PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 (Not my mistake)

4 Drill leader: Abbr. 7 Summit 11 Vowelshaped pipe part

13 Spa sounds 15 Cereal in a salty mix 16 *L.A.’s longesttenured mayor (see letters 4-5)

18 Garr of “Tootsie” 19 Model Sedgwick 20 Withstand 22 Collector’s goal 23 Circulatory ___

25 Cuts’ protectors 27 *Skier dubbed “La Bomba” (letter 1) 32 Six-pack contents 35 Notoriety 36 People put on pedestals 37 Chowder morsel 39 Indian coin 42 ___ Saint Laurent 43 Summer Triangle star 45 Jazz’s Fitzgerald 47 D.C. summer

setting 48 *Made-toorder shades (letters 9-10) 52 Annual Jewish meal 53 Chemical variant 57 Astronaut Jemison 59 Naval petty officer 62 Long dress 63 Grand Ole ___ 65 *“She’s Not There” band, or another title for this puzzle (letter 10) 67 Puccini solo 68 Dohyo wrestling 69 Perceive 70 (Don’t open at the office) 71 www.cia.___ 72 College sr.’s test, often

DOWN

1 Big rigs 2 Still being debugged 3 Digital storage medium, briefly

4 “No Ordinary Love” singer 5 Some square dance partners 6 Believer in a deity 7 Don’t just sit there 8 “Night before” is a homophone of one 9 French for “mother” 10 Way out 11 Beehive State natives 12 ___ paragraphs 14 Major restaurant supplier 17 Elbowstraining judo hold 21 Filmmaker hidden in “what a time” 24 Santa’s helper 26 Wine taster’s criterion 28 Australian bird 29 Drive away 30 Ran in the wash

31 Part of T.A.: Abbr. 32 “Back in Black” band 33 “Sacre ___!” 34 Font category 38 Allot

40 Yalie 41 Climate pattern whose name has a tilde

44 Hair fullness 46 Jaguar spots, e.g.? 49 Track competitions 50 Dudely embrace 51 Gloomy 54 Bangor’s state 55 Past partners 56 What 12-, 26and 44-Down do from their crossing resting places? (Read the starred answers’ indicated letters for a bonus!) 57 Eerie sound 58 Interest figs. 60 Office note 61 Sea of ___, shallowest in the world 64 Partner of “pitch” and “roll” 66 Taste enhancer, for short