OBSERVER CROSSWORD Where’s the beef?

ACROSS

1 Dads

4 Hen party comment? 10 Golf tourney abbr.

15 Woe is me

19 Eggs: L.

20 Keyless

21 Right-hand page: L. 22 Carry on

23 Hair goop

24 What pig farmers reap? 26 Corner, slangly 27 Noncomformists, say 29 Spiced stew

30 Window shade

31 Type of auction

32 Santa Fe Trail town 33 Farmland

35 Intrigues

37 King of the barbecue? 39 Cut back

40 Bulls’ counterparts 42 Tucks away

43 Piquant

44 West Indies native 45 Folksinger Pete

47 Tease

50 Stallone, to friends 51 Steer’s tale? 53 Crackerjack

54 California missionaries 56 Uses technospeak

57 Like the Piper

58 Costa ___

60 Saw

62 Proud pronouncements 64 Home of The Jazz 65 Fictional pachyderm

67 Do a lawn job

69 One of “The Five” Russian

composers

70 Barnyard jazzman? 74 Snake eyes, in Vegas 77 Relative

78 O’Donnell and O’Grady 79 Solitary soul

80 Robert of “Jaws”

81 March maestro 82 Managed equivalent 83 Cubic meter

84 Savor lamb?

89 Pursuer

90 Gofer’s chores

91 Tears roughly

92 Like Pisa’s tower 94 Mountain climbers, often 95 Outdo

96 Climbers, most of the time 99 Diarist Frank

100 Spielberg’s non-kosher

dinosaur?

103 Feel poorly

104 Wedding cake segment 105 Came up

106 Straight man

107 Hawaiian tree 108 Linemen

109 Take a new spouse 110 Sporting a Stetson 111 Swill place

DOWN

1 2 3

Kelly’s possum Maintain Burger sans bun or fixings? Dumas’s courtesan Makes amends for Schwarzenegger 1982 role

7 Showed submission 8 Bard’s ballads 9 Mischiefmaker 10 Introduction: var. 11 Grant a claim to 12 Cuatro doubled

13 ___ loss: perplexed 14 TV’s “Super ___” 15 Ingenuous

16 Dogie catcher

17 Pay back 18 Rainmaker, perhaps 25 Jungle music? 28 Goliath, for one

4 5 6 30 Covered with thorns, e.g. 32 Supercharger

33 Baja buddies

34 Grantor by treaty 35 Ahab, et al.

36 Inland sea of Asia 37 Drain a dinghy 38 Gable’s Butler 40 Foundation

41 Mesozoic and Paleozoic 44 PC command key 45 Obstacle

46 Feudal fieldhand 47 Breed cattle?

48 Rapper

49 Peony plots, e.g.

51 Altar utterance

52 See if ___!

55 Louisville Slugger wood 57 Sen. Moynihan

58 Take evasive action 59 Small, fancy case 60 Willing partner 61 Honorees’ platform 62 “Uncle Remus” rabbit 63 Shell propeller

65 Low strings

66 Tunes from “La Tosca” 67 “Rule Britannia” composer 68 ___ out a living

70 Sings a sentimental song 71 Presley’s “___ Dog”

72 Sits suddenly 73 Butterfinger’s cry 75 Pottery

76 Loan recipient

80 Tolerate

81 Baiul and Boitano 82 Egyptian Christians 83 Mishit the golf ball 84 Emissary

85 ___ the fire: venture 86 Stretched one’s neck 87 Pants line

88 Showed displeasure 89 French religious body 92 In ___: having difficulties 93 Get along now!

95 Facial feature

96 Official record

97 Mob scene

98 Overwhelm with laughter,

slangly

100 Cookie container

101 Yorkshire river

102 ___ Kabibble