PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Shoot an air

ball, perhaps 5 Airport

vehicles 9 Black jack, half

the time 13 Wild way

to run

14 Tons

15 Come about 16 Garment worn

in Bengaluru 17 Regan’s regal

father

18 West pointers,

sometimes? 19 Dry run of a precollege exam

22 Strive (for) 23 Took a risk 24 Radiologists’ imaging devices

28 Just ___ water 31 Drag queens’

neckwear 32 Down Under

hopper 33 Undesirable

low interest? 35 In a position

to help

36 Dog collar

attachment 39 Skin concern

for a teen 40 Head lock? 42 Brew that may

be hazy

43 Let off steam 44 Largest ethnic group in China 45 Moment of

liftoff, usually 49 Tire or

escalator part 51 Styling

product 52 Magician’s feat, and a hint to the starts of 19-, 24- and 45-Across 59 Behind

the times 60 271 square miles, for Micronesia 61 Rights

advocacy grp. 62 Curling item 63 Lender’s holding

64 Utah national

park

65 Pulls, as

a vehicle 66 Seasoning in

savory lassi 67 Upper hand DOWN

1 Dough for

tamales

2 Big Apple

purchase? 3 Put into

groups 4 Tickets to access the slopes

5 Fried squid

dish

6 Name that anagrams to “Clea” 7 Word after “life” or “dream”

8 Big step 9 Fruitshipping box 10 One may do

the Macarena 11 Slicing and dicing, e.g., for a knife 12 Inferior to

none 15 Opposed (to) 20 “___ Flair Drip” (2018 rap hit)

21 Toy that may be remotecontrolled 24 Snake with

a hood 25 Grade school variety performance 26 Nonverbally

agree

27 Out of office 29 “I haven’t the

faintest idea” 30 Food

regimen 31 Relaxing soak 34 Practice self-absorbed introspection 37 Kwik-E-Mart

operator 38 Saturn,

for one 41 Unforested

Eurasian plain 46 Dora’s navigational companion 47 Exemplary

standards 48 Meditative sect of Buddhism 50 Falls in drops 52 Bite the ___

(lose)

53 Really

digging 54 Piece that a diva practices 55 Film spool 56 The “A”

of DNA 57 Plumber’s

woe

58 Make less

sharp, say?