OBSERVER CROSSWORD

Turning a new leaf

ACROSS 1 Llama’s cousin 7 Ocean spume

14 Din

20 Child star Jackie 21 Protected from gunfire 22 French star

23 Start of a New Year’s Eve soliloquy

26 “The Captain and ___” 27 ___ volente: God willing 28 Actor Ed and family 29 Vaughn or Beatty 30 Code word for Z

31 Max or Buddy 32 Fontainebleu woods 35 Izaak Walton’s basket 37 Clark Kent’s girl 38 Boater or porkpie 41 Word for a certain Ranger 42 Narrow cut

43 “My Name is ___” 44 With 82 Across, Utah’s state flower

45 More of soliloquy 51 Infamous Amin 52 Rainbow: Prefix

53 Fed the pot 54 Embassy spies 55 Person from Barcelona 57 Jaden and Willow 59 Turn outward, as feet 60 Asian transport

62 Cut another cassette 64 Star’s brief role 66 Bother persistently 68 Noxious atmospheres 72 “The Bells of St. ___” 73 Kitchen gadget 74 Where Rene goes barefoot?

75 “Nurses” Maris

76 More of soliloquy

81 Ship hazard

82 See 44 Across

83 Word of woe

84 Do a cotton-picking job 85 Dancer Charisse

86 St. Louis eleven 87 Gentleman’s gentleman 89 Bone juncture

91 Pere’s wife

92 Buckle holders

93 “___ tho’ it be a cross . . .” 94 A Greg Louganis dive 96 Merkel of the movies 97 Tax man

102 End of soliloquy

106 Visigoth king

107 Buttercup relative 108 Mary Martin’s Broadway

hit: 1966

109 Poe’s “Raven” lady

110 Toper

111 Dirty rug? DOWN 1 “. . . ___ has only nine lives”: Twain

2 Vein or ore

3 Smut, tersely

4 Not “fer”

5 Incisor’s neighbor 6 Bobbysoxer’s sock 7 Yegg’s target

8 Work unit

9 “___ Blue?”: musical query 10 Melted cheese dish 11 “1984” author 12 Vowel sequence 13 1550, to Fabius

14 “___ in the Sunset” 15 Makes up

16 One on the way up 17 Bleaching vat

18 Site of the first Olympics 19 “___ lords a-leaping” 24 Of ancient vintage 25 Toiled mightily 30 Greek letter

32 Peter or Bridget

33 Bit of gossip, French style 34 Gun the motor 35 Garbed 36 Pacific ___

37 Most feeble 38 Icelandic volcano 39 “Gang aft ___”: Burns 40 Hellman’s attic clutter? 41 Nonclerical 42 Smooth-scaled lizard 43 Swimming actress Williams

44 Berates

46 Most greasy 47 “Potter’s” ___ Malfoy 48 Chiang ___ -shek

49 ___ nous

50 Call a president to account 56 Part of GAR 57 Amber-colored wine 58 Electromagnetic wave amplifier

59 Agnew

61 Bobbins

63 Pile up

64 Ben’s thespian brother 65 Described a half-circle 67 1989 play about Capote 69 Noted naval historian 70 Mature

71 Identical 72 Chagall or Connelly 73 Monster of Greek myth 74 Early precollege exam 77 Lawyer Darrow

78 Milk shake flavor 79 Seine sight

80 Cio-Cio San’s sash 86 French director Jean 87 Legal locales

88 Siren signals 89 Ignatious of Loyola’s order 90 New York silverware city 91 Extremely small 92 Actor Victor of “The Strangler” 93 Marquand’s “H.M. Pulham, ___”

94 Big blow

95 Flaherty’s “Man of ___” 97 Dill, of old

98 Diving judge’s job

99 Beat it

100 “Ye ___ Shoppe”

101 Peasant of India

102 Sal of song, for one 103 Belfry occupant

104 Jazz genre

105 Yoko