PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Snip 4 Pile 8 Baltic Sea

feeder 12 Slugger’s stat 13 Summit 14 Composer

Porter 15 “— the ram

parts ...” 16 Hidden valley 17 Havana’s

land 18 Coffee order 21 Cistern 22 Melody 23 Beauty parlor 26 Wolf Blitzer’s

channel 27 NFL six

pointers 30 Spring melt

down 31 Bit of butter 32 Milne bruin 33 “Rah!” 34 Wager 35 Energizer

mascot 36 — Diego 37 Wd. division 38 Common

seasonings 45 Nile queen,

familiarly 46 Tehran’s

country 47 Multipurpose

truck 48 Unoriginal

one 49 Franc re

placer 50 Away from

SSW 51 Standard 52 Diving duck 53 Feeling down DOWN 1 Gator’s kin 2 Modern taxi alternative 3 Grow weary 4 “Dallas” star Larry 5 Brilliance 6 “So be it” 7 Necklace ornament 8 Transpire 9 Henning or Flutie 10 Exile isle 11 Bring up 19 Acknowledge 20 Go astray 23 Hog haven 24 “Eureka!” 25 Nonclerical 26 Mouse chaser 27 Heavy weight 28 Mafia boss 29 Bashful 31 Piggy bank

fillers 32 “— Fiction” 34 Sheepish

remark 35 “So long!” 36 Tempest 37 Extra 38 Read quickly 39 Rival rival 40 Lusty look 41 Bongo, for

one 42 Samples of

wordplay 43 Sicilian

spouter 44 Oboe insert