46. Our “mother” 48. Smoke and fog 52. Thompson of Howard the Duck fame 55. Firm decision 58. Over 62. Elephant’s weight, maybe 63. Marienbad, for one 64. Compete 65. Amscrayed 66. Most shiny with greed 68. Seafood entree 72. Natural fibre with strength for noble attire 73. Made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs solo 74. Attired 78. Spread 79. Sol’s domain 83. Beside 84. Adjust the currency 85. Nod, maybe 86. As the lion _____ the antelope, says Frankenstein 87. Two long foot 88. O, rly? DOWN 1. “Get ___!” 2. Bang-up 3. Alt net 4. Long-jawed fish 5. ___ of a diver 6. ___ v. Wade 7. Transport child 8. Black ink item 9. Crystal-lined rock 10. “To ___ is human ...” 11. This is it’s own opposite 12. Swiss capital 13. Neglected, overlooked 14. One fate 15. Eireann spade 20. Cork’s country 24. Existence 26. On the safe side, at sea 27. Dash about 28. About to explode 29. Fabrication 30. Police, Fire, Ambulance 31. Blackens 32. Condo, e.g. 33. ___ Bell 38. Murderous mermaid 39. Be-boppers 40. “___ we forget” 42. Garnish no more 43. Drape for choli 47. Monopoly purchase 49. ___-en-scène 50. “My bad!” 51. Buzzing pest 53. Wages 54. Banded stone 56. Brick paste 57. Annul 58. Eggs 59. Cyano 60. Greenware 61. Armenian medieval ruined city 66. Vegetarian Hindu merchant 67. Creep 69. Change, as the Constitution 70. Aviary sound 71. Artillery burst 75. Poland’s Walesa 76. Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g. 77. Adjudge 78. “This means ___!” 79. Life-threatening kidney condition 80. Aged, like cheddar 81. “So ___ me!” 82. ___ Dee River