DIAGRAMLESS, 21 X 21

ACROSS

Chicago airport 1 6 Conspire Worth 12 13 Landing place of Noah’s Ark 14 Separating via

strainer 16 Snug state 19 Fees charged to

sponsors 20 Phantom 21 Shakespearean

king 22 Suffix with consist 23 Poivre’s companion 24 Thun’s river 25 Everglades beast 31 Not containing life’s basic building blocks 36 Blown away 37 Sosa or Davis 38 Young and

feminine 40 Place for a ruler 41 Trapped 43 Heron’s cousin 45 Strangeness 50 Brimless headgear 55 Raucous 56 Ran ___ of the law (on the wrong side) 57 Philly player 58 Bugbear 62 CIA document

destroyers 67 Black as night,

poetically 68 German auto

export 69 Feeler 70 ___ Lamont (“Singin’ in the Rain” role) 71 Creative 76 Patronizes 79 Disjointed

musically 80 Sound entrance

point 81 Scarcity 82 Charlton Heston

title role 83 Dry gulch 84 Carpentry

tool

DOWN

1 Generally 2 Danish cheese 3 Stayed after

descending 4 Old Germanic

character 5 Brain tests, abbr. 6 Pouches 7 Field yield 8 Confusion 9 Cream’s Clapton 10 Woman’s cloak 11 Undying 14 The new ketchup 15 Beyond compare 17 Backbone parts 18 More cunning 26 “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” musical 27 Has ___ with 28 Fictional plantation 29 Fly-by-night birds 30 Bridle attachments 31 Cigar residue 32 Hatchback, e.g. 33 Mopey, like some rock music 34 Letter trio 35 Caustic solution 39 Like a downed sub 40 ___ cotta 42 Future fish 44 High flying toys 46 Ark builder 47 MIT grad. 48 Shopping event, perhaps 49 Snow rider 50 Light brown 51 Aircraft 52 French for king 53 Sticker 54 Schooner filler 58 Trials 59 Film critic Roger 60 Mexican dish 61 Siren 63 Playful fish 64 60 minutes of “CSI” 65 Of the kidneys 66 Bluish gray 72 Lasting impression 73 Polynesian paste base 74 Wee, informally 75 Small salmon 76 Ooze, as through

cracks 77 Where a lecture

may be given 78 Whale type