PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 No longer

hot? 6 Bad time

for Caesar 10 Woodwork

ing tools 14 Open an

aspirin bottle 15 Priest of

the East 16 Squirrel’s nest 17 A lazy chef

will ... 20 Attract 21Kind of code 22 Clean pots 25 Fourth estate 26 Hotel

alternatives 30 Gush forth 32 Safety feature 35 With a scratchy voice 41 The chef moving on from her past ... 43 Tiny

earthquake 44 Knee bones 45 Siberian river 47 Urgings 48 Tends 53 Standing up

straight 56 Toward the

goal 58 Delphic

predictor 63 For his guests in the waiting room, a doctor hired a ... 66 Entrance for a

miner 67 Vamoosed 68 Show

indifference 69 Attractive 70 Multicolored

gemstone 71 Things for new gardeners

DOWN

1 Dark red or brownishpurple color 2 Ever and ___ 3 Get off

___ free 4 Munro’s alias 5 Long, great

stories 6 Bad way to be prepared? 7 Type of care, job or camp 8 Defector 9 Mentally bal

anced 10 Puff ___ ( snake variety) 11 Authored 12 Shari or Jerry 13 Lip-___ ( fakes

singing) 18 Sleuth’s

cohort 19 Economic

meas. 23 Norwegian

capital 24 As good as

expected 26 Ain’t made right? 27 “... and ___ the twain shall meet” 28 Congrega

tion’s place 29 Blossom sup

port 31 Put a sharper

edge on 33 Dude’s

kin 34 Neutral shade 36 Poetic tribute 37 With

competence 38 Respiratory

sound 39 Capture

digitally 40 ___ out ( barely manages) 42 Cabbage with

curly leaves 46 Grass

variety 48 Famed direc

tor George 49 Form of

lyric poem 50 Fasten or

attach 51 Neat or

groovy! 52 Behold 54 USMC rank,

briefly 55 Braid, e. g. 57 Plastic build

ing block 59 Soreness 60 Innermost 61 Garishly

bright 62 Ticker tests,

for short 64 Start for

“gram” 65 ___ Paese ( cheese variety)