OBSERVER CROSSWORD

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Gullet

Actor Tamiroff

___ more than she could chew: overextended Some short forms, for short

French friend

Flat top desert sight ___ march (on)

Puff up

Early jazz pianistcomposer

___ Linda, CA Hodgepodges

Café au ___

1938 Horse of the Year Nothing, in Nancy Dear, to Marcello Kennedy and Rockefeller Artist John Singer

I, in Berlin Benevolent lodge member

39 Finds fault

43 Beaver Cleaver’s mom 44 New York or New Orleans 47 Ancient: prefix 48 Seminole rival

51 Some horses

52 Calyx parts

53 Sun Valley state

54 Leech, for one 55 Immediately!

56 Private eye Peter 57 Kenyan herdsman 58 Spiral shell dweller 60 Spice user

63 62 Down vehicle 65 Job-seekers’ tips

69 Silly

70 Wave amplifier

72 Buck heroine

73 Pie filling: pl.

76 Took a deep divot

78 A Bryant

79 Scarlet sage

80 Layered dessert 81 Nocturnal state

82 Sci-fi character 83 Menacing

84 Qatar’s capital

86 British noble

87 Movie VIP

88 Oahu, for one: abbr.

89 No ___!: certainly not 93 Mayan’s peninsula 96 Excessive criticism: inf. 98 Algerian port

99 Pirates’ Hall of Famer 103 Dr. ___ of “Buck Rogers” 104 Pitcher Luis ___

105 1942 Preakness winner 106 Dodgers’/Pirates’ player

1930s–40s

109 Small-scaled lizard 110 Ferenc Molnar 1909 play

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26 27 28 29 31 32 33 34 36 38 111 Half: prefix

112 Supplier to GM: e.g. 113 Labors

114 Taper off

115 Due___ (a certain date) 116 Johnny ___

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Half-baked

Big leagues Earhart

More artful

Irving and Carter Flooey or plop start Cut off

Of the cheekbone Filene’s famed floor: abbr. Lance of law Laconic

Of a hardy grain Parade vehicles Engine part Bottomless pit Faction

Irish king Brian Physics Nobelist 1944 See 55 Across

R.L. Stevenson’s pirate Military linkings Nettle 32 33

News letters? Brian Freemantle’s spy hero

Basic monetary unit Cap’n Crunch, for one Early Indians Hall-ofFamer

40 English actor Bates 41 Moolah

42 Comme ci, comme ca 45 I.M. of architecture 46 On in years

47 Danger

48 Fishing apparatuses 49 Together, to tenors 50 Blue Nile source 51 Bag a bluebottle, say 52 Petty quarrel 54 Corner at Augusta National Ghostly coverup North in Nuremberg ___ a million: rarity Space org. Brazilian port

“I cannot tell ___!” Take out

Piece of cake Adept

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