OBSERVER CROSSWORD

Pencil me blue

ACROSS

1 At all ___ 6 Right-to-receive certificate

11 Step

16 Large drawing room 17 Suppress

18 Social groups 20 Genus of trees 21 Useful

22 Widows

24 Baking compartment 25 Overstrain

27 Earth revolves around it 29 Open lesion

30 Early Russian space station 31 Undefiled 32 Employed 33 Churchill sign 34 Puffed

36 Rich source

37 Small upright piano 39 Malt beverage

40 Lees

42 Kind of pool 43 Terminates prematurely 45 Chinese dynasty 46 Catapult

47 FBI agent 48 Specimen

51 Burn with steam 52 City in central MN 56 Nimble

57 Intone

58 Warble

59 N.T. book, for short 60 Flagstaff, e.g. 61 Center of things 62 Hackneyed 63 Italian lake 64 Wrath

65 City in central VT 66 Small songbirds 67 City in NW Italy 68 Made dim 70 Balance 71 Unruffled

72 Goals

73 Pigeon species

74 Soft mineral 75 Crystalline mineral 78 Levees

79 SRO patron’s situation 83 Gasp

84 Number on clockface 86 Burn

87 Noble Italian family 88 Miss Garten 89 Eponymous ancestor of the Hebrews 90 Riding whip 91 Sailor: inf.

92 Frog genus

94 Horse provender 95 Biblical kings: Gk. 97 Underdone 98 Redactors

100 Cone-shaped domicile 102 Connected by blood 104 Bring into harmony 105 Atelier item

106 Figures of speech 107 American writer Richard

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108 Attire

109 Irish poet

DOWN

1 Provided food 2 Pearl Buck heroine 3 Costa del ___ 4 Surpasses 5 Breaking suddenly 6 The face of a cube 7 Charming little one? 8 Keep a ___ on: check 9 Noxious 10 Gratifying

11 Walk with long steps 12 Very: Fr.

13 Cause trouble to 14 Wading bird 15 Regain

16 Stylish London Row 19 Paved roadway

20 Toothed instruments 23 Prophets

26 Litter’s smallest 28 Stranger: Gk.

32 Set on end

35 Nun’s head cover 36 Word on the Wall 37 Long legged marsh bird 38 Mexican dish 39 Beethoven’s birthplace 41 Distance measure 42 Slope

44 To load with cargo 46 Frighten

47 Coarse hominy 48 Flavorful

49 Greek marketplace 50 Certain racer 51 Fragment

52 Pickle

53 French school 54 Style of type 55 Sluggard

57 Roman goddess of agriculture

58 Lock of hair

61 Treat 62 Attempts

63 Ring

65 Nota ___ 66 Interlaced 67 Dissolve

69 SE England county 70 Card game

71 River to the Moselle 73 Stripped

74 Early Boston event 75 Steeple

76 Dish with soaked bread crumbs

77 Silliness 78 Obligation

79 “A ___ in the Dark” 80 Landed properties 81 Gazes

82 Name in Genesis 85 Certain contracts 86 Baskets for anglers 90 Algonquian speakers 93 ___ boy!

94 River in NW France 95 Church projection 96 Withered 97 Engrossed 99 Umpire’s call

101 Sense organ 103 Hawaiian volcano Mauna