OBSERVER CROSSWORD

New Year’s verse

ACROSS

1 ___ party, aka sleepover 7 Splits ingredients 14 Office helper: abbr. 18 Lacking vigor 19 Certain metrical foot 20 Make ___; begin 22 Start of a New Year’s verse

25 Oater

26 Arti or parti ending 27 Herb shelf label 28 Writer LeShan

29 Paint pigment 31 Oscar Wilde’s forte 32 Commenced

36 Late William S. of CBS 37 ___ Na Na 38 Outrigger 42 Faulkner’s “Requiem for ___”

43 Scottish Gaelic 44 Observed 45 Parallelogram: abbr. 46 More of verse 52 Under the weather 53 Kind of sch.

54 Golfer Calvin, 1975–2000 55 Horsy Florida city 56 Soft tissue x-ray 58 Opening word? 60 Mortise insertion 61 Picked up the tab 63 They can be dire 66 Paddled craft

69 Is indebted 71 Toscanini’s title 75 Cancel, NASA style 76 Swimmer’s concern 77 Paisley toppers

78 Gasp of delight 79 More of verse 84 Songbird Adams

85 Not up yet 86 Bargain

87 Gripper

88 Dispatch

89 Pronoun plural

90 Does a cotton-picking, e.g. job

92 Separates the laundry 93 The works

94 Stair part 95 Definintely not a fourposter 97 Afternoon affair

101 Two curve shape 102 Form of rummy

106 End of verse

111 Small drums 112 Abbott and Costello film 113 Spring bloomer 114 Heaven, to Israelites 115 Nemo or Bligh 116 Places for boutonnieres

DOWN

1 Crony

2 Over again

3 Ballet jump

4 He’s “Famous” for cookies 5 Winter wear 6 Longed (for)

7 Home for heifers 8 Reply, briefly 9 Dissenting vote 10 Cochise or Geronimo 11 Anthony, of “Doctor Dolittle”

12 Lou Grant portrayer 13 R.R. stop

14 Balance sheet entry 15 For men only

16 “___ Prayer for Me Tonight”:”Gigi” song 17 Disney film, 1982 20 Boult, Zmed and six popes 21 Ring decision 23 Baseball stat

24 Super remote region 29 Hops dryer 30 Shakespeare’s amoureuse, for short

32 Like ABC

33 ___ Gay: WWII plane

34 Culpability

35 Tiny toiler

36 High school highlight 37 Two-___: tandem 38 Legal order 39 Memorable actress Ada 40 Eye: prefix

41 Hindu “world soul” 43 “Maria ___”, 1933 song 44 Appear as if

47 Stash out of sight 48 Winged: L.

49 Hose hookups: inits. 50 Bakers get a rise out of it 51 Most torrid

57 Raged

58 He purchased The Last Frontier

59 Plant blight 62 Yankees’ manager and family

64 Menotti’s crippled child 65 “___ camera. . .” 66 Christmas candies 67 Roof over one’s head 68 Out

70 Mole, e.g.

72 “___ With Love” 73 Cook a capon

74 “___ I know the muffin man. . .”

76 Small piece of sugar 77 Moore poem starter 80 Small villages 81 Twiddling one’s thumbs 82 Future foreteller 83 Nobelist writer Andric 90 Diocese dignitary

91 State firmly

92 Song division

93 Williams, of “Happy Days” 94 Nerve networks

95 Ex Oriole Ripken

96 Ryan or Tatum

97 Fairy queen, in Brit. lit. 98 From ___: the works 99 Novelist Morrison 100 “Othello” villain

102 Extended family

103 Ginger cookie

104 Mah-jongg piece

105 “Clan of the Cave Bear”

author

107 Grampus

108 Hamm of soccer

109 “Lord, is ___?”: Matt. 110 Bell and Kettle