PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pencil remnant 5 Poses a question 9 “Who’s there?” response 14 Killer whale 15 Bottle for a model

16 ___ 6 17 *Like some basketball drills 19 Hyde Park buggies 20 Spanish candy heart words 21 *Sugar maple, for Vermont 23 Japanese drama 25 French playwright Jean 26 *Rural byway 31 Rare, and then some 34 Fuse unit 35 Crew propeller 36 Actress Garr 37 Group at family gatherings? 38 Palindromic text 39 Made bread, e.g.

40 Part of, as a scheme 41 Rom-___ 42 Certain tropical vacation

43 Title of nobility 44 *Sony console

46 Bit of salt 48 Very, very long time 49 *Military’s capability 52 Word after “heavy” or “sour” 57 Doa whiteboard chore

58 Big event for a Realtor, or what each word in the starred answers can do 60 Color of honey 61 City north of Carson City 62 Opera piece for one voice 63 “Yum!” 64 Palindromic title 65 Horse color

DOWN

1 Blanket descriptor 2 Faithful 3 School that anagrams to ACLU

4 Lip application 5 “Four score and seven years ___ ...” 6 Like some winter walkways 7 Author Vonnegut 8 Do an early projectplanning step 9 Loom

10 Rich cake 11 Sci-fi sequel subtitled “The Wrath of Khan” 12 Internet sensation 13 “What ___ is new?” 18 Prefix related to anti22 Rip 24 Mined matter 26 Sleeveless undergarments, for short 27 Yemeni’s neighbor 28 Not yet claimed 29 Dusseldorf dissent 30 Spacious 32 “Am not!” rebuttal 33 Add a lane to, say

36 Like a drumhead 38 “Kindergarten” or “juggernaut,” linguistically 39 Satellite office, e.g. 41 Emmy : TV :: ___ : ads 42 VIP at a Silicon Valley co. 44 Thin and dry 45 Placid 47 Stopwatch button 49 Accomplishment

50 ___ Pince, librarian at Hogwarts 51 Olympian sword 53 Simba’s sound 54 Bread for a Bologna sandwich?

55 Its smallest country is Maldives 56 Intend 59 Tacit approval