DIAGRAMLESS, 21 X 21

ACROSS 1 Merchant of Venice

heroine 7 Great destruction 12 Beehive home 13 Actress Hubbard of “Akeelah and the Bee” 14 Formal requirement 16 Sicilian tourist

attraction 18 Strangeness 19 Arizona tourist locale with red rocks 20 Dance night 21 Princess and the ___ 22 Soybean curd 23 George Washington’s dream 24 Indian spice

mixture 30 Lawn-care products brand 35 Above the horizon 36 It shows the way 37 Undisturbed 39 Sweet or russet 40 Political prisoner,

e.g. 42 Pioneer nurse and humanitarian, Barton 44 Native of the

Emerald Isle 49 Afternoon affair component 54 Go between 55 Heart parts 56 Last-ditch bet 57 NASA creation 58 Better groomed 60 It may be in blocks 62 Wood sorrels 66 Tolkien menace 67 Seal eater 68 Minuscule 72 Tailor’s tool 76 For each one 77 Shepherd’s pie

ingredients 78 Aquafina

competitor 79 Primitive humans 80 Conveys 81 Accusers DOWN 1 “Take a ___ sparkling eyes”Gilbert 2 Ideal 3 French for nothing 4 London art center,

___ Modern 5 Pale purple shade 6 Affirmatives 7 Skirt lines 8 Comic Johnson 9 Fought 10 Seafood dish 11 European film

festival locale 14 Broke down 15 1992 Dustin Hoffman film 17 Laser-pointer

battery 25 Sahara-like 26 ___ qua non 27 Aide, abbr. 28 “Star Wars”

princess 29 Prank 30 ____ Paolo 31 PC display device 32 Hour, in Italian 33 Preschooler 34 ___ timer 38 Not illuminated 39 Jeopardy 41 Spike 43 Nepali

or Tibetan 45 Robust 46 Leon Uris’s “___ 18” 47 ‘Nothing is __ __

seems’ 48 Wild goose 49 Confucian path 50 Series-shortening

abbr. 51 Biblical boat 52 Mud or apple 53 Horse fodder 57 Get 59 Cocky fellow 60 Tiny amount 61 Blini cousins 63 Makes like Frank

Sinatra 64 Land unit 65 Backtalk 69 Düsseldorf denial 70 Large amount 71 Hankerings 72 Wingspread,

say 73 Nightclub of song 74 Thingy 75 Word said before “time” and “place”