OBSERVER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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Large-mouthed fish Viacom’s Redstone girl Ripened

Likely

___ above the average: better

She’s Reddy to sing Roof overhang Cause distaste Historic April shower? Pompeii’s blanket Dregs

Duck

Given a hint Designer Oscar ___ Renta Declaim Huckster’s helper Belgian city

Actor Kevin of “Sophie’s Choice”

Garden activity Songwriter Sammy and family Manhattan area in an April shower?

Feel poorly

Waste allowance Siamese

Golden Rule word

___ -fi: Ray Bradbury’s forte

Pinna is its outer part Appropriate April wear? Like an igloo’s roof

Hit ___: start traveling Letter sign-off

Coyly decorous Ancient Aegean region Mast spar Lubricated

Not in attendance Rosinante or Traveller Slows the horses Rectory

Nielsen gives April showers?

Half a dance name

Hill dweller Tennyson poem Peculiar to one: Comb. form

76 ___ moss

77 RR stop

78 Northerners in April? 82 Zoo favorite

83 Tanning equipment

85 “Ars ___, vita brevis” 86 Grain product

87 ___ Buena, in San Francisco Bay

“For ___ sake!” Misplaced Soprano Lucine of the Met Obtuse

Ava’s was barefoot

On the ___: sailing

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72 73 74 75 88 89 90 91 92 96 97 Businessman in April? 99 Matriculate

100 King-sized sandwich 101 ___ living: work

102 Tatum’s dad

103 Difficult age, often 104 Chief honcho of the Aesir 105 Procrastinate

106 Eliel Saarinen’s son

DOWN

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Word play

Cave dwellers often Hurt all over Pressed charges Shrill

Sheriff ‘s badge Would-be redhead’s rinse “Thanks ___!” Ump’s counterpart Meantime Introduces oxygen En ___!: fencing cry Olive’s first press Strauss’s “___ Rosenkavalier” Pecan confection Outcome “Hamlet” highlight in April? 17 18 24 25 29 31 32 33 34 35

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Require

High transits Positive responses Linda or Dale Lively Latin bombshell Fatty acid-related Thin one’s nickname Eight maids a-singing Caldwell or Bernhardt Ethel Barrymore’s April fib?

New Jersey governor, 1982–90

Kicks a pigskin More pleasant Move smoothly Bygone Bara Beverage unit Characteristic “Death Be Not Proud” poet Excessive: Prefix Kitchen gadget Ramé’s pen name Fleur ___ Premonitory signal Fish eggs Muralist Rivera Book repository 61 62 63 64 66 67 69 70 71 74 76 78 79 80 81 82 84 86 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98

Avifauna

Pile up

African people Minestrone, et al. “___ dream. . .” Birth-related Argentinean plain Model/actress Cheryl Brainstorm

Cobra’s cousin Parquet circle “Newhart” brothers Fine French lace

___ hot: so-so Prepared to propose Popular pasta sauce Use as a prop TV comedian Tim Laboratory dish Blackmore’s Doone “Rule Britannia” composer Mortgage paper Sandburg or Reiner Terrier type

Char slightly Cartoonist Peter Gambler’s act

“The ___”, of rock ‘n’ roll New Guinea seaport