OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS 1. Tanzania neighbour 7. ___-frutti 12. “Darn it all!” 16. Skill 17. Garden pest 18. Repeat 19. New York city 20. Gas units 21. Get-out-of-jail money 22. Raise a stink 23. Accolade 24. Blasé 25. Indian bread 26. Chap 27. Get there 28. Cold war initials 30. Redistrict unfairly 35. Durable wood 37. Deans 38. Elder Boy Scout 42. Allot, with “out” 43. Greek earth goddess: Var. 47. “Fathers and Sons” novelist Ivan 49. Not brotherly 51. Cast wearer’s problem 52. Artless one 54. Church feature 55. Argonon 57. “Indubitably” 58. Naval officer 63. At hand 66. To excess 67. Part of N.Y.C. 69. Hard throw, in baseball 71. Move 72. Blooper 75. Cyprinid fish 76. Spirit 77. Tone down 78. Jest 79. Contact, e.g. 80. Alaskan native 81. Standing stone 82. Barely beat 83. Good person 84. Sock pattern DOWN 1. Complete reversal 2. French sponge cake 3. Martians and such 4. Adam’s apple spot 5. Some trial evidence 6. Word before large 7. Corrupted 8. ___ no good 9. Like some streets 10. Ticket info, maybe 11. Driver’s lic. and others 12. Converted, in a way 13. Mite 14. Lift, so to speak 15. Conjoin 20. Marathon 23. Element #2’s symbol 24. Bikini parts 26. Annoy 27. Free pardon 29. Make a murmuring sound 31. CD follower 32. Bakery selections 33. Abominable snowmen 34. ___ spumante 36. John Fitzgerald ____ 39. Director’s cry 40. Mythical monster 41. Camelot, to Arthur 43. “Silly” birds 44. Dadaism founder 45. Down with the flu 46. “The ___ have it” 48. Henry ___ 50. Itsy-bitsy 53. It’s a wrap 55. Fit as a fiddle 56. Banquo’s killer 58. Debris 59. Hardened 60. Totaling 61. Wrinkled 62. Big cat 64. Voters’ problem 65. Draw back 68. Gift-tag word 70. Romance, e.g. 72. Bundle 73. Harbinger 74. Sonata, e.g. 75. Cow pie 77. Beaver’s work 78. Each 81. Murray or Perkins