Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
OBSERVER CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Diminutive helper 4 Stunning stones 8 Slatted box
13 Pileus
16 “O sole ___”
17 Angry
19 Light amplification device 20 Yield
21 Love, in Madrid 22 Actor Ed
23 CO ski resort
24 Large ring 25 Rabelaisian voracity 29 Agree
30 French souls
31 In better spirits 35 Impetuously
37 Strict class distinction 40 Sudden thrust
41 “___ It Lays”: Joan Didion book
44 Enormously dull person 46 Zodiac sign
47 Tennis unit
48 A kind of protest
49 ___ after: desired 50 Goddess of discord 52 Diminish, with “out” 54 Hope, in Le Havre 57 Outer space visitors 58 Make ___: ridicule 60 Original Peruvian 62 Round ___: tournament 64 Statuesque dimness 71 Eminent
72 Small mountain lake 73 T.S. or George
75 Offer
78 Paul of ___
81 ___ bourguignon 84 Swans’ place
85 “___ at the Opera” 87 Glass fragment
89 Posed
91 Skelton or Auerbach 92 Immense enjoyment 95 Renewed tires 97 Contributor
98 Take up
99 Scamp
100 “The Holy ___
the Profane . . .”
102 A prophetic sign
104 Formed into a heap 108 Huge hands
112 The south of France 115 Whirl, pirouette, etc. 116 Split
117 Brit. baby carriage 118 Experts
119 Form or shape, to Plato 120 Derived from oil
121 Dry: Fr. 122 Ink’s partner 123 Silesia, in Silesia 124 A prolific Gardner 125 Superlative ending
DOWN
1 Bovary and Woodhouse 2 Fabricators
3 Faked signature 4 Goliath’s move 5 Formerly, formerly 6 Handy guidebooks 7 Torrid
8 Applaud
9 Grate upon
10 Miens
11 Grows choppers 12 Golfer Els
13 Corp. head
14 Fuss
15 Vitality
18 Sea bird
20 Little angels 21 Ottoman official 26 Writer Nin 27 Neckwear item
28 CO Film Festival 32 Expression of observation
33 Long-plumed wader 34 Tall aquatic grasses 36 Animosity
38 “I cannot tell ___ . . . “39 Some descendants 41 Intro. essay 42 Warning, old style 43 A protein-building acid 44 About: L.
45 Excuse 48 Dispatched
51 Ballad, e.g.
53 Pale colors
55 Shape a shrub
56 “Allez ___!”: 1934 film 59 One who advances
61 Old in Oldenburg 63 Unwilling, in days of yore 65 Canal or duct
66 Corn unit
67 Sword used in fencing 68 Trampled, sometimes 69 Crownlike headdress 70 Bound together 74 Senator Kennedy and poet Hughes 75 Disreputable women 76 ___ water: trouble spot
77 The huntress
79 “. . . teach ___ number our days”: Psalms 90:12 80 Vessel
82 Employs 83 Enormously little hope? 86 Space between vocal cords
88 “I ___ bold”: Shak. 90 Characteristic 93 Letters to the stars 94 Supplemental material 95 Rehearsed quickly
96 A plane curve 99 Spring back 101 Mosquito genus 103 Majorca municipality 105 Traditional knowledge 106 Legislate
107 Military award: abbr. 109 Sgts., etc.
110 Writing table 111 Conceal 112 Cartographer’s creation 113 Put on ___: postpone 114 Lair