Observer Crossword
READING LIST
ACROSS
1 Whimper 5 Dogpatch creator 9 Independent
agricultural agcy. 12 Late funnyman
Arnold
17 Snakes: prefix 18 Add up 19 Playwright
O’Casey
20 Of stem-leaf
connections 21 Bestseller by Rosamunde Pilcher
24 Small African
antelope
25 Throat tissue 26 Holy: prefix 27 Wine lovers’ prefix 29 Very long time 30 Baseball statistic 31 Bestseller by
Steve Vogel 35 Protozoan
related:var.
37 To be, in old
Rome
38 Bat material 39 Abbot: Fr.
41 Like peas in ___ 43 Irish ancestor 46 Gossip tidbit 50 Pinch
51 A Finger Lake 54 Understand
55 “___ be in
England . . .” 56 Familiarizes 59 Pianist Cliburn 60 Polaris, for one 61 Consume 62 Bestseller by Andy
Rooney
65 Salutes
67 Cry’s companion 68 High transit trains,
for short 69 Grenoble goose 70 First letters
71 Los Alamos
product 73 Bestseller by Bill
Cosby
79 Hem or baste 80 OBE title 81 Carmine
82 Bad mark 83 Misfortunes 85 Garden dweller 86 Kind of
crustacean 88 Last: abbr.
89 Too
90 Disembark 92 Unctuous 93 Charles canine 94 Digit
96 Colorado Indians 100 ___ Buck: 1985
Derby winner 102 Bestseller by Dale
Brown
108 Avid
111 Attorney’s org. 112 Achievement 113 Dies ___
114 Mother of
Dionysus
115 Code name 117 Bestseller by Joseph Wambaugh 121 More peculiar 122 Blackjack cousin:
Brit.
123 Adams
namesakes 124 Neighbor of Minn. 125 Snug spots 126 DDE predecessor 127 Unit of force 128 Sailors
DOWN
1 Norman castle site 2 A Spartan
magistrate 3 Best-seller by
Truddi Chase 4 Supple
5 Army off. 6 USA-Eur. link 7 Turkish title 8 Gratify
9 Charge 10 Chocolate
substitute 11 Photographer
Adams
12 Netlike headgear 13 Rocky peak 14 French farewell 15 Wealthy prominent
one
16 Quick flash
18 ___ Aviv
19 Pelts
22 Employ 23 Self-images 28 Less messy 31 Most mature 32 MBA subj.
33 Agcy. once headed by Lewis Strauss
34 State of Lima 36 Enough, in
Parma
39 In a little while 40 Prefix with meter
or graph 42 Degenerate 44 Regard
45 Star part 47 Bestseller by
Robert Ludlum 48 Etc. counterpart 49 Pithy remarks 52 Motivation 53 Author Mendez 57 Ending for arbor 58 Pac. islands 60 Relative of
skedaddle 63 Tower of London
warders
64 Units of loudness 65 Injure
66 Irish Rose lover 71 Korea’s continent 72 Tower occupant? 73 Volcano output 74 Biblical lion 75 Publisher Ochs 76 Color anew
77 Thin layer of gold 78 Comics’ Kett 80 Part of an editor’s
job
84 “And ___ bed”:
Pepys
87 Famed tower town 91 French nobleman 93 Unyielding
95 Bids
97 Chicken part 98 Architect Saarinen 99 Closed tightly 101 ___ -do-well 102 Pythias’s friend 103 Dwelling
104 Cookout areas 105 Leave the egg 106 Fundamental
character
107 A Roosevelt 109 “Enigma Variations” composer
110 Exudes s strong
odor
114 Mayday relative 116 Tennis unit
118 Superlative suffix 119 One, in Berlin 120 Michelle Obama,
___ Robinson