PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Speak to a crowd 6 Pack (down) 10 Actress Catherine ___-Jones 14 Send payment 15 Only state with a swallowtail flag 16 One-named model who co-wrote “The Beauty of Color”

17 Acts as storyteller 19 Watch, as a campfire 20 Sandwich served with tzatziki sauce 21 Five times six 23 Part of www 26 Roma’s country

29 Test for an aspiring Ph.D., maybe 30 Debtor’s letters 31 Droplet from exercising 33 Hardens (oneself ) 35 “Aladdin” antagonist 36 Micronesian island country

37 Wet dirt 38 Prolonged attack 42 Plant secretion 44 Emma who played Meg March in “Little Women” 45 Former name of Muhammad Ali

49 Tack on 50 Metaphor for monotony 51 $100 bills, in dated slang 52 Ado

53 Gets out of bed

55 Prefix for “body” or “biotic” 57 Golf course warning 58 Pinto 64 Factual 65 Shrek, for example 66 Make into law 67 Puppy sounds 68 Irked, with “off” 69 ___: The Gathering (collectible card game)

DOWN

1 Surgeons’ workplaces, briefly 2 Exercise unit 3 Parisian friend 4 Trace of color 5 Website selling custom Halloween costumes 6 Prius maker 7 “I thought so!” 8 Former space station 9 Noted Vatican City resident

10 Often-baked pasta

11 Come out in the open 12 Hindu scripture 13 “Even so ...” 18 Ram constellation

22 Gets to voice an opinion 23 Tiny amount of smoke 24 Tiny amount 25 Hamilton/Burr confrontation 27 Type of professor 28 Burden 31 Colorful glacial feature 32 Legal order 34 Lending them doesn’t require giving anything away 37 Fermented soybean paste 39 He traded his birthright for lentil stew

40 Greek mythological figures 41 Odds’ partner 43 Dark solar patch

44 “He ___ Man Enough” ( Toni Braxton song) 45 Sly, or an alternate title for this puzzle? 46 “Borealis” opener

47 Rile

48 Tilted 52 Apple on Apple Music 54 Doesn’t miss? 56 Genderneutral pronoun 59 “Bronze” or “Iron” follower 60 Fury 61 Cleaning cloth 62 ___-fi 63 Catchall abbr.