OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS

1. No longer dangerous 5. Combined by melting 10. Gives a real beatin’ to 15. Links numbers 16. Captain’s standby 17. Brightly colored fish 18. W.W. I soldier 20. Gumbo vegetables 21. The “U” of UHF 22. Catches sight of 23. Reason to cram 24. Banded metamorphic rock 26. High tidal wave 28. Computer menu option 30. Big Apple attraction, with “the” 31. Invitation abbreviation 34. Utterance after a spill 36. Cream of the crop 38. Number cruncher, for short 39. Absorb, as a cost 40. Rain-bringers of Greek myth 43. Wide-brimmed summer headgear 45. Opportunities, so to speak 46. Be against 49. Couples 50. Suggestions 51. Dickens’s ___ Heep 53. Respiratory problem 54. Queen’s Bohemian _______ 55. When repeated, like some shows 57. Cowboy boot attachment 58. Otherwise 59. Anomalous 62. Fix, in a way 63. Bang-up 64. Peter the Great, e.g.

DOWN

1. Software program, briefly 2. New Mexico art community 3. Cheese on crackers 4. Not alert 5. Hoof infection 6. Maintenance 7. “Dear” ones 8. Carry away, in a way 9. John ___ Passos 11. Burrow 12. When computers work 13. Analyze, in a way 14. Cascades peak 19. It’s a free country 21. Loosen, as laces 24. Overlays with gold 25. Tolkien creatures 27. Attack 29. Scarcity 32. Tater 33. Vila’s nation 35. Boutique 37. Autocrats 39. Atlantic Coast states, with “the” 41. Part of BYO 42. Campus area 44. Canadian lout 45. Kind of fingerprint 47. High school class, for short 48. Commandment pronoun 50. Messaging format 51. Out of bed 52. Not to mention 56. Opportune 60. “Two Years Before the Mast” writer 61. Textile worker 62. Warmed the bench