PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Opaque gem 5 Place with a slicer 9 Clean up a debt 14 Singer Tennille or Braxton 15 Related by blood 16 “A closed mouth gathers no foot,” e. g. 17 “If you are stuck in an old routine ...” 20 Lagoons’ surrounders 21 Assisted 22 Didn’t wax 23 Bamako’s country 25 Merino matriarch 28 Draught drink 29 Be generous 31 Yellow citrus 33 Pre- birth berths 34 Butt- centered protests 35 “If you are worried about the past ...” 38 Like straight men 39 Practices for a prize fight 40 Keiko and similar creatures 41 Navigation system’s offering 42 Automobile 45 Little piggy, in a rhyme 46 Hubbub 47 Macbeth’s title 49 Robber or shoplifter 52 Type of power or bomb 53 “If you’ve wronged someone, say ...” 57 Encore airing 58 Hawaiian outdoor feast 59 Periods of note, in history books 60 Praise and then some 61 River in Ireland or eagle type 62 Irish miss

DOWN

1 Senators’ home turf 2 Point of entry 3 “I don’t care who” 4 Super- strong cotton thread 5 Equine mothers 6 Scratch out, as a living 7 Like an active candle 8 Get some air? 9 McNally’s partner in maps 10 Margin 11 Pervasive, as a disease 12 Mature 13 Archery bow material 18 Parents and grandparents, to teens 19 Three, in Roman numerals 23 Crumbly soil 24 Short melodic solos 26 Serious, studious one of slang 27 Naval rank ( abbr.) 30 Villain’s nemesis 31 Texts of operas 32 Airport board postings 33 Pupil’s setting 34 Card game 35 Infamous emperor 36 “You can guess the rest” 37 Work for an orchestra? 38 Like jalapenos 41 Aggravate, as feathers? 42 You can take a shot with it 43 Personas’ counterparts 44 Grade- school outside break 46 Thing on a doctor’s invoice 48 Extremely run- down home 50 Do a trucker’s job 51 “Money ___ everything” 52It can give you fits 53 “Med” or “fix” lead- in 54 “Superman” foe Luthor 55 “And now a word from ___ sponsor” 56 Proved to be a chicken