PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Heist targets 6 They’re higher than bassoons 11 IRS pro 14 Beethoven’s

“Fur ___” 15 ___ firma 16 Cheer

competitor 17 Military hero’s

award 19 Toupee, informally

20 “Let’s see ...” 21 Jason Bourne,

for one

22 Big book 23 Wallet

thickeners 25 Growing talent?

28 Ploy

29 Pencil end 30 Houston MLB player

32 City southeast of Tampa 35 Landing guess at LAX 36 Great Plains tribe 39 Brewery tank 42 Gig at a school dance, e.g. 43 Territory about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand 47 Portugal’s peninsula

49 Building that’s often red and white 50 Gorilla patriarch 55 Many Iranians’ Islamic sect 56 Woes 57 Reach a consensus 59 2015 Verizon acquisition 60 QBs’ targets 61 Coward 64 Artist Yoko 65 Sag 66 Pisces follower 67 Stimpy’s pal 68 Is flaky? 69 What makes dough rise

DOWN

1 Upscale cosmetics chain 2 Certain graduate 3 Least yielding 4 Ability to know what this answer is?: Abbr. 5 Emmy winner Ward 6 Look the ___ way 7 Designer Geoffrey 8 Address a crowd 9 Flub 10 Didn’t get to play 11 Barhop, perhaps

12 Drop precipitously 13 Unknown subject? 18 Hen’s output 22 Lil Wayne’s “___ Carter III” 24 Certain Balkan 26 Nautilus captain 27 The Andrews Sisters and Destiny’s Child

31 Any Beatles song, nowadays 32 TV roast hosts 33 ’50s prez 34 Astern 37 Cracked, like a door

38 Bills for drinks 39 Word before “parking” or “center” 40 City in Texas or Kansas

41 Rats out 44 Gospel legend Jackson 45 Baltimore birds 46 Figure working with figures 48 Winnebagos, e.g.

51 “The Jungle Book” bear 52 Radiant 53 Farmers may flatten them to make circles 54 London’s ___ Gardens 58 Online bidding war site 61 Three-ft. units 62 Suffix for “northwest” 63 Poet’s “before”