DIAGRAMLESS, 21 X 21

ACROSS 1 Middle Ages

laborer 5 Implored 9 Race place 10 Joyce’s nation 11 Dessert ___ 12 Long, long time 13 __ I didn’t know! 14 Bridge support 15 Old coin of France 20 50 yard ___ 23 Brought into play 24 ___ Green, IN 25 Lead on Broadway 26 Cloth type 27 Beginner 28 Fur scarf 30 Billiards blunder 35 Sickening 39 Annoy 43 Minute pore

in a leaf 44 “SNL” alum Carvey 45 Bouquet 46 Place to dry out 47 Swear to 48 Inoculation liquids 49 Whiff 50 Green expanse 51 H. H. Munro, pseudonymously 52 Banner 54 Hardy’s partner 59 Farm sound 63 Stalemate 64 Awaited sign 65 Nasty sort 66 Church area 67 House of Lords member 68 Arabian VIP 70 Fess up (to) 74 “__, Baker, Charlie” 78 Well-groomed 79 Pabst Blue Ribbon 80 DEA agent 81 Loud noise 82 Cross of Egypt 83 Deeply invested DOWN 1 “Brave New World” drug 2 Nights before 3 Eastern royal 4 Inconsequential

material 5 Kind of brandy 6 Stead 7 “Aeneid” character 8 House rooms 14 Scottish chieftain,

in Shakespeare 16 Brown shade 17 Piedmont

province 18 Within view 19 Computer storage medium 20 Supermarket

section 21 Riding 22 Short cut 28 Drink maker 29 Kind of wave 31 David, “the sweet psalmist of ___” 32 Back, at sea 33 BC salmons 34 Type of taste 36 Spanish sparkling wine 37 Comprehend 38 Open wide 39 Trunk growth 40 Gray matter

product 41 Pay, with “over” 42 Physically weak 53 #1 Alicia Keys hit of 2007 55 Ratify 56 Goad 57 Hard to find 58 Still-life subject 60 Mosque chief 61 Glacial

snowfield 62 Kind of socks 69 Talmud scholar 70 Christie or Karenina 71 College bigwig 72 Inflated currency of the 20s 73 Urge 75 Noodle 76 Gave temporarily 77 Thus