PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Exclude 5 Cheer squad? 9 Microwave’s
“Done!” 13 Route
14 Drink brand with a wintry logo
15 Pale
purple 16 Ending for
“teen” 17 Fashion journalist Garcia
18 Spot
seller 19 Valuable designation for a collector 22 Zoning unit 23 How many ’00s mixtapes were stored 24 Prepare to
order a drink 32 One-named
Irish singer 33 Negative
conjunction 34 Not just punctual
35 Boxer Nico ___
Walsh 36 Requirement when buying booze 39 Outdated 40 North Pole
resident 42 Write
43 ___ gras (duck
delicacy) 44 Balancing
daredevil 48 Printer paper
unit 49 “___ we
there yet?” 50 Creature comforts? ... and a hint to the words that bookend 19-, 24- and 44-Across 57 Indifferent 58 Main point 59 “Ah, gotcha” 60 Drink with a pumpkin spice variety 61 Water, for
a Super Soaker 62 Gluttony and
greed
63 Great Basin indigenous group 64 Fiefdom
laborer
65 ___ it out
(settle a beef )
DOWN
1 Libra’s birthstone, often 2 Travelers to Bethlehem 3 Romantic duo,
in a tabloid 4 ___ in Manila (iconic 1975 boxing match) 5 Optimize with small adjustments
6 LSD
7 Hawaiian goose found in “pine needles” 8 Personal watercraft brand 9 “I wouldn’t do
that”
10 French bread? 11 All tied up 12 Liveliness 15 Paired
20 North Pole
product 21 Football
turnover: Abbr. 24 Godzilla, for
example 25 Zhou in Chinese history (A-LINE anagram) 26 Being
deceitful 27 ’90s
collectible disk 28 Von ___ (“The Sound of Music” surname) 29 Small stream 30 Nickname that sounds like a passageway 31 Winona of “Stranger Things” 36 Library
penalty 37 Director Spike 38 Needing 41 Pushes forcefully
43 Dutch dialect spoken in Belgium
45 U.K. military
flyers 46 High-end watches featuring a Greek letter
47 Singer Grande,
familiarly 50 Fence
component 51 ___ Modern (London museum)
52 It’s worth two
nickels 53 Whispery video genre, for short 54 Himalayas’
home 55 Camera part 56 Group hangout, slangily 57 ___-ray disc