PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Possesses 4 Baby bird? 9 “Hey you!” 13 Start to drip,

as ice cream 14 Prepare for a

selfie, perhaps 15 Irritate

16 ___ Emhoff, fashionable Second Family member 17 Movie’s sound

portion

18 A party to 19 “Think different” and “Just Do It”

21 Fails during a crucial moment

23 ___ lane

24 ’90s Poet

Laureate Dove 26 “The Americans” star Russell 27 Biosphere

component 30 Zero, in soccer 33 Flail

35 Like a sorry

sight

36 Taj Mahal’s city 37 Grilling spot? 39 Cheer on 41 1975 Wimbledon winner Arthur 42 Cosmo, e.g. 44 Enemy of an

enemy, maybe 45 Peg for a golf

ball

46 Play with fire 48 Substandard 50 Silverstein who wrote “The Giving Tree”

51 Site for experimentation, briefly 54 Cured

sausage 56 Congresswoman Tlaib 58 Spans sometimes named for presidents 59 Apple

product 62 Burnt ___ (barbecue morsels) 63 They scurry ...

or scroll 64 Font designed in 1982 65 Matures

66 Pi Day follower 67 Very mean 68 Acid Tests

drug

DOWN

1 Greeting from Lionel Richie or Adele? 2 Scattered everywhere (In this clue’s answer, notice letters 3 to 6) 3 Deer with a

rack

4 Like the Rough Riders’ war (... 6 to 10) 5 Reliable 6 Ref. to which “adorkable” was introduced in 2020 7 Camping gear

co-op 8 Punched out at lunch, maybe (... 10 to 13)

9 Earlier

10 Bad premonitions ... or a hint to 2-, 4and 8-Down 11 ___ gin fizz 12 XXX

13 Holey

material 20 Surfaced 22 Fashion line? 25 One of a

mule’s parents 28 Gumshoe’s

undertaking 29 ___ Heel State (North Carolina) 31 Golfer’s alternative to a wood

32 Pig fat

33 Not this 34 Kinky item in a

yard 36 Quarreling 38 Scottish cap 40 Apt exams to take in dental school? 43 Navigation

device, briefly 46 Male turkey or

cat

47 Danger 49 Camels’

watering holes 52 Used an abacus 53 “Upright”

instrument 54 Big rig

55 Like much of New Mexico’s climate

57 Get better 60 Lyricist

Gershwin 61 Prefix for

“union”