DIAGRAMLESS, 21x21

ACROSS

1 5

Decorate “Picnic” playwright William

6 Pepper grinder 10 Ferment

12 Lolling

15 Picnic pest abode 17 Grain-cutting tools 18 Algonquian language 19 European automaker 23 Half a blackjack 25 Propagates

26 Giving

27 Fake food for fishing 28 “The X-Files” network 29 La ___ tar pits, in Calif. 30 Beehive, e.g.

31 Rick’s love in

“Casablanca” 32 Alphabet trio after Q 33 Strange

34 Nuisance

35 Bygone despot

36 OJ judge

37 Healthcare benefits

giant

39 Campbell’s container 40 Referee

42 Fish eggs

43 From China or India 45 Part of some uniforms 47 S.A. plain

50 It pumps up the band’s

volume

51 Stepped heavily 52 After-dinner drink 56 Gremlins, Pacers, etc. 60 Zip

61 Linear 62 Impersonator 63 Economics Nobelist

Friedman, familiarly 64 Absorbed, as a cost 65 Disturb

66 Half

67 Patisserie employee 68 Cries of regret 69 Freshness

70 Ginger cookie

71 A procession of

wagons

74 Hero sandwich 77 Leave it ___ 78 Encouraged 79 Natural hideout 80 Fairy tale baddie 81 Founded, abbr.

DOWN

1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9

Stretches Exactly on time Jamaican hybrid fruit Take the skin off Apple creation Trivial ending Ignores Pakistani city 10 Protection for

computer data 11 Green

13 Ratty place

14 Test format

16 1997 Melanie Griffith

film

17 Bell ringer

20 Beat

21 Unreal

22 Students

23 Safari country 24 _____ Rica 38 Excitedly

41 Land retailers 43 Cider makers 44 Disney’s chronicles 45 Biblical region 46 Friendship

48 Carols

49 Weirdest 52 Important document 53 On-guard

54 Altered

55 Camera support 56 Italian for ‘girlfriend’ 57 Certain silicates 58 Father

59 Sheets

72 Ms. Vance, to Lucy 73 Enzyme suffix 75 Wind instrument 76 Runners