PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Alitalia’s main hub in Italia
5 Secular
9 Consume soup annoyingly
14 Bauxite and hematite
15 Idris of “Thor: Ragnarok”
16 Thin cookie
17 In the mail
18 Crying face emoji feature
19 Bond agent?
20 “Tough luck, buddy!” (see letters 2-7)
23 They’re below pecs
24 Put away the groceries?
25 Canadian sentence enders
28 “This is between us” (letters 7-12)
34 Opposite of paleo
35 Yoko’s youngest
36 German politician Merkel
37 Wiener schnitzel meat
39 Bragg and Ticonderoga: Abbr.
41 Kids’ guessing game
42 “That makes sense”
45 Golfer Aoki
48 Afternoon affair 49 Judge Marilyn Milian’s reality show (letters 9-14)
52 Always, to a poet
53 “No more details, pls”
54 Like Aleve, briefly
55 Veer, and a hint to the indicated letters in 20-, 28- and 49-Across
61 Think the world of
64 Colombian metropolis
65 Rock that flows
66 Mars explorer
67 “Frozen” snow queen
68 Ripens
69 Plugs of tobacco
70 Rod’s partner
71 Mystical character
DOWN
1 Like an optimistic outlook
2 Twist-apart treat
3 Aid in choosing sides?
4 Stellar
5 “Hmm”
6 A Baldwin brother
7 Vowelshaped beam
8 A resume summarizes it 9 Make more desirable, as a deal
10 Sgt. Friday’s force
11 Craft sighted in the Beaufort Sea?
12 “Oedipus ___”
13 Get too personal
21 Flows back
22 “Fuzzy Wuzzy ___ bear ...”
25 Mocedades hit of 1974
26 Elf, to Santa
27 Patronize on vacation
28 Ask to a party, say
29 Acquire incisors
30 Do-nothing
31 Clumsy sort
32 “Wait ___ Dark” (Audrey Hepburn thriller)
33 Sci-fi flick FX 38 Back talk
40 Minnesotato-Alabama dir.
43 Leashes
44 “Brave New World” drug
46 Unlikely to mingle
47 Eight: Prefix
50 Lobster claw
51 Of the eye
55 All hands on a ship
56 “The Wizard of Oz” surname (or wind!)
57 If all ___ fails
58 Roasted Garlic Pasta Sauce maker
59 “Frozen” reindeer
60 Lack of stress
61 Storyline shape
62 Homer Simpson utterance
63 Egg cells