PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sound of escaping steam 5 Tends to a

lawn

9 Popular ab

exercise 14 Paintballs, in a

paintball fight 15 Before long,

poetically 16 Grace under

pressure

17 Cry after a

hard week 18 Move,

informally 19 ___ circle (closest advisers)

20 *Chess match, e.g. (see letters 5to7)

23 Last Greek

letter

24 Tend to a

garden 25 Degree for a 41-Down, maybe 28 Cancels, with

“out” 29 London’s

Big ___ 31 Their petals are often white 34 Assessed 36 Adjust

slightly 37 *Best Actress winner for “On the Waterfront” (5 to 9) 41 Scale, as a rock

wall

42 Sacred song 43 Exfoliating spa

treatments

46 Texter’s “Enough!” 47 “Welcome” site 50 Chiapas cheer 51 She lives on her phone 53 Home 55 *Grand Caravan, e.g. (4 to 9) 58 Gondola’s waterway 61 Tide type 62 Toymaker with Super Mario sets

63 Role of Nichols? 64 Colon, in an analogy 65 Cross a threshold, perhaps 66 Burger serving 67 “I ___ a vacation!” 68 Grandson of Adam

DOWN

1 Bowler’s place? 2 “Let’s do it!” 3 Strikes down, old-style 4 Start to gesticulate? 5 Stable female 6 Used car selling point 7 Mike of “American Pickers” 8 Fell in flurries 9 Polish’s partner

10 They carry a charge 11 Element with the fewest letters

12 Take advantage of 13 ___ annum 21 1987 film about Ritchie Valens 22 McKinley or Tarbell 25 Personal appearance 26 “The ___ With Ari Melber” 27 Set a price of 30 LGA posting 32 Like cannoli and tiramisu 33 Sink alternative 34 Malek of “Bohemian Rhapsody” 35 Double-___ (commit a party foul) 37 Airline to Tel Aviv 38 Wicked habit 39 Guess 40 Uncle on posters

41 WSJ subscriber, perhaps 44 Certain hallucinogen 45 Log on, and a theme hint 47 Get over a past relationship 48 Slowly, in music 49 Mortise inserts 52 Witherspoon of “Wild” 54 Ship part that often gets watery 55 Move rapidly 56 Neutrogena competitor 57 Apple’s ___ Touch

58 Ice cream holder 59 “Just as I thought!” 60 Pecan or pistachio