OBSERVER CROSSWORD

November feast

ACROSS

1 Editorial note 5 Panache

9 Small songster 13 Pierre's st.

17 "Lizzie Borden took ___" 18 Court attire 20 Architect Saarinen 21 Stout cord 22 Pre-dinner fireworks? 25 Equivocate 26 Appeased

27 Bizarre

28 Fairy tale sister 29 WWII group

30 Three: prefix 31 Sophisticated 32 Visigoths king 35 Excavators' entrances 37 European capital 40 Water collection areas 41 Where the veggies preside?

43 ___ tee: exactly 44 René's roll call response 45 Buzzing with activity 46 Was indebted to 47 Abrupt

48 Current letters 50 1930's horse of the year 54 Tie the knot 55 Certain fertilizers 57 Phileas Fogg creator 58 Dapper NYC mayor Jimmy

59 Make unwelcome advances 60 Midshipman 61 Street, in Madrid

62 Sid or salad 64 Grasping device 65 Used one's winnings profitably

68 Sit up for

69 Easy money source 71 Normandy town 72 Roommates, usually 73 Poor grades

74 Bruin Bobby, et al. 75 MLK title

76 "___ tu": Verdi aria 77 Ocarina

81 Sierra ___ 83 Profundity

85 Swift's forte 86 Angler, at times 87 Football Hall of Famer Earle "Greasy" ___ 88 ___-mo: filming technique 89 Pen for moutins 90 Gentleman-at-arms 92 ___ in the dark 94 Haggles 98 Emporium 99 Shipshape 101 Mantle's teammate

1961–66

102 "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-___!" 103 French funeral oration 104 Mexican moolah 105 Sicilian commune 106 Love letter ltrs. 107 Groucho's grimace 108 Radio receivers

DOWN

1 Muffle 2 Organic compound 3 Singing syllables 4 Outermost layer, as orange rind 5 Sensuous 6 Sweethearts 7 Kiddie song start 8 Recent: prefix 9 Moist, sort of 10 Bring up 11 Buffalo's waterfront 12 Lon ___ of Cambodia 13 Bonbons 14 Danced to the dinner table?

15 French celestial being 16 ___ over: capsize 19 Nova ___

21 Shove forcibly 23 Heads for the runway 24 Weill and Russell 28 Pumpkin, for one 31 Vinegar bottle

32 From the East 33 Soape star Susan 34 "Ode to a Nightingale" line 35 Cool colors

36 Not too bright 37 Alamo legend

38 Peter of pictures

39 Pan, notably

41 Luster

42 European nobleman 45 Famed name in financing 47 Memorable soprano Maria 49 Emergency 51 Russian ruler after "The Terrible" 52 Describing a marsh 53 Coat of arms

54 Teen hangout 56 Rat-___

58 Sounds the sirens 60 Breeze along 61 African capital

62 "The ___ Crusader" 63 Cognizant

64 Shade providers 65 Political group 66 Cynewulf poem

67 First State capital 69 Flock fellows

70 Horse color

73 Resided

77 Traps

78 Former capital of Kirgiz 79 Ship deck

80 Fiddle around with a flute 81 Florida Key

82 Cuts down a steep slope 84 Will it play here? 86 Lifework

89 Baseball's Satchel 90 Salinger girl

91 Laurel or Musial

92 Once more

93 Everybody likes this Lee? 94 Benevolent org.

95 Nimes notion 96 Birdhouse

97 B'way signs

99 Freud concerns

100 Architect's addition