Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
OBSERVER CROSSWORD
Tricks
ACROSS 1 Theda of the silents 5 Not live
10 Irregular mass
15 Med. course
19 Iowa State locale 20 Nicholas Gage book 21 “Foreign Affairs” author Alison
22 Hawaiian port 23 Actor’s building grounder 26 Collection of verses 27 Queen before Sophia 28 Leftovers dish
29 Call a halt
30 Ankle
32 Out of debt
34 Chisel out
35 Islamic sect
36 Quant.
37 She made pigs of men 38 Augur
40 Slip
43 Director’s police weapons? 45 Golfer’s gadget
47 Part of Q.E.D.
48 Quote
49 Times around 50 Letters from Greece 51 Trait carrier 52 Suffragist’s revolving tray? 56 City in the Finestère 57 Jet Blue is one 59 Praying figure 60 Respiration
61 Grain related
62 Union unit
63 Ascend 64 Corroborate
66 Actor Murphy 67 Incipient American Beauty
70 Patriot Silas 71 Singer’s free-for-all? 74 Sash for Cio-Cio-San 75 River at Rennes 76 Byzantine town 77 “Revolutionary ___” 78 Anna who played Nana 79 Sesame
80 Flimsily constructed actor?
84 Rocket stage 85 Speech problem 87 Man-made fabric
88 Fair grade?
89 Having mystical inscription
90 Percussion instruments 91 “Dark ___”: cult series 95 Mite
97 Cherubini opera
98 Leave out
99 One way to stand
100 Extinct bird
101 Recently arrived singer? 105 Fulda feeder 106 Concur
107 South African village 108 Turgenev’s birthplace 109 Space acronym 110 Stiff wind, old style 111 Unimpressive
112 Facility
DOWN
1 Cotton units
2 Acid type 3 Courtly
4 ___ Wednesday 5 Lease holder 6 Heeling
7 Phnom ___, Cambodia 8 MIT grad
9 Reject 10 Butcher’s tool 11 Oscar winner Rainer 12 Impel
13 Kabuki pose 14 Disquiets
15 Actor Brian 16 Checks-at-the-start comedian? 17 Mattie or Felipe 18 Turn’s partner 24 Kind of song or park 25 Canonical hour 31 Aardvark’s diet 33 Immense 34 “Adriana Lecouvreur” composer
35 Comic Sales
37 Part of NYC 38 Botanical garden item 39 Believer in a personal God 40 Swan lady
41 Water buffalo 42 Handy talk-show host? 43 Shrivel
44 Genetic replica 46 Baltic native
48 “Cave ___”
50 ___ de menthe 52 Petrol measure
53 Will ___: won’t work 54 School’s goal 55 Despised
56 Lively
58 Singer Frankie
60 “___ and Sand”: Valentino flick
62 Singer Yma 63 Zagreb native 64 Miner’s way in
65 Cat genus 66 “___ Is Born”
68 Over, in Bonn 69 DeLaurentis 71 Spherical
72 Soft cheeses
73 Rock’s partner
76 “. . . and thy want as an ___”: Proverbs
78 Seminal source 80 Boston’s ___ Parker House 81 More robust
82 Scottish hillsides 83 Empties the suitcase 84 Ranch in “Giant” 86 Roman Eos
88 Fall forecast
90 Giggle
91 Slander
92 Met offering
93 Burton’s birthplace 94 Manner
95 Mideast gulf
96 Musical finale
97 Engs.
98 Sharif
102 In the past
103 Spanish pelf
104 ___ the line