PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Texter’s “Holy cow!” 4 Apple with the highest production in the United States 8 “Aladdin” villain 13 French perfume maker 15 Assert 16 Necessitating a torch, perhaps 17 Rae of “Little” 18 Liveliness 19 Look too long 20 Mollusk whose shell is wide open, figuratively? 23 Sometimessecret skill 24 “Totes hilarious!” 25 Gobble up 28 Definitely feeling a workout? 32 Lois Lane portrayer Hatcher 33 Brownish purple 34 Good or bad feelings 38 Unreturnable serve 40 Suppressed 41 Memorable times 42 Frozen base of a breakfast bowl
44 Stick up with a Nerf gun? 51 None in particular 52 Tankard filler 53 Intense loathing
55 Job for a novice safecracker? 59 Plant in a patch 61 Mineral softer than gypsum 62 “Peanuts” girl 63 Language in Tehran 64 Six-sided state 65 Sugar ___ peas 66 Interjected 67 Child’s ride at a fair 68 Lao-___
DOWN
1 Sharon Olds or John Keats 2 Unfortunate event 3 Break away from the band 4 Relative of “post” and “journal” 5 Fervent 6 Carcollecting comedian 7 Diamond sock pattern 8 In a fair way 9 Kitty feed? 10 What bellbottoms do
11 Broadcast 12 GPS suggestion 14 NASCAR competitions 21 Forms a cable stitch, say 22 Fa follower 26 With the bow, in music 27 Typical college freshman
29 Nest egg letters 30 Anglican leader 31 Pedicure spot 34 Wang known for wedding dresses 35 Mineral in some supplements 36 Critter fed mouth-tomouth 37 “C’___ la vie!” 39 Green prefix
40 Sagittarius and Scorpio 43 Lawlessness 45 Half-giant in “Harry Potter” books 46 Horror director Roth 47 Ascended 48 Papers left behind? 49 Dollar total 50 Desert plants with swordlike leaves 54 Video date option 56 Make simpler 57 Grp. whose alphabet ends with “Zulu” 58 Flair 59 Ceramist’s deg., maybe 60 What was cool in the ’80s?