Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
OBSERVER CROSSWORD
New Year’s verse
ACROSS
1 ___ party aka sleepover 7 Splits ingredients
14 Girl Fri.
18 Lacking vigor
19 Metric foot
20 Make ___; begin 22 Start of a New Year’s
verse
25 Oater
26 Arti or parti ending 27 Herb shelf label 28 Writer LeShan
29 Paint pigment
31 Oscar Wilde’s forte 32 Commenced
36 William S. of CBS
37 ___ Na Na
38 Outrigger
42 Faulkner’s “Requiem for
___”
43 Scots Gaelic 44 Observed 45 Parallelogram: abbr. 46 More of verse
52 Under the weather 53 Kind of sch.
54 Golfer Calvin
55 Florida city
56 Certain X-ray 58 Opening word? 60 Mortise insertion 61 Picked up the tab 63 They can be dire 66 Rapids craft
69 Ts indebted
71 Toscanini’s title 75 Cancel, NASA style 76 Swimmer’s concern 77 Paisley toppers
78 Gasp of delight
79 More of verse 84 Songbird Adams
85 Not up yet
86 Bargain
87 Squeezer
88 Dispatch
89 Pronouns
90 Bundles of cotton 92 Separates the laundry 93 The works
94 Stair part
95 Definitely not a
four-poster
97 Afternoon affair
101 Winding shape
102 Form of rummy
106 End of verse
111 Small drums
112 Abbott and Costello film 113 Spring bloomer
114 Heaven, to Israelites 115 Nemo or Bligh
116 Places for boutonnieres
DOWN
1 Crony
2 Over again
3 Ballet jump
4 He’s “Famous” for cookies 5 Winter wear 6 Longed (for)
7 Home for heifers 8 Reply, briefly 9 Dissenting vote 10 Cochise or Geronimo 11 Anthony, of “Doctor Dolittle”
12 Lou Grant portrayer 13 R.R. stop
14 Balance sheet entry 15 For men only
16 “___ Prayer for Me Tonight”: “Gigi” song 17 Disney film, 1982
20 Boult, Zmed and six popes 21 Ring decision
23 Baseball stat
24 Remote region
29 Hops heater 30 Shakespeare’s grande
amoureuse, for short 32 Like ABC
33 ___ Gay: WWll plane 34 Culpability
35 Tiny toiler
36 High school highlight 37 Two-___: tandem 38 Legal order 39 Memorable actress Ada 40 Eye: prefix
41 Hindu “World Soul” 43 “Maria ___”
44 Appear as if
47 Stash out of sight 48 Wings: L.
49 Hose hookups: abbr. 50 Bakers get a rise out of it 51 Most torrid
57 Raged
58 He purchased The Last
Frontier
59 Plant blight
62 Baseball manager Joe
and family
64 Menotti’s crippled child 65 “___ camera . . .” 66 Christmas candies 67 Roof over one’s head 68 Out
70 Mole
72 “___ With Love”
73 Cook a capon
74 “___ T know the muffin man . . .”
76 Small piece of sugar 77 Moore poem starter 80 Small villages 81 Twiddling one’s thumbs 82 He sees the future 83 Nobelist writer Andric 90 Diocese dignitary
91 State firmly
92 Song division
93 Williams, of “Happy Days” 94 Nerve networks
95 Oriole Ripken
96 Ryan or Tatum
97 Fairy queen
98 From ___: the works 99 Novelist Morrison 100 Classic villain
102 Extended family
103 Ginger cookie?
104 Mah-jongg piece
105 “Clan of the Cave Bear”
author
107 Fictional creature
108 Hamm of soccer
109 “Lord is ___?”: Matt. 110 More in a taco joint