PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Cuban dance 6 Word before a crash 10 Bind with a rope 14 Makes assertions 15 Farmer’s song location 16 Exxon competitor 17 “NOW I get it,” e.g. 20 Bring gloom upon 21 Rabblerouse 22 Eye drops? 25 Dings X 5 26 Pain 30 Untrustworthy look 32 Most terse 35 Shocks or stuns 41 Catch one’s breath 43 Kind of smarts 44 Group playing together 45 Quarrel 47 Boot out 48 Camp David Accords guy 53 City near Syracuse 56 Like wellventilated malls? 58 Light into 63 Dec. 24 activity 66 Hearty tests? 67 Like bass sounds 68 Board 69 Suspect’s strategy 70 Poem types 71 Bristles
DOWN
1 X-ray units 2 Colored eye part 3 Unite, in a way 4 Thin nail 5 Until now 6 Peculiar 7 National anthem preposition 8 Polite word 9 Blast furnace waste 10 Cafe order 11 Parliament lengthener? 12 “Ivanhoe” author 13 Makes sharper 18 Malaga-toGranada dir. 19 El ___ (Spanish hero) 23 “Don’t forget ...” 24 Fall back 26 Egyptian cobras, e.g. 27 Talk a bit 28 3,600,000 milliseconds 29 Irish language offshoot 31 L.A. pros 33 Three-way shape 34 Colorful salamanders 36 A real Stooge 37 Bullets, briefly 38 Humpshouldered ox 39 Photo blowups (Abbr.) 40 “Leave it in” 42 Prefix meaning “against” 46 Freed of all dissidents 48 Spread around, as seeds 49 Lickety-split, way old 50 Condescend 51 Too eager 52 Mai ___ (cocktail) 54 Fast Beetle 55 Any valuable holding 57 “Chinese” header 59 Mentally stable 60 Part of a poker pot 61 Agenda thing 62 Drummer Ulrich 64 Invoice amount 65 Co-___ (condo alternatives)