OBSERVER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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Earth’s nearest neighbor Ersatz

Lose vigor

Keep an eye on Portent

Honolulu greeting Hayworth or Gam Kentucky Derby winner: 1935

___ -War: “Big Red”

Of the nasal cavities Maple tree genus Mature

Why did Maureen invest in Ireland? Southpaws

Ending with differ or depend

Corrida cries Fleming and namesakes Gaseous element in the news

Pallid

Bit of butter Raleigh’s rival Mongolian desert

___ es Salaam Cunning

Has Maureen an American TV favorite? Matter’s superior Playing marble

For all time, poetically Soprano Aprile of the Met Snaky curve Parseghian Captain Hook’s henchman ___ Saud

Has Maureen a movie idol?

Cockfight locale Thine, in Thiers

Salt Lake City player Distinctive time period Inventor Howe

Call ___ day: quit WWII German bomber Hence

Has Maureen a favorite song?

85 Clean a pipe

86 Polka follower

87 Enough, old style 88 Express a view

89 Sea eagle

90 Fuss

91 Actor Keach

93 John Paul II

95 Last word

96 Legal wrong

97 Changes the circuit 100 How did she get that

medal?

106 “In the ___ days . . . ” 107 Hawkeye State

108 White poplar

109 Marsh bird

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Use up Seemly

“Up the lazy ___” Frogner Park city Preliminary races Taro root Flanders stream Metric units, in verse

DOWN

Punsters

Pops’ mates Menotti character Taylor or Adoree Névé Playground attractions Wagner, the “Flying Dutchman” Captain of the Pequod Pliable

“El Caudillo” of Spain Type of moss

To ___: exactly First “Today Show” host Deteriorate

Awry

Record

Jazz trumpeter Baker Brinker, the skater “Guilty ___” 27

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“. . . to get you in ___, Honey . . .”

Kind of ink

Cause consternation Gen. ___ E. Lee Gallup undertaking Katarina Witt’s leap Rookie

Salinger girl and namesakes

___ kebab

Intuit

Juliette Low’s org. John or Bo

Toss

Gold measure Zounds!

San ___, Italian resort ___ -do-well: wastrel Permeate Mennonite

___ -fi, Bradbury’s forte Minute amounts Sudden contraction Indistinct Preminger

Horse color Ellington or Wellington Dramatist Jones (Baraka) 66 67 72 73 74

Fluorescent lamp gas Macon’s river Bronte’s Jane Villain’s grimace

“No man ___ island”: Donne

76 Place of refuge

77 Helen was here

78 T-X connection

79 “___ the North”: 1973 film 81 Totted up

82 Midday

83 “Do I ___ Waltz?” 84 Subject under discussion 90 Rectifies

91 Like some prunes

92 Love apple

93 Striptease dancer 94 Proud possessor 95 Concerning 97 “Superman” Christopher 98 Wipe out

99 Cask plug

100 Singer Groban

101 Greek flask

102 Brainstorm

103 Tilled the soil

104 Baseball stats.

105 Coin deposit