PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Excel command 5 “Twilight” heroine 10 Like JFK and LAX: Abbr. 14 Ancestry.com diagram 15 Criticizes severely 16 Nuclear reactor part 17 Best Actor winner for “Network” 19 Prince William’s alma mater 20 Samuel of the Supreme Court 21 Towel possessive 23 The “O” in XO

24 “___ & World Report”

26 Cry one’s eyes out

27 Picnic crasher

28 “All in the Family” creator Norman 29 Where meals and deals go down 32 Actress Russell of “The Americans” 33 Correct way to sing

34 They turn blue litmus paper red

36 They turn red litmus paper blue

38 James ___ Garfield 40 Well-off 41 Support for a key player? 44 Shirts and such 48 Poetic planet 49 Banana bread additions 50 Herb with white flowers 52 Subj. such as ecology 53 Tolkien monster

54 Car dealer’s contract 55 Become slushy, say 57 Chemically neutral, or a hint to 17-, 29and 41-Across 61 Two-time host of

“The Tonight Show”

62 Like “The Raven” 63 Board game with secret passages 64 Place to fill up in Canada 65 “Better Call Saul,” e.g. 66 Towel possessive

DOWN

1 Minnesota Wild’s city 2 End of an ultimatum 3 Site for rods and cones 4 Balance unsteadily 5 Texter’s good bud 6 Manning who retired in 2020

7 PC-to-PC connection 8 Nutlike Chinese fruit 9 More full of volcanic powder

10 On thin ___ 11 Polite refusal 12 Defeat handily 13 Drawn out, as a filibuster 18 Column’s opposite 22 Bath sound 25 Did 35 in a 25, say 26 Conflict that ended on Nov. 11, 1918 30 40-Down workplaces 31 “Le Monde” article? 32 Japanese garment 34 Spirited horses 35 “What more ___ I say?”

36 Wite-Out manufacturer 37 Like sore biceps

38 One of a biblical 12 39 Trees in a Frost poem 40 Hosp. caretakers 42 Was uncouth at the dinner table

43 One may make art on glass 44 Long ditch 45 Delphi prophet 46 Charlatan 47 Stockholm natives

51 ___ carte 56 Court romantically 58 Garment with a training variety 59 Hoped-for outcome 60 ___ & Perrins