PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
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1 Trim on a butcher block 6 Slangy magical power 10 Go past tearing up 14 Egg station 15 Type of American 16 Bank posting 17 Counting sequence minus 5? 20 Polly’s sitcom role 21 Some waist wraps 22 Additional items 23 Make a quick stop 25 Ball ___ hammer 26 Lake lure? 28 More placid 32 Base eight system 34 Mideast bigshot 35 Zero longitude hr. 38 Tarantino film minus 5? 42 Fellows and gentlemen 43 Coal site 44 Barking creatures 45 Witness 48 Exploits 49 Humorous anecdote 51 Furious 53 Reapers-tobe 55 Like dental exams 56 Crooner Cole 59 2:45 hours to midnight minus 5? 62 Hip bones 63 Violent criminal 64 Unconventional 65 Fish snares 66 About a C 67 Avoid detection
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1 Remove, as a hat 2 Armageddon faction 3 Top choices 4 Form of “to be” 5 Big name in chicken 6 Waters of politics 7 Wee dinner droppings 8 Fossil find, sometimes 9 Easy-to-carry woodwind 10 Author 11 High wave caused by tidal flow 12 Filmmaker Coen 13 Shelter adoptees 18 Everglades bird 19 Great advice givers 24 Young state? 26 Not just one of two 27 Relief target 29 Send for treatment 30 Runner Down Under 31 Zilch 33 St. Louis airport 35 Elegant touch 36 Soften slush 37 “Guarding ___” (MacLaine movie) 39 “___ better to have loved ...” 40 67.5 degrees in directions 41 Canned soup instruction 45 Puccini works 46 Badtempered woman 47 Historical periods 49 Physics unit 50 Bide one’s time 52 Some singing voices 53 Small meas. 54 Mounts, as diamonds 55 Comics penguin 57 Person’s glow 58 Hard journey 60 P, in Greek 61 Entertaining