OBSERVER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Puget Sound port 7 Paint solvent

14 Born to the purple 19 Captivate 20 Encourage

21 Uneven

22 Start of a verse, on a Feb. 14 undertaking 26 Freshens the room 27 Golfer’s gadget

28 Hiver of printemps

29 Pi and sigma separator 30 Mix smoothly 32 Dancer Charisse

33 “Is ___ dagger . . . ?”: Shak. 36 On the qui vive

37 “___ the Beloved Country” 38 Absalom’s slayer 42 Evening, in Paris 43 Steal, slangily 44 Andrew Sisters, for instance

45 Woody’s boy

46 More of verse 52 Sparks or Rorem 53 Poznan, to Germans 54 Mountain ridge 55 Stout cord

56 ___ at a straw 58 Capital of Macapa, Brazil 59 Flat straw hat

60 “. . . the heart is slow ___”: Millay

63 Keep a rein on

65 Tosca

68 A kind of spell? 70 Strapping young man 74 “The Thinker” sculptor 75 Bristles 76 Boadicea’s tribe

78 Zilch

79 More of verse

83 Fem.’s counterpart 84 Bird, to Brutus 85 Architect ___ van der Rohe

86 Bright light

87 Tallin native: Abbr. 88 Compete 89 Lampoon 91 Bananas

93 Ott or Torme 94 “Young Man with ___”: 1950 film

95 Comparative suffix 96 Oatmeal

99 Writer Fleming

100 Supervise

104 End of verse

109 Spartacus or Turner 110 More swift of foot

111 Optic cover

112 Clementine’s dad

113 Felt

114 Between friends and

countrymen

DOWN

1 Pro ___ (for the nonce) 2 Writer Seton

3 Alley Oop’s abode 4 Sharif

5 Grinders 6 Motown’s Franklin 7 New Testament book 8 Windy City, for short 9 “___ tho’ it be a cross . . .” 10 Waver

11 The “mysterious East” 12 ___ out (defeated narrowly)

13 Tolkien tree-giant 14 Decorated again 15 Stowe’s “The Pearl of ___ Island”

16 Toy or weirdo

17 Org.

18 MGM lion 23 Updated: Prefix 24 Attribute

25 “The ___ Look Tonight,” Fields/Kern hit 30 Carried on the wind 31 “Champagne Tony,”: 1964 British Open champ 33 Charlie Chan portrayer

34 Broom ___: comic witch 35 N.Y. subway 36 Winglike parts

37 Man from Canea 38 Step out into traffic 39 Circle the earth 40 Solitary

41 Flowery arbor 42 Warble

43 P.C. Wren’s “Beau ___” 44 Welty’s “Why I Live at ___”

47 Name to an office 48 Australian “teddy bear” 49 Sweet potato 50 Spencer or Dick 51 Informer, informally 57 Actress Elaine 58 Fighter from Down Under, for short 59 Memorable conductor Walter

61 Antarctic penguin 62 Hayworth and Gam 64 Muscles 65 Wharton’s Ethan 66 Southwestern hills 67 Pindar, for one

69 Wye follower 71 Map feature

72 Mr. Spock of “Star Trek” 73 Singer Campbell 75 Figaro’s city

76 Skull protrusion

77 B-G connection 80 Attack with vigor 81 Cupid

82 Banking abbreviation 89 All a-tremble 90 Racetrack performers 91 Pocket pager

92 New Mexico gulch 93 Poet’s concern

94 Usher’s beat

95 “___ Got a Crush On You” 96 Half of CMII

97 Israel’s Abba

98 French dream

100 Elbe tributary

101 Appear

102 “___ tete”: “Alouette”

refrain

103 John Boy Walton’s sister 104 Belief

105 Diamond areas: Abbr. 106 Harper Valley gp.

107 Asian holiday

108 Grid. gains