OBSERVER CROSSWORD PUZZLER

ACROSS

1. Yes, we know, it’s all bigger there 5. ___ President 10. Fruit, spinach, Caeser 15. It’s __! Bring it! 16. Chair, lamb, get up 18. Don’t lose your head! 20. Put forth 23. Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopia 24. No year 25. Compost, Darjeeling, party 26. Primitive forest getaway 27. Not kosher 29. High or low, graphically 31. Eric, the __. E’s half a one 32. Seaweed stiffener 34. Mongolian capital (anglicised) 37. The __ Crowd 38. Third(?) essential amino acid 40. Sick and _____ 42. Irrational, mathematically speaking 43. Son of Japeth, son of Noah 45. Poor excuse 48. After 49. Worth taking out, in time 50. Maximum opposite 51. Skin, musical, muscle 52. Rhine tributary. 53. Tip top! 54. Man of the sea 55. Access to dinner 56. Inspire with a quality 57. Very, extremely 59. Eyeful dump 60. Joke sites 61. Leave out 62. Bound 63. Name and password holder 64. Don’t you be giving me no ____ now.

DOWN

1. Put these on, put on the ritz 2. An elegant sufficiency 3. Conscientious slugger 4. Quarried paving stone 6. TV interruption, nauseum 7. Drops on blades 8. Biting, as in satire 9. Eireann mother 10. ___, COS, TAN 11. Half a starry transport 12. When repeated, like some shows 13. Absorbed, as a loss 14. A hand, a blow, with it 17. Noun made of a verb 19. Candy, as in Rowntree’s Fruit 21. Astronomical flag, with bars 22. Sandwich meat shop 28. Visionary 30. Fit to be taken in 31. Trouble, beer, storm without -ing 33. Second of the environmental choices 35. Fix 36. You can go with this, __ you can go with that 39. Crumb 41. Bring the boys back home 44. Compact hay 46. Hokkaido native 47. Singularly the bee’s best! 48. Campaigner, for short 49. Put the hat on the family’s head 51. Spinning toy 52. __, myself and I 53. I exist, in other words 58. Live mouthful 59. Indian turnover 60. Chunk of chewed food