Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
OBSERVER CROSSWORD Something fishy
ACROSS
1 Take turns
7 Ferber favorite
12 ___ Doody
17 Best time for
beachcombers
19 Period of youth 20 Blubber
21 Perch on the rocks? 23 Lounge devotee
24 Crab’s expression
25 Port city near Sapporo 27 Other
28 Disaccustom
32 German article
33 County Kerry port 34 Electric slitherer
35 ___ a sudden
37 “You can ___ horse. . .” 40 Wrecks
43 Visually challenged fish? 46 Bundle
47 Whoever
48 Fashions
51 Boardwalk feature, often 54 Take for a sucker
57 Large sea bass
59 List ender
60 Giggle
63 Feminine finish
65 Take the floor
66 Eat at eight
67 Gold, in Granada
68 Naive one
69 Colleen equivalent 70 1,200, to Cato
71 Is green around the gills 73 Fragrance 75 “Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-___!” 76 White as a ___ 78 Inner-Hebrides island 79 Fish with curt comments? 81 List of candidates 83 Broncobusters, e.g.
85 ___ Zone: hot spot 87 Least
91 Take up
93 The fish that got away? 96 Rode a tandem
99 Waffle topper
100 After Diciembre
101 Query
102 “___ like of a hidden
brook”: Coleridge
105 Rat race retreat
107 Little biting fly
108 Dundee denials
110 Robin of baseball
111 Tailor’s measure
113 “Always a . . ., never ___” 115 Ray on the endangered
list?
122 One without
123 Ocean-warming current 124 Hankered
125 Director Woody 126 Change, as the clock 127 Sidewinders, say
DOWN
1 2 3
Field judge, for short Yum-Yum’s sash One of Turner’s TV channels
4 Olympic VIP 5 Spanish uncles
6 Draw out
7 Piglet’s parent
8 ___ scale of . . .
9 Ulan ___
10 “___ Kick Out of You” 11 Richard’s successor 12 ___ polloi
13 Leak out slowly 14 Great fun at the pool? 15 Big Band name 16 Yelps from the Alps 18 Star in the Nantes sky 19 Dolphins’ gp.
20 Sad swindlers?
22 Had
26 Female sandpipers 28 Doo-wop sound 29 Dash: Fr. 30 Bedfellow
31 A ___ situation: sure thing 33 Inventory-___
36 Property divider
38 Prone
39 Sad song
41 Painter Gerard ___ Borch 42 Sped
44 Affirmative
45 “Country” Slaughter 49 Two beats per measure 50 Asparagus units 52 Hornpipe, for one
53 Vote in
55 Hear about, say
56 Small naval craft
58 Prop for Picasso 60 “Here’s to you!”, e.g. 61 Actress Eleniak
62 Great Scott! 64 Conductor’s concern 68 Band member? 72 Rundown
74 Spring mos.
75 With subtlety or sarcasm 76 McQueen or Martin 77 Conforming
80 Irregularly notched 82 Where the Limpopo flows:
abbr.
84 Legendary bird
86 “___ Rosenkavalier” 88 Not odd
89 Marsh bird
90 Jog along
92 “. . .a ___ ‘clock scholar” 94 Sarandon of film 95 Hoity-toity
96 Fruit for a split
97 Author Allende of Chile 98 Fire quencher
103 Colored linen tape
104 Musial, et al.
106 Whence the phoenix rose 109 Stroke or swipe start 111 Press one’s suit?
112 ___ Shan: Asian
mountains
114 Cub’s pack
116 Make flies for fishing 117 Common ender
118 Gun lobby
119 Squid’s squirt
120 Bee follower?
121 Mag moguls