OBSERVER CROSSWORD

National holiday

ACROSS

1 Bristle

5 Half gable 12 Conform

17 Gender bias

19 Most heroic

20 Lack of vigor

21 Start of patriotic verse 24 Electrode type 25 Controlled substance grp. 26 Graham or Raye 27 Elevator cage 28 Smudge

30 Wood thickness 31 Testy, in Tiverton 35 Combination of musical notes

36 Help with the dishes 37 Scheme

41 Observe 42 Thialand formerly 43 Ruby and Sandra 44 Compiegne’s river 45 More of verse

51 Edge

52 Netman Nastase 53 Merry Windsor women 54 British ___ 55 Explorer who named Louisiana 57 Perlman’s forte

59 “___ Green Tomatoes” 60 Embraced

62 Vouch for

64 Homer King Roger 66 Melodic

68 Fervent 72 Eucharist plate 73 Previous

74 Bridge position

75 Miss Piggy’s “Me”? 76 More of verse

81 Rect. divider 82 Godiva’s title

83 Sea eagle 84 Ripened 85 Ms accompaniment, usually

86 Glacial

87 Vocalist Krall

89 Wacky

91 Half of CDII

92 Bean or horse

93 From ___ Z

94 Saw eye to eye 97 Immature newt

98 For a house guest? 103 End of verse

108 Cowardly

109 J. R. Ewing’s hat

110 Ustinov’s autobiography 111 Netherland

112 Small crown

113 Rubik of the cube craze

DOWN

1 “And ___ fine seam . . . “2 Ramp sign

3 Singer Hinojosa

4 “___ to the System”: Caine film

5 ___ Dhabi: Arab sheikdom 6 Radio’s Glass

7 On the ___: fleeing

8 Tax or draft dodger 9 Peruse again 10 Hammerstein

11 Last degree

12 ___ birds game 13 Obligation 14 Shanghai servant

15 ___ colada: rum drink 16 Small amount

17 Urge Fido to attack 18 Eleanor Roosevelt’s column

20 Data digester

22 “___ the ramparts . . .” 23 Bedazzle

28 Pahlavi, for one

29 N.Y.C. museum 31 Tangle 32 Waterwheel 33 Mighty mites

34 __ room: rumpus area 35 Quote

36 Rely (on)

37 Pretty verses 38 Hosiery material 39 Inquired

40 French marshal and family 42 Piggeries

43 John Water’s star 46 “The ___ Fields”: 1984 shocker 47 Erstwhile Hellas 48 Number for tea, tunefully 49 Gets one’s goat

50 Hairy

56 Farmer’s property 57 Validate 58 Dostoyevsky’s Prince Myshkin

59 Next year’s soph 61 Satirical imitation 63 Mount the soapbox 64 Soprano’s crime group 65 Rand’s shrugger

67 ___ pro nobis

69 Photo ___

70 “. . . ___ thing under the

sun.”: Eccl. 1:9 71 Light-headed 72 Hippies’ homes 73 Domingo

74 Sicilian resort

77 “___ Wonderland” 78 Word for Felix Unger 79 Florence’s river 80 Deface

87 Be at variance 88 Entirely

89 Put up with 90 Demitasse beverage 91 Only dwarf planet 92 Popular Italian sauce 93 Shade of blonde 94 N Indian city 95 Joyous

96 Politico Karl 99 Slightly open 100 Torch

101 Ticklish toy

102 Henna

103 Hausfrau’s cry 104 L.A. campus

105 Svc. branch

106 Caviar

107 Warning initials