DIAGRAMLESS, 21x21

ACROSS

1 Young boys 5 No-goodniks

9 Book leaf

10 “What ___?”

11 Play too loud, perhaps 12 Kind of bean

13 “The Lord of the Rings”

genre

14 Social group

15 Auction actions 16 Anouk of “La Dolce

Vita”

20 Not stereo

21 Severe blow 22 Chemistry

Nobelist Otto 23 Senseless

24 60 minutes 25 Uzbekistan’s ___ Sea 29 Inventor’s need 30 Beatle first name 31 Church section

32 Like Mayan pyramids 37 Email command

38 The glacial epoch 40 “So long!”

41 Cure precursor

42 ___ firma

43 Church alcove

44 Tied up

45 Empty

46 Sonny and ___

47 Not married

51 “A Death in the Family”

author

52 Some stories 53 Pizzazz 54 Cold war side 55 Oyez!

56 “Legally Blonde” character

57 End of a Spanish greeting

58 Cheer (for) 59 Opening run 60 Already 62 Government lending group’s 63 Hoodwink 66 Narrow neck of land 70 Green’s concern: Abbr. 71 Bench locale 72 Gloomy atmosphere 73 NASA gasket 74 Ruse

75 Spouse

DOWN

1 Precisely, informally 2 Romeo lead-in 3 Goes out, in a way 4 “Crime and Punishment” heroine 5 Starbucks, e.g. 6 Out there 7 Prima donna 8 “Now!”

9 Low wetlands 11 Rectangular groove 13 Mark Twain’s Huckleberry 15 Physicist Niels

17 Set off

18 ‘’All in the Family’’ spin-off 19 Looney Tunes character Fudd 20 Beat badly 22 Magic man 24 “Water Music” composer

25 Pop singer Baker 26 Indy entry

27 So-So

28 Picked up

30 Annoy

33 Mimosa family shrubs 34 Coded message 35 Lessens the stress 36 Active one

37 Some houses are built on it 39 Microsoft billionaire 45 NE Italian region 48 Liquid grain storage container 49 Fusion

50 Claw

52 Direct

55 Bar sounds 57 Abbreviations for certain companies 59 Have an edge against 61 She may remarry 62 Self-satisfied 63 “Finding Neverland” star, last name 64 West Coast sch. 65 VW model

67 Katie and Tom’s girl 68 Cry of relief 69 Fine-tune