DIAGRAMLESS, 21 X 21

ACROSS

1 Beginning, 2 words

5 Songwriter

Bacharach

9 Fruit with slippery

rind

11 Spreads

13 Collected

15 Blind vocalist

Bocelli

17 Dentist’s request

2 words

18 Far East boat

19 Comic Johnson

20 Manage, 2 words

21 Beans

22 Arabian port

23 Zigged and zagged

on skis 28 Lift

33 Katmandu native

34 Accounts

35 Casual statement

37 Dips soup

38 Situation

40 Tale

41 Terra ___ (kind of

clay)

43 Ocean predator

47 Nerve connected

52 SLR, for example

54 Kenyan’s neighbor

55 Giant of wrestling

56 Art of riding horses

58 Unit of electromag

netic length 61 Spider or scorpion,

e.g.

64 Communication

“O”

65 Poet’s preposition

66 Keeps

68 Curry extra

69 Ancient Greek

state

71 Probes, 2 words

75 Mount of New York

76 Romeo

77 Repress, 2 words

78 Jittery, 2 words

79 Canter leisurely

80 Glazier’s unit

DOWN

1 From scratch

2 Indian silk dress

3 Flat, 2 words

4 Wash out

5 Tropical constrictors

6 Arm parts

7 Beef, for example

2 words

8 Sink

9 ____ Rock, fashion social media influencer

10 Some metal work

ers

12 Stadium employee

13 Ambitions

14 Earth Day month

16 Name-less 24 Oil grp.

25 Broadway “Auntie”

26 Style

27 British physicist

28 J.F.K. info

29 Word with ‘’bug’’

or ‘’finger’’

30 Big name in jazz

31 Swerve

32 Part of Nasdaq,

abbr.

36 Swedish coin

37 Meditative position

39 Ending meaning

“resident”

42 Whiff

43 Wood sorrels

44 Go ballistic 45 U.S.N. rank

46 Dynamic start

48 Actor Sharif

49 Zola heroine

50 The spy in “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold”

51 Storm signal -

53 “The One I Love”

singers

57 Upgrade

58 Loses intensity

59 Nose part

60 Enter, 2 words

62 Hot

63 Good Samaritan

64 Royal name in

Norway 67 Hearst’s need

70 British princess

71 Clandestine site

for spy

72 Scottish abbey site

73 Feds, 2 words

74 Marquis de ___