Chicago Sun-Times

PATTERNLES­S CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Kitchen meas. 5 The best 10 Shade tree 13 Gaels’ New York college 14 Musketload­ing implement 16 Top numeral on a sundial 17 *Crude jokes 19 Tattoo liquid 20 Tossed 21 Octogenari­an artist Yoko 22 Golf ball perch

23 Just fine 24 U.N. financial arm 27 Leave in shreds 29 Reluctant to commit 30 *Annual quartet 34 Tech support whiz 35 Anna’s sister in “Frozen” 36 *Attorneys 42 “___ thou love me?” (Juliet)

43 PC shortcut 44 *Loaner from a garage 48 ___ es Salaam 51 Fowl place 52 Angsty rock

genre 53 Poet’s

before 54 Knock on the

noggin 56 Staff sgt., e.g.

57 People who frequently change positions? 59 Japanese sash 60 Stray, or what the first six letters of the starred answers do (each by one letter)? 64 End of some three-day weekends: Abbr. 65 Jousts verbally 66 Observed 67 Request a biscuit 68 Palindromi­c belief 69 Shelter with a flap

DOWN

1 Popular breath mint 2 Sarcastic crying sound 3 Snidely rude 4 Cut back 5 Anger 6 “Well, lahdi-___!” 7 Bird that runs fast

8 Puts plates on? 9 $1 Canadian coin, slangily 10 Survey taken as voters leave

11 See 15-Down 12 Emcee’s device

15 With 11-Down, write quickly (to)

18 Birds that fly fast 25 Pout

26 Roll up

28 Be of ___ (help) 31 Spacious 32 Hush-hush grp.

33 Tool with a chain variety 34 Short beginning 36 Health agcy.

37 XXX counterpar­t 38 Seizing unjustly 39 “Mario Kart” competitio­n 40 Word with the same consonant sounds as “scheme”

41 Often-dry gulch 45 Kingdom southeast of Fiji 46 Accompany 47 Curly or Larry 48 MA, BA or MBA 49 Already come to light 50 Take offense at 54 Cherry ___ (certain firework) 55 Slender reed 58 Boot from power 61 Filled-in word in the world’s first crossword 62 User’s payment 63 Kansas City winter hrs.

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