DIAGRAMLESS, 21x21

ACROSS

1 Contaminate 7 Curriculum ___ (brief resume) 12 Relating to egg cells 13 Autocratic Russian rule 15 Deep-sea catch 16 Brown-haired lady 17 V-8, e.g. 18 Website where salaries are posted

19 Allows

20 Smoothing tools

21 Like some D.A.’s 22 Nibbles

23 Hue

27 Elegant

29 Wall Street figure 31 Honors

32 Working together 33 Parasite

34 Gives freshman an

introduction, say 38 Grp. with peacekeeping

forces

39 Facebook co-founder

Saverin

42 “Death on the ___”

mystery thriller 43 Larry King trademark

wear

46 Brain passages 48 Show

49 Desert plants

50 Means of escape 51 Little chicken

52 Drivel 53 Greek city-state 54 Flaw 57 “Cheers” waitress 58 Gardener’s need 59 Bribe to keep quiet 64 Down Under native 67 Nonbelievers 68 Excessively proper 69 Mourns

70 Dead Sea Scrolls ascetic 71 Boutiques 72 Jefferson, Paine et al.

DOWN

1 Cupola

2 “__ Almighty”: 2007 Steve Carell film 3 Thief

4 US, Britain e.g. 5 Agnes, Francis, etc. 6 “On Golden Pond” playwright Thompson 7 Moving vehicles 8 Really steamed 9 Yugoslav leader, once 10 About

11 Part of E.M.T., abbr. 13 Across prefix 14 Figure (out) 16 Windy

18 Creamy cocktail 20 Bugs 22 Decadent cake 2 Minor appearance of a major

24 Norse war god 25 Fasting time

26 In a natural way 27 Half of D

28 Right to sell debtor’s properties

29 Yukon or Northwest, abbr. e.g.

30 Bust, so to speak 32 Words to a bride and groom 35 Oberon’s wife 36 Gives a seat to

37 Big name in mattresses 39 Big car flop

40 G.P.A. spoilers 41 Some servers 44 Hence

45 Cruel Roman Emperor 47 Kind of card in phones 51 Uninteresting people 52 Prepares for cooking 53 Jeans and khakis 54 Molded

55 Links

56 St. Francis’ birthplace 57 Price

59 “The Laughing Cavalier” artist

60 Salt Lake City locale 61 Not a nice guy 62 Dickens’s Uriah 63 Time segments, abbr. 65 George Harrison’s “___ It a Pity”

66 Storm centers