PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Natural balm 5 Rolaids com

petitor 9 Extremely

eager

13 City near

Cologne 14 Social call 15 Drink with

a nose

16 Part of an ice sculpture’s head?

18 “I saw ___ sitting on a seesaw” 19 ___

orientation 20 Dirty stuff 22 Checker’s

target, briefly 23 Long narrative poem 25 Gross- out movie measure? 27 Summer hrs.

in the Rockies 30 Buddies 32 ___ &

the Gang 33 “I’m

impressed!” 34 O’Day or

Baker 36 Iridescent

gem

39 Fails in a Homeric invocation? 43 Thus

44 Wild ride at a

rodeo

45 “Fatal Affair”

star Long 46 Obsessive whale hunter of fiction 49 Baseball glove 50 Melancholy 51 Billboard promoting chain mail?

54 Faucet prob

lem

56 Wax maker 57 Lake by the Ontario Peninsula

59 Source of

bafflement 63 Too

65 Certain airport worker’s skill? 67 King David’s biblical predecessor

68 Gold bar 69 Fork part 70 What a

PR blitz generates

71 Toward the

rising sun 72 They’re attracted to sweets

DOWN

1 Basics

2 Folk wisdom 3 Gemstone

with bands 4 Happen next 5 Up to, briefly 6 Employs 7 Florida city where the Herald is circulated 8 Sounded, like

an hour

9 Wonderment 10 Wordless plays on words 11 Unfitting 12 Low card 14 Courageous 17 New York’s ___ Zee Bridge 21 Boxing ref ’s

ruling 24 Ascend Everest, maybe

26 “A ___ of One’s Own” ( Virginia Woolf book) 27 Partner of mean and median 28 Way in

29 “You’re

busted!” 31 Violent

weather 35 Eschew 37 Where most

people live 38 Show

the way 40 Neighborhood in London or New York 41 Beg

42 Making a

production? 47 “You ___ here” 48 Doll with a

Malibu variety 51 Put to shame 52 Pass along 53 Roman Arte

mis 55 Michelangelo work featuring Mary

58 It’s always legal to poach them

60 Profit

61 Coin source 62 City west of

Cedar Rapids 64 Iberian cheer 66 Understood