OBSERVER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pedigree rival 5 Starts the bidding

10 Bar measure 14 Timekeeper

19 Suitor

20 Driver’s nightmare 21 Dazzles

22 Sneeze sound

23 Bird who runs home? 26 Highlanders

27 Non mercury barometer 28 Tears apart 29 Baggage handler 30 Low altitude cloud 31 __ lazuli

32 Von Trapp matriarch 33 “Rambo” setting, for short 34 Sponsorship

35 Like some book pages 38 Hayseeds

41 Like Poe’s bird? 44 Cloning material 45 Words of disgust

46 One in a fold 47 Engendered 48 Decree

49 Negative conjunction 50 Soaring youngsters? 55 Before now

56 Moue

58 Sulking

59 Gridiron grippers 60 Ancient region on the Euphrates

61 Dings 62 Pitchman’s confederate 63 Densely tangled 65 Check the total

66 Knot named after a duke 69 Reed instruments 70 Zany timekeeper? 73 A Gershwin

74 Klutz’s exclamation 75 Cell body

76 “Leave ___ to Heaven” 77 Stocking mishap 78 Medical research arm of HHS

79 Bird in a bar? 83 Electrical wizard 84 More inclined to drop off 86 Dolly, to Carol and Barbara

87 Tie fabric

88 Harder to find 89 Name on a Scotch bottle 90 Makes bubbly

94 Holes for anchor cables 96 Bush country

97 State emphatically 98 Areas with skylights 99 Mischievous bird? 102 Prevailing taste 103 Lake Indian

104 Papal vestment 105 Other

106 Rats

107 Nov. honorees 108 Freshen up the freesia 109 Color changer

DOWN

1 Eban’s namesakes 2 Was tilted, in Bath 3 Dimmer

4 Comes first 5 Densest metal 6 Drudges 7 Auction ending 8 Once called 9 Computer memory 10 Piglike

11 Ugly customers 12 Hooters

13 Literary letters

14 Bet 15 Evangeline’s home 16 Andrew Greeley’s arrant avis?

17 Soda choice

18 Med. institution 24 Tittles

25 Adjust a corsage 29 Stormed

31 Stylish reception 32 Etiquette 35 Unclean

36 Ordain

37 Sees 38 Suspended 39 Prince of opera 40 Architectural bird? 41 German composer Max 42 Hole maker 43 Borders upon 48 Playground 50 Famed chair designer 51 Served a winner 52 Utter

53 Modern dwelling 54 Best 55 Pussyfoot

57 Tones down 59 Smart

61 Parking sticker 62 Kind of testimony 63 Planetary satellites

64 In a state of excited activity 65 Hearsay

67 Mr. Roberts

68 Ravi’s music

70 Dove

71 Gladness

72 Sign of summer 75 Filthy places

77 Like a calyx

79 Oleos

80 College bigwigs 81 Hawkeye

82 City on the banks of the Clyde

83 Midmorning prayer 85 Comforting

87 Jacket of thick cloth 89 Account entry 90 Confuse

91 Calculate

92 Like some leaf edges 93 Needleworker 94 Boater and bowler 95 Longfellow bell town 96 Raced

99 Gun the engine

100 ___ pro nobis

101 Morgan’s morsel