PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Couches 6 Certain

equine 9 Beseeches 14 Ramble on

pointlessly 15 “Roots”

actor Vereen 16 English Channel city 17 Old Houston

player 18 Toothpaste

box letters 19 Base of a number system 20 Some requests for payments 23 “Glengarry

___ Ross” 24 Vatican emissary 25 Rap sheet

letters 28 Market

closing? 29 Help! 30 Big name in

electronics 32 Meteorologists study them 34 Persia, once 35 It could be issued from the White House 41 In ___ of

( replacing) 42 HRs and TDs,

e. g. 43 Open, as a

seat belt 47 “Not sure yet,”

on a sched. 48 Hallucinogenic drug 51 Barely make, as a living ( with “out”) 52 Hard to

believe 54 Cato’s eight 55 Things delivered by PA systems 58 Claw on

a hawk 60 Opposite of

“yeah” 61 The spleen,

for one 62 Mythical goddess of peace 63 French

summer 64 Nighttime

noise 65 Giver- upper 66 ___ Plaines 67 Pert

DOWN

1 Dishwashing

tool 2 Baltimore

player 3 Hesitate 4 Had a homecooked meal 5 Feudal flunky 6 Calculator

ancestors 7 Type of car or

chair 8 Grab

violently 9 Pull out of the

ground 10 Reddishbrown, as a horse 11 Phrase for a large churchyard 12 Manning of

the NFL 13 Questionnaire

datum 21 How some sardines are packed 22 Follower of Richard or “Rocky” 26 Genghis

or Kubla 27 “Is not,”

wrongly 29 Jamaican

music genre 31 Sets one’s

sights? 32 Lewd

material 33 Ave.

crossers 35 Smoky, hot

passage 36 Porcine grunt 37 Glued shut

again 38 Flat

briefcases 39 Spreadsheet

creation 40 Traveler’s request ( Abbr.) 44 Feature of

a sled 45 “Should I take that as ___?” 46 Did some lopping 48 Characteristic

languages 49 Indian lutes 50 Pixar partner 53 Maternally

related 54 “High Plains Drifter” actress Bloom 56 “And Then There Were ___” 57 Tree trunk

growth 58 Part

of O- O- O 59 “___ you OK?”