OBSERVER CROSSWORD

Hidden meaning

ACROSS

1 Popular U.S. stamp 5 Hebrew letters: var. 10 Rappers’ digs

14 Suckers

19 Landed

20 Cabbage, cake or theater 21 Comply

22 Spanish month

23 Motor mouths? 25 Wimbledon gala? 27 Moose and Barklay 28 Sample

30 Candy founder H.B.

31 ___ a one

32 “Carol” director Haynes 33 Borg

35 Water collectors

38 Oman obeisance 40 Quondam

44 Class-A

45 Shopping stop for the building boss?

47 Org. devoted to the arts 48 Friend in need 49 Hemingway nickname 50 Santa Monica site 51 Comic Sandler

52 Step up RPMs

53 Military graffiti?

57 George Lucas’ “___ Wars” 58 Squelch

60 First minor prophet 61 Pleated frills

62 Capacious 63 Philanthropist 64 Electrician

65 Contend against

67 A Charlie Chan player 68 Most elevated

70 With no animation 71 Sowing and reaping? 73 Jack of clubs 75 Memorable times 76 Murray and West 77 Gymnastic lows

78 Shape to fit

79 Eastern holiday

80 Harlem Globetrotter? 84 First-seen asteroid 85 Crystal gazer

87 Power source

88 Buddhist treatise 89 Overjoy

91 Orchestral voice 92 Essence

93 Issei’s child

95 Get ___ out of: provoke 97 Wall support

101 Sprite binoculars?

103 Kitchenware worshippers? 105 Praying figure

106 Habit

107 Rubbed the wrong way 108 ERA, for one 109 Oater deputies 110 “___ It Be Me” 111 Young mayfly 112 Second digits

DOWN

1 Final 2 Salonikan’s flask 3 Candidate

4 Time out of mind 5 Fall bloomers 6 Texan Hagman 7 Green or Mendez 8 Beau Brummell 9 Cardiologist’s concern 10 1945 summit site 11 Aid’s partner 12 Star in Cygnus 13 Sub. word 14 Nickname for Utah 15 Straight

16 Pod pellets 17 Perry’s Gardner 18 Impresario Hurok 24 Photographer Arbus 26 Shirt shaper 29 Month before Nisan 32 Spanish snacks 34 Maher’s stock-intrade 35 Wall Street beast 36 Pis ___: last resort 37 Flatware often 38 Bolsters: abbr. 39 Cartographer

41 Big casino spender? 42 Has in mind 43 Soprano Emma 45 Impertinent 46 Actress/singer Wilson 49 Villon couplet 51 “Virginia Woolf ” playwright 53 Verbose

54 “The Big ___” 55 Peregrinated

56 Val d’___ 57 Sagan and Hubbell 59 Office groups 61 Breaks with 63 town: does a job

64 “Big Poison” of baseball 65 “Golden Boy” author 66 Blender product 67 Level 68 Principle

69 Candle

71 Gounod opera 72 Expressed a preference 74 Isolated plateau 76 Variegated decoration 78 Middle-of-theroader 80 Actress Holm 81 Sotomayer or Alito 82 Automne preceders 83 Undercover ploy? 84 Social category 86 Bow fresheners 88 Shared earnings

90 Lit. signature

92 ___ percha 93 Pianist Peter 94 Cleo’s handmaiden 96 1996 Tony musical 97 ___ B’rith

98 Punta del ___ 99 Baseball great Musial 100 Heathrow arrivals, for short

101 Bubbly stuff

102 Night flyer 104 Military macaw