OBSERVER CROSSWORD

Strange requests

ACROSS

1 Have words 5 Wore 10 Enough, Luigi! 15 Vipers 19 Composer Porter 20 Type of tower 21 Church section 22 Octagonal sign’s word 23 Pinnacle 24 Rajah’s wife 25 Take it easy 26 “Dawson Creek’s” Smith 27 Judy Garland’s request 30 Hit, biblically 31 Capri 32 Conductor Previn 33 Intuit 34 Parasol’s purpose 38 Raised railways 40 Home hangout 41 VIP’s car 42 Opportunist’s request 49 Celestial bodies 53 Seth’s birthplace? 54 Core work group 55 Moore’s “Still ___” 56 Give up 57 Car no no? 58 Largest continent 59 Travels 60 “Do ___ others . . .” 61 Wax and ___ 63 Tuckered out 65 Arrive at 66 Dramatize 69 Rower 71 Showed disapproval 72 Leonine homes 73 Went 50–50 74 “Waste not, ___ not” 75 “House” star Epps 76 Unwelcome assignment 77 Upsilon followers 79 “Why, the very ___!” 83 Ominous 84 Cries 85 West ___ 86 Spoken 87 Thick slice 88 Parker Brothers’ request 90 Bright star 91 Curvy letter 93 Have debts 94 Colorado resort town 95 Important person in Turkey 98 “___ up or ship out!” 102 Goals 105 Moderate 106 Doris Day’s request 113 Daytime drama 114 First double Grand Slam winner 115 Apportion 116 Shell’s staff 117 Cut 118 Open 119 “Superman” star 120 Ascend 121 Start of a counting rhyme 122 Railroad bed 123 Probosci 124 Capone trademark

DOWN

1 Sting 2 British satirist Alexander 3 Sheltered 4 Cell phone message 5 Employs 6 Advantage 7 “Death Be Not Proud” poet 8 Metal carriers 9 Putin’s negative 10 Meat brought home 11 Audible 12 Step 13 French cup 14 Gallery fare 15 Reluctant witness’s request 16 Toklas’s companion 17 Harbors 18 Shopping ___ 28 French crumb 29 Final 30 WSW less 90 34 Winter vehicle 35 Put out of sight 36 Critical Masters’ corner 37 Bobby McFerrin’s request 38 Poet Pound 39 Spike or Peggy 40 Coloring agents 42 Sparse 43 Slacken 44 ___ Amin 45 “___ and Kumar” 46 Eschew the big wedding 47 Scua or pearl 48 Served without return 50 Small ones 51 Please, to Johann 52 Tolerated 62 Ger. neighbor 63 Most chaste 64 Yay, matador! 65 Cotton processor 66Medicinal plants 67 Desert mount 68 Headpiece for Duchess of Cambridge 69 Displayed 70 “Godfather’s” character Rizzi 71 Must 73 Beat it! 74 Stage assembly area 76 Namesakes of Charisse 77 Strike a ___ 78 Word on a towel 80 Western advantage 81 Roof overhang 82 “The Good Wife’s” Cumming 85 Manhandle 89 Rhymed message 92 “Just ___ no” 94 Simile words 95 Dated 96 Solitary 97 Killed 98 Spartacus, for one 99 Hold still aloft 100 Dodge 101 Australian city 102 “The Bridge at ___” 103 “___ a parade . . .” 104 Measures out 107 Work for 108 Spread choice 109 TV adjuncts of the 80’s and 90’s 110 Comic Idle 111 Desert flatland 112 Pitcher 114 High trajectory stroke