PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 With a wee

opening 5 Writer Thomas or Tom 10 Nectar

source 14 Spectacular

star 15 “It’s been ___ pleasure!” 16 Untoppable

point 17 Cooking

show winner 20 Like good

marchers 21 Farces and

spoofs 22 Shot on ice? 24 Type of wear

or room 25 Baseball

necessity 28 Lux hotel

attraction 29 Type of

welder 30 Lawyers’ grp. 33 Shocks 35 Flamboy

ance 37 Hawkeye 39 McDonald’s

serving 42 Church’s due 43 Assortment 44 Walked

heavily 45 Place for a

mud bath? 46 N. or S. state 48 Guileful 50 Direction in

“green- eyed” 51 Usable info 52 Gets out of

here quick 54 Uber’ed

to dinner 57 Prepares

clams 61 Noisy

appetizer? 65 Lake to

the Hudson 66 Birch bark

floater 67 Small

monkey 68 Key and

Danson 69 Injectors,

briefly 70 Abrupt

closure

DOWN

1 Oppositional

one 2 New Testament book 3 Not sts. 4 Goes on at

the mouth 5 Kitchen wrap 6 Food

morsel 7 One state- ly

neckpiece 8 Not near 9 No- big- wed

ding doer 10 Deals 11 Lingering

sound 12 “I’ll second

that” 13 Officiates

b- ball 18 Snaky fishes 19 Pope’s envoy 23 Big, goofy

oaf 24 Far from

feminine 25 Thailand bills 26 Bide one’s

time 27 Cranky 30 With eyes

darting 31 Drum

major’s item 32 Battery

projection 34 “Not a

sound!” 36 Piercing tool 38 Baseball

legend Mel 40 Besmear 41 Shines, as

shoes 47 Fasten 49 Elusive cryp

tid 51 Magistrates

of yore 53 Split- off

groups 54 Support

a robber 55 Empty truck’s weight 56 Children’s writer Blyton 58 Blood- relat

ed 59 Prefix with

“morphic” 60 Remove

locks? 62 Not aye 63 Vital economic stat. 64 Lovey- dovey

sound