OBSERVER CROSSWORD

Egged on

ACROSS

1 Angel’s music-maker 5 Betty of cartoons

9 NY art museum 13 Supply party food 18 “Busy as ___” 19 Odin’s coterie 20 “Manhattan Beach” author

21 Hostess Winfrey 22 POACHED

25 A mite suspicious 26 Take care of 27 “Olympia” painter 28 Miller’s salesman and family

29 De Klerk’s country: abbr. 30 Discharged 31 Attorney General Reno 32 Jeweled trinkets 35 Fiber knots in sweaters 36 Apartment for amours 39 Operating 40 HARD-BOILED 42 Susan of “LA Law” 43 Pinnacle

44 Snick’s partner

45 RR stop 46 Comedian Wilson 47 U-boat

48 BAKED

52 Marie Antoinette title 53 Encased as records 55 Smut, briefly 56 Tightly curled 57 Garden tool 58 Lassoed

59 Actor Tom of “Amadeus” 60 Like some expense accounts

62 French legislature 63 ___ cluster

65 “Wait ___ Dark” 66 FLORENTINE 68 Quick curtsey

70 Pull up stakes 71 Trifling bit of money 72 Virginia willow 73 Evans or Carnegie 74 Neighbor of Ger. 75 FRIED 80 Harbinger of spring 81 Superficial 83 Library device 84 Sustained, with up 85 Artist Reni

86 Fender imperfections 87 Rock group 88 Devilfish

90 Aptly named author 91 Forest edge

96 Cause consternation 97 BENEDICT

99 Half of CMIV, the hard way

100 October birthstone 101 Small glass bottle 102 Cartoonist Peter

103 “Everything ___ end”: old

saying

104 Whig’s counterpart 105 Makes lace

106 Affirmitive votes

DOWN

1 Sound of merriment 2 Border on 3 Budget concern 4 Baseball’s Charlie Hustle 5 So ___: amen 6 Erstwhile Christiania 7 Black gold 8 Insurance payment 9 Most miserly 10 Made eyes at

11 Beer ingredient 12 “Have you ___ wool?” 13 Blimp or Sanders 14 Tarzan and the like 15 CODDLED

16 Merit

17 “The Americans” Matthew

19 Large African antelope 23 Follow

24 Greta of “Mata Hari”

28 Volcano output 30 Takes to one’s heels 31 Biblical whale lodger 32 Prejudice

33 Small ear bone 34 SCRAMBLED 35 Slammin’ Sammy 36 Relative of bingo 37 Fishing net

38 Put in a category 40 Beneath

41 “All that ___ shall be . . . ”: Sophocles 44 Redeemed 46 Engage in swordplay 48 German philosopher Georg

49 “Once ___ time . . . ” 50 Wall St. term 51 Jake’s love in “The Sun Also Rises”

52 Moon crater 54 Murphy or Cantor 56 Fran and Ollie’s friend 58 Updike’s “Rabbit ___” 59 Cut the alfalfa 60 Cougars

61 Actress Aimee 62 Single-masted ship

63 Playful river animal 64 ___ de grandeur: megalomania

66 Kind of path, maybe 67 Locations

69 Stoop 73 Judgment time 75 Infamous Ugandan dictator

76 Buntline and Sparks

77 In a perfect world 78 Nash thought it dandy 79 Try

80 ___ Rivoli, Louvre street 82 Beaverlike fur

84 Grill

86 Scotch manufacturer 88 Speed-sound ratio number 89 Alan or Robert 90 Emilio Estevez’s “___ Man” 91 Court order 92 Anglo-Saxon money 93 Hungarian hero Nagy 94 “Two Years Before the Mast” author 95 Slaughter of baseball 97 Part of NIMBY 98 Eureka!