Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
OBSERVER CROSSWORD
Baby talk
ACROSS
1 Noxious gas element 6 Wrinkle resort 9 Skeptic’s remark
13 Los ___
19 Rhone tributary 20 Buddy
21 Japanese tourist center 22 Opt for
23 Start of an adult’s comment
27 Last letter, in Britain 28 Wind indicator
29 Cole Porter’s “___ Love” 30 Tapioca ingredient 31 Above, poetically 32 Hide
34 Ending with bull, ball or bill
36 Evening, in Milano 37 Red ___
41 ___ over: ball game 42 Swiss peak
44 Q-U connection 45 Reliance
47 Group of nine
50 In ___: briefly 51 Nothingness 52 Modify mail destination 55 TLC dispensers
56 Egg receptacle 57 Student paper
58 Sea in California 60 Celebrated Hindu poet 63 Three, in Berlin
64 Type of fertilizer 65 Comment continued 71 Shakespeare’s “___ Andronicus” 72 Actress Bancroft 73 Singer Marilyn and family 74 Designer McCartney 76 Down for the night 77 Rabbit relative 78 Command to Rover 81 Ball park figures 83 Wooer’s pitch 84 Macbeth title 86 “Blade” star Wesley 87 Soothing applications 89 Drop surface bait 92 Hand sanitizer 93 Galsworthy’s “The Forsyte ___”
95 Inkers
96 City on the Oka 98 Tosspot
100 Rub out
102 Blissful expressions 103 U.S. Grant contemporary 105 Sin or err
107 Opening
109 “Bali ___”
112 End of comment
116 Wedding sites
117 Dies ___
118 Before, old style 119 Former Asian treaty org. 120 Contracts to use
121 Demurrals
122 Nordic battle god
123 Lofty Austrian area DOWN
1 Posh hotel
2 Tennis champ
3 ___ Sea
4 Pooch’s scrap
5 Sensitive terminal
6 Bridge
7 Turns ashen
8 The works
9 Loose
10 Like a bog
11 Victim
12 Speed
13 Request
14 Aloha offerings
15 Alan and Arlene 16 Whimperer
17 Brownish yellows
18 ___ nothing: go whole hog 24 Like some pitchers
25 Had a lamb
26 Blow ___ cold: vacillate 31 Headwaiter, in Wiesbaden 33 Unspoken 35 Cold weather carriers 37 Month after Shebat 38 Stitched 39 Renegades
40 The Tiber, in Roma 43 Model of excellence 46 Snooped
47 Ghostly 48 Manufacturers’ org. 49 Fool
52 Fasten, at sea 53 Keeps mentally sound 54 Sound: comb. form 56 Neither’s companion 57 Type of spotter? 59 Denials 61 Grown-ups
62 Baby goose
63 Units of force
65 “___ complicated” 66 Place
67 “From the mouths of ___” 68 Horned beast, for short 69 Hicks
70 Bikini part
75 French friends 76 Dined
77 Arizona Indians
79 Kind of verb: abbr. 80 82 83 Hardy heroine Poise Smoothly connected, in music
84 Most secure
85 Female pheasants 88 Climbing vine 89 Back-related
90 Small cavity
91 Jai alai ball
93 Ocean lane
94 Lofty spans
97 Horne namesakes 99 Dependent relationship 101 Each
104 To be, in Paris
106 Franklin’s mother 108 Jug
109 Gray with age
110 Chorus voice
111 Graven image
113 CIA forerunner
114 Permit
115 ___ to the city