OBSERVER CROSSWORD

Literati

ACROSS

1 Hurry-up letters 5 Plains tribe

9 “Thy word is ___ unto my feet” 14 Shadowbox

18 Actor Rob

19 ___ Loa

20 Designer Rykiel 21 Nimbus

22 “Giant” creator

24 “The Golden Bowl” author 26 Part of VCR

27 Red seaweed

29 Rent payer

30 Suits to ___ 31 Tapestry

32 Ilk

33 Began to appear 36 Better aligned 37 Model of perfection 41 Mine exits 42 “Madding crowd” chronicler

45 Ecol. agency

46 Electrical units

47 Very, in Versailles 48 Goddess of discord 49 Annul

50 Building wing

51 Seaside

52 Realty sign

54 Coastal flier

55 Plutonium quality

57 Latin laws

58 More extensive

60 Stretch one’s neck

61 Take in

62 Dirt

63 Blemishes

65 Crowded

66 Hikers’ vessels

69 Carry

70 Tanned skin

71 Dog disease

72 Nav. craft

73 Sounds of rejection 74 Pitcher

75 Aware

76 Quickly, for Cato

77 Daisy ___

78 Heathcliff ‘s creator 82 “McSorley’s Bar” artist 83 Maybe

85 Overhangs

86 Coleridge contribution 87 “___ Death”: Grieg

88 Tin Pan ___

89 Moreno

90 Comeback

93 Steel, in St. Lo 94 Captains’ bosses

98 “The Sea-Wolf “author 100 He created Anna Karenina 102 Wings, in old Rome 103 Explorer Amundsen

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104 Ration

105 “___ go bragh”

106 “Atlas Shrugged” author 107 Bonito genus

108 Wharf

109 Clair or Coty

1 Actor Baldwin 2 Fizzy drink 3 Beards of a sort 4 Rustics

5 Menu

6 Hayseed

7 Detroit from Chicago dir. 8 Tympanic membrane 9 Squared stones 10 Loamy deposit

11 Mrs. Shakespeare 12 Russian village 13 Spacecrafts’ freight 14 Type of daisy 15 Shriver and Dawber 16 Sheltered 17 American Beauty 19 Doled out

23 Gala occasions

25 A Lewis

28 Kind of resin 31 Levitated

32 Boat spar 33 Venturous one 34 “Hello” singer

35 “My Antonia” author 36 Limerick starter 38 Mary Ann Evans’ nom de plume 39 Conjecture 40 Consumer watchdog 42 Treasure ___

43 Artist Frankenthaler 44 Belligerent Olympian 47 Dilutes

49 Edge

51 Oliver’s sidekick 52 Pester

53 Grimm character 56 Sobs

57 Deal in money 58 Patois

59 Sweeten the pot 61 Wary

62 “Divina Commedia” author 63 Electioneer

64 Forum garb

65 Affair of honor

66 Tips

67 Very bright heavenly body 68 Hard

70 Cheese choice

71 Pelf 74 Charlemagne and others 76 Pot scrubber’s need 78 Painter’s prop 79 “Johnny ___”: Wyman film

80 Breathing sound 81 Impinge, in a way 82 Yucca-like plant 84 Peddled

86 Aviator

88 “Feed ___, starve a fever” 89 Copter part

90 Not closed

91 Hindu legendary hero 92 Peruse

93 Jewish month 94 Porter

95 To be, in France 96 Meat choice

97 “Auld lang ___” 99 Common, Hawaiian style 101 Inventor Whitney