PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Toward the

setting sun 5 Pasta served at Sicilian weddings 9 Clever

14 You’ll get a

hand for it 15 Since

16 South American beast with a snout 17 *Monastic updo? (note how an“R” sound moves in each starred answer)

19 ___ and kick

ing

20 One may nest

on a cliff 21 *Whiskey drinker’s laundry problem? 23 LP speed 24 MDs

27 Had in

common 28 Datum such as

AQI

30 List units 33 Rage

34 Be against 36 Lieu 38 *Arizona and Nevada, compared to Louisiana and Florida? 40 They work with feet and meters 42 Composer Gustav or Alma 43 Choose 44 Bit of mental warfare, briefly 45 Reduce to a

pulp

49 Look (for) 52 Summer hrs.

in most states 54 Question of

identity 55 *Reaction to a courtroom punch? 58 Spanish for

“now” 60 Literary crowd

member? 61 *Cook who puts grains in the oven? 64 Took a loss 65 Shapeless

shape 66 Obscene 67 Complete

makeovers 68 Undesirable

roommate 69 Finishes

DOWN

1 Sandwich

cookie parts 2 Mesmerized 3 Mark of dis

grace

4 Bluish color on a certain duck 5 Electricity

sound

6 Prefix with “thermal” or “metric” 7 Guided excur

sion 8 Doubtful 9 Store

covertly 10 Country in the Mediterranean 11 Places to man

age workers? 12 Mediterranean resort area

13 Got popular

online 18 Common

color for salsa 22 Road curve

shape 25 Unlike a green

banana 26 Weather alert

subjects 29 Civil wrong 31 Piece of writing that sounds like its third and fourth letters 32 System 35 Letters after

omicrons 36 Jeanne d’Arc,

e.g.: Abbr. 37 Bit of jargon 38 Full of

specifics 39 European

peaks

40 After a peace treaty is signed 41 Perform

surgery 44 Vietnamese

soup 46 Already

roused 47 Sagacious 48 Miser’s collec

tions

50 The “R” of NPR 51 Devonshire cream features

53 Bill for Bloody

Marys 56 Planets, poeti

cally

57 Stuff with stuff 59 In good shape 62 Sound like a

pigeon

63 Go back, as

the tide