OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS 1. Hiding place 5. Mojave plant 10. Chasers 15. “___ on Down the Road” 16. Needle-shaped 17. Dugout, for one 18. Post-toast sound 20. Piece of land 21. Have an impact on 22. Purple Arrowroot, for one 24. “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams has one: Abbr. 25. Bright red 27. Blood carrier 29. Easter flower 31. Jail, slangily 32. “20/20” network 35. Goes bad 37. Turing’s crypto computer 39. Dairy airs? 41. Irish mother 42. Summer cooler 45. Muscle 46. Blocks 48. “Don’t go!” 51. A pint, maybe 52. Dweller on the Red Sea 53. ___ orange 55. Barbershop quartet members 56. Tsar’s wife 57. Asian mountain pass 59. Half a matched set 60. Occupy a point in space 61. Afflict 63. Barbershop call 64. “Mi chiamano Mimi,” for example 65. Indian bread

DOWN 1. “Hold on a ___!” 2. After-bath powder 3. ___ Minor 4. Medicinal plant 5. Appear 6. Regional ancestry 7. Kuwaiti, e.g. 8. Not shy 9. “C’___ la vie!” 11. “O” in old radio lingo 12. Informant 13. Pelvic bones 14. Acetylene, systematically speaking 19. Bow 21. Culinary herb 23. Jack-in-the-pulpit, e.g. 25. Artery problems 26. Door part 28. Business person 30. Candytufts 33. Half a Pacific paradise 34. Certain pitch 36. Locale 38. Operatic villains, often 40. Amberboa moschata 43. Copper 44. “Roots,” e.g. 47. Fat letters 49. Prepare leather 50. “Absolutely!” 52. Half a returning toy 53. Logical operator 54. Turkish officer honorific 58. Classical Greek courtesan 62. S. African cormous plants 63. Not a Number