OBSERVER CROSSWORD

Autumn rhyme

ACROSS 1 Ascend

6 Pets

13 Popular patio robe 19 Tosca

20 Put into motion

21 Kay Thompson's Plaza girl 22 Start of a verse for September

25 Open to suggestion 26 Thai language

27 Wail

28 Verbal "gift"

29 "Golden Boy" playwright 31 Cow's chew

32 Chopped off

36 Midwest terminal

37 Zilch

38 "CSI's" George

42 Yearn

43 Jejune

44 Parlor piece

45 "Major Barbara's" creator 46 More of verse

52 Lamprey

53 Crucial March date 54 Radio sign

55 Like an otary

56 B'way hit sign

57 Cru product

58 Caper

60 Uncover

61 Dustin Hoffman hit: 1982 63 Magician trick

65 Mend one's ways

68 Is

70 ___ glance

71 Sass

74 Hypothetical particle 75 Fishing net

76 Amorous Don

77 Coach Parseghian 78 More of verse

83 Songbird Brickell 84 Potter's medium

85 Ride to hounds 86 Descartes

87 Tear apart

88 ___ are you?

89 Kind of naked

91 Horse color

93 Valued bauble

94 "Pretty Little ___" 95 Protective coat

96 Sleeve opening

100 Intruder in the dust? 101 James Joyce's "___'s

Wake"

106 End of verse

110 Grammy winner Krauss 111 Windflower

112 "___ of Honey": 1961 film 113 Lone Star State citizens 114 Part of AMA

115 Shrill barks

DOWN 1 A New England bake 2 Earring site

3 Mashie or niblick 4 Sahara illusion

5 "___ Leroy Brown": song 6 Mystery author Kellerman 7 Sept. follower

8 Last degree

9 Insult avenger 10 Woolly

11 Guiding beliefs

12 Red or Dead 13 Peripatetic phone 14 Voiced

15 Good for the stew pot 16 "___ yellow ribbon . . ." 17 "___ of phrases learnt . . .": Swift

18 State bird of Hawaii 19 Ala. neighbor 23 Vestment

24 Satan himself 29 Buckeye State

30 Arp's art movement 32 Famed prison warden 33 Paint pigment 34 Sleuth Vance 35 ___ person: each

36 Table scraps

37 Take heed of

38 Give the slip

39 "Holding out for ___" 40 "Great" dogs 41 Sorenstam or Skarsgard 43 Concerning

44 Escargots

47 Leghorn, Italian style 48 Regional dialect

49 Court

50 Sea arm

51 Navigator's instrument 58 Stable state

59 Marie Antoinette, for one 60 ___ home: dine in 61 Leaned on the horn 62 Teeterboard

64 Boast about

65 Indy 500 entrant 66 Radiate

67 Make room for

69 Sun. talk

71 By and by

72 Papas from Greece 73 Jury body

75 Biblical dancer's namesakes 76 Unwanted email 79 Flying formations 80 Sear

81 Cather's "One of ___" 82 Hockey's Bobby 89 Transgressed 90 Japanese straw mat 91 Brunch day

92 Richly decorated 93 Boarded

94 "Mule Train" singer Frankie

95 Five-spot

96 Rat- ___: knocking sound 97 Upset

98 Nero's 2009

99 "For ___ jolly good fellow . . ."

101 Furnace feed

102 Equal, in Arles

103 Inhale sharply

104 River isles

105 Nearly no.

107 Country's Tillis

108 Sinbad's avian transport 109 "___ clear day . . ."