DIAGRAMLESS, 21 X 21

ACROSS

1 Scottish cap 4 Wild, edible mushrooms 8 Hot casino destination in China 10 City of southern Honshu 12 A Mitsubishi 13 Strong paper 15 “Tosca” composer 16 Bull dog feature 18 Zones 19 Instrument similar to radar 23 Chess piece 26 “___ of the Flies” 27 Of a Middle Eastern country 28 Barely beat 29 Halo 30 Skater Lipinski and others 31 Scrutinizes 32 Footnote word 33 Bracelet site 34 ___-a-brac 35 “Four Essays on Liberty” author Berlin 37 Act relating to family leave, abbr. 41 TV host 43 Ancient garden spot 44 Wound around 45 Not taken in by 46 Grassland 48 Popular pens 52 Use a surgical beam 56 “It’s only ___!” 57 World flying association, abbr. 58 Normal 60 Smooth over again 61 Round number 62 Country idol Underwood 64 Grantorto’s victim in ‘’The Faerie Queene’’ 65 Squelched 66 Proportional 69 Ne’er-do-well 72 Medieval helmet 73 Turkish capital 74 Nation near Fiji 75 More than “you” 76 Piece of a comet 77 Slangy turndown

DOWN

1 Baby bottom sprinkles 2 Berry 3 “Death in Venice” writer, Thomas 4 Include, contain 5 “I saw ___ sawing wood...” 6 Twinge 7 Desert lizard 8 Paving material 9 Putting function before beauty 11 Singly 12 “C’est la ___” 14 Line to the audience 15 Lordly 17 Like some beaters 18 Soviet range 20 Qom native 21 Decadent snack, to some 22 Stuffy, as it were 24 Texter’s giggle 25 Six-pointers, for short 34 Bête noire 35 Road hazard 36 Earth 37 Waste 38 Da Vinci painting ending 39 Wranglers alternative 40 What’s more 42 Male slave 46 With differences 47 Elbe tributary 48 Quite unusual 49 Summer drink 50 Christmas ___ 51 In a minute 52 Director Jean-___ Godard 53 “Solid ___ rock” (Ashford & Simpson lyric) 54 Tom and Katie’s baby 55 Nets 59 Actress Kudrow et al. 63 Acclaim 65 Hiding place 67 Michigan town or college 68 Fifth-century pope who was sainted 70 Any day now 71 Gull-like bird