OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS

1. ___ de force 4. Coral colony individual, archaically speaking 10. Online auction house 13. Amigo 15. Approaches 16. Arch 17. __ then, else 19. “Get ___!” 21. Not just “a” 22. Image format. But how is it pronounced?! 23. Takei says, “Oh __!” 24. Cheap OS license for new ___ computer 26. Play it as an instrument. Cut it up! 28. Dear departed, come back, says, “___!” 29. Smaller gloop 30. Non-conformist church 32. Looking for the owner. _____ is this?! 35. Nonexistent return 37. Internet encryption technology 38. The almost loneliest number you’ll ever do 40. “Cool” amount 42. Shortest partner 43. Banquet 45. Hoc, hominem, nauseum 47. Type width measurment. 48. Email protocol 50. Still the shortest partner 51. Halftime, myself 52. Stock car model, or __? 53. A man, by the power of Grayskull! 54. Pillbox, e.g. 55. Baser psyche 56. Yes, for one, __ for zero 59. Register 61. Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian vision 62. Shaggy sheep! 65. Hitchhiked 68. The __ Crowd 69. Adaptable and adroit 70. To or not to 72. Tree. Taxus brevifolia or baccata 73. Synthetic imagery, esp in film 75. Networked storage 76. Consumes 77. On the road, your enemy is your friend 86. Digitally neverending 87. Unfriendliness 88. Kind of jar 89. Email response

DOWN

1. Beethoven’s “Archduke ___” 2. __, __ and away! 3. “Go team!” 5. Not yes 6. Rent out 7. Cowboy shouts for search! 8. Before 9. The decline and fall of the __ empire 10. White being. Helper or hinderer 11. __ the __, did you hear? 12. It comes easily to hand 14. Show me the code 16. ____ Mills, an Irish village with a beautiful weir 18. Come clean, with “up” 20. Yo Yo __ 22. Don’t stop! 23. Gangster’s gal 25. Complicated situations 27. Internet URL component 28. To or not to 29. Flew without power 31. Cheap knockoff, esp. computer 33. Emcee 34. Absorb, with “up” 36. The fifth flavour. 38. Brit’s “Baloney!” 39. Coin opening 41. Cogitating hat 44. Look __! 46. An exultation of spirit. In France, anyway. 49. Harshness’ nicer brother 50. Near San Jose, home to many tech companies 54. Informal high 57. ___ grass 58. Approves 60. Tall monster says, “You rang?” 61. Fly catcher, world wide 63. To the same degree 64. Pigmented layer of the eye 66. Oh, __! Haven’t I seen you today already? 67. Prefix with phone 71. Internet timing query is it’s own answer 74. Internet-over-the-phone

transmission protocol 78. A little off the end 79. Logical operator 80. Mr. Don’t’s more affable, clownish cousin 81. Occupy a point in space 82. FM’s older, poorer brother 83. __ you __, or __ you ain’t my baby? 84. Go__, return 85. Suffix for Latin adjectives