PATTERNLESS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Seasoned rice dish

6 Sports bar screens

9 Manipulated, as the system

14 French goodbye

15 Young companion of Pooh

16 Visibly amazed

17 Neutral and reverse, for two

18 Lucrative Middle Eastern export

19 Regions

20 It hears things

21 Put on a pedestal

24 “I see a roach!!”

25 Suffer sudden back pain

27 Skewer

30 Perform a routine perfectly

34 Nearest star to the sun

38 Piece of band equipment

39 Income ___

40 Reagan’s side, for short

41 Scorch

43 Scheming group

45 Camera attachment

46 Auto mileage counters that can be reset

49 Us vs. ___

50 Comedic bits

51 Fuji discard ... and a hint to the devices hidden in 25-, 34- and 46-Across

55 Dress worn on the red carpet

58 Buenos ___

59 Zilch

63 Garden of paradise

64 Like a disparaging remark

65 Turned pink, say

66 Facebook’s parent company

67 Trapshooting

68 Put in the mail

DOWN

1 It’s turned in a book

2 Brainstormer’s output

3 One whose pants are on fire?

4 ___ Lingus (Irish carrier)

5 Corkscrew pasta

6 Group of Scouts

7 “And here you go!”

8 Not liquid, gaseous or plasmatic

9 Views with awe

10 In the past

11 Lion’s locks

12 Sporting sword

13 Paper pusher’s place

22 “Carpe ___” (“Seize the day”)

23 Historian Howard whose surname rhymes with “win”

25 Jazz instrument, for short

26 Sorento automaker

27 Some hoppy brews

28 Mascot at Citi Field

29 Andy Warhol’s soup can paintings, e.g.

31 Olympic sledders

32 Golf clubs with metal heads

33 Barista’s jarful

35 Just slightly

36 ___ San Lucas (Baja resort)

37 Comprehensive test

42 “Umbrella” pop star

43 It’ll point you in the right direction

44 Kit with toy bricks

45 Myths

47 Lively spirit

48 Cigarette toxin

52 Part of a chain

53 Buffalo’s Great Lake

54 Surrender, as power

55 Precious stone

56 Verse bursting with praise

57 Soggy

60 Yes, on a ship

61 Couch potato’s home?

62 Find a sum