OBSERVER CROSSWORD Domestic

ACROSS

Citi field team Lowest female voice “___ the season to be . . .” Singer Lane

“We’ll tak’ ___ o’kindness ...” 17 Appearance

19 “Spenser: For Hire” star 21 Armstrong or Simon 22 Just what a workaholic

mom wants?

24 See 22 Across 26 Conscious

27 ___ -tikki-tavi: Kipling mongoose Discombobulate Early capital of Japan “Fatha” or Jerome Other, in Oviedo Lend a hand

Word in a French toast Extracts by boiling Weill’s “___ the Knife” See 22 Across Mauna ___

At ___: perplexed Papuan port Nuisance Industrial diamond Erwin ofTV

See 22 Across Bananas

Parisian seat of learning Lewis’s partner

May 9th honoree Ancient Greek region Nat Turner, notably Tippy craft Petrarch offering Macbeth title Maugham’s middle name Impulses

See 22 Across Pasture

Lost in thought Effective person

Bee follower Pitchman’s confederate Letter from Greece See 22 Across

“The ___ lama he’s a priest”: Nash 88 “Carrottop”

90 Upright

91 Queen of whodunits 93 Bacchanalian bash 94 Army VIPs

95 White House office 96 Hi-fi component 99 Raccoon’s cousin

100 Literary defense of ideas 104 Shoe tool

106 See 22 Across

108 Wheel bearer

109 Beethoven’s “Fur ___” 110 J.R.’s mother, Miss ___ 1 5 9 12 16 29 30 31 32 33 36 37 41 42 46 47 49 50 51 52 53 58 59 61 62 63 64 65 66 68 69 72 73 75 76 77 78 79 81 82 87 111 Part of QED

112 Bleaching vat

113 Mrs. Hurok’s son

114 Harp’s ancestor

115 Belafonte’s “Banana Boat

Song”

DOWN

1 Eucharist celebration 2 “___ homo”: Pilate’s words 3 Rotate

4 Soviet satellites

5 Prince ___: frock coats 6 Blackmore’s Doone 7 Racetrack tipster 8 Approves

9 Monkey or tree

10 German pronoun

11 Most brief

12 “. . . little___ late”: Nevins 13 Borscht base

14 Roll logs in a roleo 15 Or___!

18 Memorial site 19 Maintenance

20 Korean GTs

23 Prejudice

25 Kind of pine tree

28 Kind of verb, for short 31 “No other love ___ . . .” 32 Pindar, for one

33 Pile up

34 City on the Uruguay 35 See 22 Across

36 Quench

38 See 22 Across

39 Rich cake

40 Faun

43 Actress Massey

44 ___ citato

45 Welsh onion

48 Teatime treats

51 Ulan ___: Mongolian

capital

54 Step ___!

55 Brilliant success 56 Informal argot

57 June, of “The Girl Next Door”

Boo-boos

Lisa, of “A Different World” Dramatic “Auntie” A Redstone Cryptographer

More confident Sound off Adolescent “Slammin’ Sammy” 58 60 62 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 73 74 77 80 82

Smorgasbord supplier Bridge scorecard Given to brooding Sacred images

___ heels: dawdle Reamed out Middle of Napoleonic palindrome

“Thou hast not youth ___” Shak.

84 Insect that bugged Alice 85 ___ oneself: upset 86 Ardent fan

89 Nursery rhyme Jack 92 “Le Roi d’Y’s” composer 94 Peat marshes

95 King Solomon’s mines site 96 Neighbor of Minn.

97 Judd Hirsch sitcom 98 Gardner of many “cases” 99 Cover, as a room

100 “. . . many ___ trick”:

Saxon

101 German city south of

Leipzig

102 Faulkner’s “As ___ Dying” 103 Concerning

105 Nanty ___, Pennsylvania 107 Under the weather

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