PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Vegetable dish

6 Annapolis saluter

11 Scammed

14 Make up for

15 Sciencelike suffix

16 Mimic

17 Seek the heat?

19 CD go- with

20 With caginess

21 Able to put in service

23 Let go

25 Mosque official

27 Gaucho’s weapon

28 Billion- year span

29 Old collector of tolls

32 Cubic meter

34 Faris and Moffo

35 Calms a patient

38 Develops a liking for

42 Pizza serving

44 Astronomer Hubble

45 Certain snakes

50 Treaty of Rome grp.

51 A 64- Across border lake

52 Waterway near Hamburg

53 Naked

54 Take back, as territory

57 Suit adequately

59 10- Down that’s almost silk?

60 Ghoul

64 Olympics giant

65 Author Joyce Carol

66 Use it to play the field

67 Connected

68 Pests in a cloud

69 Health class part

DOWN

1 Actor Mineo

2 From ___ Z

3 Made less restrictive

4 It might have a spat

5 Resist

6 Flat- topped flower part

7 Like, on a menu

8 Record

9 Id complements

10 Make characters

11 Provide refuge for

12 “Rocky” fighter

13 Take down a notch

18 Unorganized mixture

22 Belittled

23 Parker who played Davy

24 Boring learning method

26 Lawyers belong to it

29 Secure anew, in a way

30 Cell protein stuff

31 Is a cookie maker

33 Descend a mountain

36 Ballad ending

37 Diagrammatic drawings

39 Punishing hot spot

40 Grandstand level

41 “___ bitten ...”

43 Thin, migratory fish

45 Atomic no. 58

46 “Alternately ...”

47 Be a finicky eater

48 Mother superior

49 Many bucks

53 Christian’s book

55 Highly excited

56 Persia, now

58 Gets cloudy ( with “up”)

61 U- turn for tyro

62 First party member

63 Symbolic love shade