PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 John, Paul and George: Abbr. 4 He-Man’s twin sister

9 Up, in

baseball

14 H+ or Cl15 Silent actors? 16 Care deeply about 17 *Line about 23 degrees south of the equator (look down after reading letter 9) 20 Island such as Bikini 21 “Bingo!” 22 ___ King Cole 23 Fix 25 Treated maliciously 27 Atlas enlargement 29 Most recent 32 *Flexible fee format (... letter 2) 36 Surfing need 37 Photo

38 Out ___ limb 39 Superman enemy Luthor 40 Citrus drink suffixes 42 *Numbers’ place

(... letter 7) 46 World capital with many onion domes 48 Bright aquarium fish

49 Kind of bean that’s shaped like an organ 51 Fighting fleet 55 One may have pink feathers 57 Org. that seizes kilos 58 More fitting 59 Without warning, and where the starred answers get tricky 64 Squirrels climb them 65 Circumvent 66 Tiebreaker periods, briefly 67 “It ___ been easy” 68 No longer in 69 Scared of public speaking, perhaps

DOWN

1 “Norwegian Wood” instrument 2 Cake with a hazelnut variety 3 Bea busybody 4 Showing pleasure 5 Fruit punch brand 6 Moody music genre

7 Call, as a game 8 Songwriters’ rights org. 9 Do the Wright thing? 10 Tic-toe connector

11 Pale beer 12 Halo, e.g. 13 Shelter around a tenant? 18 Everyday 19 German wine valley 24 Blog feed letters 25 Wait-listed passenger 26 “Gross!” 28 Subj. concerned with biodiversity 30 Reindeer in “Frozen” 31 Passage for a sermon 32 Junk email

33 ___ deck (place for a pool) 34 Footwear for Alina Zagitova or Michelle Kwan

35 Like the White Rabbit 41 “Comp” or “poli” follower 42 Confessed, with “up” 43 Pilot’s guess, briefly 44 Attacked from the air 45 Florida city by a bay 47 Most curious 50 Lop-___ rabbit 52 A Musketeer 53 Life partner? 54 Pretentiously creative 55 Relaxing soak 56 Other, in Ecuador 60 Chick’s mother 61 Egg cells 62 Touch on the back 63 Praiseful poem 09/04/20