PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Anderson Cooper employer 4 Bilko or Pepper: Abbr. 7 Serengeti grazers 14 Tropical rain forest, for many monkeys 16 Sweet Italian wine 17 Look into, in London 18 Visitor center handout 19 *Kind of toy robot that punches (see letters 4 to 8) 21 Homer Simpson cry 22 Off-roader, for short 23 Hard nut to crack 27 Japanese writing system 30 Slip up 32 Recycled Tshirt, perhaps 33 *Face-to-face attraction? (4 to 7) 37 Urge forward 39 Chinese zodiac rodent 40 Less than 90 degrees 41 *Carey Mulligan played her in 2013’s “The Great Gatsby” (4 to 7) 44 Singer Yoko 45 No longer working: Abbr. 46 It’s now usually classified as a bear 48 California wine county 51 Maestro’s gift 53 Fighting grp. 55 Source of dating frustration, or a hint to the starred answers’ scrambled words 59 Donald Glover series set in Georgia 62 Hyundai or Beethoven creations 63 Ones making big bucks? 64 Acrobat’s swing 65 Noteworthy 66 Take a load off 67 In medias ___

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1 “Swiss” green 2 “___ of the North” (1922 documentary) 3 Any Toronto Raptor, in 2019 4 Ocular woe 5 Pipe that fuels houses 6 Statistical means of checking a hypothesis 7 Desktop that will run Big Sur 8 Sometimes wash able art supplies 9 Hog the mirror, say 10 “That makes two of us!” 11 Hasty escape 12 Pie ___ mode 13 Tree juice 15 Variety 20 Emoted 24 Well source 25 Small store 26 “A Death in the Family” author 28 Rejections 29 National Ice Cream Month 31 Elena’s colleague 34 Beyond doubt 35 ’80s tennis star Mandlikova 36 Thom ___ shoes 37 Wedding promises 38 Hacienda hand? 42 Toni of R&B fame 43 Based on deduction 47 Fired up? 49 Emirati’s neighbor 50 Cut into tiny pieces 52 Subordinates, briefly 54 Animals that go “hee-haw!” 56 Turkeyto-China direction 57 Pest in a cloud 58 Catch a few z’s 59 Crunches crunch them 60 “La-la” lead-in 61 Response to a funny meme