PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Como ___?” 5 Feed the kitty 9 Fable’s lesson 14 Mini-___ (convenience store) 15 Beach bucket 16 Chip away at 17 Spill the beans 18 Gloomy aura 19 Requirements 20 Lobster trap foilers? 23 He followed FDR 24 Dingy dwelling 25 Sound effect in a tunnel 27 Plea at sea 28 Despite the fact that 32 “The Addams Family” cousin 35 Ball girls? 37 Wan 38 What some trees provide 40 Lithium-___ battery 41 Inch along 42 Singer India.___ 43 Take care of 45 “I told you so!” 46 Present period? 48 Recede 50 Sign to interpret 51 Manhunt target? 55 Bud you constantly text, perhaps 57 Steamed green part of a lobster? 60 Dinghy mover 62 Quattro automaker 63 Light source 64 Scented candle emanation 65 Tech news site 66 Fourthlargest Great Lake 67 Yarn purchase 68 Smoothie green 69 Bears’ lairs

DOWN

1 Fire remnant 2 Taco topper 3 Land parcel 4 Royals’ opportunities? 5 Placate 6 Org. that awarded John Lewis a Spingarn Medal 7 Cash box 8 Jazzy Fitzgerald 9 Stand-up person 10 Unrefined find at a mine 11 Where lobsters keep their eggs? 12 What a summer does? 13 Out of concern that 21 Congressional investigation 22 Dampens 26 Lead-in to “frost” 28 Singly 29 Allow to use 30 Indian clarified butter 31 Flashy promotion 32 Brit’s “My word!” 33 No ___ Traffic 34 Not-so-meaty lobster posterior? 36 Wasn’t truthful 39 Judge to be 41 Hooded snake 43 Nickname that anagrams to “not I” 44 One may eat at your place 47 Capital of Iran 49 Sent an invoice 51 Runway walker 52 Summer driving hazard 53 Leave no way out for 54 Works with keys 55 Push-up ___ (certain undergarments) 56 Item for eating or tuning 58 Poster holder 59 Albacore, for one 61 Early Beatles label