PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Port position 5 Close sharply 9 Winter wrap 14 Nabisco treat 15 Like greasy food 16 Churchgoers with pipes 17 Easy shooting distance 20 Most highly strung 21 Threesyllable foot 22 Medicinal plant 23 Food on the dusty trail 24 Type of Roman wrestling? 27 Is an actor in poker 32 Band in “The Mikado”? 35 Act over-thetop 37 Threat to a liner 38 Place to detail financial woes 42 Words after “hang” or “glom” 43 Web company 44 Twins in no comment? 45 Lover of selfinterest 48 Cucumber kin 50 Range place 52 Extremely small amounts 56 Beautiful feature of 56-Down 60 Composition for 16-Across 62 Provider of tasty claws 64 Tightly twisted thread 65 Dispatched 66 Norwegian capital 67 ’90s Beck hit 68 Things that change every 365 days 69 Jazz legend Jackson

DOWN

1 Runs easily 2 Wear away 3 Fake out 4 Working on one’s muscles 5 Loud cries 6 Upbeat little ditty 7 Shrimp ___ Creole 8 Talkative bird 9 Hard-to-read signature 10 British man 11 Superb rating 12 Pre-fixes? 13 Worry and worry 18 One handing you a ticket stub 19 Door attachment 23 Summer residence 25 Australian bird 26 Duplicate 28 Tabloid subject 29 Chimney shaft 30 Thing to fill out 31 Collector’s goals 32 Symphony tuner 33 Firecracker sound 34 “___ each life ...” 36 Returning sound 39 Japanese pond creature 40 Not them or me 41 Apple chore 46 Salt provider 47 “Julius Caesar” robe 49 Online entity 51 Group of brains 53 Ankle bones 54 Words with in “no time” 55 Clog relative 56 Successfully trip 57 Mixture 58 Aberdeen girl 59 Land in the ocean 60 Paris movie 61 Army bugs? 63 Beer bash necessity